KipFest Science Symposium

Ramo Auditorium, California Institute of Technology

Thursday, June 1, 2000

8:00 - 9:00 Registration, Pick up banquet tickets
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome, Introduction, Announcements: Clifford Will
9:20 - 10:10 Disturbed Black Holes
                 Richard Price, University of Utah
10:10 -10:40 In, Out, Round and About: New Diagnostics of Black-Hole Accretion
                 Roger Blandford, California Institute of Technology
10:40 -11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 -12:00 The Challenges in Actually Doing ExperimentalRelativity
                 Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
  Chair: James Ipser
2:00 - 2:50 A Theorist in the Experimentalist's China Shop: How toTest General Relativity without Breaking Anything
                 Clifford Will, Washington University, St. Louis
2:50 - 3:20 Gravity as a Repulsive Force: Exotic Matter and Wormholes
                 Eanna Flanagan, Cornell University
3:20 - 3:50 Coffee Break
  Chair: Sandor Kovacs
3:50 - 4:20 Models of Gravitational Radiation Computation
                 Charles Misner, University of Maryland
4:20 - 4:50 Out of Gravitational Physics: From Quantum Nondemolition to Teleportation
                 Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico
4:50 - 5:20 Needed: A Theory of Computational Modeling
                 William Press, Los Alamos National Laboratory
5:20 End  

Friday, June 2, 2000

8:45 - 9:00 Announcements
  Chair: James Bardeen
9:00 - 9:50 Gravitational Wave Sources: Changing Perspectives
                 Bernard Schutz, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam
9:50 -10:40 The Problems which Experimentalists have to Solve for Kip
                 Vladimir Braginsky, Moscow State University
10:40 -11:10 Coffee Break
  Chair: Leonid Grishchuk
11:10 -12:00 From Relativistic Stars to Quantum Cosmology
                 James Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00 - 2:10 Lunch and Press Briefing
  Chair: Don Page
2:10 - 3:00 Black Holes and Supercomputers
                 Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University
3:00 - 3:30 TZOs: Stars with Neutron Cores
                 Anna Zytkow, Cambridge University
3:30 - 4:00 Gravitational Waves from Disturbed Neutron Stars
                 Ben Owen, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam
4:00 End
6:30 - ??? KipFest Banquet, The Athenaeum (admission by ticket only)