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PCGM 26 Scientific Program (UCSD, March 26-27, 2010)
Session I (Chair: Michael Holst, UC San Diego)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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Breakfast and Registration |
8:00 |
9:00 |
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| Michael Holst |
UC San Diego |
Welcome and Announcements |
9:00 |
9:05 |
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| Gary Horowitz |
UC Santa Barbara |
Holographic superconductors |
9:05 |
9:20 |
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| Tomas Andrade |
UC Santa Barbara |
Comments on Holography and Diffeomorphism Invariance |
9:20 |
9:35 |
★ |
| Ian A Morrison |
UC Santa Barbara |
The IR stability of de Sitter |
9:35 |
9:50 |
★ |
| Dinesh Singh |
University of Regina |
Effects of Space-Time Curvature on Spin-1/2 Particle Zitterbewegung |
9:50 |
10:05 |
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Coffee Break |
10:05 |
10:45 |
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Session II (Chair: Lee Lindblom, Caltech)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Joseph Betzwieser |
Caltech |
Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves with coherent methods |
10:45 |
11:00 |
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| Vladimir Dergachev |
Caltech |
All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves with PowerFlux |
11:00 |
11:15 |
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| Pinkesh Patel |
Caltech |
Search for continuous gravitational waves from a nearby
neutron star |
11:15 |
11:30 |
★ |
| Mark Bennett |
University of Melbourne |
Continuous-wave gravitational radiation from pulsar glitch recovery |
11:30 |
11:45 |
★ |
| Antony Searle |
Caltech |
Multi-messenger astronomy with transient gravitational
wave sources |
11:45 |
12:00 |
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| Michael Cohen |
Caltech |
Searches for Cosmic String Gravitational-Wave Bursts in
Mock LISA Data |
12:00 |
12:15 |
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Lunch |
12:15 |
2:15 |
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Session III (Chair: Melvin Leok, UC San Diego)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Michael Holst |
UC San Diego |
Solution of the Einstein constraint equations on manifolds with boundary |
2:15 |
2:30 |
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| Jim Isenberg |
University of Oregon |
Gluing Initial Data Sets at Asymptopia |
2:30 |
2:45 |
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| Xianghui Luo |
University of Oregon |
Future Global Stability of Cosmological Models with Scalar and Electromagnetic Fields |
2:45 |
3:00 |
★ |
| Jeff Winicour |
University of Pittsburgh |
Disembodied Boundary Data for Einstein's Equations |
3:00 |
3:15 |
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| Hector H. Calderon |
Idaho State University |
Towards a new definition of singularity |
3:15 |
3:30 |
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Coffee Break |
3:30 |
4:00 |
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Session IV (Chair: Steve Carlip, UC Davis)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Michael Kesden |
Caltech |
Spin alignment during black hole inspirals |
4:00 |
4:15 |
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| David Nichols |
Caltech |
A Hybrid Approximation Technique for Head-on
Black-Hole-Binary Mergers |
4:15 |
4:30 |
★ |
| Marc Favata |
Caltech |
Comparisons between post-Newtonian and self-force calculations |
4:30 |
4:45 |
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| Ned S. Rasor |
Consultant |
Quasi-Newtonian Dynamics and Universal Expansion |
4:45 |
5:00 |
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| Franklin Felber |
Starmark, Inc. |
New exact time-dependent solution of Einstein's equation |
5:00 |
5:15 |
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Session V (Chair: Gary Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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Breakfast and Registration |
8:00 |
9:00 |
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| Steven Carlip |
UC Davis |
A nonextremal Kerr/CFT correspondence |
9:00 |
9:15 |
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| Marcus Afshar |
UC Davis |
Quasilocal Energy in FRW Cosmology |
9:15 |
9:30 |
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| Reiko Toriumi |
UC Irvine |
Quantum Gravity and Cosmological Density Perturbations |
9:30 |
9:45 |
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| Joseph Smidt |
UC Irvine |
New Constraints On The Primordial Non-Gaussianity
Parameters τNL and gNL |
9:45 |
10:00 |
★ |
| Krzysztof Bolejko |
University of Arizona |
Inhomogeneous cosmology: from dark energy to
homogenization of the Universe |
10:00 |
10:15 |
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Coffee Break |
10:15 |
11:00 |
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Session VI (Chair: Rana Adhikari, Caltech)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Douglas Singleton |
CSU Fresno |
Hawking-like radiation in a FRW Universe |
11:00 |
11:15 |
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| Paolo Bonifacio |
University of Aberdeen |
Spacetime conformal fluctuations and quantum dephasing |
11:15 |
11:30 |
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| Shau-Yu Lan |
UC Berkeley |
Atom Interferometry in Fundamental Physics |
11:30 |
11:45 |
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| Michael Hohensee |
UC Berkeley |
Matter Waves for Gravitational Wave Detection |
11:45 |
12:00 |
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| Cheong Chan |
UC Berkeley |
Atom Interferometric Measurement of Newton's Constant |
12:00 |
12:15 |
★ |
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Lunch |
12:15 |
2:15 |
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Session VII (Chair: David Meyer, UC San Diego)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Bela Szilagyi |
Caltech |
Spectral Numerical Simulations of High-spin Binary Black
Hole Mergers |
2:15 |
2:30 |
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| Mark Scheel |
Caltech |
Spectral Numerical Simulations of Unequal-Mass Binary
Black Hole Mergers |
2:30 |
2:45 |
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| Jeff Kaplan |
Caltech |
Simulations of Neutron-Star Binaries using SpEC |
2:45 |
3:00 |
★ |
| Tony Chu |
Caltech |
Estimating gauge errors in numerical waveforms |
3:00 |
3:15 |
★ |
| Fan Zhang |
Caltech |
Gauge Independent Tetrad for Numerical Waveform Extraction |
3:15 |
3:30 |
★ |
| Keith D. Matthews |
Caltech |
Quasi-Equilibrium Initial Data For Simulations of Generic
Black-Hole Binaries in Harmonic Coordinates |
3:30 |
3:45 |
★ |
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Coffee Break |
3:45 |
4:15 |
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Session VIII (Chair: Jim Isenberg, University of Oregon)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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GGR Student Talk Award
(Winners: Jeff Kaplan and Pinkesh Patel) |
4:15 |
4:20 |
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| Nicholas Taylor |
Caltech |
Second order in space spectral methods for numerical relativity |
4:20 |
4:35 |
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| Lee Lindblom |
Caltech |
A Spectral Approach to the Relativistic Inverse Stellar Structure Problem |
4:35 |
4:50 |
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| Rana Adhikari |
Caltech |
New directions for the GW Inteferometers |
4:50 |
5:05 |
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