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) |