Gravitational Lensing

Texas Symposium Parallel Session

Chicago, 19 December 1996

2-5 pm

Preliminary Program

Chair: Rachel Webster (Melbourne)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Rachel Webster, rwebster@physics.unimelb.edu.au

Thursday, 19 December 1996

2:00pm Steve Myers ,(Pennsylvania)

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2:20pm Priya Natarajan ,(Cambridge)

"Galaxy-galaxy lensing in clusters to the HST cluster data"
2:35 Sangeeta Malhotra ,(IPAC)

"Evidence for Dusty Gravitational Lenses"
2:50 Robert Schmidt ,(Potsdam)

"The effect of the bar in the gravitational lens system 2237+0305"
3:05 Avi Loeb ,(Harvard)

"Gravitational Lensing of Quasars by Spiral Galaxies"
3:20 Afternoon Tea
3:35 Kim Griest, (UC San Diego)

"MACHO Collaboration results and interpretations"
3:55 Takashi Nakamura ,(Kyoto)

"The Minimum Total Mass of MACHOs and Halo Models of the Galaxy"
4:10 Andy Taylor,(RO Edinburgh)

"Clustering Confusion in Lens Magnification"
4:25 Gordon Squires,(Berkley)

"The Dynamical State of Clusters"
4:40 Matthias Bartelmann,(MPI, Garching)

"Cluster Potential Reconstruction from Gravitational Lensing"

Posters

Posters will be mounted for 24 hours from 7pm on Wednesday evening. Poster boards, velcro dots for attaching the boards, and title banners will be provided.

Ioav Waga , (UFRJ, Brazil) "Lensing by Voids"
Sergei Kopeikin,(National Astronomical Observatory, Japan) "Propagation of Light in Gravitational Field of Multipolar Gravitational Lens"
Alexander Zakharov, (ITEP, Moscow) "Caustic singularities of the cusp type in the theory of gravitational lenses"
"The distortion of microlensing by mass distribution of our Galaxy"
Liliya Williams, (Cambridge) "Undistorted lensed images in galaxy clusters "
Eelco van Kampen,(RO Edinburgh) "Testing cluster mass reconstruction methods using a sample of galaxy cluster models"
"Arc statistics for a complete sample of galaxy cluster models"
Premana Premadi, (Texas) "The Study of Light Propagation in Inhomogeneous Universes Using The Gravitational Lensing Method"
Frank Tipler,(Tulane) "Measuring the True Values of the Cosmological Parameters"
Bhuvnesh Jain, (MPI Garching) "Weak Lensing by Large Scale Structure"
Steve Zepf, Moustakas, and Davis, (Berkley) "Keck Spectroscopy of Candidate Gravitational Lenses in the HDF: Constraints on Lambda Models"

If you have any queries on the program please email: Rachel Webster, rwebster@physics.unimelb.edu.au

Last Updated 7 October-1996

Electronic mail for conference: sazama@fnal.gov