************************************************************************* Midwest Relativity Meeting Information and Final Talk Schedule ************************************************************************* PART I: GENERAL INFORMATION ***Travel to Bowling Green via car: From the east or from the west along the Ohio Turnpike: exit the Ohio Turnpike at the Perrysburg exit [Exit 4A]. Take I-75 south to Bowling Green and take exit 181. This will put you on East Wooster Street. From the south or north along I-75: Take exit 181, which will put you on East Wooster Street. From the south along Rt 23: Rt 23 from Columbus area joins Rt 15 at Cary, and intersects I-75 at Findlay. Take I-75 to Bowling Green and exit at 181. ***Travel to Bowling Green via air: From Toledo Express Airport: Exit the airport onto Rt. 2 traveling east. Follow Rt 2 for approximately 6 miles until it intersects I-475. Take I-475 south. I-475 merges with I-75 after around six miles. Take I-75 south to Bowling Green and take exit 181, which will put you on East Wooster Street. From Detroit Metro Airport: Due to construction on I-75 between Toledo and Monroe Michigan, it is recommeded that one take the following route. Exit the airport onto I-94 west. Take I-94 west to Ann Arbor and exit south at the Rt 23 exit. Take 23 south to Toledo. This will merge with I-475 north of Toledo. Follow I-475 until it merges with I-75 and take I-75 south. Bowling Green is at exit 181 on I-75. Total travel time from Detroit Metro via this route is around 75 minutes. ***Getting to the Information Booth and to the Motels: The motels are on East Wooster St, which is the street onto which one arrives after the exit ramp. The Days Inn is on the left just after the first stoplight. The Best Western Falcon Plaza is just beyond the second stoplight on East Wooster. The Bowling Green State University Information Center is at the first stoplight after exiting I-75. Turn right at the first stoplight to go to the Informaition Center. ***Parking for those driving in early Friday morning: For those who plan to drive to Bowling Green early Friday morning, please note that you should plan to arrive on campus no later than 8:00 a.m. to allow you time to stop at the Bowling Green State University Information Center, park your vehicle, and catch the university shuttle. It runs on a ten minute schedule and can drop you off in front of Olscamp Hall. At the end of the day Friday, you will need to take the university shuttle service back to the Information Center area. ***For those who will be driving in early Saturday morning: On Saturday morning, you should go to the Information Center and ask for directions to lot N, which is adjacent to Olscamp Hall. Parking in that lot will not be a problem on Saturday. ***Shuttle service between Motels and Olscamp Hall: For those staying at the motels, there will be a shuttle service between the Best Western Falcon Plaza and Days Inn motels and Olscamp Hall. Please note that the shuttle vans [there are two 15 passenger vans] will begin picking up Midwest Relativity participants at 8:00 a.m. and take people back to the two motels at the end of the meeting on Friday. The service will also be available for Saturday morning, also leaving the motels at 8:00 a.m. for Olscamp Hall. Please note that the parking situation on campus on Friday makes it necessary to use the shuttle service. On Saturday, however, there is no problem finding a parking place in lot N adjacent to Olscamp Hall. So many participants may want to drive to campus on Saturday. For those who do not want to drive, the shuttle service will be available. At the end of the Saturday session, the shuttle service will also be available but some advance count will be necessary to determine the van need. ***Continental Breakfast Continental breakfast will be served in 101-B Olscamp Hall beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Friday and on Saturday. -----------00-------------00-----------00-------------00-----------00-------------00 PART II: MEETING SCHEDULE OF TALKS Meeting location: Room 101-B Olscamp Hall [on Ridge Street] on the Bowling Green State University campus. Friday November 1, 1996 **** Shuttle Service between Best Western Falcon Plaza and Days Inn leaves at 8:00 a.m. for Olscamp Hall **** 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. registration outside Room 101-B Olscamp Hall, including continental breakfast. