International Conference on Black Holes

June 1 - 5, 2015, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

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Schedule

Monday, June 1st, 2015
09:30 to 10:30	General Relativity and Mathematics S. T. Yau, Harvard University
10:30	Quasilinear waves and trapping: Kerr-de Sitter space András Vasy, Stanford University
12:00	Astrophysical Black Holes Tsvi Piran, The Hebrew University
15:00 to 15:20	High Overtone Quasinormal Modes of Analog Black Holes and the Small Scale Structure of the Background Fluid Ramin Daghigh, Metropolitan State University
15:20 to 15:40	Point charge near a black hole: Bi-conformal symmetry and bi-conformal anomaly Valeri Frolov, University of Alberta
15:40 to 16:30	Point particle perturbations in Kerr spacetime: reconstruction, completion, and self-force Adam Pound, University of Southampton
16:30	Hamiltonian Dynamics of Self-Forced Motion in Kerr Spacetime Soichiro Isoyama, University of Guelph

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
09:30 to 10:30	Simulations of Black Holes and Neutron Stars Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University
10:30	Eccentric Mergers Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
12:00	No Title Specified Mihalis Dafermos, Princeton University
15:00 to 15:20	Non-existence of time-periodic dynamics in general relativity Volker Schlue, University of Toronto
15:20 to 15:40	Ultraspinning limits and super-entropic black holes David Kubiznak, Perimeter Institute
15:40 to 16:30	On the possibility of setting a new constraint to scalar-tensor theories Raissa Mendes, University of Guelph
16:30 to 16:50	Nearly extremal apparent horizons in numerical simulations of colliding black holes Geoffrey Lovelace, California State University, Fullerton
16:50	Numerical Tests of the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture via Event-Horizon Finding Maria Okounkova, California Institute of Technology

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
09:30 to 10:30	The stability of the Kerr Cauchy horizon and the strong cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity Jonathan Luk, University of Cambridge
10:30	On the stability of the wave-map equation in Kerr spaces Alexandru Ionescu, Princeton University
12:00	Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes Robert Wald, University of Chicago
15:00 to 15:20	Quasi-periodic solutions and AdS (in)stability Stephen Green, Perimeter Institute
15:20 to 15:40	Master equations and the boundary stress tensor for Ads4-Schwarzschild blackholes Uzair Hussain, Memorial University
15:40 to 16:30	No Title Specified Hari Kunduri, Memorial University
16:30	Sub-Planckian Black Holes and the Generalized Uncertainty Principle Jonas Mureika, Loyola Marymount University

Thursday, June 4th, 2015
09:30 to 10:30	New results on the Bartnik mass Richard Schoen, Stanford University
10:30	The Present and Future of Cosmology Daniel Green, University of Toronto
12:00	No Title Specified Robert Brandenberger (via WebEx)
15:00 to 15:20	Lessons from distorted black holes Ivan Booth, Memorial University
15:20 to 15:40	Tidal deformations of a spinning compact object Paolo Pani, Sapienza University of Rome
15:40 to 16:30	Tidal Deformation of a Slowly Rotating Compact Body Philippe Landry, University of Guelph
16:30	Partial stability of a (real) Schwarzschild singularity Grigorios Fournodavlos, University of Toronto

Friday, June 5th, 2015
09:30 to 10:30	String modelling of black holes and holography Amanda Peet, University of Toronto
10:30	Hovering Black Holes Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00	Partners William Unruh, University of British Columbia

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