Workshop: Mathematics of Gravitation II

MATHEMATICS
OF GRAVITATION
II



September 1 – 9, 2003

Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center
 Warsaw 

Supported by the Committee on Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences



Conference proceedings are now
available in an electronic form.



Organizing and Programme Committee



Program of the Meeting

Time     Speaker     Title

Monday, September 1
09:00 – 10:00 Andrzej Trautman Robinson manifolds, Cauchy-Riemann spaces and the shear-free condition
10:00 – 11:00 Helmut Friedrich Smoothness at null infinity and
structure of initial data
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:30 – 12:30 Niall O'Murchadha Constant mean curvature slicing of Schwarzschild space-time
14:30 – 15:30 Edward MalecQuasilocal mass in general relativity
15:30 – 15:45   — Coffee break —
15:45 – 16:45Marc Mars On Penrose inequality in general spacetimes

Tuesday, September 2
09:00 – 10:00 Lars Andersson Phenomenology of inhomogenous cosmological spacetimes in scalefree variables
10:00 – 11:00 Piotr Bizoρ Formation of singularities for Yang-Mills equations
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:30 – 12:30 Jose M Martin-Garcia Global structure of the Choptuik spacetime
14:30 – 15:30 Piotr Chruœciel On strong cosmic censorship in Gowdy space-times
15:30 – 15:45   — Coffee break —
15:45 – 16:45 Jerzy Lewandowski Dynamical and isolated horizons
16:45 – 17:45 Walter Simon On local existence of dynamical horizons

Wednesday, September 3
09:00 – 10:00 Jeff Murugan Singularity-free inflationary Universe models
10:00 – 11:00 Charles Hellaby Finding the metric of the cosmos
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:30 – 12:30 Andrzej Krasiρski Structure formation in the Universe by exact methods
14:30 – 15:30 Jacek Tafel Perfect fluid spacetimes obtained via 2-dimensional surfaces
14:30 – 15:30 Kayll Lake (*) Directions in computer algebra
15:30 – 16:30 Marie-Noelle Celerier Focusing of timelike or null singularity solutions for a radiative spherically symmetric gravitational source and cosmological applications
18:00 – 20:00   — Banquet —

Thursday, September 4
09:00 – 10:00 Malcolm MacCallum Rewriting the exact solutions book
10:00 – 11:00 Jose M Senovilla Novel results on trapped surfaces
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:30 – 12:30 Eric Gourgoulhon Numerical approaches to the relativistic two-body problem: constructing initial data
14:30 – 15:30 Thomas Baumgarte Numerical approaches to the relativistic two-body problem: evolution calculation
15:30 – 15:45   — Coffee break —
15:45 – 16:45 Hideki Asada PN approximation for compact binaries with strong internal gravity
16:45 – 17:05 Pavel Klepac A solution in Eistein-Maxwel-dilaton gravity

Friday, September 5
09:00 – 10:00 Clifford Will Gravitational radiation and equations of motion for compact binaries via direct integration of the relaxed Einstein equations
10:00 – 11:00 Luc Blanchet The harmonic-coordinates approach to the radiation and dynamics of compact binaries
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:30 – 12:30 Gerhard Schäfer The ADM canonical approach to the problem of motion of binary black holes
14:30 – 15:30 Piotr Jaranowski Dimensional regularization of the gravitational interaction of point masses
15:30 – 15:45   — Coffee break —
15:45 – 16:45 Eric Poisson The gravitational self-force
16:45 – 17:15 Guillaume Faye Skeleton Hamiltonian dynamics

Saturday, September 6
09:00 – 10:00 Alicia Sintes Hierarchical pulsar search – the Hough transform
10:00 – 11:00 W³odzimierz Piechocki Global properties of spacetime and quantization
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:00 – 11:30 Krzysztof Roszkowski How loud a black hole can ring?

Sunday, September 7
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Monday, September 8
09:00 – 10:00 Misao Sasaki Self-force regularization in the black hole perturbation approach
10:00 – 11:00 Kazik Borkowski Referring a detector to the solar system barycenter
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:30 – 12:30 Alberto Lobo An acoustic GW detector can be wideband sensitive: the dual sphere
14:30 – 15:30 Jerzy Usowicz Detection of gravitational wave transients using Malvar-Wilson wavelets
15:30 – 15:45   — Coffee break —

Tuesday, September 9
09:00 – 10:00 Xavier Siemens Setting upper limits on the strength of gravitational waves from isolated pulsars using the first science data from the LIGO and GEO detectors
10:00 – 10:30 Pia Astone EXPLORER and NAUTILUS: present status and future plans
10:30 – 11:00 Pia Astone Application of the Rome strategy for the search of continuous g.w. to the Explorer and Nautilus data
11:00 – 11:30   — Coffee break —
11:30 – 12:30 Andrzej Królak All-sky search of EXPLORER data
14:30 – 15:30 Sergio Frasca All sky searches for continuous gravitational waves
15:30 – 15:45   — Coffee break —
15:45 – 16:15 Cristiano Palomba All sky searches for continuous gravitational wave: test in a GRID environment

  (*) The speaker was not able to participate in person in this Meeting so he made his scheduled presentation available in electronic form.

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