MG11 Plenary Program

Monday 24
 
  CHAIR: Jürgen Ehlers  [*,@] 
 

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 9.00-9.40 Opening ceremony
        Remo Ruffini, President of IOC
        Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Director of  ICTP
        Eberhard Umbach, President of German Physical Society
   

 

       Marcel Grossmann Awards:
 
  • Roy Kerr, University of Canterbury  [*,@]
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  • George Coyne, Director of Specola Vaticana   [*,@]
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  • Joachim Trümper, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestische Physik [*,@]
 
  • Dieter Lenzen, President of FU of Berlin
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 9.40-10.15 Ya Sinai [*,@, abstract]
How mathematicians and physicists found each other in the theory of dynamical systems
 
10.15-10.45 COFFEE BREAK
 
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 10.45-11.20 Thibault Damour [*,@, abstract]
Cosmology and string theory
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 11.20-11.55 Sasha Polyakov [*,@, abstract]
The structure beyond spacetime
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 11.55-12.30 Hermann Nicolai [*,@, abstract]
Hidden symmetries and cosmological singularities
 
  CHAIR: Erwin Sedlmayer [*,@]
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 20.00 Evening speaker: Hanns Ruder [*,@, abstract]
Visualization of relativistic effects
 
 

Tuesday 25
   
  CHAIR: Thibault Damour  [*,@]
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 9.05-9.40 Claes Uggla  [*, *,@, abstract]
The nature of generic cosmological singularities
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 9.40-10.15 Eva Silverstein [*,@, abstract]
Cosmological singularities in string theory
 
10.15-10.45 COFFEE BREAK
 
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 10.45-11.20 Igor Klebanov [*,@, abstract]
Gauge Theories, Strings and Cosmology
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 11.20-11.55 Joe Polchinski [*,@, abstract] 
Cosmic superstrings
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 11.55-12.30 Abhay Ashtekar [*,@, abstract]
Loop quantum gravity
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 12.30-13.05 Dieter Luest [*,@, abstract]
String theory and the standard model of particle physics
   
  CHAIR: Erwin Sedlmayer [*,@]
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 20.00 Evening speaker: Günter Hasinger [*,@]
The fate of the universe — new clues from cosmology
 
 

Wednesday 26
   
  CHAIR: David Blair [*,@]
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 9.05-9.40 Karsten Danzmann [*,@, abstract]
LISA
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 9.40-10.15 Marie Anne Bizouard [*,@, abstract]
VIRGO
 
10.15-10.45 COFFEE BREAK
 
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 10.45-11.20 David Shoemaker [*,@, abstract]
LIGO: Status of instruments and observations
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 11.20-11.55 Alessandra Buonanno [*,@, abstract]
Analytical approach to coalescing binary black holes
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 11.55-12.30 Francois Mignard [*,@, abstract]
Relativistic effects from HIPPARCOS and GAIA missions
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 12.30-13.05 Michael Kramer [*,@, abstract]
Binary pulsars and general relativistic effects
 
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 19.30 Evening Banquet

 

Thursday 27
 
  CHAIR: Li-Zhi Fang [*,@]
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 9.05-9.40 Josh Grindlay [*,@, abstract]
Globular clusters and millisecond pulsars
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  9.40-10.15 Richard Mushotzky [*,@, abstract]
Intermediate mass black holes and x-ray sources
 
10.15-10.45 COFFEE BREAK
 
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 10.45-11.20  Rashid Sunyaev [*,@, abstract]
The sky in the hard x-ray spectrum
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 11.20-11.55 Reinhard Genzel [*,@, abstract]
The black hole in our galactic center
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 11.55-12.30 George Djorgovski [*,@, abstract]
The origins of massive black holes and quasars at high redshifts
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 12.30-13.05 Remo Ruffini [*,@, abstract]
Gamma ray bursts
 
  CHAIR: Erwin Sedlmayer [*,@]
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 20.00 Evening speaker: Bruno Leibundgut [*,@]
Das neue Weltbild der Kosmologie - Was ist Dunkle Energie?
 

Friday 28
 
  CHAIR: Rashid Sunyaev [*,@]
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 9.05-9.40 Francis Halzen [*,@, abstract]
ICE CUBE
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 9.40-10.15 Peter Biermann [*,@, abstract]
Sterile neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology
 
10.15-10.45 COFFEE BREAK
 
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 10.45-11.20 Volker Springel [*,@, abstract]
Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
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 11.20-11.55 Paolo De Bernardis [*,@, abstract]
CMB science from Boomerang to PLANCK
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 11.55-12.30 David Spergel [*,@, abstract]
WMAP and its cosmological implications
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 12.30-13.05 Ethan J. Schreier [*,@, abstract]
ALMA
 
  CHAIR: Erwin Sedlmayer [*,@]
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 20.00 Evening speaker: Christian Spiering [*,@] 
Neutrinoastronomie — ein neues Fenster zum Kosmos

 

Saturday 29
   
  CHAIR: Remo Ruffini  [*,@] 
 
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 9.00-9.30 John Mester [*,@, abstract]
Equivalence principle from space
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 9.30-10.00 Francis Everitt [*,@, abstract]
The NASA Gravity Probe B Mission: technical report
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 10.00-10.30 Guy Monnet [*,@, abstract]
Science and technology of the European ELT
 
 
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK
 
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 11.00-11.30 Michael Garcia [*,@, abstract] 
Science from Chandra to Constellation-X
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 11.30-12.00 Nicholas White [*,@, abstract]
 Beyond Einstein: from the big bang to black holes
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 12.00-12.30 Theodor Haensch [*,@, abstract]
Precise Clocks  
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 12.30-13.00 Juergen Renn [*,@, abstract]
The genesis of general relativity
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 Concluding remarks
   
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