EXACT SOLUTION I (Popick Hall - 2nd fl.)
Chairman: I. Robinson
14:00 Rainer and Stephani
Similarity Reduction for Algebraically Special Perfect Fluids
14:20 Wilson
Point Symmetries of the Field Equations for Type III Spaces With at Least One Killing Vector
14:40 Bivcak and Podolsky
Robinson-Trautman Spacetimes With Cosmological Constant
Levinka, Zovka and Bivcak
Relativistic Disks as Sources of Kerr-Newman Fields
15:00 Drake Tuvolla
Application of Newman-Janis in Obtaining Interior Solutions of the Kerr Metric
15:20 Sokolowski
Multidimensional Gravitational Waves: the Case of a Spacelike Dilaton Field
15:40 Barrabas, Bressang and Hogan
Abrupt Changes in the Multipole Moments of a Gravitating Body
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 Klein and Richter
Stationary Axisymmetric Dust Disks and Hyperelliptic Riemann Surfaces
16:40 Marklund, Fodor and Perjes
Non-Holonomic Approach To Rotating Matter in General Relativity
Marklund and Bradley
Construction of LRS Perfect Fluids in Terms of Invariant Objects
17:00 Neugebauer, Kleinwachter and Meinel
Relativistically Rotating Disks of Dust
17:20 Kramer and von der Gonna
Exterior Field of a Rotating and Radiating Source
17:40 Andersson, Edgar, Hoglund and Bergqvist
Lanczos Potential for the Weyl Tensor
18:00 S. Filippi and R. Ruffini
Toroidal Solutions to the Problem of Inhomogeneous Rotating Gravitational Systems
HAIRY BH (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 213)
Chairman: D.Maison
14:00 Maison
Short Introduction
14:20 Brodbeck and Straumann
Zero Modes of the Dirac Operator for Regular Einstein-Yang-Mills Background Fields
14:40 Gal'tsov, Donets and Zotov
On Singularities Inside Hairy Black Holes
15:00 Sood, Kleihaus and Kunz
Limiting Solutions of Sequences of Globally Regular and Black Hole Solutions in SU(N)-EYMD Theories
15:20 Kleihaus and Kunz
Static Regular and Black Hole Solutions With Axial Symmetry in EYM and EYMD Theory
15:40 Volkov
Slowly Rotating Non-Abelian Black Holes
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 Heusler
Mass Formula for a Class of Stationary Black Holes
16:40 Ashbourn-Chamblin, Chamblin, Emparan and Sornborger
Can Extreme Black Holes Have (Long) Abelian Higgs Hair ?
17:00 Sudarsky and Zannias
No Scalar Hair for Spherical Black Holes
17:20 Zannias
On Stationary Black Holes of the Einstein Conformally-Invariant Scalar System
17:40 Torii, Tamaki and Maeda
Non-Abelian Black Holes in Brans-Dicke Theory
18:00 Aichelburg and Lechner
Sigma Model on DeSitter Space
CHAOS IN GR (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 28)
Chairman: V.Gurzadyan
14:00 N. Cornish
Fractals and Topology as Invariant Measures of Chaos in GR
14:20 T.Tsuchiya, N.Gouda, T.Konishi
Relaxations and Long Time Evolutions of 1D N-Body Systems
14:40 S.Suzuki, K.Maeda
Chaos in Schwarzschild and Kerr Singularities
15:00 V.G.Gurzadyan
Chaos in Cosmology and GR: Some Selected Issues
15:20 V.Belinski, A.Kirillov,G.Montani
On the Turbulence Near Cosmological Singularity
15:40 J. Levin
Mixmaster Universe is Chaotic
15:55 Coffee Break
16:15 G. Montani and A.Kirillov
Description of Stochastic Properties of Mixmaster Model
16:35 I.D. Soares
Chaos in Anisotropic Pre-Inflationary Universes
16:50 H.P. de Oliveira
Chaotic FRW Inflationary Universes
17:05 R. Tomaschitz
Chaos in Galactic Dynamics and Topological Evolution in Cosmology
17:20 A. A. El-Zant
N-Body Chaos
17:35 A. M. Selvam
Chaos and Quantumlike Mechanics
17:50 G. Montani and R. Zalaletdinov
Perturbation Theory in Macroscopic Gravity
18:05 S. E. Rugh
Chaos in Fundamental Interactions: Yang-Mills and Gravitational Fields
NUMERICAL RELATIVITY I (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 27)
Chairman: J.-A.Marck
14:00 N. Alcubierre and J. Masseo
Coordinate Shocks in NRS
Brandt, P. Walker and P. Anninos
New Coordinate System for the Axisymmetric BH Collision
G. Allen
Test Problems in 3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement
14:35 E. Flanagan and S. Teukolsky
Instabilities in ADM Evolution Equations on a Schwarzschild Background
14:55 M. van Putten
Nonlinear Wave Equations for NR
15:15 J. A. Font and J. Masseo
A 1D Sover for the Einstein Field Equations
S. Brandt and J. A. Font
the BH Plus Matter Problem in Axisymmetry
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 S. Brandt
BH Punctures as initial data for General Relativity
K. Camarda, S. Brandt and E. Seidel
the Non-Axisymmetric Brill Wave Plus BH Problem
16:25 H.P. Nollert
GR From Colliding BH: the Close Limit Approximation
16:45 H. Shinkai et al.
Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Binary Neutron Star Mergers
17:05 W. Barreto
Evolution of Radiating, Viscous And Self-Similars Balls
17:25 L. Burko
Free Evolution of Nonlinear Scalar Field Collapse in Double-Null
Coordinates
17:45 J. Novak
Gravitational Collapse of Neutron Stars in Tensor-Scalar Theory of Gravity
18:05 J. A. Marck
Summary of the Session
18:20 End of session
GW INTERFEROMETERS (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 26)
Chairman: R. Spero
14:00 Bilenko
Measurements of the Excess Noise in the Test Mass Suspensions for the Gravitational Wave Antennas
14:15 Brillet
No Title Supplied
14:30 Camp
Calculation of Coupling of Laser Light Noise to Gravitational Wave Noise in LIGO
14:45 Drever
Developments in Some New Experimental Concepts for Laser
15:00 Fujimoto
the TAMA Project - A Status Report
15:15 Ju
Sapphire Test Masses for Gravitational Wave Detectors - Design for High Q Suspension and Optical
Performance
15:30 Kulagin
Thermal Noises of Mirrors Suspensions With Elastic Fixing in Laser Gravitational Antenna
15:45 Gammaitoni
Thermal Noise Limit to the VIRGO Sensitivity
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 Milyukov
Results of Joint Analysis of Baksan Interferometer and BATSE Data
16:35 Petrovichev
Tolerance of Michelson and Sagnac-Based Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors to Mirror Tilt
and Curvature Errors
16:50 Plissi
Design of Suspension System for GEO-600
17:05 Richman
Progress on Low-Frequency Active Vibration Isolation
17:20 Saulson
An Interferometer as a Parametric Transducer
17:35 Takahashi
Performance of Vibration Isolation Stack for TAMA300
17:50 Winterflood
Ultra-Low Frequency Pre-Isolation in Three Dimensions
18:05 Yacob
Detection of Gravitational Waves by Interference Experiment
18:20 Zhao
8M Suspended Power Recycling Interferometer With in Line Mode Cleaner
EXPERIMENTAL TESTS (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 29)
Chairman: C. Will
14:00 C. M. Will
Introduction and Remarks on Robert H. Dicke
14:10 A. Schumacher and H. Meyer
Determination of the Gravitational Constant G Using a Fabry-Perot Pendulum
14:25 F. Nolting, J. Schurr and W. Kundig
A New Experiment to Measure G by Means of a Beam Balance
14:40 R. Newman and M. Bantel
Preparation for a New Measurement of G
14:55 A. Arnsek and A. Cadez
A New Inverse Square Law Test
15:05 R. Cowsik, N. Krishnan and C. Unnikrishnan
the TIFR Equivalence Principle Experiment
15:20 C. Alvarez and R. B. Mann
Anomalous Magnetic Moments as a Test of the Equivalence Principle
15:35 C. Lammerzahl
Quantum Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle
15:50 A. Nobili
"Galileo Galilei" (GG) Test of the Equivalence Principle in Space and on the Ground
16:05 Coffee Break
16:25 K. Nordtvedt and R. Vessot
The Clock(s)-to-the-Sun Mission: A New Look
16:40 S. Klioner and M. Soffel
A Theory of Local Reference Systems with PPN Parameters
16:55 H. Paik, E. Canavan and M. Moody
Search for Axions Using a Superconducting Differential Angular Accelerometer
17:10 C. Lammerzahl and C J. Borde
Influence of the Gravitational Field on the Beam Splitting Process in Atom Interferometry
17:20 C. Unnikrishnan
Possibility of Observing the Gravitational Analogue of the Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Atom
Interferometers
17:30 B. Lange
Techniques for A High-Precision Frame-Dragging Measurement Using an Unsupported Gyroscope in a Drag-
Free Satellite
17:35 S. Mohanty
Geodesic Deviation of Photons in Einstein and Higher Derivative Gravity
17:40 I. Quiros
Gravitational Redshift Revisited and the Schwarzschild Black Hole
TIME IN QUANTUM GRAVITY (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 214)
Chairman: G. Horwitz
14:00 C. Rovelli
Is There A Notion of Time Which Makes Sense in General Relativity as Well as Quantum Theory ?
