17th PACIFIC COAST
GRAVITY MEETING

Program

Each talk will be expected to last 12 minutes, followed by 3 minutes of questions.

March 9, 2001
Friday Morning

Session Chair: Andrew Cumming
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
9:00
Daniel Holz
ITP
Welcome and Opening Remarks[Audio]
9:15
Andrew Cumming
ITP
Probing neutron stars with X-ray bursts[Audio]
9:30
Lars Bildsten
ITP
Gravitational Waves from Accreting Neutron Stars[Audio]
9:45
Michele Vallisneri*
Caltech
Nonlinear evolution of the r-modes in rapidly rotating neutron stars [Audio]
10:00
Lee Lindblom
Caltech
Gravitational Radiation from the r-Mode Instability
10:15
Yuk Tung Liu*
Caltech
Instabilities of Differentially Rotating Neutron Stars[Audio]
10:30
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COFFEE BREAK
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11:00
Virginia Trimble
UC Irvine
Thirty Years After: Joe Weber's Observations with Bar Antennas in the LIGO Era[Audio]
11:15
Daniel Holz
ITP
Gravitational lensing of high-redshift objects[Audio]
11:30
Vladimir Pariev*
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dragging near Supermassive Black Holes: Do We See It?[Audio]
11:45
Eric Agol
Caltech
The Galactic Center Black Hole[Audio]
12:00
Walter Landry
Univ. of Utah
Fully Relativistic 3D simulations of Accretion onto Black Holes[Audio]
12:15
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LUNCH BREAK
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*student, and hence eligible for the Bell Prize.

Friday Afternoon

Session Chair: Kirill Krasnov
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
14:00
Amanda Peet
Univ. of Toronto
Black Hole Singularity Resolution and Other Uses of String Theory[Audio]
14:15
Andrew Chamblin
MIT
Brane-world black holes[Audio]
14:30
Steve Gubser
Caltech
Black hole instabilities in anti-de Sitter space[Audio]
14:45
Sumati Surya
Univ. of British Columbia
Phase Transitions for Flat AdS Black Holes[Audio]
15:00
Kirill Krasnov
UCSB
Asymptotic Quantization of AdS 3D Gravity[Audio]
15:15
Stanley Ruby
SLAC
Gravity from a new view of Atoms
15:30
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COFFEE BREAK
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16:00
Brookie Williams*
UCSB
D-branes and Cosmological Singularities[Audio]
16:15
Ruth Williams
Caltech / Cambridge (DAMTP)
Perturbations of state sum models of 3-d quantum gravity[Audio]
16:30
Kengo Maeda
UCSB
Reconsideration of the enhancon geometry in general relativity[Audio]
16:45
Gary Horowitz
UCSB
Bosonic M Theory[Audio]
17:00
Veronika Hubeny*
UCSB
What can we learn about small objects in AdS?[Audio]
17:15
Eric Woolgar
Univ. of Alberta
Horizon topology in 5 dimensions[Audio]
17:30
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DINNER
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*student, and hence eligible for the Bell Prize.



March 10, 2001
Saturday Morning

Session Chair: Adrian Gentle
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
9:00
Lior Burko
Caltech
Self force on a scalar charge in the spacetime of a stationary, axisymmetric black hole[Audio]
9:15
Roberto Sussman
National University of Mexico (UNAM)
Volume averaging in inhomogeneous spacetimes with spherical symmetry[Audio]
9:30
Charles Torre
Utah State University
General Relativity and Symmetric Criticality[Audio]
9:45
Adrian Gentle
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Applications of Regge geometrodynamics[Audio]
10:00
Jim Isenberg
Univ. of Oregon
Gluing Wormholes Onto Your Spacetime[Audio]
10:15
Poghos Kazarian
Glendale Community College
On the tensor field inflation in the General Relativity homogeneous cosmological model[Audio]
10:30
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COFFEE BREAK
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11:00
Jim Hartle
UCSB
How to Teach Relativity to Undergraduates[Audio]
11:15
Doug Eardley
UCSB
Collapse and Trapped Surfaces in Vacuum Gravity[Audio]
11:30
William Pezzaglia
Santa Clara University
Equations of Motion of Spinning Particles[Audio]
11:45
Mac Keiser
Stanford
The status of the Relativity Mission, Gravity Probe B[Audio]
12:00
Alexandre Kretchetov*
Stanford
Optimal using of the redundant magnetometer signals in the GPB Data Processing[Audio]
12:15
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LUNCH BREAK
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Saturday Afternoon

Session Chair: Scott Hughes
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
14:00
Kip Thorne
Caltech
LIGO-I and LIGO-II Interferometers -- Status and Plans[Audio]
14:15
Dennis Ugolini
Caltech
Physics Program at the Caltech 40m LIGO Prototype[Audio]
14:30
Biplab Bhawal
Caltech
End-to-End simulation for LIGO[Audio]
14:45
Yanbei Chen*
Caltech
Quantum noise in signal recycled laser-interferometer gravitational-wave detectors[Audio]
15:00
Richard O'Shaughnessy*
Caltech
Reducing thermoelastic noise in LIGO mirrors[Audio]
15:15
Shanti Rao*
Caltech
Thermal Noise Experiments at LIGO[Audio]
15:30
Patricia Purdue*
Caltech
Design for a QND speed-meter interferometer[Audio]
15:45
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COFFEE BREAK
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16:15
Scott Hughes
ITP
Can LISA see extreme mass ratio inspiral?[Audio]
16:30
Bill Hiscock
Montana State Univ.
LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the graviton[Audio]
16:45
Neil Cornish
Montana State Univ.
Measuring and mapping the cosmic gravitational wave background [Audio]
17:00
Ronald Hellings
JPL
Gravitational Wave Astrometry[Audio]
17:15
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Closing Remarks and Awarding of the Bell Prize
*student, and hence eligible for the Bell Prize.


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