Saturday April 14, 9 am (approx)
Plenary Talk
First Results from Gravity Probe B
Francis Everitt, Stanford University
B6: Saturday April 14, 10:45
Binary Black Holes: Orbits, Mergers and Waveforms
Session Chair: Pedro Marronetti
Carlos Lousto: Spin-orbit interactions in black-hole binaries
Joan Centrella: Binary Black Hole Mergers (draft title)
Pablo Laguna Binary: Black holes and their echoes in the Universe
E6: Saturday, April 14, 15:30
GGR Prize Session
Session Chair: Richard Isaacson
Ronald W. P. Drever: TBA
Rainer Weiss: The current state of LIGO
and the plans for the near term future (tentative)
Gabriela Gonzalez: TBA
H4: Sunday April 15 8:30
Gravity Probe B (preliminary title) (joint with GPMFC)
Session Chair: Clifford Will
John P. Turneaure: The Gravity Probe B Science Instrument
Bradford W. Parkinson: Gravity Probe B & Innovative Space Engineering
George M. Keiser: Gravity Probe B Data Analysis Challenges, Insights &
Results
K4: Sunday, April 15, 13:15
Classical and semi-classical gravity
Session Chair: James Isenberg
Robert Wald: Present status of quantum field theory in curved spacetime
James Isenberg: Black Hole Rigidity
Greg Galloway: On the Topology of Higher Dimensional Black Holes
M4: Sunday, April 15, 15:15
History of General Relativity (joint with FHP)
Session Chair: K. Wali
Daniel Kennefick: Traveling at the Speed of Thought -
Proving the Existence of Gravitational Waves
Richard Isaacson: Development of LIGO - a view from Washington
Ted Newman: Survey of the Developments of GR since 1915 - present.
T5: Monday, April 16, 13:30
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with LISA (joint with DAP)
Session Chair: Joan Centrella
Craig Hogan: Gravitational Wave Backgrounds and Bursts
from Terascale Phase Transitions and Cosmic Superstrings
Sterl Phinney: Gravitational waves as probes of galactic nuclei
and accretion physics
Marta Volontieri: Coevolution of galaxies and massive black holes
Y4: Tuesday, April 17 13:30
Recent developments in quantum gravity
Session Chair: Jorge Pullin
Parampreet Singh: Recent advances in Loop Quantum Cosmology
Simone Speziale: Graviton propagator from loop quantum gravity
Max Niedermaier: The Asymptotic Safety Scenario in Quantum Gravity
Also on the program will be a focus session
``Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics Coupled to General Relativity''
featuring an invited talk by John Hawley on his work modeling magnetized
accretion about a black hole. The session will include talks on recent
advances coupling fluids to gravity, including neutron stars and
accretion. Those working in this area are encouraged to submit abstracts.
Other sessions at the APS meeting that may be of interest to gravitational physicists include (but are not limited to) the following:
Plenary Session Monday April 16
String Theory, Branes, and if You Wish, the Anthropic Principle
Shamit Kachru, Stanford University
Cosmology After WMAP
David Spergel, Princeton University
Sunday, April 15 8:30
Precision Experiments and Tests of Fundamental Laws (GPMFC)
Blayne Heckel: CP violation and preferred frame tests using polarized
electrons
David Reitze: Science with LIGO
Karl Van Bibber: Axions
Sunday, April 15 10:30
Compact Inspirals (DAP)
Chris Deloye: Inspirals and Gravitational Waves
Ingrid Stairs: The Double Pulsar
Danny Steeghs: White Dwarf Inspirals
Monday, April 16 10:45
Few Body Computational Challenges for Large Scale Astrophysics
(DCOMP)
Harald Pfeiffer: Binary black hole coalescence
Tuesday, April 17 10:30
Black Holes of All Sizes (DAP)
Phil Kaaret: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
Avi Loeb: Supermassive Black Holes
John Miller: Stellar Black Holes
Tuesday, April 17
Gravity and Cosmology (DPF)
D. Huterer: The Accelerating Universe, Dark Energy, and Modified Gravity
D. Kapner: Experimental Results on Gravity at Short Distances
J.Santiago: Gravitation and Extra Dimensions