14:30 R. Parentani
15:00 A. Massaroti and A. Chakrovorty
Covariant Introduction of the Planck Length in the Path Integral Formulation of Field Theory
15:20 G. Preparata
On the Ground State of Quantum Gravity
15:50 Coffee Break
16:10 D. Finkelstein and T. Zhong
Time in Computational Space-Times
16:40 A. Carlini, H. Ishihara, K. Nakamura and T. Okamura
the Evolution Operator for Quantum Gravity: Minisuperspace, Signature Change and Planck's Constant
16:55 S. N. Mayburov
Quantum Space-Time and Quantum Reference Frames
17:10 V. Dzhunushaliev
Kolmogorov Algorithmic Complexity and its Probability Interpretation in Quantum Gravity
17:35 A. Burinskii
Spinning Particle Lives in Complex Supertime
17:50 H. J. Schmidt
Generalized Mechanics With lapse
18:05 N. Yamada
Continuous Consistent Histories and the Tunneling Time Problem
18:20 S. Weinstein
Gauge and Time in Canonical Gravity
CASIMIR EFFECT (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 102)
Chairman: V. Mostepanko
14:00 E. Elizalde
Nontrivial Casimir Effect Results Obtained by Means of Zeta Function Regularization
14:15 M. Bordag, K. Kirsten and E. Elizalde
New Results on the Casimir Effect for Massive Fields
14:30 G. Bressi, G. Carugno, D. Corti and R. Onofrio
the Casimiro Experiment: Dynamical Detection of Casimir Forces
14:45 R. Cowsik, B. P. Das, N. Krishnan, G. Rajalakshmi, D. Suresh and C. S. Unnikrishnan
High Sensitivity Measurement of the Casimir Force and Observability of Finite Temperature Effects
15:00 N.G. Phillips
Vacuum Fluctuations of the Quantum Stress Tensor Via the Generalized Zeta Function
15:15 G.L. Klimchitskaya
Casimir Effect and New Constraints on the Parameters of Long-Range Interactions
15:30 A. A. Bytsenko, G. Cognola and S. Zerbini
Casimir Effect for Quantum Fields in Hyperbolic Space-Times With Finite Spatial Volume
15:45 V. M. Mostepanenko
Casimir Effect in Gravitational Theory
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 U. H. Gerlach
Paired Accelerated Frames and Diffractive Scattering
16:35 A. N. Aliev
Effects of Vacuum Polarization in the Space-Time of Multiple Cosmic Strings
16:40 C. S. Unnikrishnan
Is Sonoluminescence Due to Dynamical Casimir Effect?
16:45 K. Bormann
Casimir Effect in Schwarzschild Geometry
16:50 A. N. Aliev and N. Ozdemir
Semiclassical Metric Perturbations Around Multiple Cosmic Strings
QUANTUM COSMOLOGY (Popick Bldg. - 1st fl.)
