The 4 th Eastern Gravity Meeting

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282
Dates: 8th-9th April, 2000  -  Venue: 719 Fisher Hall


The annual Eastern Gravity series brings together researchers and students of the East coast, with the purpose of promoting the involvement of junior scientists into all aspects of the field of Gravitational Physics, as well as communicating recent advances in the field.

Everyone is invited. 

This meeting's homepage can be found here. 

PROGRAM

By cliking the title of each talk, visitors to this page can see the slides of the talk. All linked slide pages were set up with the invaluable help of Roberto Gomez's expertise in all "computer matters". All the JPEG files for the slides except Das' and Pullin's were generated by the Duquesne University undergraduate team: Marc Knecht, Ben Boyle and Paul Stumpf. Link to movies shown during the meeting are welcome: send the URL by email to simo@mayu.physics.duq.edu


Saturday, April 8, 2000
8:00 am  Breakfast  
8:45 am  Welcome Simonetta Frittelli: meeting's demographics
 ----------  Session I --------- Gravitational Waves -- Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez
9:00 am  Mark Beilby Development of a double pendulum for gravitational wave detectors
9:15 am  Amber L. Stuver Piezoelectric actuator characterizations for isolation testing of suspension systems
9:30 am   Robert Huber Calibration of the actuator-sensor used in test mass control of an interferometric gravitational wave detector
9:45 am  Joan M. Centrella Instability of rapidly rotating compact stellar cores
10:00 am Dae-Il Choi Three-dimensional adaptive evolutions of gravitational waves in numerical relativity
10:15 am David Brown Gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae
10:30 Coffee Break  
 ---------- Session II -------- Semiclassical gravity and cosmology -- Chair: Jorge Pullin
10:50 am Paul Anderson Zero temperature black holes in semiclassical gravity: do they exist?
11:05 am Chun-Hsien Wu Quantum fluctuations of radiation pressure
11:20 am Michael J. Pfenning Vacuum polarization and energy conditions at a planar frequency dependent dielectric to vacuum interface
11:35 am Larry Ford Lightcone fluctuations and extra-dimensions
12:50 am Munawar Karim  Casimir force in curved space
12:05 pm Masafumi Seriu Evolution of the discrepancy between the real universe and its model
12:20 pm Mark Trodden Weakening gravity with compact hyperboloids
12:35 pm Lunch Fisher Cafe, 2nd. floor Fisher Hall
 ---------- Session III ------- Mathematical relativity and quantum gravity -- Chair: Don Marolf
2:00 pm Jorge Pullin Kinematics and dynamics in canonical quantum gravity
2:15 pm Seth Major An angle operator for quantum geometry
2:30 pm Eli Hawkins Noncommutative regularization for the practical man
2:45 pm Daniel Cartin The Lanczos potential formalism for the Riemann tensor
3:00 pm  Simonetta Frittelli Image distortion in nonperturbative lensing
3:15 pm Thomas P. Kling Comparisons of lensing methods
3:30 pm Ted Newman The geometry of differential equations
3:45 pm Coffee break  
 ---------- Session IV ------- Conservation laws and scalar fields -- Chair: Simonetta Frittelli
4:05 pm Don Marolf On charge conservation in supergravity I
4:20 pm Andres Gomberoff On charge conservation in supergravity II
4:35 pm Sean A. Hayward Gravitational energy as Noether charge
4:50 pm Saurya Das Conserved Quantities in Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
5:05 pm David Kerrick Newman-Penrose constants and covariant wave equations for massless-free fields
5:20 pm Keith Lockitch Evolution of scalar fields on a Kerr background
5:35pm Deborah A. Konkowski Waves on Tod spacetime
5:50 pm Day sessions end  -----------------------------------------------------

  Sunday, April 9, 2000

8:00 am Breakfast  
 --------  SessionV ------ Horizons and black holes -- Chair: Sean Hayward
8:30 am Steve Fairhurst Isolated horizons and black hole mechanics
8:45 am Olaf Dreyer General structure of isolated horizons
9:00 am  Badri Krishnan Mechanics of non-rotating isolated horizons
9:15 am Christopher Beetle Isolated horizon mechanics: inclusion of angular momentum
9:30 am Jacek Wisniewski Isolated horizons in 2+1 dimensions
9:45 am Abhay Ashtekar To be announced
10:00 am Jeff Winicour The topological dynamics of horizons
10:15 am Coffee break  
 -------  Session VI ----- Binary black holes -- Chair: Joan Centrella
10:35 am Thomas Baumgarte Initial data for binary black holes in quasicircular orbits
10:50 am Mijan Huq Grazing collision of binary black holes I
11:05 am Deirdre Shoemaker Grazing collision of binary black holes II: from merger towards ringdown
11:20 am Pablo Laguna A linear-nonlinear formulation of Einstein equations for the two-body problem in general relativity
11:35 am  Sascha Husa Colliding black holes from a null point of view: the close limit
11:50 am Roberto Gomez Initial data for a polytrope near a Schwarzschild black hole
12:05 pm Lunch break  
 -------  Session VII ---- Numerical Relativity -- Chair: Roberto Gomez
1:30 pm Steven Liebling Axisymmetric collapse: Textures and gravity
1:45 pm Warner A. Miller  Constant crunch surfaces for black hole simulations
2:00 pm  Hisaaki Shinkai Hyperbolic formulations vs. numerical relativity: experiments using Ashtekar variables
2:15 pm Ramon Lopez-Aleman Modeling radiation reaction in the time domain for particles in orbit around rotating black holes
2:30 pm Bela Szilagyi Cauchy boundaries in linearized gravitational theory
2:45 pm Meeting ends --- ----------------------------------------------

 

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