Gravitational Waves Session

Thursday, 19 December 1996, 2:00-5:00 pm

Preliminary Program

Chairs: A. Brillet (Universite Paris), A. Giazotto (INFN, Pisa)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: brillet@lal.in2p3.fr or giazotto@pi.infn.it

Speakers

2:00 P. Bender (JILA) 'Massive Black Holes and LISA' (20 min)
2:20 S. Bonazzola (Meudon) 'Gravitational Waves emitted by an ensemble of Rotating Neutron Stars' (20 min)
2:40 M. Cerdonio (INFN) 'Resonant Mass Ultracryogenic G.W. Detectors' (20 min)
3:00 A. Giazotto (INFN) 'The Status of VIRGO' (20 min)
3:20 L. Holloway (Illinois) 'The Superattenuator: a mirror suspension system for reducing seismic induced noise in the VIRGO G.W. interferometer' (20 min)
3:40 K. Thorne* (Caltech) To be confirmed (20 min)
4:00 J. Weber (Maryland) 'Classical and Quantum Theories of Elastic Solid Gravitational Radiation Detectors' (20 min)
4:20 R. Bochner (MIT) 'Modelling the Performance of the Initial-LIGO with Realistically-Deformed Optics' (10 min)
4:30 R. Hellings (JPL) 'OMEGA: A Gravitational Wave MIDEX Mission' (10 min)
4:40 C. Lousto (Utah) 'Head-on Collisions of Black Holes: the Particle Limite' (10 min)
4:50 H. Tagoshi (NAD) 'Post-Newtonian Expansion of Gravitational Waves from a Particle in Circular Orbits around a Rotating Black Hole' (10 min)

Posters

• P. Anderson (Wake Forest)
  
• G. Gwinn 'Limits on low-frequency Gravitational Radiation from Proper Motions of Distant Radio Sources'
  
• E. Muller (MPI) 'Gravitational radiation from core collapse Supernovae'
  
• R. Roberts (Dartmouth) 'Gravitational radiation from non-spherical sub-critical bubbles'
  
• M. Ruffert (MPI) 'Gravitational Wave emission from Coalescing Neutron Stars'
  
• I. Soares (CNPq, Brazil) 'Model for non-spherical collapse and formation of Black Holes by emission of neutrinos, strings, and gravitational waves'
  
• A. Spallicci (ESTEC) 'Motion of a radially falling mass into a Schwarzschild Black Hole'
  
• M. Yasushi (NRL) 'Gravitational Radiation reaction to particle motion'
  
• A. Zakharov (ITEP) 'Gravitational radiation during non-spherical evolution of pre-SN'