Advances and Challenges in
Computational General Relativity
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
All talks will take place in Barus & Holley, room 190.
For a PDF version of the program click here
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Time Speaker Affiliation Title 08:00 - 08:45 Registration and light breakfast Outside rosom 190, Barus & Holley 08:45 - 09:00 Opening remarks 09:00 - 09:30 Peter Diener Louisiana State U The Effective Source Approach to the Self-force Problem (PDF) 09:30 - 10:00 Scott Field Brown U A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for BSSN-Type Systems (PDF) 10:00 - 10:30 Manuel Tiglio U of Maryland Reduced Basis in General Relativity: Select, Solve, Represent, Predict (PDF) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30 Jeff Winicour U of Pittsburgh The Problem with Treating Boundaries in General Relativity (PDF) 11:30 - 12:00 Mike Holst U of California San Diego The Einstein Constraint Equations, Adaptive Methods for Geometric PDE, and Finite Element Exterior Calculus 12:00 - 12:30 Snorre Christiansen U of Oslo Spectral correctness of linearized Regge calculus 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 Larry Kidder Cornell U The Spectral Einstein Code 14:30 - 15:00 John Baker NASA Goddard Numerical Relativity for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Astronomy 15:00 - 15:30 Alessandra Buonanno U of Maryland Modeling the Final Moments of Coalescing Compact Binaries 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30 Bela Szilagyi California Institute of Technology Adaptive Mesh Refinement in the Context of a Spectral Evolution Scheme (PDF) 16:30 - 17:00 Abdul Mroue CITA Eccentricity reduction in precessing binary black holes 17:30 - 19:00 Reception at Faculty Club
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Time Speaker Affiliation Title 08:00 - 09:00 Registration and light breakfast Outside room 190, Barus & Holley 09:00 - 09:30 Mark Scheel California Institute of Technology Vortex and Tendex Dynamics Around Black Holes 09:30 - 10:00 Luisa Buchman California Institute of Technology Numerical relativity on conformally compactified CMC hypersurfaces (PDF) 10:00 - 11:00 Coffee break/Poster session 11:00 - 11:30 Pablo Laguna Georgia Institute of Technology Light-shows from Supermassive Black Hole Mergers 11:30 - 12:00 Christian Ott California Institute of Technology Recent Advances in the Modeling of General Relativistic Stellar Collapse 12:00 - 12:30 Matt Duez Washington State U Compact neutron star binary mergers using the Spectral Einstein Code 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 Geoffrey Lovelace Cornell U Simulating merging black holes with spins above the Bowen-York limit (PDF) 14:30 - 15:00 Duncan Brown Syracuse U Searching for Compact Binary Coalescence with LIGO and Virgo 15:00 - 16:00 Coffee break/Poster session 16:00 - 16:30 Mark Hannam Cardiff Solving the binary black hole problem -- again and again (PDF) 16:30 - 17:00 Thomas Baumgarte Bowdoin College New Approaches to the Initial Data Problem
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Time Speaker Affiliation Title 08:00 - 09:00 Registration and light breakfast Outside room 190, Barus & Holley 09:00 - 09:30 Andreas Kloeckner New York U Discontinuous Galerkin, Python, and GPUs: the HEDGE solver package (PDF) 09:30 - 10:00 Frank Loffler Louisiana State U The Einstein Toolkit (PDF) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 Carlos Sopuerta Institute of Space Sciences Modeling of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals with Pseudo-Spectral Methods 11:00 - 11:30 Nick Taylor California Institute of Technology Progress towards evolving black hole binaries using second-order spectral methods 11:30 - 12:00 Stephen Lau U of New Mexico Implicit-explicit (IMEX) evolution of single black-holes using the Spectral Einstein Code 12:00 - 12:15 Closing remarks
