Quantum Gravity and General Relativity Session

Monday, 16 December 1996, 4:15-6:15 pm

Preliminary Program

Chair: Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Abhay Ashtekar, ashtekar@phys.psu.edu

Speakers

Each talk will be of 15 minute duration (including discussion).

4:15Valeria Ferrari (Alberta) "Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves"
4:30 Robert Brandenberger (Brown) "On the Back Reaction Problem for Gravitational Perturbations"
4:45 Arlen Anderson (North Carolina) "Hyperbolic Formulation of General Relativity"
5:00 Kengo Maeda (Tokyo) "Strong Cosmic Censorship and Causality Violation"
5:15 Ruth Gregory (Durham) Quantum Instabilities of topological defects
5:30 Raphael Bousso (Cambridge) "Black Holes in Inflation"
5:45 John Whalen (UCSB) "Modelling the Decoherence of Spacetime"
6:00 Jorge Pullin (Penn State) "The Dynamics of Quantum Gravity as Skein Relations in Knot Space"

Posters

• David Craig (Alberta), "Generalized Quantum Theory of Bianchi IX Cosmologies"
  
• Ulrich Gerlach (Ohio State), "Paired Accelerated Frames, Diffractive Scattering and Achronal Spin"
  
• E.I. Gundelman (Ben Gurion University), "Principle of Non Gravitating Vacuum Theory and Some of Its Consequences"
  
• Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan National University, Korea), "Canonical Quantum, Semiclassical and Classical Gravity"
  
• D. A. Konkowski, T. M. Helliwell (U.S. Naval Academy), "Stability Tests for Mild Singularities and Cauchy Horizons"
  
• Jonathan Kress (Newcastle, Australia), "Generalized Conformal Killing-Yano Tensors and Symmetry Operators for Massless Fields"
  
• Jose P.S. Lemos (Observatorio Nacional, Brazil), Thermodynamics of the 2-dimensional black-holes in the Teitelboim-Jackiw theory
  
• Alfredo Macias (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitanta-Iztapalapa, Mexico), "Chiral (N = 1) Supergravity"
  
• Makoto Nalita (Rikkyo University, Japan), "Impossibility of Complete Black Hole Evaporation"
  
• Paulo Moniz (Cambridge), "Canonical Quantization in N=2 Supergravity: Bianchi Class A Models and Reissner-Nordstrom Black Holes"
  
• Eckehard Mielke (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitan, Mexico), "Second-Order Reconstruction of Inflationary Dynamics"
  
• Seth Rosenberg (UCSB), "Testing Causality Violations on Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curves"
  
• Tom Roman (Connecticut State), "Macroscopic Traversable Wormholes?"
  
• Andrew Chamblin (UCSB), "Black hole pairs and supergravity domain walls"
  
• Sumati Surya (Syracuse), "Some Results in 3+1 Topology Change"
  
• Bernard Whiting (Florida), "Gravitation and Thermodynamics - Investigating the Weyl Curvature Hypothesis"
  
• Paul O'Hara (Northeastern Illinois) "Wave particle duality in general relativity"
  
• Akika Nakamichi (Waseda University, Tokyo), "On Reality Conditions on the Ashtekar Variables and a Trick of Passing Degenerate Point"
  
• Maurice Van-Putten (M.I.T.), "Approximate Black Holes and their possible applications to Numerical Relativity
  
• Selcuk Bayin (Mid East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey), "Casimir Energy at a Massless Conformal Field on S2"