PCGM27 Scientific Program


Each speaker will be given a 12 minute time slot. This includes the time needed to set up your computer, present your talk, respond to any questions, and turn the projector over to the next speaker. Please respect the participants and other speakers by preparing your talk to fit into this very short time slot.

Most speakers have indicated their intention to use computer generated slides, and an lcd projector will be available for their use. Help minimize the time devoted to setting up and switching computers by checking --- during one of the breaks before your talk --- that your computer works properly with the projector. The time needed to switch computers can also be minimized by arranging with other speakers in your session to combine successive talks onto a single computer.

Friday, March 18, 2011


Session I (Chair: Yanbei Chen, Caltech)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
Breakfast and Registration 8:00 8:54
Yanbei Chen Caltech Welcome and Announcements 8:54 9:00
Kip Thorne Caltech Visualizing the Weyl Curvature Tensor: Frame-Drag Vortex Lines and Tidal Tendex Lines 9:00 9:12
David Nichols Caltech Vortex and Tendex Lines in Post-Newtonian and Black-Hole Perturbation Spacetimes 9:12 9:24
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Keith D. Matthews Caltech Computation of Vortex and Tendex Lines in Numerical Simulations, and Their Behaviors in a Head-on Collision of Spinning Black Holes 9:24 9:36
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Mark Scheel Caltech Vortexes and Tendexes in Black Hole Collisions 9:36 9:48
Fan Zhang Caltech The Meanings of Frame-Drag Vortex Lines and Tidal Tendex Lines 9:48 10:00
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Aaron Zimmerman Caltech New Ringdown Frequency at the Birth of a Kerr Black Hole 10:00 10:12
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Coffee Break 10:12 10:48


Session II (Chair: Christian Ott, Caltech)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
Richard Price University of Texas at Brownsville Strong Antikicks in Binary Inspiral 10:48 11:00
Charles R. Evans University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Eccentric orbit EMRIs on Schwarzschild: High accuracy metric reconstruction I 11:00 11:12
Seth Hopper University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Eccentric orbit EMRIs on Schwarzschild: High accuracy metric reconstruction II 11:12 11:24
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Sourabh Nampalliwar University of Texas at Brownsville Pulsar Beam Bending Near the Galactic Center 11:24 11:36
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Chin San Han Stanford Space-Time Asymmetry Research (STAR) 11:36 11:48
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Franklin Felber Starmark, Inc. Dipole Gravity Waves from Gravitationally Unbound Quadrupoles 11:48 12:00
Anil Zenginoglu Caltech Relativity for Engineering Applications 12:00 12:12
Arthur Fischer University of California, Santa Cruz Einstein's Second Postulate of Special Relativity on the Universality of the Speed of Light is a Consequence of the First Postulate and is therefore Redundant 12:12 12:24
Lunch 12:24 2:00


Session III (Chair: Richard Price, University of Texas at Brownsville)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
Vladimir Dergachev Caltech Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves with LIGO 2:00 2:12
Kari Hodge Caltech Multivariate Statistical Classification of Gravitational Wave Events 2:12 2:24
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Roy Williams Caltech LIGO Open Data 2:24 2:36
Huan Yang Caltech Coating Brownian Thermal Noise 2:36 2:48
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Akira Villar Caltech Loss Angles From the Direct Measurement of Coating Thermal Noise 2:48 3:00
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Zach Korth Caltech Absorption in iLIGO Core Optics 3:00 3:12
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Jenne Driggers Caltech Newtonian Noise and Seismic FeedForward: Lessons Learned for aLIGO and Beyond 3:12 3:24
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Ting Hong Caltech Effects of Mirror Perturbations on Laguerre-Gaussian Beams in Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors 3:24 3:36
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Coffee Break 3:36 4:12


Session IV (Chair: Mark Scheel, Caltech)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
Joshua H. Cooperman Univ. of Calif. Davis Scales and Scaling in Causal Dynamical Triangulations 4:12 4:24
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Colin Cunliff Univ. of Calif. Davis Topologically Massive Gravity from the Outside In 4:24 4:36
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Yacine Ali-Haimoud Caltech Testing Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity with Spinning Bodies 4:36 4:48
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Douglas Singleton California State University, Fresno Hawking Radiation, Unruh Radiation and the Equivalence Principle 4:48 5:00
Dinesh Singh University of Regina Local Space-Time Curvature Effects on Quantum Orbital Angular Momentum 5:00 5:12


Party!!!


