Plenary Session
Monday, April 14, 8:30
Mark Kramer: The Double Pulsar: a Unique Gravity Laboratory
GGR Invited Sessions
Saturday, April 12, 10:45
The Quantum Nature of Gravitational Singularities
Session Chair: Lior Burko
Beverly Berger: The nature of classical singularities
Abhay Ashtekar: Singularity resolution in loop quantum gravity
Gary Horowitz: Singularity resolution in string theory
Sunday, April 13, 8:30
Laboratory and Space tests of Gravitation
Session Chair: Eric Adelberger
Slava Turyshev: Pioneer Anomaly: Status of New Investigations
Jens Gundlach: Precision Test of the Equivalence Principle
Tom Murphy: Apollo: lunar laser ranging tests of gravity
Sunday, April 13, 13:30
Ground-based gravitational wave searches
Session Chair: Stan Whitcomb
Erik Katsavounidis: Searches for bursts of gravitational waves in LIGO, Virgo and GEO data
Duncan Brown: Gravitational waves from the inspiral of binary neutron stars and black holes
Sam Waldman: Extending our reach: plans for improved detectors in the next decade
Sunday, April 13, 15:30
The Broad Spectrum of Gravitation (joint with COM)
Session Chair: Pablo Laguna
Jorge Pullin: Recent Developments in Loop Quantum Gravity
Gabriela Gonzalez: The Bright Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Manuel Tiglio: Numerical Relativity
Monday, April 14, 15:30
Astrophysics of black hole mergers (joint with DAP)
Session Chair: John Friedman
Scott Hughes: Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers
Frans Pretorius: Numerical Relativity and Black hole mergers
Cole Miller: The Astrophysical Context of Black Hole Mergers
Tuesday, April 15, 10:45
Computational Challenges in Astrophysics, Cosmology & Gravitation (joint with DAP)
Session Chair: Pablo Laguna
Luis Lehner: Neutron Stars in Binaries: Status and a Bright Future
Deirdre Shoemaker: Computing Gravity's Strongest Grip
Bronson Messer: Computational Astrophysics at the Petascale: Toward
Predictive Computational Science
Tuesday, April 15, 13:30
Numerical Relativity meets the Post Newtonian Approximation
Session Chair: Cliff Will
Emanuele Berti: Post-Newtonian diagnostics for initial data
Larry Kidder: Matching of PN waveforms with long-time numerical evolutions
Yi Pan: Developing templates from PN/Numerical waveforms
Sessions sponsored by other APS units that may be of interest to GGR
members include the following:
Plenary Sessions
Saturday, April 12, 8:30
Roger Blandford: Recent Developments in Plasma Astrophysics
Monday, April 14, 8:30
Michael Peskin: Dark Matter in the Cosmos and in the Laboratory
Invited Sessions
Monday, April 14, 13:30
Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics
Session Chair: Scott Hughes
Christian Ott: Core-collapse Supernova Mechanisms and their Signature in
Gravitational Waves
Alessandra Buonanno: Interplaying Analytical and Numerical Relativity in
Modeling Binary Black Hole Coalescences
Fred Rasio: Hydrodynamic Calculations of Compact Binary Mergers
Monday, April 14, 15:30
Dark Energy
Session Chair: Michael Turner
Peter Garnavich: Supernovae as Probes of Dark Energy
Bhuvnesh Jain: Cosmological Tests of Modified Gravity vs. Dark Energy
Robert Nichol: Large Scale Structure and Dark Energy
Tuesday, April 15, 13:30
Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Session Chair: Neil Gehrels
Scott Barthelmy: Observation of Prompt Emissions
Derek Fox: Observations of Afterglows and Hosts
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: Triggering Short Gamma-Ray Bursts