Monday, June 23, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)
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08:30 |
Tulio Regge |
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The Quantum and Gravity: Assessment on Regge Calculus |
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09:10 |
Roger Penrose |
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The Aims and Present Status of Twistor Theory |
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09:50 |
Bryce DeWitt |
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The Quantum and Gravity: the Wheeler- DeWitt Equation |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:50 |
John Donoghue |
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Perturbative Dynamics of Quantum Gravity: Effective Field Theory |
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11:30 |
Yuval Ne'eman |
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The Quantum and Gravity: The Role of Symmetries |
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12:10 |
Ashoke Sen |
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Recent Developments in String Theory |
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12:50 |
Lunch Break |
Tuesday, June 24, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)
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08:30 |
Juan Maldacena |
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Black Holes is String Theory |
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09:15 |
Renaud Parentani |
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Black Hole Thermodynamics and Horizon Entropy |
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10:00 |
Claudio Teitelboim |
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2+1 Black Holes |
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10:45 |
Cofee Break |
11:05 |
Jacob Bekenstein |
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Quantum Black Holes as Atoms |
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11:50 |
James York |
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Geometrical Hyperbolic Systems for General Relativity |
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12:35 |
Lunch Break |
20:30 |
Memorial Session to B. Dicke (at the Renaissance Jerusalem Hotel) |
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Ken Nordtvedt
Dicke and Mach's Principle
Cliff Will
Dicke and Experimental Gravity
Brandon Carter
Dicke and the Anthropic Principle
Francis Everitt and Remo Ruffini
Short reminiscences of Dicke
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Wednesday, June 25, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)
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08:30 |
Alain Connes |
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Noncommutative Geometry and Gravitation |
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09:15 |
Amos Ori |
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Inner Structure of Spinning Black Holes |
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10:00 |
Brandon Carter |
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Progress on the Black Hole Uniqueness Problem |
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10:45 |
Coffee Break |
11:05 |
David Blair |
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Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors for Bursts, Pulsars and Stochastic
Backgrounds |
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11:50 |
Kenneth Strain |
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Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors Spanning 7 Decades of Frequency |
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12:35 |
Piero Rapagnani |
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The Virgo Project |
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12:50 |
Lunch Break |
Thursday, June 26, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)
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08:30 |
Felix Mirabel |
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Superluminal Sources in the Galaxy |
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09:15 |
Makoto Inoue |
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Maser in Active Galactic Nuclei |
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10:00 |
Ramesh Narayan |
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Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Horizons |
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10:45 |
Cofee Break |
11:05 |
Luiz Da Costa |
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Assessment on the Large Scale Structure |
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11:50 |
Phil Lubin |
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Cosmological Parameters from the Cosmic Microwave Background |
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12:35 |
Lunch Break |
Friday, June 27, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)
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13:00 |
Gustav Tamman |
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The Hubble Constant |
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13:40 |
Francis Everitt |
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the NASA Gravity Probe B - Status Report |
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14:40 |
Remo Ruffini |
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Concluding Remarks |
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