All participants are invited to an informal party, including a light dinner and refreshments, starting at 7pm on Friday March 18. Directions and a map will be made available at the meeting. Those interested in using the hot tub and/or swimming pool should bring swimming suits.


Saturday, March 19, 2011


Session V (Chair: Ben Owen, Penn State)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
Breakfast and Registration 8:00 9:00
Peter Kalmus Caltech Search for Gravitational Waves from Core Collapse Supernovae 9:00 9:12
Michael Kesden NYU Detecting Primordial Black Holes with Helioseismology 9:12 9:24
Marc Favata JPL/Caltech The Gravitational-Wave Memory from Eccentric Binaries 9:24 9:36
Tim Johannsen University of Arizona Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Observations of Black Holes in the Electromagnetic Spectrum 9:36 9:48
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Sam Koshy California State University, Long Beach Tidal Locking of Neutron Star-Quark Star Binaries 9:48 10:00
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Bijan Berenji SLAC/Stanford/KIPAC Search for Gravity-Only Large Extra Dimensions Based on Observations of Neutron Stars with Fermi-LAT 10:00 10:12
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Coffee Break 10:12 10:48


Session VI (Chair: Rana Adhikari, Caltech)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
Nick Taylor Caltech Second-order in Space Spectral Methods Applied to Binary Black Hole Simulations 10:48 11:00
Tony Chu Caltech Towards Including Realistic Tidal Deformations in Binary Black Hole Initial Data 11:00 11:12
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Evgeny Sorkin UBC Vacuum Critical Collapse in Axisymmetry 11:12 11:24
Paul Gebhart Caltech Generalized GR Hydrodynamics in Spherical Symmetry 11:24 11:36
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Christian Reisswig Caltech Gravitational Wave Extraction in Simulations of Rotating Stellar Core Collapse 11:36 11:48
Eric Hirschmann Brigham Young University Equilibrium Models of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars 11:48 12:00
Lunch 12:00 2:00


40m Interferometer Tours


Participants interested in a tour of the 40m interferometer should sign up on the list at the registration table. Tours will take place during the lunch break on Saturday March 19.


Session VII (Chair: Alan Weinstein, Caltech)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
Anzhong Wang Baylor University Anisotropic Scalings and Non-Relativistic General Covariant Theory of Quantum Gravity 2:00 2:12
V. H. Satheeshkumar Baylor University Black holes in Non-Relativistic General Covariant Theory of Quantum Gravity 2:12 2:24
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Kai Lin Baylor University Stability of a Scalar Field in the Non-Relativistic General Covariant Theory of Gravity with Detailed Balance Condition Softly-Breaking 2:24 2:36
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Yongqing Huang Baylor University Strong Coupling in Non-Relativistic General Covariant Theory With a Running Coupling Constant λ 2:36 2:48
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Hui-Yiing Chang Vanderbilt University Phantom Cosmologies Ameliorating the Coincidence Problem 2:48 3:00
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Michael Duncan California State University, Fresno Entropic Derivation of F=ma for Circular Motion 3:00 3:12
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Coffee Break 3:24 3:54


Session VIII (Chair: James Isenberg, University of Oregon)

Name Organization Talk Begin End Student
GGR Student Talk Award 3:54 4:00
Myrzakulov Ratbay Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan Cosmology of f-Essence and g-Essence 4:00 4:12
David Rideout Perimeter Institute Dynamics of Causal Sets -- Classical and Quantum 4:12 4:24
Parampreet Singh Louisiana State University Spacetime Beyond Singularities: A View From Loop Quantum Gravity 4:24 4:36
Jonas Mureika Loyola Marymount University Gravitational Phenomenology of Vanishing Dimensions 4:36 4:48


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