Abhay | |
June 04-06, 2009 | |
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Program Information | |||
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Registration and Opening Remarks - Jayanth Banavar | ||
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Jim Hartle | The Classical Physics of Our Quantum Universe | |
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | Klaus Fredenhagen | Time in Quantum Mechanics: From An External Parameter to an Intrinsic Observable | |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Coffee Break | ||
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Gary Horowitz | A Holographic Description of Black Hole Singularities | |
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | Welcome - Dan Larson | ||
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Bernd Bruegmann | Numerical Relativity and Black Holes | |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Badri Krishnan | Searching for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars | |
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Steve Fairhurst | Searching for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Systems | |
3:30 PM - 4:00 Pm | Coffee Break | ||
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Jon Engle | Isolated Horizons: Ideas, Framework and Applications/d> | |
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Alex Corichi | Black Hole Entropy/d> | |
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Madhavan Varadarajan | Quantum Gravity and the Information Loss Problem | |
8:00 PM | Public Lecture: Roger Penrose Note Location Change: 102 Thomas Building | "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy: How Big is Infinity" | |
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Coffee | ||
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Carlo Rovelli | What is a Particle? | |
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | Robert Wald | The Formulation of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime | |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Coffee Break | ||
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Thomas Thiemannn | Canonical Quantum General Relativity | |
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Laurent Freidel | Quantum Geometry from Spin Foam | |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Jerzy Lewandowski | Spin Foams from Quantum Geometry | |
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Lee Smolin | Unimodular Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem | |
3:30 PM - 4:00 Pm | Coffee Break | ||
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Claes Uggla | Generic Singularities/d> | |
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Jim Isenberg | The Gravitational N-Body Problem/d> | |
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Naresh Dadhich | On Gravitational Dynamics from Bianchi Derivative of the Curvature Polynomial | |
6:00 PM | Social Hour and Banquet - The Atherton Hotel | ||
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Coffee | ||
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Bernd Schmidt | The Newtonian Limit | |
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | Rodolfo Gambini | The Issue of Time in Generally Covariant Theories and Quantum Gravity | |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Coffee Break | ||
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Roger Penrose | Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Its Present Status | |
Organizing CommitteeMartin Bojowald, Jorge Pullin, Paul Sommers, Randi Neshteruk |
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