Meeting Program
 
Meeting Program [PDF]

Note: '*' - student

 
September 28, 2012 - Friday
8:15 AM - 8:55 AMCoffee & Pastries
8:55 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome
Daniel Holz & Robert Wald
 Morning Session
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMDaniel Holz, University of Chicago
Gravitational-waves and gamma-ray bursts [PDF, 0.14 MB]
9:15 AM - 9:30 AMHsin-Yu Chen*, University of Chicago
GRB Beaming and Gravitational-Wave Observations [PDF, 0.35 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:45 AMSydney J Chamberlin*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Searches for a stochastic gravitational wave background with pulsar timing arrays: a data analysis pipeline [PDF, 2.86 MB]
9:45 AM - 10:00 AMJustin Ellis*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Gravitational Wave Searches in Pulsar Timing Data [PDF, 2.32 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:15 AMShivaraj Kandhasamy*, University of Minnesota
Search for long gravitational-wave bursts and high-energy neutrino coincidences [PDF, 0.77 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMLee McCuller*, University of Chicago
Interferometer Instrumentation on the Fermilab Holometer [ZIP, 6.13 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break & Discussion
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMMadeline Wade*, UW-Milwaukee
Sub-Solar Mass Black Hole Search in S5 Initial LIGO Data [PDF, 2.44 MB]
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMEvan L Ochsner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Gravitational waves from BH-NS binaries: Effective Fisher matrices and parameter estimation using higher-harmonics [PDF, 0.47 MB]
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMCarl L Rodriguez*, Northwestern University
Inadequacies of the Fisher Information Matrix in gravitational-wave parameter estimation [PDF, 2.47 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMRichard O'Shaughnessy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Precession during merger: Strong polarization changes are observationally accessible features of strong-field gravity during binary black hole merger [PPT, 3.55 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMLeslie E Wade*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Studying the Effects of Tidal Corrections on Parameter Estimation [PDF, 3.89 MB]
12:15 PM - 1:45 PMLunch
 Afternoon Session
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMJohn Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Update on the EMRI problem for a massive particle in a Kerr spacetime
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMJoshua S. Schiffrin*, University of Chicago
Dynamical and Thermodynamic Stability of Perfect Fluid Stars [PDF, 0.16 MB]
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMKartik Prabhu*, University of Chicago
Gauge Conditions and Black hole Stability
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMAlexander L Urban*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Causal structure of black hole interiors in spherical symmetry [PDF, 2.87 MB]
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMEleni-Alexandra Kontou*, Tufts University
Averaged null energy condition in curved space [PDF, 0.35 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:15 PMStephen R Green, University of Guelph
Exact example of backreaction of small scale inhomogeneities in cosmology [PDF, 1.97 MB]
3:15 PM - 3:45 PMCoffee Break & Discussion
3:45 PM - 4:00 PMAndrew Tolley, Case Western Reserve University
Progress in Massive Gravity [PDF, 7.34 MB]
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMMatteo Fasiello, Case Western Reserve University
The interplay of Stability Requirements and Observations in Massive Gravity [PDF, 2.65 MB]
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMLavinia Heisenberg*, Case Western Reserve University
A Proxy for Massive Gravity [PDF, 3.41 MB]
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMCaixia Gao*, University of Mississippi
On charged black holes in nonlinear ghost-free massive gravity [PDF, 0.61 MB]
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMPierre Gratia*, University of Chicago
Cosmological constant from Massive Gravity [PDF, 0.15 MB]
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMAndrew A Matas*, Case Western Reserve University
Galileon radiation from binary pulsars [PDF, 2.07 MB]
5:15 PM - 5:30 PMNewshaw Bahreyni*, University at Albany, SUNY
A Potential Mechanism for Emergent Observer-Based Space-Time [PDF, 0.3 MB]
 
September 29, 2012 - Saturday
8:15 AM - 9:00 AMCoffee & Pastries
 Morning Session
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMCarlos O Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
Exploring the outer limits of Numerical Relativity [PDF, 0.98 MB]
9:15 AM - 9:30 AMVasileios Paschalidis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Importance of cooling in triggering the collapse of hypermassive neutron stars [PDF, 0.47 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:45 PMZachariah B. Etienne, University of Illinois
General relativistic simulations of black hole-neutron star mergers: Effects of tilted magnetic fields
9:45 AM - 10:00 AMRoman Gold, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Binary black hole mergers in magnetized disks: simulations in full general relativity [PDF, 1.95 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:15 AMDavide Gerosa*, University of Mississippi
Spin Alignment Effects in Stellar Mass Black Hole Binaries [PDF, 1.33 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMDavid Garfinkle, Oakland University
Collapse of charged thick domain walls
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break & Discussion
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMEma Dimastrogiovanni, UMNN
An estimator for statistical anisotropy from the CMB bispectrum [PDF, 0.59 MB]
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMCristiano Germani, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
High friction inflation [PDF, 0.28 MB]
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMHui-Yiing Chang*, Vanderbilt University
Inflection Point Quintessence Cosmologies [PDF, 0.75 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMNikodem Poplawski, Indiana University
Nonsingular big-bounce cosmology from spin and torsion [PDF, 0.85 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMShouhong Wang, Indiana University
Gravitational Field Equations and Unified Theory of Dark Matter and Dark Energy [PDF, 0.15 MB]
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMLuke A Keltner*, Case Western Reserve University
Classicalization as Possible UV Completion [PDF, 7.36 MB]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Afternoon Session
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMAmol Upadhye, Argonne National Laboratory
Dark energy fifth forces in torsion pendulum experiments [PDF, 2.68 MB]
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMGeorge E. A. Matsas, Instituto de Fisica Teorica (Sao Paulo - Brazil)
Particle creation due to tachyonic instability in relativistic stars [PDF, 1.03 MB]
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMAriel Edery, Bishop's University
Quantum corrections to the gravitationally coupled magnetic monopole: residual conformal symmetry and trace anomaly [PDF, 1 MB]
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMWilliam Donnelly, University of Waterloo
Entanglement entropy of gauge fields [PDF, 0.24 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:15 PMKo Sanders, University of Chicago
Topological effects in linear gauge theories [PDF, 0.36 MB]
3:15 PM - 3:30 PMJames Alsup, University of Michigan-Flint
Gravity dual of FFLO states [PDF, 0.88 MB]
3:30 PM - 3:45 PMRobert Wald, University of Chicago
Negative Canonical Energy and Exponential Growth Instabilities [PDF, 44.14 KB]