Wednesday 3rd April 2013:
Registration
| 10.30am | Registration and coffee | Hicks Building K14
| | | | | | | Session 1 | 10.50am | (Chair: E. Winstanley) | Hicks Building Lecture Theatre 7
|
| 10.50
| John Greenlees
| Welcome from the Head of School | | | 11:00 | Jorma Louko
| Quantum fields in accelerated cavities: from relativistic velocities to a desktop experiment
| | | 11:20 | Hugo Ferreira
| Warped AdS_3 black holes: are they classically stable? | | | 11:40 | Peter Millington
| Perturbative non-equilibrium thermal field theory | | | 12:00 | Johnny Espin
| Second order fermions and unification with gravity | | | 12:20 | Benito Juarez Aubry | Detector for a massless (1+1) field: Hawking radiation without infra-red sickness | | | 12:40 | Markus Fröb
| The good, the bad and the ugly: including matter loops in the graviton two-point function in de Sitter
| | | | | | | Lunch | 1pm | Lunch break | | | | | | | | Session 2 | 2pm
| (Chair: C. Luebbe)
| Hicks Building Lecture Theatre 7
|
| 14:00 | Niels Warburton
| Isofrequency pairing of geodesic orbits in Kerr geometry
|
| 14:20
| Barry Wardell
| Green function approach to self-force calculations
| | | 14:40
| Anna Heffernan
| Regularization of the self-force in Kerr space-time
| | | 15:00
| Cesar Merlin
| Self-force in a modified radiation gauge for circular and eccentric orbits
| | | 15:20
| Patrick Nolan
| Electromagnetic and gravitational self-force calculations in Schwarzschild space-time | | | | | | Break
| 15:40 | Tea and Coffee
| Hicks Building K14
| | | | | | Session 3
| 4pm | (Chair: John Miller)
| Hicks Building Lecture Theatre 7
| | | 16:00 | Christian Krueger
| Oscillations of maturing neutron stars
| | | 16:20 | Tim Lemon
| Numerical simulations of relativistic jets | | | 16:40 | Stephanie Erickson
| Simulating the shattering of the neutron star crust
| | | 17:00 | John Muddle
| Multi-component numerical methods with magnetic fields
| | | 17:20 | Ian Hawke
| The nonlinear development of the relativistic two-stream instability | | | | | | | Reception | 6pm
| University Arms
| | | | | | |
Thursday 4th April:
Session 4
| 9am
| (Chair: Peter Millington)
| Hicks Building Lecture Theatre 7
| | | 09:00 | Brien Nolan
| On the existence of dyons and dyonic black holes in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory | | | 09:20 | Wahiba Toubal
| Defining mass for black holes with scalar hair in anti-de Sitter space-time | | | 09:40 | Carsten Gundlach
| Critical phenomena at the threshold of immediate merger in binary black hole systems: the extreme mass ratio case | | | 10:00 | Helvi Witek
| Lighthouses in the sky | | | 10:20 | Alan Barnes
| Vacuum space-times with a constant Weyl scalar | | | | | | Break
| 10:40am
| Tea and Coffee
| Hicks Building K14
| | | | | | Session 5
| 11am
| (Chair: Timothy Clifton)
| | | | 11.00 | Adam Christopherson | Isocurvature perturbations and reheating in multi-field inflation | | | 11.20 | Ana Avilez | About the theoretical prior for the Brans-Dicke class at cosmological scales | | | 11.40 | Jack Morrice | Constraints on disformal couplings from the CMB temperature evolution | | | 12.00 | Godfrey Leung | Reheating in multifield inflation makes life harder for predicting observables | | | 12.20 | Carlos Hidalgo | Relativistic effects on the simulation of cosmological structure formation | | | 12.40 | Ippocratis Saltas | Asymptotically safe cosmology: an effective description | | | | | | | Lunch | 1pm | Lunch break
| | | | | | | Session 6
| 2pm | (Chair: Ian Hawke)
| Hicks Building Lecture Theatre 7
| | | 14:00 | Joseph Bae | Modified semi-classical solutions to the Bianchi IX Wheeler-DeWitt equation | | | 14:20 | Ellie Nalson
| Generating intergalactic magnetic fields in the early universe | | | 14:40 | Christian Luebbe
| The cosmic-no-hair conjecture for 'almost-Bianchi' space-times | | | 15:00 | Priscilla Canizares
| Fast Markov chain Monte Carlo for gravitational-wave parameter estimation | | | 15:20 | Rebecca Palmer | Noise modelling for atom interferometry | | | | | | Break
| 15:40
| Tea and Coffee
| Hicks Building K14 | | | | | | Session 7
| 4pm | (Chair: Sam Dolan)
| | | | 16:00 | Michael Fil'chenkov & Yuri Laptev
| Quantum accretion of baryons onto miniholes
| | | 16:20 | The Panel
| Presentation of prize for Best Student Talk
|
|
 Updating... Ċ Sam Dolan, 1 Apr 2013, 06:50 Ċ Sam Dolan, 1 Apr 2013, 02:49 Ċ Sam Dolan, 1 Apr 2013, 06:50
|
