The Sixth East Coast Gravity Meeting
March 29-30 at the University of Maryland College Park
Program
All sessions will be held in
Math 3206
Saturday March 29, 2003
Session: Numerical Relativity I
Saturday, March 29 (9:00 AM - 10:15 AM)
Chair: Charles Misner
- Simonetta Frittelli, Duquesne University
- Einstein boundary conditions for the 3+1
Einstein equations
- Roberto Gómez, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- First-order quasilinear canonical
representation of the characteristic formulation of the Einstein
equations
- Breno Imbiriba, University of Maryland and
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Evolving a Black Hole with
Mesh Refinement
- Mark Miller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Towards a Realistic Neutron Star
Binary Inspiral: Initial Data and Long Timescale Evolution
- Nina Jansen, Penn State University
- Progress report on the numerical implementation of the
Arnold, Alekseenko system (gr-qc/0210071)
Break (10:15 AM - 10:45 AM)
Session: Classical Relativity and Gravitational Waves
Saturday, March 29 (10:45 AM - 12:15 PM)
Chair: Beverly Berger
- Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
- General relativity with a dynamical preferred frame
- Belkis Cabrera Palmer, Syracuse University
- Fast Travel in Spherically
Symmetric Geometries
- A. Lewis Licht, University of Illinois at Chicago
- The Interaction of a Gravitational Wave with a Superconductor
- Munawar Karim, St. John Fisher College
- Compact Gravity Wave Detector
- Deborah A. Konkowski, U.S. Naval Academy
- Quantum v. Classical Singularities
- Howard E. Brandt, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- Finsler, Kaehler, and Complex Tangent Bundles of Spacetime
Lunch (12:15 PM - 2:00 PM)
Session: Compact Objects and Black Holes
Saturday, March 29 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
Chair: Simonetta Frittelli
- Rafael Sorkin, Syracuse University
- Black Hole Entropy as Causal Links
Tapas Kumar Das, University of California Los Angeles(Title unavailable)- David Whitbeck, Penn State University
- The formalism of the Post-Newtonian expansion for rotating stars
- Shamanthi Fernando, Northern Kentucky University
- Charged Black Holes in Born-Infeld Gravity with a cosmological constant
- Mohit Nayyar, Penn State University
- Some aspects of neutron star microphysics
- Darryl Leiter, FSTC
- Does the principle of equivalence prevent
trapped
surfaces from forming in the general relativistic collapse process?
Break (3:30 PM - 4:00 PM)
Session: General Relativity and Beyond I
Saturday, March 29 (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM)
Chair: Rafael Sorkin
- Seth Major, Hamilton College
- Where's the Relativity?
- Stefano Liberati, University of Maryland
- Constraining Planck scale
Lorentz violations via photon absorption:
an exemplar case of quantum gravity phenomenology
- David Mattingly, University of Maryland
- Constraints on Lorentz
Violation from High Energy Astrophysics
- Scott Watson, Brown University
- Strings, Branes, and
Cosmological Consequences
- Andre Wehner, Centre College
- Advances in Conformal Gravity
Sunday March 30, 2003
Session: Numerical Relativity II
Sunday, March 30 (9:00 AM - 10:15 AM)
Chair: Roberto Gómez
- Conrad Schiff, University of Maryland
- An Approach to SPH in General Relativity
- Monica Skoge, Bowdoin College
- Comparing Criteria for Circular
Orbits in General Relativity
- Thomas Baumgarte, Bowdoin College
- Improved Numerical Stability of
Stationary Black Hole Evolution Calculations
- Andrew M. Knapp, Bowdoin College
- Illustrating Stability Properties
of Numerical Relativity in Electrodynamics
- David Fiske, University of Maryland
- Making the constraint hypersurface an attractor in
free evolutions
Break (10:15 AM - 10:45 AM)
Session: General Relativity and Beyond II
Sunday, March 30 (10:45 AM - 12:00 PM)
Chair: Thomas Baumgarte
- Albert Roura, University of Maryland
- Stochastic Gravity and the
Stability of Semiclassical Gravity
- Ghazal Geshnizjani, Brown University
- A measure for local cosmological
expansion rate
- Brendan Foster, University of Maryland
- Scale-Invariant Geometrodynamics
- Daniel C. Galehouse, University of Akron
- Electromagnetism in
Quantum-Gravitational Theory
- David Bergman, Saint Peters College
- Towards a Unified Field Theory from
Dimensional Reduction of Higher Dimensional
Space-Times with Propagating Torsion
Lunch (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM)
Session: General Relativity and Beyond III
Sunday, March 30 (1:30 PM - 2:30 PM)
Chair: Ted Jacobson
- Russell L. Collins, University of Texas at Austin
- The GPB Probe - Alternate
predictions for the precession rates
- Mart Gibson, Unified Services Enterprise
- The Quantum Inertial Field as a Function
of Cosmic Acceleration
- Fred Pierce
- Are Einstein's Thought Experiments Internally Inconsistant?
- Edward Schaefer, Washington Gas Co.
- Flat Background
General Relativity