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| 8:30 - 9:20 | Registration (Foyer, basement level, Maths building) | |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Opening remarks (David Wiltshire) | |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Official welcome (Roy Sharp, Vice-Chancellor) | |
| PLENARY TALKS: | ||
| 9:40 - 10:30 | Brandon Carter [CNRS, Paris-Meudon, France]
Global and local problems with Kerr's solution | |
| 10:30 - 11:10 | Coffee | |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Maurice van Putten [LIGO / MIT, USA]
The endpoint of binary evolution: Singlets, doublets? Triplets! | |
| 12:00- 1:30 | Lunch | |
| PLENARY TALK: | ||
| 1:30 - 2:20 | Gary Horowitz [U California, Santa Barbara, USA]
Higher dimensional generalizations of the Kerr black hole | |
| CONTRIBUTED TALKS: | ||
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Ishwaree Neupane [U Canterbury, New Zealand]
Anti-de Sitter/de Sitter correspondence and twisting S-branes | |
| 2:45 - 3:10 | Michael Kuchiev [UNSW, Australia]
Reflection from the horizon of black holes | |
| 3:10 - 3:35 | Victor Flambaum [UNSW, Australia]
Reflection on the horizon and absorption of scalar particles by black holes | |
| 3:35 - 4:05 | Coffee | |
| 4:05 - 4:30 | Gabriela Slezakova [U Waikato, New Zealand]
Geodesics of Kerr black holes | |
| 4:30 - 4:55 | Stephen Fletcher [Monash U, Australia]
Novikov coordinates for the Kerr spacetime | |
| 5:15 - 6:15 | Welcome Reception (Physics and Astronomy, Room 701) | |
| 8:00 - 9:?? | Public Lecture
(Lecture Theatre C1) Fulvio Melia [U Arizona, USA] The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy | |
| PLENARY TALKS: | ||
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Josh Goldberg [Syracuse U, USA]
Gravity and general relativity | |
| 9:50 - 10:40 | Susan Scott [ANU, Australia]
Can the Milky Way be weighed using Earth-based interferometry? | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee | |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Andy Fabian [IOA, U Cambridge, UK]
Effects of strong gravity on X-ray spectra: observational evidence for Kerr black holes | |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| PLENARY TALK: | ||
| 1:30 - 2:20 | Steve Carlip [U California, Davis, USA]
Horizon constraints and black hole entropy | |
| CONTRIBUTED TALKS: | ||
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Joey Medved [VUW, New Zealand]
The quantum Kerr black hole | |
| 2:45 - 3:10 | Stuart Wyithe [U Melbourne, Australia]
Formation and evolution of early super-massive black holes | |
| 3:10 - 3:35 | Andrew Melatos [U Melbourne, Australia]
Gravitational waves from X-ray millisecond pulsars with a polar magnetic mountain | |
| 3:35 - 3:45 | Group photo (assemble steps at MCSC main door) | |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Coffee | |
| 4:15 - 4:40 | Andrew Moylan [ANU, Australia]
Visualisation in the Kerr space-time using GRworkbench | |
| 4:40 - 5:05 | Sung-Won Kim [Ewha Women's University, Korea]
The Kerr metric and rotating wormhole | |
| 5:05 - 5:30 | Anthony Lun [Monash U, Australia]
On continued contraction of a rotating dust cloud to form a Kerr black hole | |
| SPECIAL TALK: | ||
| 5:30 - 6:00 | Roy Kerr [U Canterbury, New Zealand]
Reminiscences: a personal spin on black holes | |
| 7:00-? | Banquet: University Staff Club, Ilam Homestead. | |
| PLENARY TALKS: | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | David Robinson [Kings College, London, UK]
Four decades of black hole uniqueness theorems |
| 9:50 - 10:40 | Remo Ruffini [ICRA, U Rome, Italy]
The ergosphere and dyadosphere of black holes |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Zoltan Perjés [KFKI, RMKI, Budapest, Hungary]
The behaviour of principal null directions of a black hole under perturbations |
| 12:00 - 12:50 | Matt Visser [VUW, New Zealand]
Near horizon geometry for generic rotating black holes |
| 12:50 - 1:00 | Closing remarks |
Depending on numbers and interest, we will make this a mini-excursion, with a scenic drive along the Port Hills crater rim, and lunch en route (costs not included in registration fee). Further details will be provided at the time of registering and those wishing to participate can sign up once you are here.