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Session I (chair Beverly Berger) 9:00 - 9:15 : Welcome and information 9:15 Beverly Berger: "Numerical Evidence for the Nature of the Singularity in U(1) Symmetric Cosmologies" 9:30 David Garfinkle: "Symplectic evolution of mixmaster spacetimes" 9:45 Jorge Pullin: "Colliding Black Holes: going far with the close approximation" 10:00 Eric Poisson: "Measuring black-hole parameters and testing general relativity using gravitational-wave data from space-based interferometers" 10:15 Serge Droz: "Numerical investigation of black hole interiors" *** Break 10:30 - 11:00 *** 11:00 Keith Lockitch: "Vacuum Handles and the Cosmic Censor Conjecture" 11:15 Comer Duncan: "A Hyperbolic Solver for Vacuum Axisymmetric Spacetimes: the method and weak wave tests" 11:30 Mark Miller: "Consistency and Stability of the Regge Calculus as a Tool in Numerical Relativity" 11:45 Mark Beilby: "Prediction of Test Mass Thermal Noise by Measurement of the Anelastic Aftereffect" *** Lunch Break - 1:30 p.m. *** ------------------------------------------------------------------ Session II (chair David Garfinkle) 1:30 Leonard Parker: "Information, Scaling, and 2D Black Holes" 1:45 Louis Witten: "2-d Naked Singularities" 2:00 Ivan Booth: "Cosmological Production of Charged and Rotating Black Hole Pairs" 2:15 James Geddes: "Measures on the Space of Paths in Schroedinger Quantum Mechanics" 2:30 Hong Liu: "Quantum hair, Instantons, and black hole thermodynamics" 2:45 Robert Mann: "Pair Production of Topological Anti de Sitter Black Holes" *** Break 3:00 - 3:30 *** 3:30 Michael Pfenning: "Quantum Inequalities in Static Curved Spacetimes" 3:45 Matt Visser: "Gravitational vacuum polarization: Energy conditions at order hbar" 4:00 Ulrich Gerlach: "Paired Accelerated Frames, Diffractive Scattering, and Achronal Spin" 4:15 Rhett Herman: "The DeWitt-Schwinger Approximation for the Stress-Energy Tensor for a Complex Scalar Field in Curved Space" 4:30 Jean Krisch: "String Fluid Stress Energy" 4:45 Andrew de Laix: "Gravitational Lensing Signature of Long Cosmic Strings" 5:00 Steve Leonard: "Waves and Tails" **** Shuttle service between Olscamp Hall and the motels leaves at 5:30 p.m. Watch for announcement. ***** ------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday November 2, 1996 **** Shuttle Service between Best Western Falcon Plaza and Days Inn leaves at 8:00 a.m. for Olscamp Hall **** Session III (chair Jean Krisch) 9:00 Robert Wald: "Distortions in Our View of the Universe Due to Galactic and Smaller Scale Gravitational Lensing - Part I" 9:15 Daniel Holz: "Distortions in Our View of the Universe Due to Galactic and Smaller Scale Gravitational Lensing - Part II" 9:30 Theodore Quinn: "An axiomatic approach to electromagnetic and gravitational radiation reaction" 9:45 Shyan-Ming Perng: "Conserved Quantity at Spatial Infinity?" 10:00 Philip Hughes: "Relativistic Extragalactic Jet Simulations: A Probe of Supermassive Black Holes" 10:15 Grant Mathews: "Instabilities in Close Neutron Star Binaries" *** Break 10:30 - 10:45 *** 10:45 Edward Glass: "To the Bondi Mass from Taub Numbers" 11:00 Jim Chan: "Radiative Falloff in Non-Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes" 11:15 Juan Perez-Mercader "Self-Organized Criticality in the Universe" 11:30 Howard Burton: "Palatini Formalism for Dilaton Gravity" 11:45 Kevin Chan: "Modification of the spinning BTZ black hole by a dilaton" 12:00 Masafumi Seriu: "The Spectral Distance between the Universes with Different Topologies" 12:15 Richard Hammond: "Gravitation and Torsion" *** Lunch Break - 1:30 *** Session IV (chair Ed Glass) 1:30 Harry Ringermacher: "Einstein Equations with Electrodynamic Torsion" 1:45 Ken Seto: "Special Relativity Alternative" 2:00 Edward Schaefer: "A means of eliminating black holes from relativity theory" **** Shuttle service to the motels available depending on needs...Watch for announcement ****