General Relativity Trimester
From geometry to numerics
IHP
,
Paris, 20-24 November 2006
Program
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Monday 20 November
Chairman: Vincent Moncrief
9:30 :
Welcome
10:00 :
Sergiu Klainerman
(Princeton University, USA) :
Uniqueness of solutions to wave equations with data on the horizon of a black hole
10:35 :
Erik Schnetter
(CCT
, Louisiana State Univ., USA) :
The mathematics of numerics -- Obstacles to using mathematical equations in numerical simulations
11:10 :
coffee break
11:30 :
Daniel Pollack
(Univ. of Washington, USA) :
Applications of gluing constructions in Relativity
12:05 :
Manuel Tiglio
(CCT,
Louisiana State Univ., USA) :
High order multi-block/patch evolutions of Einstein's equations: an update
12:40 :
lunch
Chairman: Lee Lindblom
14:30 :
Luis Lehner
(Louisiana State Univ., USA) :
Next steps in the simulation of Einstein equations
15:05 :
Peter Christian
Aichelburg
(Univ. Vienna, Austria)
:
Global versus local aspects of critical collapse
15:40 :
Christian Klein
(MPI for Math. in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) :
Binary black hole spacetimes with a helical Killing vector in a projection formalism
16:15 :
coffee break
16:45 :
Koji Uryu
(Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) :
Equilibrium binary neutron star data in circular orbits
17:20 :
Motoyuki Saijo
(Southampton Univ., UK) :
Viscosity driven instability in rotating relativistic stars
17:55 :
Alessandro Nagar
(Politecnico di Torino, Italy) :
Gravitational waves from accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes
18:30 :
end of session
Tuesday 21 November
Chairman: Luis Lehner
14:30 :
Philippe G. LeFloch
(Univ. Paris 6, France) :
Hyperbolic conservation laws and spacetimes with limited regularity
15:05 :
Jérôme Novak
(LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, France) :
Numerical study of gravitational wave evolution in conformal 3+1 formalism
15:40 :
Jeff Winicour
(Univ. of Pittsburg, USA) :
Well-posedness and numerical stability of the global harmonic initial-boundary value problem
16:15 :
coffee break
16:45 :
Darragh Walsh
(Cork Univ., Ireland) :
Non-uniqueness in conformal formulations of the Einstein Constraints
17:20 :
Oliver Rinne
(CalTech, USA) :
Outer boundary conditions for the generalized harmonic Einstein equations: stability and accuracy
17:55 :
Luisa Buchman
(Univ. Texas, Austin, USA) :
Towards absorbing outer boundaries in General Relativity
18:30 :
end of session
Wednesday 22 November
Chairman: Niall O' Murchadha
14:30 :
Vincent Moncrief
(Yale Univ., USA) :
The conformally reduced Einstein equations -- an alternative approach to Scri
15:05 :
Jim Isenberg
(Univ. Oregon, USA) :
Black Hole Rigidity
15:40 :
Piotr Chrusciel
(Université de Tours, France) :
J vs m
16:15 :
Marcus Ansorg
(AEI, Potsdam, Germany) :
Negative Komar masses in regular stationary spacetimes
16:50 :
coffee break
17:15 :
Sean Hayward
(Shangai Normal University, China) :
Black-hole dynamics
17:50 :
Badri Krishnan
(AEI, Potsdam, Germany) :
Applications of dynamical horizons in numerical relativity: Angular momentum, mass and higher multipole moments
18:25 :
José Luis Jaramillo
(Inst. Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain) :
Trapping horizons in constrained evolutions of excised black holes
19:00 :
end of session
Thursday 23 November
Chairman: Manuel Tiglio
14:30 :
Thibault Damour
(IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France) :
Coalescing binary black holes in the extreme mass ratio limit: comparison between analytical and numerical results
15:05 :
Luc Blanchet
(IAP, Paris, France) :
Gravitational recoil of binary black holes
15:40 :
Carlos Lousto
(Univ. Texas, Brownsville, USA) :
Spin-orbit interactions in black-hole binaries
16:15 :
Lee Lindblom
(CalTech, USA) :
Generalized Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes
16:50 :
coffee break
17:15 :
Jim van Meter
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA) :
Moving puncture method: some recent results and outlook
17:50 :
Mark Hannam
(Univ. Jena, Germany) :
Moving punctures that are neither moving nor punctures
18:25 :
Niall O' Murchadha
(Cork Univ., Ireland) :
Excision without excision: why the puncture method works
19:00 :
end of session
Friday 24 November
Chairman: Jim Isenberg
14:30 :
Jörg Frauendiener
(Univ. Tübingen, Germany) :
Geometric discretisation of General Relativity
15:05 :
Juan A. Valiente-Kroon
(Queen Mary, Univ. London, UK)
:
A view of spacetime near spatial infinity
15:40 :
Lydia Bieri
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland) :
Solutions of the Einstein-Vacuum Tending to the Minkowski Spacetime at Infinity
16:15 :
coffee break
16:45 :
Tomohiro Harada
(Rikkyo Univ., Japan) :
Naked singularities and self-similarity in gravitational collapse
17:20 :
Yvon Maday
(Univ. Paris 6, France) :
High order methods for non linear PDE
17:55 :
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
(Univ. Paris 6, France) :
Motion of isolated bodies
18:30 :
end of session
