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PCGM 31 Scientific Program (Oregon, March 13-14, 2015)
Friday, March 13, 2015
Session I (Chair: Jim Isenberg)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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Registration (and emergency coffee for those in need) |
8:15 |
8:50 |
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| Jim Isenberg |
University of Oregon |
Welcome and Announcements |
8:50 |
9:00 |
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| Kiwamu Izumi |
LIGO Hanford Observatory |
Current status of advanced LIGO |
9:00 |
9:20 |
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| Dipongkar Talukder |
University of Oregon |
Searches for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts |
9:20 |
9:40 |
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| Rui Xu |
Indiana University, Bloomington |
Corrections to Nonrelativistic Gravity from Lorentz Violation |
9:40 |
10:00 |
★ |
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Coffee/Snack Break (30 minutes) |
10:00 |
10:30 |
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Session II (Chair: Steven Carlip)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Casey Handmer |
California Institute of Technology |
Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction - Gauge free news in SpEC |
10:30 |
10:50 |
★ |
| Jonathan Blackman |
California Institute of Technology |
Surrogate models of gravitational waveforms from numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes |
10:50 |
11:10 |
★ |
| Maria Okounkova |
California Institute of Technology |
Numerical Tests of the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture via Event-Horizon Finding |
11:10 |
11:30 |
★ |
| Zachary Mark |
California Institute of Technology |
Quasinormal modes of weakly charged Kerr-Newman spacetimes |
11:30 |
11:50 |
★ |
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Lunch (1 hour, 50 min) |
11:50 |
1:40 |
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Session III (Chair: Beverly Berger)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Jonas Mureika |
Loyola Marymount University |
Black Hole Thermodynamics in a Generalized Uncertainty Principle Spacetime |
1:40 |
2:00 |
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| Matthew Giesler |
California Institute of Technology |
Simulations of nearly extremal binary black holes |
2:00 |
2:20 |
★ |
| Geoffrey Lovelace |
California State University, Fulllerton |
Nearly extremal apparent horizons in simulations of merging black holes |
2:20 |
2:40 |
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| Spencer Chang |
University of Oregon |
CMB signals of pre-inflationary bubble collisions |
2:40 |
3:00 |
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Coffee/Snack Break (20 minutes) |
3:00 |
3:20 |
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Session IV (Chair: Ray Frey)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Adam Layne |
University of Oregon |
Instability of certain T^2-symmetric cosmological solutions with magnetic field |
3:20 |
3:40 |
★ |
| James Dilts |
University of Oregon |
The Conformal Constraint Equations on Asymptotically Euclidean Manifolds |
3:40 |
4:00 |
★ |
| Ryan Quitzow-James |
University Of Oregon |
Search Strategy for Gravitational Waves Associated with Magnetar Bursts during LIGO's Sixth Science Run |
4:00 |
4:20 |
★ |
| Sudarshan Karki |
University of Oregon |
Absolute calibration of second-generation gravitational wave detectors using photon radiation pressure |
4:20 |
4:40 |
★ |
| Kevin Croker |
University of Hawai`i at Manoa |
ngravs: Distinct gravitational interactions in GADGET-2 |
4:40 |
5:00 |
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Special Lecture (Chair: Jim Isenberg)
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Session V (Chair: Paul Allen)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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Registration (and emergency coffee for those in need) |
9:00 |
9:10 |
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| Robert Littlejohn |
University of California Berkeley |
Symplectic Aspects of the Schla"fli Identity |
9:10 |
9:30 |
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| Eugene Kur |
University of California, Berkeley |
Noether Currents, Boundary Terms, and Multisymplectic Geometry |
9:30 |
9:50 |
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| Michael Ross |
Humboldt State University |
Experimental Progress on Test of Gravity at 20 Microns with a Parallel-Plate Torsion Pendulum |
9:50 |
10:10 |
★ |
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Coffee/Snack Break (20 minutes) |
10:10 |
10:30 |
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Session VI (Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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| Tevian Dray |
Oregon State University |
The Geometry of Relativity |
10:30 |
10:50 |
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| Gabriel Herczeg |
University of California, Davis |
CPT horizons and chronology protection in shape dynamics |
10:50 |
11:10 |
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| Joseph Mitchell |
University of California, Davis |
Where are the BTZ Black Hole Degrees of Freedom? |
11:10 |
11:30 |
★ |
| Charlie Hagedorn |
University of Washington / Center for Experimental Nuclear |
Sub-millimeter Parallel-Plate Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law |
11:30 |
11:50 |
★ |
| Meg Millhouse |
Montana State University |
Detecting and characterizing binary black hole mergers without waveform templates |
11:50 |
12:10 |
★ |
| Nader Inan |
UC Merced |
The interaction of gravitational waves with superconductors |
12:10 |
12:30 |
★ |
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Lunch (1 hour, 40 min) |
12:30 |
2:10 |
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Session VII (Chair: Tevian Dray)
| Name |
Organization |
Talk |
Begin |
End |
Student |
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GGR Student Talk Award
(Winner: TBA) |
2:10 |
2:20 |
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| Steven Carlip |
University of California, Davis |
Four-dimensional entropy from three-dimensional gravity |
2:20 |
2:40 |
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| Bill Engels |
California Institute of Technology |
Core-collapse Gravitational Wave Prediction with Multivariate Regression |
2:40 |
3:00 |
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| Daniel Hemberger |
California Institute of Technology |
SXS Catalog of Gravitational Waveforms |
3:00 |
3:20 |
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| Beverly Berger |
NSF (retired) |
Comments on expanding T2 symmetric cosmological spacetimes |
3:20 |
3:40 |
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| Paul Allen |
Lewis & Clark College |
The shear-free condition and the regularity of hyperboloidal initial data at future null infinity |
3:40 |
4:00 |
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| Naomi Gendler |
Reed College |
A Parameter Estimation Pipeline for aLIGO |
4:00 |
4:20 |
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