Chairman: A. Starobinsky
14:00 A. Starobinsky
Brief Review of Submitted Abstracts
14:10 A. D. Linde
Stochastic Approach to Inflation and the Wave Function of the Universe
14:30 A. Starobinsky
Quantum-to-Classical Transition and Quantum Jumps of Inflationary And Post-Inflationary Universes
14:50 J. Halliwell
Decoherent Histories of Coupled Classical and Quantum Variables: A New Approach to the Back Reaction
Problem
15:10 T. Shiromizu, M. Yamaguchi, F. Shibata and M. Morikawa
Quantum Tunneling of the Universe With Particle Creation - Quantum Potential Approach
15:30 T. Okamura
On Divergence of Decoherence Factor by Fermions in Quantum Cosmology
15:35 A.Feinstein and M. A. P. Sebastian
the Origin of Entropy in the Universe
15:40 G. Esposito and A. Yu. Kamenshchik
New Results in One-Loop Cosmology
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 I. M. Khalatnikov, A. Yu. Kamenshchik and A. V. Toporensky
Complex Inflaton Field in Quantum Cosmology
16:40 A. A. Kirillov
Quantum Inhomogeneous Mixmaster Model and the Origin of the Early Universe
16:50 V. TS. Gurovich
Quantum Evolution of a Closed Friedmann Universe With Bouncing Off
17:00 V. A. de Lorenci, J. Martin, N. Pinto-Neto and I. D. Soares
Topology Change in Canonical Quantum Cosmology
17:05 L. O. Pimentel and C. E. Mora
Quantum Cosmology for Some Scalar-Tensor Theories
17:10 E. I. Guendelman and A. B. Kaganovich
Inflation-Compactification as a Quantum Effect
17:30 A. Zhuk
Anisotropic Scalar Field Cosmology
17:35 O. Bertolani, P.D. Fonseca, P.V. Moniz
Multidimensional Quantum Cosmology
17:40 A. Yu. Kamenshchik, S.L. Lyakhovich
Hamiltonian Quantization of Closed Cosmological Models
17:45 V.N. Pervushin
Description of Friedmann Observables in Quantum Universe
17:50 Embacher F. Embacher
the Old Frequency Decomposition Problem in the Light of New Quantization Methods
17:55 P. V. Moniz
Can We Obtain Conserved Currents in Sypersymmetric Quantum Cosmology ?
18:15 O. Bertolani and P. V. Moniz
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Emergence of Classical Space-Time
18:20 A. Macas, E. W. Mielke and J. Socorro
Sypersymmetric Quantum Cosmology: The Physical States
ASTRO-PARTICLES (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 25)
Chairman: A.Dar
14:00 Cecile DeWitt-Morette
Neutrinos, Spinors or Pinors?
14:30 Robert Mann
The Equivalence Principle in the Neutrino Sector
14:50 Hyun Kyu Lee
Neutrino Degeneracy and Primordial Nucleosynthesis
15:10 Shoichi Yamada
Neutrino Transport in Type II Supernovae
15:35 Arnon Dar
Neutrinos From Massive and Stellar Black Holes
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 D. Fargion
Tau Neutrinos in Neutrino Telescopes
16:50 Y. Ho
Hanul Project in Korea
17:10 G. Barbiellini
GLAST, A New Large Area Gamma Ray Space Telescope
17:30 A. Morselli
The Search for Anti Matter
17:50 P. Peter
Vortons and VHE Cosmic Rays
18:05 L. Chacin and T. Omarov
Oscillating Cosmic Strings
EXTRAGALACTIC X-RAY SOURCES (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 101)
Chairman: A.Treves
14:00 M. Urry
An HST Survey of BL Lac Objects Host Galaxies and Environment
14:25 H. Deruiter
Low Luminosity Radio-Galaxies and Unified Schemes
14:50 R. Falomo and J. K. Kotilainen
Host Galaxies of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar at Intermediate Redshift
15:15 E. Maoz
Overwhelming Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in a Nearby Galactic Nucleus in Maser Emission Observation
15:40 L. V. Verozub
An Alternative to Massive Black Holes
BINARY NS (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 101)
Chairman: T. Nakamura
16:20 T. Nakamura
Introduction
16:25 J. Mathews
Relativistic Studies of Close Neutron Star Binaries
16:45 M. Shibata
Stability of Binary Neutron Stars in the Post-Newtonian Approximation
17:05 C. Xu
Relativistic Equations of Motion for Binary systems With Monopole, Spin and Complete Quadrupole Moments
17:20 D. Langlois
Dynamics of Relativistic Superfluid in Neutron Stars
17:35 T. Nakamura
Formation of Binary Black Hole MACHO Binaries
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