Monday, May 02, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 8:45
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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8:45 - 9:00
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:00 - 10:00
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Joan Centrella (NASA GSFC)
"Gravitational Wave Science: Challenges for Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Frans Pretorius (California Institute of Technology)
"On the Simulation of Binary Black Holes in General Relativity"
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11:30 - 1:30
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:30 - 2:30
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Luis Lehner (Louisiana State University)
"Many directions to a black hole"
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2:30 - 3:00
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Break
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3:00 - 4:00
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David Meier (California Institute of Technology)
"Trends in Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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4:00 - 4:15
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Break
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4:15 - 5:15
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Jose Antonio Font (University of Valencia)
"Improved simulations of relativistic stellar core collapse"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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5:15 - 7:15
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Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Jerome Novak (Observatoire de Paris)
"Fully-constrained formulation of Einstein's field equations using Dirac gauge"
Presentation (PDF File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Luciano Rezzolla (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS))
"3D collapse to rotating black holes: dynamics of matter, trapped surfaces and gravitational radiation"
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:30 - 1:30
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:30 - 2:30
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Tony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"The Computational Challenge of Modeling the Explosion of Massive Stars"
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2:30 - 3:00
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Break
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3:00 - 4:00
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Miguel-Angel Aloy (University of Valencia)
"General relativistic simulations of post-neutron star mergers as progenitors of short Gamma-ray bursts"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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4:00 - 4:15
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Break
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4:15 - 5:15
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Andrew MacFadyen (Institute for Advanced Study)
"Relativistic AMR Simulations of GRBs"
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Oscar Reula (FaMAF,Universidad Nacional de Cordoba)
"Implementing high order touching grids in numerical relativity "
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Mark Scheel (California Institute of Technology)
"Constraint-preserving boundary conditions for the Einstein evolution system"
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11:30 - 1:30
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:30 - 2:30
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Lee Lindblom (California Institute of Technology)
"Optimal Constraint Projection"
Presentation (PDF File)
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2:30 - 3:00
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Break
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3:00 - 4:00
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Harald Pfeiffer (California Institute of Technology)
"Binary black hole initial data"
Presentation (PDF File)
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4:00 - 4:15
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Break
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4:15 - 5:15
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Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)
Presentation (PDF File)
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5:15 - 7:15
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Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)
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Thursday, May 05, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia)
Presentation File (Zip File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Hideaki Kudoh (University of Tokyo)
"Black holes with extra dimensions: the black-hole black- string transition"
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11:30 - 1:30
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:30 - 2:30
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Tsvi Piran (Hebrew University)
"Numerical Studies of Black Holes in Higher Dimensions. "
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2:30 - 3:00
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Break
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3:00 - 4:00
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Masaru Shibata (University of Tokyo)
"Merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state"
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Friday, May 06, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Anatoly Spitkovsky (Stanford University)
"Simulations of force-free relativistic MHD"
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Saul Teukolsky (Cornell University)
"Why is Numerical Relativity so Important and Yet so Hard?"
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11:30 - 1:30
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:30 - 2:00
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Maria Babiuc (University of Pittsburgh)
"Gravitational wave extraction using the Cauchy-characteristic method"
Presentation (PDF File)
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2:00 - 2:10
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Break
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2:10 - 2:40
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Melvin Leok (University of Michigan)
"Towards Discrete Exterior Calculus and Discrete Mechanics for Numerical Relativity"
Presentation (PDF File)
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2:40 - 2:50
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Break
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2:50 - 3:20
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Jian Tao (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Binary NS evolution with AMR"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)
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3:20 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:00
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P. Chris Fragile (College of Charleston)
"Relativistic MHD on Unstructured Grids with Local Adaptive Refinement"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)
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