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PCGM 30 Scientific Program (UCSD, March 28-29, 2014)
Friday, March 28, 2014
Session I (Chair: Michael Holst, UC San Diego)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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Registration (and emergency coffee for those in need) |
8:15 |
9:00 |
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| Michael Holst |
UC San Diego |
Welcome and Announcements |
9:00 |
9:15 |
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| Jim Isenberg |
University of Oregon |
On Renormalization Group Flow |
9:15 |
9:30 |
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| Ali Behzadan |
UC San Diego |
The Einstein Constraint Equations |
9:30 |
9:45 |
★ |
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Jon Kaufman (Brian Keating) |
UC San Diego |
The BICEP2 experiment and first results |
9:45 |
10:15 |
★ |
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Coffee/Snack Break in 2402A AP&M (30 minutes) |
10:15 |
10:45 |
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Session II (Chair: Melvin Leok, UC San Diego)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Aaron Zimmerman |
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics |
Eikonal Green Function of the Kerr Spacetime |
10:45 |
11:00 |
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| Netta Engelhardt |
UC Santa Barbara |
Extremal Surfaces and Singularities |
11:00 |
11:15 |
★ |
| Gavin Hartnett |
UC Santa Barbara |
Instabilities of Rotating Black Holes and Quasinormal Modes in the Large D Limit |
11:15 |
11:30 |
★ |
| William Kelly |
UC Santa Barbara |
Linearized Instabilities in the Gravitational Dirichlet Problem |
11:30 |
11:45 |
★ |
| Amol Patwardhan |
UC San Diego |
Gravitational radiation from late-time vacuum phase transitions |
11:45 |
12:00 |
★ |
| Evan Grohs |
UC San Diego |
Photon Diffusion in the early Universe |
12:00 |
12:15 |
★ |
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Lunch off-campus somewhere (2 hours) |
12:15 |
2:15 |
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Session III (Chair: Manuel Tiglio, University of Maryland & Caltech)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Huan Yang |
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
Turbulent black holes |
2:15 |
2:30 |
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| Roland Haas |
Caltech |
Binary neutron star simulations with SpEC |
2:30 |
2:45 |
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| Evan Foley |
CSU Fullerton |
Neutron star-black hole simulations with very fast black hole spins |
2:45 |
3:00 |
★ |
| Sherwood Richers |
Caltech |
Jet Instability in Magnetorotational Core-Collapse Supernovae |
3:00 |
3:15 |
★ |
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Coffee/Snack Break in 2402A AP&M (30 minutes) |
3:30 |
4:00 |
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Session IV (Chair: Lee Lindblom, Caltech)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Casey Handmer |
Caltech |
Spectral Characteristic Evolution: A new algorithm for gravitational wave propagation |
4:00 |
4:15 |
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| Jonathan Blackman |
Caltech |
A sparse representation of gravitational waves from precessing compact binaries |
4:15 |
4:30 |
★ |
| Geoffrey Lovelace |
CSU Fullerton |
A catalog of binary black-hole simulations for gravitational-wave astronomy |
4:30 |
4:45 |
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| Kevin Barkett |
Caltech |
Gravitational Waveforms in the Early Inspiral of Black Hole-Neutron Star Systems |
4:45 |
5:00 |
★ |
| David Radice |
Caltech |
Beyond 2nd order convergence in numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron stars |
5:00 |
5:15 |
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| Reza Katebi |
CSU Fullerton |
Simulations of merging, spinning black holes: How fast do the resulting holes initially spin? |
5:15 |
5:30 |
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
Session V (Chair: Jim Isenberg, Oregon)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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Registration (and emergency coffee for those in need) |
8:15 |
9:00 |
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| David Rideout |
UC San Diego |
Monte Carlo Simulations of Causal Set Quantum Gravity |
9:00 |
9:15 |
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| Sebastian Fischetti |
UC Santa Barbara |
Entanglement in Extremal Reissner-Nordstrom AdS |
9:15 |
9:30 |
★ |
| Kevin Kuns |
UC Santa Barbara |
Quantum Quench in a CFT with Large Central Charge |
9:30 |
9:45 |
★ |
| Yinbo Shi |
UC Santa Barbara |
Effective Field Theory Parameterization of Nonviolent Nonlocality |
9:45 |
10:00 |
★ |
| Eric Mefford |
UC Santa Barbara |
Superfluid-Insulator Transition from Holography |
10:00 |
10:15 |
★ |
| Maximiliano Isi |
Loyola Marymount University |
Testing GR with Continuous Gravitational Waves |
10:15 |
10:30 |
★ |
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Coffee/Snack Break in 2402A AP&M (30 minutes) |
10:30 |
11:00 |
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Session VI (Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, CSU Fullerton)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Rana Adhikari |
Caltech |
LIGO Overview |
11:00 |
11:15 |
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| Leo Singer |
LIGO Lab / Caltech |
The First Two Years of Electromagnetic Follow-Up with Advanced LIGO and Virgo |
11:15 |
11:30 |
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| Tjonnie Li |
Caltech |
Testing the strong-field dynamics of general relativity with the Advanced LIGO-Virgo network |
11:30 |
11:45 |
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| Daniel Hemberger |
Caltech |
Detecting Near-Extremal Binary Black Holes |
11:45 |
12:00 |
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| Stephen Privitera |
Caltech |
Searching for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Two Spinning Solar Mass Black Holes |
12:00 |
12:15 |
★ |
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Lunch off-campus somewhere (2 hours) |
12:15 |
2:15 |
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Session VII (Chair: Mark Scheel, Caltech)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Vladimir Dergachev |
LIGO Lab / Caltech |
Noise at low frequencies |
2:15 |
2:30 |
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| Zach Korth |
Caltech |
Advanced LIGO: In the Bag |
2:30 |
2:45 |
★ |
| Evan Hall |
Caltech |
Cryogenic Silicon Reference Cavities for Precision Measurement |
2:45 |
3:00 |
★ |
| Brett Shapiro |
Stanford University |
Advanced LIGO Seismic Isolation and Control |
3:00 |
3:15 |
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| Jonah Kanner |
Caltech |
Finding explosive transients with gravitational waves |
3:15 |
3:30 |
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| John Moody |
UC San Diego |
Geodesic Finite Elements on Symmetric Spaces |
3:30 |
3:45 |
★ |
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Coffee/Snack Break in 2402A AP&M (30 minutes) |
3:45 |
4:15 |
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Session VIII (Chair: Alan Weinstein, Caltech)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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GGR Student Talk Award
(Winner: Netta Engelhardt) |
4:15 |
4:20 |
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| Lee Lindblom |
Caltech |
Solving Einstein's Equation Numerically on Manifolds with Arbitrary Spatial Topologies |
4:20 |
4:35 |
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| Manuel Tiglio |
University of Maryland & Caltech |
Fast parameter estimation through compressed likelihood evaluations |
4:35 |
4:50 |
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| Bela Szilagyi |
Caltech |
Reaching from NumRel-land into PN territory |
4:50 |
5:05 |
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| Chad Galley |
Caltech |
Surrogate models for numerical relativity waveforms |
5:05 |
5:20 |
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| Mark Scheel |
Caltech |
Simulations of high-spin black-hole binaries |
5:20 |
5:35 |
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