Tentative schedule of talks for the 18th PCGM


Friday Morning: First Session (9:30am - 10:50am)

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
9:30 - 9:42    Introductory Remarks
9:42 - 9:54Waldron, Andrew UC Davis Higher spins in cosmological backgrounds and how they kill Λ
9:54 - 10:06Vankov, Anatoli Rochester Institute of Technology The problem of mass in cosmological and gravtational theories
10:06 - 10:18Cooperstock, Fred University of Victoria, Canada Energy and gravity
10:18 - 10:30Jorgensen, Jamie Utah State University What's my symmetry? Classifying spacetimes according to Petrov
10:30 - 10:42Capovilla, Riccardo CINVESTAV-IPN (Mexico) Hamiltonians for curves
10:50 - 11:10Break

Friday Morning: Second Session (11:15am - 12:30pm )

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
11:15 - 11:27Hirschmann, Eric Brigham Young University Towards axisymmetric gravitational critical collapse
11:27 - 11:39Calderon, Hector Montana State University Semiclassical back reaction on Schwarzschild-deSitter black holes
11:39 - 11:51Surya, Sumati University of Alberta (Canada) A black hole non-existence theorem
11:51 - 12:03Burko, Lior University of Utah Survival of the black hole's Cauchy horizon under non-compact perturbations
12:03 - 12:15Isenberg, Jim University Of Oregon TBA

Friday Afternoon: Third Session (2:30pm - 3:50pm)

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
2:30 - 2:42Larson, Shane Caltech Optimized data analysis strategies for LISA
2:42 - 2:54Evans, Matthew Caltech Lock Acquistion in Resonant Interferometers
2:54 - 3:06Scheel, Mark Caltech Stability of the Einstein evolution equation I
3:06 - 3:18Lindblom, Lee Caltech Stability of the Einstein evolution equation II
3:18 - 3:30Chen, Yanbei Caltech Speedmeter interferometer for advanced LIGO
3:30 - 3:42Wen, Linqing Caltech Filtering gravitational waves with the fast chirp transform algorithm
3:50 - 4:10Break

Friday Afternoon: Fourth Session (4:15pm - 5:45pm)

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
4:15 - 4:27Berger, Beverly National Science Foundation Gravitational waveform filtering in expanding cosmological spacetimes
4:27 - 4:39Bhawal, Biplab Caltech Mode matching in LIGO
4:39 - 4:51Kopeikin, Sergei University of Missouri-Columbia Testing the relativistic effect of the propagation of gravity by very long baseline interferometry
4:51 - 5:03Lu, K. U. CSU Long Beach Pulsating star as a possible source of gravitational wave
5:03 - 5:15Cornish, Neil Montana State University Spinning compact binaries: Chaotic or not?
5:15 - 5:27Strasburg, Jana University of Washington Constraining the weight of gravity: A test of the strong eqivalence principle using Lunar Laser Ranging
5:27 - 5:39Kapner, Daniel University of Washington Short range test of Newton's inverse square law

Saturday Morning: First Session (9:00am - 10:20am)

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
9:00 - 9:12Kisseleva, Ludmila St. Mary's College Dynamical evolution of triple stellar and planetary systems
9:12 - 9:24Tripathi, Mani UC Davis Experimental signatures for QG effects during flaring events in AGN.
9:24 - 9:36Pitts, J. Brian St. Edward's University (Texas) The special relativistic approach to Einstein's equations
9:36 - 9:48Singleton, Douglas CSU Fresno Wormhole toy model of fermions
9:48 - 10:00Zafarullah, Ijaz Montana State University Semiclassical perturbations of slowly rotating black holes
10:00 - 10:12Pezzaglia, William Santa Clara University Classical spin electrodynamics in background curvature plus torsion
10:20 - 10:40Break

Saturday Morning: Second Session (10:45am - 12:00pm)

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
10:45 - 10:57Laddha, Alok University Of Utah Canonical dynamics of weyl tensor
10:57 - 11:09Bambeck, Daniel Montana State University Implications of neutrino masses for Hawking radiation
11:09 - 11:21Guendelman, Eduardo Ben Gurion University (Israel) The two measures theory: Scale invariance breaking, the cosmological and fermion family problems
11:21 - 11:33Goradia, Shantilal University of Notre Dame Gravity and Nuclear Forces-a potential link
11:33 - 11:45Millward, Steven Brigham Young University Gravitational collapse of Yang-Mills-Higgs fields. Do black holes need barbers?
11:45 - 11:57Salzman, Peter UC Davis Investigation of the time dependent Schroedinger-Newton equation
12:00 - 1:30Lunch

Saturday Afternoon: Third Session (1:30pm - 2:50pm)

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
1:30 - 1:42Wang, Anzhong Brigham Young University Critical Collapse of Scalar Field in 3D AdS Background
1:42 - 1:54Carlip, Steve UC Davis Conformal symmetry and entropy for dilatonic black holes
1:54 - 2:06Torre, Charles Utah State University Some remarks on inhomogeneous quantum cosmology
2:06 - 2:18Ahluwalia, Dharamvir Facultad de Fisica UAZ (Mexico) Interface of gravitational and quantum realms
2:18 - 2:30Kirchbach, Marina Facultad de Fisica UAZ (Mexico) Space-time structure of massive gravitino
2:30 - 2:42Balduz Jr, Jose L. Mercer University Quantum observer and spacetime hierarchies
2:50 - 3:10Break

Saturday Afternoon: Fourth Session (3:15pm - 4:30pm)

TimeNameAffiliationTitle
3:15 - 3:27Ellis, Homer University of Colorado at Boulder Space, space-time, and [space-time]--time
3:27 - 3:39Tung, Roh California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics Hamiltonian of GR for spatially bounded regions
3:39 - 3:51Holz, Daniel UC Santa Barbara Retro-MACHOs: Pi in the sky?
3:51 - 4:03Trejos, Richard Hill Air Force Base Gravity
4:03 - 4:15Hiscock, William A. Montana State University Gravitational waves from the galactic halo: A history
4:15 - 4:27Leshanu, Constantin Kiev University Gravitation as hole radiation of matter