Friday November 1, 1996
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" ------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday November 2, 1996 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: TBA 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"