SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Abstracts and poster submissions:

To submit an abstract or poster please visit:
http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/abstract/submit/cbkv-01

Speakers:

Robert Brandenberger, McGill University
Dan Green, CITA
Gary Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara
Alexandru Ionescu, Princeton University
Jonathan Luk, Cambridge University
Amanda Peet, University of Toronto
Tsvi Piran, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
Richard Schoen, Stanford University & UC Irvine
Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University
William Unruh, University of British Columbia
Andras Vasy, Stanford University
S. T. Yau, Harvard University
Robert Wald, University of Chicago


Preliminary Schedule:
* Indicates not yet confirmed

Monday, June 1
8:30-9:15	On site registration and morning coffee
9:15-9:30	Welcoming remarks
9:30-10:30	S.T. Yau, Harvard University General Relativity and Mathematics
10:30-11:30	Alexandru Ionescu, Princeton University On the stability of the wave-map equation in Kerr spaces
11:30-12:00	Coffee
12:00-13:00	Tsvi Piran, The Hebrew University Astrophysical Black Holes
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-15:20	Ramin Daghigh, Metropolitan State University High Overtone Quasinormal Modes of Analog Black Holes and the Small Scale Structure of the Background Fluid
15:20-15:40	Valeri Frolov, University of Alberta Point charge near a black hole: Bi-conformal symmetry and bi-conformal anomaly
15:40-16:00	Adam Pound, University of Southampton Point particle perturbations in Kerr spacetime: reconstruction, completion, and self-force
16:00-16:30	Coffee
16:30-16:50	Soichiro Isoyama, University of Guelph Hamiltonian Dynamics of Self-Forced Motion in Kerr Spacetime
17:00-19:00	Cash bar reception
Tuesday, June 2
9:30-10:30	Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University Simulations of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
10:30-11:30	Frans Pretorius, Princeton University Eccentric Mergers
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:00	Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
13:00-15:00	Lunch Break
15:00-15:20	Volker Schlue, University of Toronto Non-existence of time-periodic dynamics in general relativity
15:20-15:40	David Kubiznak, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Ultraspinning limits and super-entropic black holes
15:40-16:00	Raissa Mendes, University of Guelph On the possibility of setting a new constraint to scalar-tensor theories
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-16:50	Geoffrey Lovelace, California State University, Fullerton Nearly extremal apparent horizons in numerical simulations of colliding black holes
16:50-17:10	Maria Okounkova, California Institute of Technology Numerical Tests of the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture via Event-Horizon Finding
17:10-17:40	Clifford Will Public Lecture reception (at the Fields Institute)
18:00-19:30	Public Lecture: Clifford Will, University of Florida Black Holes, Waves of Gravity, and other Warped Ideas of Dr. Einstein Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON
Wednesday, June 3
9:30-10:30	Jonathan Luk, University of Cambridge The stability of the Kerr Cauchy horizon and the strong cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity
10:30-11:30	András Vasy, Stanford University Quasilinear waves and trapping: Kerr-de Sitter space
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:00	Robert Wald, University of Chicago Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes
13:00-15:00	Lunch Break
15:00-15:20	Stephen Green, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Quasi-periodic solutions and AdS (in)stability
15:20-15:40	Uzair Hussain, Memorial University Master equations and the boundary stress tensor for Ads4-Schwarzschild blackholes
15:40-16:00	Parthapratim Pradhan, Vivekananda Satavarshiki Mahavidyalaya Enthalpy and Geometric Volume for Van der Waals Black Hole
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-16:50	Hari Kunduri, Memorial University New Black Holes in Five Dimensions
16:50-17:10	Jonas Mureika, Loyola Marymount University Sub-Planckian Black Holes and the Generalized Uncertainty Principle
Thursday, June 4
9:30-10:30	Richard Schoen, Stanford University New results on the Bartnik mass
10:30-11:30	Daniel Green, University of Toronto The Present and Future of Cosmology
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:00	Robert Brandenberger, McGill University (via WebEx) Towards an Effective Energy Momentum Tensor for Black Hole Evaporation
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-15:20	Ivan Booth, Memorial University Lessons from distorted black holes
15:20-15:40	Paolo Pani, Sapienza University of Rome Tidal deformations of a spinning compact object
15:40-16:00	Philippe Landry, University of Guelph Tidal Deformation of a Slowly Rotating Compact Body
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-16:50	Grigorios Fournodavlos, University of Toronto Partial stability of a (real) Schwarzschild singularity
Friday, June 5
9:30-10:30	Amanda Peet, University of Toronto String modelling of black holes and holography
10:30-11:30	Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara Hovering Black Holes
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:00	William Unruh, University of British Columbia Partners
13:00-15:00	Lunch

