Conference Program

The ACGRG2 conference is being held from July 6 to July 10 (inclusive) in the Carslaw Building and the Stephen Roberts Building, which are within the main campus of the University of Sydney.(Map reference K19). The provisional program (as at 24/6/98) is as follows:

MONDAY MORNING (July 6):

8:30-9:40 REGISTRATION: Carslaw Room 250

MONDAY MORNING PLENARY SESSIONS (Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre)

9:40-9:50 Introductory remarks: Hugh Luckock, Peter Szekeres
9:50-10:45 David Blair (UWA) "Gravity wave astronomy and the start of AIGO"
10:45-11:15 TEA/COFFEE
11:15-11:50 Nergis Mavalvala (Caltech) "The LIGO project: recent advances"
11:50-12:45 George Ellis (University of Cape Town) "Consistency of inhomogeneous cosmology and the nature of the Newtonian limit"

MONDAY AFTERNOON: THEORETICAL WORKSHOP

2:00-2:25 Paul Tod (Oxford) "Non-simultaneous marginally-trapped surfaces"
2:25-2:50 Gourgen Oganessyan (University of Canberra) "Null Geometry and Einstein Equations"
2:50-3:15 Alexander Nesterov (University of Guadalajara) "Quasigroups and asymptotic symmetries"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE
3:45-4:10 Jonathan Kress (University of Sydney) "A second order symmetry of the conformally covariant Laplacian"
4:10-4:35 Adrian Gentle (Los Alamos) "Regge Geometrodynamics"
4:35-5:00 James O'Connor (LaTrobe) "Computer Algebra Determination of symmetries in general relativity"

MONDAY AFTERNOON: EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP

2:00-2:25 Dan Shaddock (?) "Resonant sideband extraction"
2:25-2:50 Albrecht R\"udiger ( ) "Progress on GEO600"
2:50-3:15 Peter Veitch (University of Adelaide) "A laser for the Advanced Research Interferometer"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE
3:45-4:10 Jesper Munch (University of Adelaide) "High power, cw, all solid state Nd:YAG laser"
4:10-4:35 David Blair(UWA) "Progress with Niobe: the UWA resonant bar detector"
5:30-7:30 RECEPTION (Stephen Roberts Foyer)

TUESDAY MORNING (July 7): PLENARY SESSIONS (Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre)

9:15-10:10 David Wiltshire (University of Adelaide) "The wavefunction debate in quantum cosmology"
10:10-10:40 TEA/COFFEE
10:40-11:35 Adrian Ottewill (University College, Dublin) "Analysis and Simulation of Gravitational Radiation"
11:35-12:30 Albrecht R\"udiger ( ) To be Announced

TUESDAY AFTERNOON: THEORETICAL WORKSHOP

2:00-2:25 Geoff Ericksson (ANU) "Isotropic singularities in shear-free cosmologies"
2:25-2:50 Susan Scott (ANU) "Isotropic Singularities in FRW Cosmological Models"
2:50-3:15 Alan Barnes (University of Aston) "On Stephani's Rotating Dust Solutions"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE
3:45-4:10 Simon Davis (University of Sydney) "Higher-Derivative Quantum Cosmology"
4:10-4:35 Tamath Rainsford (Adelaide) "Post-Newtonian cosmology"
4:35-5:00 Mike Ashley (ANU) "The abstract boundary and causality"

TUESDAY AFTERNOON: EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP

2:00-2:25 Karl Baigent (ANU) "Progress towards a system for the measurement of thermal noise"
2:25-2:50 David McClelland (ANU) "Length sensing and control of long baseline interferometric gravitational wave detectors"
2:50-3:15 Nergis Mavalvala (LIGO) "Wavefront sensing in LIGO"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE
3:45-4:10 Adrian Ottewill (University College, Dublin) "TBA"
4:10-4:35 Bernard Whiting (University of Florida) "Noise characterisation of laser interferometer data"

WEDNESDAY MORNING (July 8): PLENARY SESSIONS (Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre)

9:15-10:10 Robert Bartnik (University of Canberra) "Numerical Einstein equations in a characteristic gauge"
10:10-10:40 TEA/COFFEE
10:40-11:35 Bernard F. Whiting (University of Florida) "Signal analysis for Laser Interferometers"
11:35-12:30 John Sandeman (ANU) "TBA

