9th EASTERN GRAVITY MEETING

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

March 24, 2006
Friday Morning

Session Chair: Scott Hughes
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
8:30
Scott Hughes
MIT
 Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45
Thomas Baumgarte
Bowdoin College
 Black hole-neutron star binaries in general relativity
9:00
Joshua Faber
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Black hole-neutron star mergers as short GRB progenitors
9:15
Andrew Knapp*
Pennstate
 Grazing black hole collisions
9:30
Abraham Harte*
Pennstate
 Mechanics of extended bodies in curved spacetime
9:45
Nicolas Yunes*
Pennstate
 Fighting against the tides: Construction of a tidally perturbed Kerr metric
10:00
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COFFEE BREAK
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Session Chair: Scott Hughes
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
10:30
Emily Alicea-Munoz*
Pennstate/Goddard Space Flight Center
 Massive black hole merger rates
10:45
Bence Kocsis*
Eotvos University
 Advance Warning of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers for Targeted Electromagnetic Observations of Gravitational-wave Counterparts
11:00
Ryan Lang*
MIT
 The impact of spin-induced precession on the measurement of massive black hole binaries
11:15
Janna Levin
Barnard College/Columbia University
 Chaos and black hole pairs
11:30
Gabe Perez-Giz*
Columbia University
 Kerr orbits via dynamical systems theory
11:45
Rafael Porto*
Carnegie Mellon University
 New results for spinning binary systems at 3PN via an effective theory of gravity
12:00
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LUNCH BREAK
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*Student, and hence eligible for the Best Student Presentation prize.

Friday Afternoon

Session Chair: David Craig
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
13:30
Pawel Mazur
University of South Carolina
 Quasi or Quantum Black Holes
13:45
David Craig
Le Moyne College
 Branch wave functions for quasi-classical universes
14:00
Arundhati Dasgupta
University of New Brunswick
 Semiclassical horizons
14:15
Emil Mottola
Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Macroscopic effects of the quantum trace anomaly
14:30
Seth Major
Hamilton College
 Discrete geometry phenomenology
14:45
Alice Francis*
Hamilton College
 Loop quantum gravitational effects on the primordial stochastic gravitational wave background
15:00
Daniel Cartin
Naval Academy Preparatory School
 Loop quantum cosmology in the Schwarzschild interior
15:15
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COFFEE BREAK
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Session Chair: Thomas Baumgarte
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
15:45
Robert Thompson*
Tufts University
 Spectral Line Broadening and Angular Blurring Due to Spacetime Geometry Fluctuations
16:00
Barry Muhlfelder
Stanford University
 Gravity Probe B
16:15
Yi Mao*
MIT
 Constraining Torsion by Gravity Probe B
16:30
Gregg Harry
MIT/LIGO
 Update on Advanced LIGO
16:45
Matthew Abernathy*
MIT/LIGO
 Effect of temperature on coating thermal noise in Advanced LIGO
17:00
Michele Zanolin
MIT/LIGO
 An update on LIGO's triggered and untriggered searches for gravitational waves burst sources
17:15
Louis Rubbo
Pennstate
 When are chirp models appropriate in analyzing gravitational wave data
17:30
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End of day 1
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*Student, and hence eligible for the Best Student Presentation prize.



March 25, 2006
Saturday Morning

Session Chair: Janna Levin
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
8:45
Andrew Beckwith
American Physical Society/Fermilab
 How S-S' di quark pairs signify an Einstein constant dominated cosmology, and lead to new inflationary cosmology physics
9:00
Vitaly Vanchurin
Tufts University
 Scaling of cosmic string loops
9:15
Thorsten Battefeld*
Brown University
 String Gas Cosmology and Structure Formation
9:30
Delia Schwartz-Perlov*
Tufts University
 Probabilities in the inflationary multiverse
9:45
Karim Munawar
St. John Fisher College
 Effect of Cosmic Gravitational Background Radiation on Apparent Evolution of the Universe
10:00
Victor Taveras*
Pennstate
 Corrections to the Friedman Equations from LQG for a Universe with a Free Scalar Field
10:15
Vishnu Chandra Paruchuri*
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
 Approximate Pre-Classical Solutions in Loop Quantum Cosmology
10:30
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COFFEE BREAK
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Session Chair: Joshua Faber
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
11:00
Ali Vanderveld*
Cornell University
 Singular behavior in Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi cosmological models
11:15
Michael Pfenning
United States Military Academy
 Local covariance, quantum energy inequalities and bounds on the Casimir effect
11:30
Ken Olum
Tufts University
 Averaged null energy condition in flat space with boundaries
11:45
Joseph Rudmin
James Madison University
 Some Interesting Symmetries of the Gravitational Stress Energy Tensor
12:00
Doug Sweetser
Unifying gravity and EM as a riddle you can solve
12:15
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LUNCH BREAK
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*Student, and hence eligible for the Best Student Presentation prize.

Saturday Afternoon

Session Chair: Simonetta Frittelli
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
14:00
Robyn Sanderson*
MIT
 Electromagnetic analogies in weak-field GR
14:15
Eloisa Bentivegna*
Pennstate
 Gauge conditions for BSSN evolutions of single punctures
14:30
Abdul Mroueh*
Cornell University
 Constraints Propagation in 3+1 general relativity
14:45
Will Farr*
MIT
 Integral equations for general relativity
15:00
Tanja Hinderer*
Cornell University
 Kerr inspirals via a two-timescale expansion
15:15
Marc Favata*
Cornell University
 The validity of the adiabatic approximation for extreme mass ratio inspirals
15:30
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COFFEE BREAK
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Session Chair: Louis Rubbo
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
 Title
16:00
Michael Koppitz
Goddard Space Flight Center
 Binary black hole merger dynamics and waveforms
16:15
Frank Herrmann
Pennstate
 Binary black hole evolutions
16:30
Eran Rosenthal
University of Guelph
 Second-order gravitational self force
16:45
Ian Hinder
Pennstate
 TBD ... something related to black hole simulations
17:00
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
Pennstate
 Event Rate for Extreme Mass Ratio Burst Signals in the LISA Band
17:15
Carlos Sopuerta
Pennstate
 Non-linear coupling of neutron star oscillations
17:30
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 Closing Remarks and Awarding of the Bell Prize

*Student, and hence eligible for the Best Student Presentation prize.


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