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Inaugural Conference Parallel Sessions Program
First Session: Thursday, August 9, 2007
Chair: Mark Trodden
| Cosmology: Physical Aspects | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 201 | 2:15 - 2:45 p.m. | chair: Mark Trodden (Syracuse) | Cosmology – The Road Ahead |
| 2:45 - 3:05 p.m. | Stephon Alexander (Penn State) | An Emergent Universe from Chiral Gravity | |
| 3:05 - 3:25 p.m. | Tirthabir Biswas (Penn State) | Generating Inflation and Hierarchy in Supergravity Models | |
| 3:25 - 3:45 p.m. | Kevin Vandersloot (Portsmouth) | The Closed k=+1 FRW Model in Loop Quantum Cosmology | |
Chair: Manuel Tiglio
| Numerical Relativity I | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 216 | 2:15 - 2:45 p.m. | chair: Manuel Tiglio (Louisiana State) | Some New Approaches to Black Hole Evolutions |
| 2:45 - 3:05 p.m. | Carlos Sopuerta (Guelph) | Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries: Another Challenge for Numerical Relativity | |
| 3:05 - 3:25 p.m. | Josef Zlochower (RIT) | Quasi-Local Horizons Calculations and Gauge Conditions | |
| 3:25 - 3:45 p.m. | Tanja Bode (Penn State) | Hardening of Binary Black Hole Mergers through Spurious Radiation | |
Second Session: Thursday, August 9, 2007
Chair: David Seckel
| Observational Issues in Particle Astrophysics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 201 | 4:15 - 4:45 p.m. | chair: David Seckel (Bartol) | Expectations for Detection of ‘GZK’ Neutrinos |
| 4:45 - 5:00 p.m. | Brian Fick (Michigan Technological U) | UHE Cosmic Ray Composition with the Auger Observatory | |
| 5:00 - 5:15 p.m. | Dan Hogan (Kansas) | The Status of the RICE Neutrino Detector | |
| 5:15 - 5:30 p.m. | Andy Smith (Smithsonian) | The Character of High Energy Emission from the Galactic Binary LS 1+61 303 | |
| 5:30 - 5:45 p.m. | Jose Bellido (Penn State) | Latest Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory | |
Chair: Martin Bojowald
| Cosmology: Mathematical Aspects | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 216 | 4:15 - 4:40 p.m. | David Sloan (Penn State) | Strong Gravity and the BKL Conjecture |
| 4:40 - 5:05 p.m. | Woei Chet Lim (Princeton) | Inhomogeneous Mixmaster and Spikes | |
| 5:05 - 5:25 p.m. | Lau Loi So (Tamkang) | On the Energy of Homogeneous Cosmologies | |
| 5:25 - 5:45 p.m. | Mikhail Kagan (Penn State) | Effective Constraints of Loop Quantum Gravity | |
Chair: Radu Roiban
| Approaches to Quantum Gravity I | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 215 | 4:15 - 4:45 p.m. | John Joseph Carrasco (UCLA) | Cancellations in Gravity Theories |
| 4:40 - 5:05 p.m. | Orcan Ogetbil (Penn State) | DeSitter Ground States of N=2 Supergravity Theories with Symmetric Scalar Manifolds in 5 Dimensions | |
| 5:05 - 5:25 p.m. | Yuji Tachikawa (IAS, Princeton) | R2 Correction in Five-Dimensional Supergravity | |
First Session: Friday, August 10, 2007
Chair: Manuel Tiglio
| Numerical Relativity II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 216 | 4:30 - 4:50 p.m. | Matthew Anderson (Louisiana State) | Orbiting Polytropes and Gravitational Wave Analysis |
| 4:50 - 5:10 p.m. | Sean McWilliams (Maryland) | Applying Numerical Relativity and EOB to Black Hole Binary Observation | Movie | |
| 5:10 - 5:30 p.m. | Birjoo Vaishnav (Penn State) | Data Analysis of Numerical Relativity Waveforms | |
Chair: Radu Roiban
| Approaches to Quantum Gravity II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 215 | 4:30 - 5:00 p.m. | Oleg Lunin (Chicago) | Intersecting Branes and Geometry |
| 5:00 - 5:30 p.m. | Ian Swanson (IAS, Princeton) | Dimension Quenching and c-Duality in String Theory | |
First Session: Saturday, August 11, 2007
Chair: John Beacom
