Program

EGM8 will be held in DeTamble Auditorium in Tribble Hall.

Thursday, March 17, 2005:

4:00pm — Physics Department Colloquium: Clifford Will, "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment.". Refreshments served at 3:30pm in the lobby.
Room 101, Olin Physical Laboratory (Building 8 on the map)

8:00pm — Public Lecture: Clifford Will, "Was Einstein Right."
Pugh Auditorium, Benson University Center (Building 6 on the map)

Friday, March 18

• 8:30-9:00 — Coffee, Bagels, etc...

Session-1 — Numerical Relativity

•   9:00-  9:10 — Welcome
•   9:10-  9:25 — Clifford Will, Washington University, St. Louis,
  “Post-Newtonian Diagnostic of Quasi-Equilibrium Configurations of Compact Objects”
•   9:25-  9:40 — Maria Babiuc, University of Pittsburgh,
  “Gravitational Wave Extraction based on the Cauchy-Characteristic Method”
•   9:40-  9:55 — Greg Cook, Wake Forest University,
  “Black-Hole Binary Initial Data”
•   9:55-10:10 — Matthew Caudill, Wake Forest University,
  “Testing the Black Hole's Spin in Black-Hole Binary Initial Data”
• 10:10-10:25 — Jason Grigsby, Wake Forest University,
  “Are We Finding Circular Orbits?”
• 10:25-10:40 — Stephen Lau, University of Texas at Brownsville,
  “Rapid evaluation of radiation boundary kernels for time-domain wave propagation on black holes”

Break — 10:40-11:00

Session-2 — Mathematical Relativity

• 11:00-11:15 — Thomas Kling, Bridgewater State College,
  “The Bianchi Identities and Weak Gravitational Lensing”
• 11:15-11:30 — John Kulick, Society for Amateur Scientists,
  “Dirac’s Cosmic Time and Gravity”
• 11:30-11:45 — William Baker, Furman University,
  “Dark Matter in Modified Newtonian Dynamics and General Relativity”
• 11:45-12:00 — Andre Wehner, Centre College,
  “Advances in Conformal Gravity”
• 12:00-12:15 — Mihai Bondarescu, California Institute of Technology,
  “Black Holes and Black Strings in spaces with unusual compactification”
• 12:15-12:30 — Abraham Harte, The Pennsylvania State University,
  “Self-Forces on Extended Bodies”

Lunch — 12:30-2:00

Session-3 — Gravity Waves and Black Holes

• 2:00-2:15 — Sergei Kopeikin, University of Missouri-Columbia,
  “ Isolated Systems, Gravitational Waves and the Post-Minkowskian Approximations in the Expanding Universe.”
• 2:15-2:30 — Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, The Pennsylvania State University,
  “ Loss Cone Evolution in Triaxial Galaxies”
• 2:30-2:45 — Val Tenyotkin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
  “Time domain calculations of extreme mass ratio binaries”
• 2:45-3:00 — Louis Rubbo, The Pennsylvania State University,
  “Identification and Subtraction of Bright Galactic Binaries from LISA's Data”
• 3:00-3:15 — Sharmanthie Fernando, Northern Kentucky University,
  “Quasi normal modes of 2+1 dimensional black hole”
• 3:15-3:30 — Munawar Karim, St. John Fisher College,
  “ Compact Gravity Wave Detector: Progress Report”

Break — 3:30-4:00

Session-4 — Field Theory and Cosmology

• 4:00-4:15 — Peter Groves, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
  “Method to compute the stress-energy tensor for a spin 1/2 field in a general static spherically symmetric spacetime”
• 4:15-4:30 — Eric Carlson, Wake Forest University,
  “Stress-Energy Tensor for a Fermion Field in Schwarzschild Spacetime”
• 4:30-4:45 — William Hirsch, Wake Forest University,
  “Stress-Energy Tensor for a Massless Fermion Field in a Static Wormhole Spacetime”
• 4:45-5:00 — Katherine Benson, Emory University,
  “Constructing Braneworld Field Theories”
• 5:00-5:15 — Paul Anderson, Wake Forest University,
  “Asymptotic Behavior of the Stress-Energy Tensor for Scalar Fields in the Boulware State in Schwarzschild Spacetimes”
• 5:15-5:30 — Mart Gibson, Southern Pines, NC,
  “A Classical Complex Wave Foundation of the Cosmic-Quantum Mechanism”

Banquet Dinner - Magnolia Room, 2nd floor, Reynolda Hall

• 6:00-7:00 — Cash Bar
• 7:00-9:00 — Buffet Dinner

Saturday, March 18

• 8:30-9:00 — Coffee, Bagels, etc...

Session-5 — Quantum Gravity/Alternative Gravity Theories

•   9:00-  9:15 — Chad Middleton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
  “Constrained Perturbative Expansion of the DGP Model”
•   9:15-  9:30 — Brett Bolen, University of Mississippi,
  “Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Uncertainty Principle”
•   9:30-  9:45 — Dave Pandres, North Georgia College and State University,
  “Gravitational and Electroweak Unification”
•   9:45-10:00 — Ed Green, North Georgia College & State University,
  “Enlarged Transformation Group and Local Lorentz Invariance”
• 10:00-10:15 — Doug Sweetser,
  “Why a Rank 1 Unified Field Theory is Compelling and Its Background Mathematical Structure”
• 10:15-10:30 — Edward Schaefer,
  “Flat Background General Relativity: A Progress Report”

Break — 10:30-11:00

Session-6 — Numerical Relativity

• 11:00-11:15 — David Brown, North Carolina State University,
  “Comments on the conformal traceless decomposition”
• 11:15-11:30 — Mark Hannam, University of Texas at Brownsville,
  “Quasi-circular orbits of binary black-hole conformal thin-sandwich puncture data”
• 11:30-11:45 — Thomas Baumgarte, Bowdoin College,
  “Examining initial data with the Beetle-Burko radiation scalar: analytical examples".
• 11:45-12:00 — Ulrich Sperhake, The Pennsylvania State University,
  “Black hole head-on collisions and gravitational waves with fixed mesh-refinement and dynamical singularity excision”
• 12:00-12:15 — Carlos F. Sopuerta, The Pennsylvania State University,
  “Finite Element simulations of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binary Systems”
• 12:15-12:30 — Ruxandra Bondarescu, Cornell University,
  “Evolution of 3D boson stars with waveform extraction”
• 12:30-12:45— Travis Garrett, UNC Chapel Hill,
  “Computing Scalar Field Binary Inspirals using the Weak Radiation Reaction Approximation”