| Programme for ACGRG4 | ||
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This a draft version (24 Dec) of the conference programme. The scientific program consists of plenary talks in the mornings, and contributed talks in two parallel sessions in the afternoons. The two theatres SG01 and SG02 are located in building 11, on the Monash University Campus Map |
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| Tuesday, 6 January | ||||||||
| 6.00-7.30pm | Reception and registration at the Monash University Staff Club. | |||||||
| Wednesday, 7 January | ||||||||
| 8.00-8.45am | Registration at the Conference Centre | |||||||
| 8.45-9.00am | Welcome address, President of the ASGRG, Prof. David McClelland | |||||||
| Session 1 | Chair : David Blair | SG01 | ||||||
| 9.00-10.00am | David McClelland | Gravitational Wave Detection | ||||||
| Morning tea | ||||||||
| 10.30-11.30am | Peter Veitch | Development of High Power Lasers for Gravitational Wave Interferometry | ||||||
| 11.30-12.30am | Mike Ashley | A Heterodyne Method for Determining the Stability of Calibration Lines in an Interferometer | ||||||
| Lunch | ||||||||
| Session 2a | Chair : David McClelland | SG01 | ||||||
| 2.00-2.30pm | Jerome Degallaix | Thermal Lensing Compensation Principle for the AIGO's High Optical Power Test Facility Test 1 | ||||||
| 2.30-3.00pm | Pablo Barriga | Optical Design of a High Power Mode-Cleaner for AIGO | ||||||
| 3.00-3.30pm | Peter Veitch | Development of Wavefront Distortion Sensors for Gingin HPTF (High Power Test Facility) | ||||||
| Session 2b | Chair : John Steele | SG02 | ||||||
| 2.00-2.30pm | Michiyasu Nagasawa | Primordial Black Hole Formation by Stabilized Embedded Strings in the Early Universe | ||||||
| 2.30-3.00pm | Kishor Adhav | Inhomogeneous String Cosmological Model with Electromagnetic Field in General Relativity | ||||||
| 3.00-3.30pm | Malcolm Anderson | Weak-Field Gravity outside a Collapsing Circular Cosmic String Loop | ||||||
| Afternoon tea | ||||||||
| Session 3a | Chair : Peter Veitch | SG01 | ||||||
| 4.00-4.30pm | Albert Romann | Autoalignment of Optical Cavities in Long-Baseline Interferometer-Based Gravitational Wave Detection | ||||||
| 4.30-5.00pm | Kirk McKenzie | Squeezed Light for Gravitational Wave Detectors | ||||||
| 5.00-5.30pm | Antony Searle | Characterisation of Line Removal for LIGO | ||||||
| Session 3b | Chair : David Wiltshire | SG02 | ||||||
| 4.00-4.30pm | Takashi Mishima | The Hoop Conjecture and Cylindrically Symmetric Initial-Value Data in the Brane-World | ||||||
| 4.30-5.00pm | Alex Nielsen | Co-Dimension 2 Brane Worlds in Salam-Sezgin Supergravity | ||||||
| 5.00-5.30pm | Ben Carter | Salam-Sezgin Brane Worlds: The Scalar Propagator | ||||||
| Thursday, 8 January | ||||||||
| Session 4 | Chair : Susan Scott | SG01 | ||||||
| 9.00-10.00am | Mathew Bailes | Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with Radio Pulsars | ||||||
| Morning tea | ||||||||
| 10.30-11.30am | David Wiltshire | Stable Gravastars - An Alternative to Black Holes? | ||||||
| 11.30-12.30am | Geoff Bicknell | Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Fine Structure Constant | ||||||
| 12.30-12.40am | Geoff Bicknell | A Brief Introduction to the Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) | ||||||
| Lunch | ||||||||
| Session 5a | Chair : Mike Ashley | SG01 | ||||||
| 2.00-2.30pm | Antony Searle | Galactic Pulsars and Gravitational-wave Observatory Sites | ||||||
| 2.30-3.00pm | Benjamin Sheard | Frequency Noise Suppression for Space Based Gravitational Wave Detection | ||||||
| 3.00-3.30pm | Andrew Moylan | Can the Milky Way be Weighed using Earth-Based Interferometry? | ||||||
| Session 5b | Chair : Malcolm Anderson | SG02 | ||||||
| 2.00-2.30pm | Jiro Soda | Braneworld Cosmological Perturbation Theory at Low Energy | ||||||
| 2.30-3.00pm | Sugumi Kanno | Black String Perturbations in RS1 Model | ||||||
| 3.00-3.30pm | Ben Leith | Hairy Black Holes in the Isolated Horizon Framework | ||||||
| Afternoon tea | ||||||||
| 4.15-6.15pm | Bienniel General Meeting in SG01 | |||||||
| 7.00-10.30pm | Banquet at the Monash University Staff Club | |||||||
| Friday, 9 January | ||||||||
| Session 6 | Chair : Matt Visser | SG01 | ||||||
| 9.00-10.00am | Joey Medved | Quasinormal Modes and "Dirty" Black Holes | ||||||
| Morning tea | ||||||||
| 10.30-11.30am | Robin Tucker | Relativistic Balance Laws for Cosserat Media in General Spacetimes | ||||||
| 11.30-12.30am | Michael Hall | Exact Uncertainty Approach to Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity | ||||||
| Lunch | ||||||||
| Session 7a | Chair : Anthony Lun | SG01 | ||||||
| 2.00-2.30pm | Elizabeth Stark | On the Question of Stability in Numerical Relativity | ||||||
| 2.30-3.00pm | Stuart Muir | Relativistic Hydrodynamics using a Lagrangian Particle Method | ||||||
| 3.00-3.30pm | Leo Brewin | A Short Review of the Smooth Lattice Method in Numerical Relativity | ||||||
| Session 7b | Chair : Robin Tucker | SG02 | ||||||
| 2.00-2.30pm | Damien Martin | Generating Stellar Models and Bounding Compactness | ||||||
| 2.30-3.00pm | Silke Weinfurtner | An Analog Model for the De-Sitter Universe | ||||||
| 3.00-3.30pm | Matt Visser | Jerk, Snap, and the Cosmological Equation of State | ||||||
| 3.30-4.00pm | Reginald Cahill | A New Theory of Gravity | ||||||
| Afternoon tea | ||||||||
| Session 8 | Chair : Elizabeth Stark | SG01 | ||||||
| 4.00-4.30pm | John Steele | Recent Methods for Solving the Field Equations | ||||||
| 4.30-5.00pm | Mark Aarons | Parabolic Construction of Constant Mean Curvature Hypersurfaces in Minkowski Space | ||||||
| 5.00-5.30pm | Susan Scott | Curvature Singularities and Abstract Boundary Singularity Theorems for Space-time | ||||||
| Saturday, 10 January | ||||||||
| 10.30am-4.30pm | Excursion, Fergusson's Winery, Yarra Valley | |||||||