Schedule

Monday, November 28, 2011

 TimeSpeakerTopicLocation
8:30-9:00 am  Registration Atrium 
9:00-9:30 am  Welcome and Opening Remarks
Space Room  
9:30-10:30 am Michele Vallisneri,
California Institute of    Technology
How Good is "good enough" for Gravitational-wave Templates? Space Room  
10:30-11:00 am  Coffee Break
Black Hole Bistro 
11:00-12:00 pm Alessandra Buonanno,
University of Maryland
Modeling the Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown of Compact Binaries:  Successes and Open Questions
Space Room
12:00-2:00 pm  LunchBlack Hole Bistro 
2:00-3:00 pm Chad Galley,
California Institute of Technology
The mechanics of open systems and applications in effective field theory Space Room  
3:00-3:30 pm  Coffee Break
Black Hole Bistro 
3:30-4:30 pm Barak Kol,
Hebrew University
Perturbative Classical Field Thoery
Space Room  
4:30-5:00 pm Misha Smolkin,
Perimeter Institute
Tidal deformations of a Schwarzschild black hole via effective field theory approach.
Space Room 

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

 TimeSpeakerTopicLocation
9:30-10:30 am Luc Blanchet,
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Post-Newtonian equations of motion and radiation (standard approach)
Space Room  
10:30-10:40 am  Conference Photo
Atrium
10:40-11:00 am  
Coffee Break
Black Hole Bistro

11:00-12:00 pm 
Gerhard Schaefer,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Recent Developments in Generalized ADM Formalism for the Dynamics of Compact Binaries with Spin

Space Room
12:00-2:00 pm  Lunch
Black Hole Bistro 
2:00-3:00 pm Andreas Ross,
Carnegie Mellon University
The Radiation Sector of NRGR Space Room  
3:00-3:30 pm  Coffee Break
Black Hole Bistro
3:30-4:30 pm Stefano Foffa,
University of Geneva
Riccardo Sturani,
National Institute of Nuclear Physics
Conservative binary dynamics at 3PN order and beyond via effective field theory methods
Space Room
5:30 pm  BanquetBlack Hole Bistro 

Wednesday, Novmeber 30, 2011

 TimeSpeakerTopicLocation
9:30-10:30 am Alberto Nicolis,
Columbia University
Effective field theories for hydrodynamical systems
Space Room  
10:30-11:00 am  Coffee Break
Black Hole Bistro 
11:00-12:00 pm Leonardo Senatore,
Stanford University
On the Effective Field Theory of Inflation and on the Effective Field Theory of the Long Distance Universe Space Room  
12:00-2:00 pm  Lunch
Black Hole Bistro 
2:00-3:00 pm Rafael Porto,
Institute for Advanced Study
Dissipative effects during inflation: An EFT approach
Space Room  
3:00-3:30 pm  Coffee Break
Black Hole Bistro
3:30-4:30 pm Ira Rothstein,
Carnegie Mellon University
World Line Effective Theories and 2-D Partition Functions on the Plane with Compact Boundaries
Space Room
 4:30-5:00 pm
  Wrap Up and Closing Remarks
 Space Room

 

 

 
 
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