| Origins of High Energy Particles | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 201 | 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | John Beacom (Ohio State) | TeV Gamma Ray and Neutrino Sources in the Milky Way |
| 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. | Matthew Kistler (Ohio State) | The Evolving Cosmic GRB Rate and Cosmogenic Neutrinos | Movie | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. | Soeb Razzaque (Penn State) | High Energy Neutrinos from GRBs | |
| 3:00 - 3:15 p.m. | Xiang-Yu Wang (Penn State) | UHE Cosmic Rays from Semi-Relativistic Hypernovae | |
| 3:15 - 3:30 p.m. | Seon-Hee Seo (Penn State) | Search for Tau Neutrino Lollipops and Double Bangs in IceCube | |
Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker
| Black Holes and Gravitational Waves I | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 216 | 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Ben Owen (Penn State) | Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars |
| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. | Emmanouela Rantsiou (Northwestern) | Mergers of BH-NS Binaries | |
| 2:50 - 3:10 p.m. | Gregory Harry (MIT) | Status of Initial LIGO | Powerpoint | PDF | |
| 3:10 - 3:30 p.m. | Andrew Hamilton (Colorado) | The Cause and Consequence of the Mass Inflation Instability Inside Realistic Black Holes | |
Chair: Laurent Freidel
| Approaches to Quantum Gravity III | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 215 | 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Laurent Freidel (Perimeter) | Effective Theories from Spin Foam |
| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. | Simone Mercuri (CPT, Marseille) | Topological Aspects of Ashtekar-Barbero Formulation of General Relativity | |
| 2:50 - 3:10 p.m. | Parampreet Singh (Penn State) | Contrasting LQC and WDW Theory Using an Exactly Solvable Model | |
| 3:10 - 3:30 p.m. | Tomasz Pawlowski (Penn State) | Universe with Cosmological Constant in Loop Quantum Cosmology | |
Second Session: Saturday, August 11, 2007
Chair: Kaixuan Ni
| Astroparticle Physics Beyond the Standard Model | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 201 | 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. | Kaixuan Ni (Yale) | Underground Searches for SUSY Dark Matter: XENON10 and Beyond |
| 4:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Derek Fox (Penn State) | Not Just Coincidence: Prospects for Detection of LIGO Burst Counterparts | |
| 4:45 - 5:00 p.m. | Hasan Yuksel (Ohio State) | Neutrinos as Probes of Dark Matter | |
| 5:15 - 5:30 p.m. | Emre Kahya (Florida) | A Generic Test of Modified Gravity Models which Emulate Dark Matter | |
| 5:30 - 5:45 p.m. | Soeb Razzaque (Penn State) | Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino Detection and Physics Beyond the Standard Model | |
Chair: Ben Owen
| Black Holes and Gravitational Waves II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 216 | 4:00 - 4:25 p.m. | Peter Aufmuth (AEI, Hannover) | Gravitational Wave Research at Hannover and Potsdam |
| 4:25 - 4:50 p.m. | Paradeep Sarin (MIT) | The Roadmap to Advanced LIGO | |
| 4:50 - 5:10 p.m. | Nicolas Yunes (Penn State) | Can We Test Effective Quantum Gravity with Gravitational Waves? | |
| 5:10 - 5:30 p.m. | Yi Pan (Maryland) | Compare Analytical and Numerical Binary Coalescing Waveforms | |
Chair: Laurent Freidel
| Approaches to Quantum Gravity IV | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| Thomas 215 | 4:20 - 4:40 p.m. | Joshua Willis (Abilene) | Computing the Lorentzian 10J Symbol |
| 4:40 - 5:00 p.m. | Victor Taveras (Penn State) | Quantum Extensions of Classical Singular Spacetimes – The CGHS Model | |
| 5:00 - 5:20 p.m. | Djordje Minic (Viriginia Tech) | Time and M-Theory | |
| 5:20 - 5:40 p.m. | Golam Hossain (Penn State) | Cosmological Vector Modes and Quantum Gravity Effects | |