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PCGM 30 Scientific Program
All talks will take place in
Room 2250 (the Ledden Auditorium)
in Building 250 (HSS -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building)
on the UCSD campus.
For directions to the Ledden Auditorium on the UCSD campus,
navigate over to the maps on the
practical information page.)
Each speaker will be alloted a maximum of 15 minutes for setup +
the talk itself + questions and answers. Plan to limit your talk
to no more than 12 minutes to allow time for setup and a question or two.
Speakers using computer generated talks: Please verify
prior to your session that your laptop communicates correctly with
the projector. Speakers should begin connecting their laptops to the
projector during the question period of the speaker immediately preceeding
their talk.
Whenever possible, speakers from each session should collect
talks onto a single loptop to minimize setup delays.
Blackboards, chalk, and overhead transparancy projectors are
also available.
Coffee, tea, sodas, and light snacks (bagels, etc) will be available
(provided fittingly by Einstein Brothers)
before the morning sessions starting at 8am, and
during the morning and afternoon coffee breaks. These will be served
in Room 2402A of the APM Building, located immediately adjacent to
the Lecture Auditorium.
A printable version of the program below
may be found [ here ].
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Eric Mefford |
UC Santa Barbara |
Superfluid-Insulator Transition from Holography |
10:00 |
10:15 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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