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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
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Program on Program on Classical and Quantum Physics of Strong Gravitational Fields
January 1999 - July 1999
Coordinators: A. Ashtekar, G. Horowitz, J. Isenberg
Speakers: Please give your transparencies to the ITP staff members in the front office (Rm 1102) for scanning. They will be returned promptly to your mailbox.
1/26 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Beverly Berger ITP & Oakland Univ. |
The Nature of Generic Gravitational Collapse[Video] |
1/29 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Robert Mann ITP & U-Waterloo |
Pair Production of Rotating Black Holes[Audio] |
2/09 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Donald Marolf ITP & Syracuse Univ |
Introduction to Black Branes[Audio] |
2/19 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Jennie Traschen ITP & Univ Massachusetts |
Fermionic Zero Modes on Black Branes and Gravitational Spin-Spin Interaction[Audio] |
2/23 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Joe Polchinski ITP & UCSB |
Introduction to D-Branes[Audio] |
3/2 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Steven Carlip ITP & UC Davis |
Black Hole Entropy and Conformal Fields Theory[Audio] |
3/5 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Scott Hughes ITP & University of Illinois |
Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
3/9 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Joe Polchinski & ITP UCSB |
Introduction to D-Branes (continued)[Audio] |
3/12 12:15 p.m. | Dr. David Garfinkle ITP & Oakland Univ Mich |
Scaling in Gravitational Collapse |
3/16 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Gary Horowitz ITP & UC Santa Barbara |
Comments on the AdS/CFT Duality[Audio] |
3/19 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Abhay Ashtekar ITP & Penn State |
Isolated Horizons: A Generalization of Black Hole Mechanics[Audio] |
3/23 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Vincent Moncrief ITP & Yale Univ |
The ADM Hamiltonian for a Closed Universe and its Topological Significance[Audio] |
3/26 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Peter Aichelburg ITP & ITP-Vienna |
On the Energy-Momentum of an Ultra-relativistic Black Hole[Audio] |
3/30 1:30 p.m. | Dr. James Bardeen ITP & Univ Washington |
Extreme Kerr Throat as a Complete Spacetime[Audio] |
4/2 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Jorge Pullin ITP & Penn State |
Colliding Black Holes: What's New with the Close Approximation[Audio] |
4/6 1:30 p.m. | Dr. James Isenberg ITP & Univ of Oregon |
Proving Global Existence for Wave Maps[Audio] |
4/9 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Matthew Choptuik ITP & Univ of TX Austin |
Recent Developments in Black Hole Critical Phenomena[Audio] |
4/13 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Abhay Ashtekar ITP & Penn State |
Quantum Geometry I[Audio] |
4/16 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Theodore Jacobson ITP & Univ of Maryland |
Hawking Radiation without Trans-Planckian Blue Shifts[Audio] |
4/20 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Abhay Ashtekar ITP & Penn State |
Quantum Geometry II |
4/22 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. James W. York ITP & Univ North Carolina |
Hyperbolic, Canonical, and Conformal Structure in Gravity |
4/23 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Alan Rendall ITP & Max-Planck Inst. |
Quiescent Cosmological Singularities[Audio] |
4/27 1:30 p.m. | Dr. John Baez UC Riverside |
Quantum Geometry and Black Hole Entropy |
4/30 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Lee Smolin ITP & Penn State |
A Proposal for a Background Independent Form of M Theory |
5/4 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Ezra Newman ITP & Univ of Pittsburgh |
Gravitational Lensing from a Space-time Perspective[Audio] |
5/7 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Hans Lindblad ITP & UCSD |
Energy Estimates for the Motion of the Free Surface of a Fluid |
5/11 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Carlo Rovelli ITP & University of Pittsburgh |
Dynamics in Loop Quantum Gravity[Audio] |
5/13 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Roger Penrose ITP & Oxford University |
Einstein's Equation and Twistor Theory: Recent Developments [Audio] |
5/14 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Kirill Krasnov ITP & Penn State |
Spin Foam Models and Quantum Gravity[Audio] |
5/18 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Lars Andersson ITP & KTH Stockholm |
On Global Existence for 3+1 Gravity[Audio] |
5/21 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Dieter Brill ITP & Univ of Maryland |
Black Holes and Worm Holes in Classical 2+1 Gravity |
5/25 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Charles Torre ITP & Utah State |
Symmetry Reduction of Gravitational Field Theories[Audio] |
6/1 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Helmut Friedrich ITP & Max-Planck-Inst. |
Initial Boundary Value Problems for Vacuum Einstein's Equations[Audio] |
6/3 12:15 p.m. | Mr. Hans Ringström ITP & KTH Stockholm |
Curvature Blow-up in Spatially Homogeneous Vacuum Spacetimes |
6/4 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Abhay Ashtekar ITP & Penn State |
Quantum Mechanics as a Special Case of Classical Mechanics[Audio] |
6/8 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Dieter Maison ITP & Max-Planck Institute |
Bogomol'nyi Equations for Einsten-Yang-Mills-Dilaton Theory[Audio] |
6/11 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Eanna Flanagan ITP & Cornell |
Gravitational Radiation Reaction of Point Particles[Audio] |
6/15 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Istvan Racz ITP & KFKI Hungary |
On the Existence of Killing Vector Fields[Audio] |
6/18 12:15 p.m. | Discussion of Recent Gravity Conferences | |
6/29 1:30 p.m. | Dr. Robert Wald ITP & Univ. Chicago |
Gravitational Lensing in an Inhomogeneous Universe[Audio] |
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