Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I wanted to let you know that, in addition to the previously-announced plenary program, a part of the parallel session program for GR19 (July 5-9, 2010, in Mexico City) is now in place. Don’t worry if you have not yet submitted your own abstract (or if you have, but it has not yet been accepted). The deadline for abstract submission is April 30, and there is plenty of space left for additional talks. Many more abstracts will be accepted once the deadline has passed. The names below are just a teaser to show you how exciting the program will be!
Looking forward to seeing you in Mexico City,
Don Marolf
SOC Chair for GR19
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Plenary program:
Tom Abel
Star Formation Then and Now
Patrick Brady
Global network of gravitational-wave detectors: observations and implications
Mihalis Dafermos
Recent progress in mathematical relativity
Andrea Ghez
Observing the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
Stefan Hollands
Black hole uniqueness in diverse settings
Gary Horowitz
Surprising connections btwn gravity and condensed matter physics
Veronika Hubeny
(AdS) Black hole physics as fluid dynamics
David McClelland
Quantum technologies for gravitational wave detectors
Jeffrey McClintock
Black hole spins: observations, expectations, and implications
Slava Mukhanov
Verifying Inflation and Probing Dark Energy
Frans Pretorius
Advances in numerical relativity
Carlo Rovelli
Progress in loop gravity and spin foams
Tarun Souradeep
Standard Cosmology & Beyond with CMB
Ingrid Stairs
Testing GR with binary pulsars
Rainer Weiss
Current performance and near term prospects for ground based interferometric gravitational wave detectors
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Partial Parallel program:
(each session will accept many more talks in May (after the April 30 abstract submission deadline)
A1 Exact Solutions and their Interpretation
Chair: Harvey Reall
Partial List of speakers:
Piotr Chrusciel
Valeri Frolov
Jiri Bicak
Carlos Herdeiro
James Lucietti
Vojtech Pravda
Juan Valiente-Kroon
A2 Mathematical Relativity and Other Progress in Classical Gravity Theory
Chair: Sergio Dain
Partial List of speakers:
Robert Wald
Helmut Friedrich
Piotr T. Chrus’ciel
Jim Isenberg
A3 Modified Gravity Theories
Chair: Cedric Deffayet
Partial List of speakers:
Petr Horava
Rachael Bean
B1 Relativistic Astrophysics
Chair: Tvsi Piran
Partial List of speakers:
Pawan Kumer
William Lee
Elena Gallo
Elena Rossi.
B2 Numerical Relativity and Astrophysical Applications
Chair: Manuela Campanelli
Partial List of speakers:
Miguel Alcubierre
Harald Pfeiffer
Pablo Laguna
Christian Ott
B3 Analytic Approximations and Perturbation Methods and their Applications
Chair: Alessandra Buonanno
Partial List of speakers:
Luc Blanchet
Leor Barack
Ajith Parameswaran
Vitor Cardoso
B4 Physical Cosmology and Gravitational Lensing
Chair: Buvnesh Jain
B5 Theoretical/Mathematical Cosmology
Chair: Robert Brandenberger
C1 Current ground-based GW detectors: Experiments
Chair: Seiji Kawamura
Partial List of speakers:
Andrzej Krolak (IMPAN) Virgo
Valery Frolov (LIGO Livingston Observatory) LIGO
Jim Hough (Glasgow) GEO
Shinji Miyoki (ICRR) CLIO/TAMA
C2 Ground-based GW detectors: Data analysis and techniques
Chair: Marie Anne Bizouard
C3 Advanced ground-based GW detectors (R&D for and science from)
Chair: Nergis Mavalvala
C4 Space-based GW detectors: Theory and experiment
Chair: Stefano Vitale
Partial List of speakers:
Oliver Jennrich
Stanislav Babak
Jonathan Gair
Tomotada Akutsu
Ilya Mandel
Guido Mueller
Peter Wass
C5 Experimental gravitation
Chair: Eric Adelberger
Partial List of speakers:
Stephan Schlamminger
Stefan Baessler
D1 Loop Quantum Gravity and Spin Foams
Chair: Alejandro Corichi
Partial List of speakers:
Abhay Ashtekar
Bianca Dittrich
Laurent Freidel
Parampeet Singh
D2 Strings, branes and M-theory
Chair: Shiraz Minwalla
Partial List of speakers:
Petr Horava
Xi Yin
Wei Song
D3 Causal sets, Causal dynamical triangulations, Non-commutative geometry, and other approaches to quantum gravity
Chair: Fay Dowker
Partial List of speakers:
Renate Loll
David Rideout
Steve Carlip
Daniel Litim
D4 Quantum fields in curved space-time, semiclassical gravity, quantum gravity phenomenology, and analog models
Chair: Bill Unruh