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON: THEORETICAL WORKSHOP A

2:00-2:25 Neil Cornish (Cambridge) "Measuring the topology of the universe"
2:25-2:50 Giovanni Venturi (University of Bologna) "Chaotic inflation with a scalar field in non-classical states"
2:50-3:15 Aroonkumar Beesham (University of Zululand) "Anisotropic viscous cosmology with variable $G$ and $\Lambda$"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON: THEORETICAL WORKSHOP B

2:00-2:25 Takao Fukui (Dokkyo University) "The Generalized Scalar-Tensor Theory and the 5D Space-Time-Mass Theory"
2:25-2:50 Jerzy Kocinski (Warsaw Institute of Technology) "Nordstr\"om's theory revisited"
2:50-3:15 David Hartley (University of Adelaide) "Tensor distributions on signature-changing space-times"
4:00-6:00 BIENNIAL GENERAL MEETING
7:00-10:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

THURSDAY MORNING (July 9): PLENARY SESSIONS (Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre)

9:15-10:10 Malcolm Anderson (Edith Cowan University) "Distributions in general relativity"
10:10-10:40 TEA/COFFEE
10:40-11:35 Brandon Carter (Observatoire de Paris) "Overview of classical brane dynamics"
11:35-12:30 Arkady Tseytlin (Imperial College, London) "String theory and supergravity - super Yang-Mills correspondence"

THURSDAY AFTERNOON: THEORETICAL WORKSHOP A

2:00-2:25 Sam Drake (University of Adelaide) "An Explanation of the Newman-Janis Algorithm"
2:25-2:50 Jason Sharples (University of Canberra) "Existence of solutions of the Einstein constraint equations in the qu asispherical gauge"
2:50-3:15 Graeme Sneddon (James Cook University) "Some identities of the invariants of the Riemann tensor"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE
3:45-4:10 Andrew Norton (University of Canberra) "Equations for a classical spinning electron can be derived from a moving boundary problem for the Maxwell field"
4:10-4:35 Pavel Smrz (University of Newcastle) "Dilatational extension of Einstein's theory"
4:35-5:00 John Schutz (La Trobe) "The isotropy mappings of Minkowski space-time generate the Poincar\'e group"

THURSDAY AFTERNOON: THEORETICAL WORKSHOP B

2:00-2:25 Bill Spence (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) "M-Theory and the renaissance of eleven-dimensional supergravity"
2:25-2:50 Chris Fama (University of Queensland) "A rigidity result on the ideal boundary structure of smooth space-times"
2:50-3:15 Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland at College park) "Black hole lasers"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE
3:45-4:10 Karl-Georg Schlesinger (Univeristy of Wuppertal) "Quantization of topology and its relation to a quantization of the manifold notion"
4:10-4:35 Reginald Cahill (Flinders University) "Self-referential noise and the synthesis of three-dimensional space"
4:35-5:00 Shinji Hamamoto (Toyama) "Infrared regularization of massive tensor field"
7:00 pm PUBLIC LECTURE: Prof George Ellis (University of Cape Town) "Modern cosmology and the limits to science"

FRIDAY MORNING (July 10): PLENARY SESSIONS (Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre)

9:15-10:10 Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland at College park) "Trans-Planckian black hole models: lattice and superfluid"
10:10-10:40 TEA/COFFEE
10:40-11:35 Paul Francis (ANU) "TBA"
11:35-12:30 Paul Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania) "The missing energy problem"

FRIDAY AFTERNOON - WORKSHOP IN HONOUR OF TED FACKERELL:
"Exact Solutions and Symmetry Methods in General Relativity" (Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre)

2:00-2:25 Peter Waylen (University of Christchurch) "Note on equations related to key functions of axisymmetric gravitation"
2:25-2:50 Graeme Williams (University of Waikato) "Approaches to the perturbation equations of the Kerr-Newman black hole"
2:50-3:15 Brandon Carter (Observatoire de Paris, Meudon) "Exact cancellation of divergenet gravitational self force of Nambu-Goto string in 4 dimensions"
3:15-3:45 TEA/COFFEE
3:45-4:10 Edward Fackerell (University of Sydney) "Looking again at the 1 Killing vector vacuum equations"
4:10-4:35 Anthony Lun (Monash University) "Bondi-Sachs Space-times and Accelerating Sources"
4:35-5:00 Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra) "Geometric Integrability"

SATURDAY

10:30-3:00 (approx) Ferry cruise & lunch on Sydney harbour.

Conference Organisers

Last modified: Thu Jun 25 14:16:47 EST 1998