 

Participants as of May 25, 2015:
* Indicates not yet confirmed

	Full Name	University/Affiliation
	Spyros Alexakis	University of Toronto
	Natacha Altamirano	Perimeter Institute
	Piotr Bizon	Jagiellonian University
	Ivan Booth	Memorial University
*	Robert Brandenberger	McGill University
	Wilson Brenna	University of Waterloo
	Jesse Cresswell	University of Toronto
	Ramin Daghigh	Metropolitan State University
	Grigorios Fournodavlos	University of Toronto
	Antonia Frassino	Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
	Valeri Frolov	University of Alberta
	Michael Green	Metropolitan State University
	Stephen Green	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
*	Daniel Green	University of Toronto
	Sharmila Dhevi Gunasekaran Gnanam	Memorial University of Newfoundland
	Hafner Häfner	Universite de Grenoble
	Illan Halpern	The Perimeter Institute
	Abraham Harte	Albert Einstein Institute
	Robie Hennigar	University of Waterloo
	Linnea Hesslow	Perimeter Institute
	Gary Horowitz	University of California, Santa Barbara
	Uzair Hussain	Memorial University
	Alexandru Ionescu	Princeton University
	David Kubiznak	Perimeter Institute
	Hari Krishna Kunduri	Memorial University of Newfoundland
	Gabor Kunstatter	University of Winnipeg
	Philippe Landry	University of Guelph
	Luis Lehner	Perimeter Institute
	Adam Lewis	University of Toronto
	Steven Liebling	Long Island University
	Geoffrey Lovelace	Cal State Fullerton
	Jonathan Luk	University of Cambridge
	Saoussen Mbarek	University of Waterloo
	Michael Meiers	University of Waterloo
	Raissa Mendes	University of Guelph
	Georgios Moschidis	Princeton University
	Jonas Mureika	Loyola Marymount University
	Nathan Musoke	Perimeter Institute
	Keith Ng	University of Waterloo
	Todd Oliynyk	Monash University
	Carlos Palenzuela	Universitat de les Illes Balears
	Paolo Pani	Sapienza University of Rome
	Amanda Peet	University of Toronto
	Harald Pfeiffer	University of Toronto
	Tsvi Piran	The Hebrew University
	Jiri Podolsky	Charles University in Prague
	Eric Poisson	University of Guelph
	Adam Pound	University of Southampton
	Frans Pretorius	Princeton University
*	Igor Rodnianski	Princeton University
	Volker Schlue	University of Toronto
*	Richard Schoen	Stanford University
*	Vasudev Shyam	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
	Matteo Smerlak	Perimeter Institute
	Ramanjit Sohal	University of Toronto
	Isoyama Soichiro	University of Guelph
	Edward Taylor	University of Toronto
	Mae Hwee Teo	Perimeter Institute
	Saul Teukolsky	Cornell University
	Gantumur Tsogtgerel	McGill University
	William Unruh	University of British Columbia
	András Vasy	Stanford University
	Mu-Tao Wang	Columbia University
	Ryan Westernacher-Schneider	University of Guelph
	Helvi Witek	University of Cambridge
	Shing-Tung Yau	The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Harvard University
	Aaron Zimmerman	Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

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