KipFest Science Symposium
Ramo Auditorium, California Institute of Technology
Thursday, June 1, 2000
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration, Pick up banquet tickets |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome, Introduction, Announcements: Clifford Will |
| 9:20 - 10:10 | Disturbed
Black Holes Richard Price, University of Utah |
| 10:10 -10:40 | In, Out,
Round and About: New Diagnostics of Black-Hole Accretion Roger Blandford, California Institute of Technology |
| 10:40 -11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 -12:00 | The
Challenges in Actually Doing ExperimentalRelativity Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| Chair: James Ipser | |
| 2:00 - 2:50 | A Theorist in
the Experimentalist's China Shop: How toTest General Relativity without
Breaking Anything Clifford Will, Washington University, St. Louis |
| 2:50 - 3:20 | Gravity as a
Repulsive Force: Exotic Matter and Wormholes Eanna Flanagan, Cornell University |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Coffee Break |
| Chair: Sandor Kovacs | |
| 3:50 - 4:20 | Models of
Gravitational Radiation Computation Charles Misner, University of Maryland |
| 4:20 - 4:50 | Out of
Gravitational Physics: From Quantum Nondemolition to Teleportation Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico |
| 4:50 - 5:20 | Needed: A
Theory of Computational Modeling William Press, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 5:20 End |
Friday, June 2, 2000
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Announcements |
| Chair: James Bardeen | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Gravitational
Wave Sources: Changing Perspectives Bernard Schutz, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam |
| 9:50 -10:40 | The Problems
which Experimentalists have to Solve for Kip Vladimir Braginsky, Moscow State University |
| 10:40 -11:10 | Coffee Break |
| Chair: Leonid Grishchuk | |
| 11:10 -12:00 | From
Relativistic Stars to Quantum Cosmology James Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 12:00 - 2:10 | Lunch and Press Briefing |
| Chair: Don Page | |
| 2:10 - 3:00 | Black Holes
and Supercomputers Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | TZOs: Stars
with Neutron Cores Anna Zytkow, Cambridge University |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Gravitational
Waves from Disturbed Neutron Stars Ben Owen, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam |
| 4:00 | End |
| 6:30 - ??? | KipFest Banquet, The Athenaeum (admission by ticket only) |