Participants and talks for the 22nd PCGM


NAME
INSTITUTION
TALK TITLE
STUDENT
Silvestre Aguilar
California State Univ., Fresno
Fermion generations, masses, and mixings from a 6D brane world model Yes
Paritosh Ambekar
Stanford Univ.
Test-bed developement for satellite test of equivalence principle
Yes
James Barbieri
Naval Air Warfare Center

No
James Bardeen
University of Washington

No
Andrew Beckwith
APS
How soliton-anti soliton di quark pairs signify an Einstein constant dominated cosmology, and lead to new inflationary cosmology physics No
Don Black
Univ. of California at Irvine

Yes
Michael Boyle
Caltech

Yes
Jennifer Bower
Stanford Univ.
Using SQUID technology to test the equivalence principle in space
Yes
Jeandrew Brink
Caltech

No
Duncan Brown
Caltech

No
Luisa Buchman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Numerical test of Friedrich-Nagy boundary conditions
No
Steven Carlip
Univ. of California at Davis
Horizon constraints and stringy black holes
No
George Chapline
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2-phase model for flat space-time
No
Shourov Chatterji
Caltech
Searching for gravitational-wave bursts with LIGO
No
Walter Christensen
Cal State Fullerton
Thermodynamic behavior of a perfect fluid with negative energy density
Yes
Adam Clausen
University of Oregon
AVTD behaviour in T^2 symmetric spacetimes with cosmological constant
Yes
Michael Cohen
Caltech
Finding event horizons in the spectral Einstein code
Yes
Fred Cooperstock
Univ. of Victoria
Galactic dynamics via General Relativity: Does exotic dark matter really exist?
No
Keith Copsey
Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
Dipole charges and the first law of black hole thermodynamics
Yes
Teviet Creighton
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Detecting black holes in globular clusters using pulsar timing
No
Jeff Crowder
Montana State Univ.
Recent advancements for gravitational wave astronomy with the LISA data
Yes
Phillip Dennis
Intelligent Systems Research, Inc.

No
James Dent
Texas A&M Univ.
Cosmology with shape moduli
No
Oscar Dias
Perimeter Institute
Gregory-Laflamme and Rayleigh-Plateau instabilities
No
Steve Drasco
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

No
Martin Einhorn
Univ. of California at Santa Barbarta
No
Henriette Elvang
MIT
A connection between 4d and 5d black holes
No
Hua Fang
Caltech
"Kludge" gravitational waveforms
Yes
Diego Fazi
Caltech
Yes
Franklin Felber
Starmark, Inc. `Antigravity' Fields in General Relativity
No
Tehani Finch
Howard University
Yes
Scott Fraser
Univ. of California at Santa Barbarta The first law of black holes in Randall-Sundrum braneworlds
Yes
Simonetta Frittelli
Duquesne Univ.
Well-posed ADM equivalent of the Bondi-Sachs problem
No
Valeri Frolov
Univ. of Alberta
Topology change transitions in brane-black-hole systems: Criticality, scaling and self-similarity
No
David Garfinkle
Oakland Univ.
Numerical simulations of singularities No
Steven Giddings
Univ. of California at Santa Barbarta Observables in effective gravity
No
Merab Gogberashvili
Andronikashvili Institute of Physics
Dark matter in shell-universe model
No
Lisa Goggin
Caltech
Search for quasi-normal ringdown signals in LIGO S4 data
Yes
Dan Gorbonos
The Hebrew Univ.

Yes
Eduardo Guendelman
Ben Gurion Univ.
Neutrino dark  energy in the two measures theory
No
Jim Hartle
Univ. of California at Santa Barbarta

No
Eric Hirschmann
Brigham Young Univ.
Relativistic MHD and excision
No
Gary Horowitz
Univ. of California at Santa Barbara

No
Jim Isenberg
Univ. of Oregon
Stability of D-branes
No
Akihiro Ishibashi
Univ. of Chicago

No
David Kastor
Univ. of Massachusetts

No
Poghos Kazarian
Glendale Community College

No
Derrick Kiley
Univ. of California at Davis
Exact black holes and gravitational shockwaves on codimension-2 branes
Yes
Chao Li
Caltech TAPIR

Yes
Lee Lindblom
Caltech
Constraint preserving boundary conditions for the GH system
No
Geoffrey Lovelace
Caltech
The scaling of LIGO's thermal coating noise with beam shape
Yes
Ilya Mandel
Caltech Bumpy black holes: Searching for the smoking gun
Yes
Don Marolf
Univ. of California at Santa Barbara

No
Keith Matthews
Caltech
Yes
Pawel  Mazur
Univ. of South Carolina
Gravitation as a quantum many body problem
No
Mark Miller
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Is the circular orbit assumption good enough for detecting signals with LIGO?
No
Yasushi Mino
Caltech
Gauge ambiguity in the gravitational radiation reaction problem
No
Aleksey Mints
Univ. of California at Berkeley
Holography and entropy bounds in the plane wave matrix model
Yes
Michael Moore
Brigham Young University

Yes
Gerardo Munoz
California State Univ., Fresno

No
Robert Myers
Perimeter Institute
Black rings, boosted strings and Gregory-Laflamme
No
Robert Owen
Caltech
Constraint damping in the KST evolution systems
Yes
Ivana Pavic
California State Univ., Fresno
Yes
Harald Pfeiffer
Caltech
Non-uniqueness in the Einstein constraints explained
No
Edward Porter
Montana State Univ.
A method for detecting the inspiral of supermassive black holes with LISA
No
Patricia Purdue
Colorado College
LISA and solar system debris
No
Etienne Racine
Caltech
Tidal interactions in accreting binary white dwarfs No
Oliver Rinne
Caltech
Curing the rotational instability in the GH system
No
Simon Ross
Univ. of Durham

No
Jack Sarfatti
ISEP
Einstein's GR emergent from the Planck Higgs field
No
Pavlin Savov
Caltech
Parametric instability in Advanced LIGO
Yes
Kenneth Saunders


No
Mark Scheel
Caltech
Numerical relativity using Generalized Harmonic Coordinates
No
Douglas Singleton
California State Univ., Fresno On avoiding cosmological oscillating behavior for S-brane solutions with diagonal metrics No
David Snead
Saguarosoft

No
George Soli
Integrated Detector Systems
More sidereal dilaton and laboratory dark energy measurements
No
Leo Stein
Caltech

Yes
Noel Sturm-Black
CSU - Dominguez Hills
No
Sherry Suyu
Caltech
Regularized source inversion in gravitational lensing
Yes
Kip Thorne
Caltech
Mirror shape accuracies and light scattering noise in Advanced LIGO
No
Jennie Traschen
Univ. of Massachusetts

No
Michele Vallisneri
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Planning for the future of LISA data analysis
No
Ruslan Vaulin
Florida Atlantic Univ.
Classical and quantum gravity from the trace anomaly
Yes
Amitabh Virmani
Univ. of California at Santa Barbara A black hole instability in 5 dimensions?
Yes







 
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