Friday (talks 16 min + questions 4 min)
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8:30 Breakfast refreshments in Ambassador B
Session 1 - John Friedman, Chairman
9:00 Charles Torre (Utah State University)
Binary Black Holes and Boundary Value Problems
of Mixed Type
9:20 Itai Seggev (University of Chicago)
Dynamics in Stationary, Non-Globally Hyperbolic Spacetimes
9:40 Steve Harris (Saint Louis University)
Three topologies for the boundary of a quotient spacetime
10:00 Jose L. Flores (Saint Louis University)
On general Plane Fronted Waves: causality and geodesics.
10:20 Kayll Lake (Queen's University)
Differential Invariants of the Kerr Vacuum
Break 10:40 - 11:00
Session 2 - Eric Poisson, Chairman
11:00 Cristian Stelea (University of Waterloo)
Higher dimensional Kaluza-Klein Monopoles
11:20 John Friedman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Stabilizing a Kaluza-Klein internal space in a
minisuperspace model
11:40 Ryan Kerner (University of Waterloo)
Charged N-Body Circular Dilaton Gravity
12:00 Robert Mann (University of Waterloo)
String Bit Models of 2D Quantum Gravity Coupled to Matter
Lunch 12:20 - 2:00
Session 3 - Charles Torre, Chairman
2:00 Edward Glass (University of Windsor)
Spinning up Kottler
2:20 David Garfinkle (University of Guelph and Perimeter Institute)
Critical collapse of a massive vector field
2:40 Leonard Parker (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Accelerating Universe and the Heat Kernel in Quantum
Field Theory
3:00 William Komp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
New Observations and the VCDM model of the Accelerating
Universe
Break 3:20 - 3:40
Session 4 - Robert Mann, Chairman
3:40 Dong-Hoon Kim (University of Florida)
Self-force of a Scalar Field for General Orbits about a
Schwarzschild Black Hole
4:00 Karl Martel (University of Guelph)
Energy and angular momentum fluxes from a point-particle
orbiting a Schwarzszchild black hole: time domain
calculations
4:20 Eric Poisson (University of Guelph)
Dipole contribution to the gravitational self-force
Saturday (talks 16 min + questions 4 min)
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9:30 Breakfast refreshments in Ambassador B
Session 5 - David Garfinkle, Chairman
10:00 James T. Wheeler (Utah State University)
Gauging Newton's law
10:20 B.G. Sidharth (B.M. Birla Science Centre)
An Accelerating Universe and Variable "Constants"
10:40 Michael Pfenning (United States Military Academy)
Quantum Inequalities and Constraints on the Magnitude
of the Casimir Effect
Break 11:00 - 11:20
Session 6 - Leonard Parker, Chairman
11:20 Munawar Karim (St. John Fisher College)
Compact Gravity Wave Detector
11:40 Masoud Ghezelbash (University of Waterloo)
Violations of Mass and Entropy Bounds in Asymptotically
de Sitter Spacetimes
12:00 Daniel C. Galehouse (University of Akron)
Quantum Inertia and Calibration of Space-Time