Plenary Speakers and Program

Plenary Lectures and Presentation Topics

Bernd Bruegmann (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)	Numerical relativity
Daniel Eisenstein (University of Arizona)	Observing dark energy
Francis Everitt (Stanford University)	Testing Einstein in Space: Gravity Probe B & STEP
Jonathan Feng (University of California Irvine)	Collider physics and cosmology
Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute)	Spin foam models or the dynamics of quantum space time
Badri Krishnan (Albert Einstein Institute Golm)	Quasi-local black hole horizons and their applications
Renate Loll (Utrecht University)	Emergence of spacetime, or, quantum gravity on your desktop
Steve McMillan (Drexel University)	Gravitational dynamics of large stellar systems
Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute)	Quark soup al dente: applied string theory
Maria Alessandra Papa (Albert Einstein Institute Golm)	Gravitational wave astronomy from ground and space
Hans Ringstrom (KTH, Stockholm)	Cosmic censorship
Peter Schneider (Bonn)	Cosmological Probes by Gravitational Lensing
Ralf Schuetzhold	Effecitve horizons in the laboratory
Daniel Shaddock (JPL California Institute of Technology)	Space-based gravitational wave detection with LISA
Stan Whitcomb (California Institute of Technology)	Ground-based gravitational wave detection: now and future

Plenary Lecture Times

	Monday 9 July	Tuesday 10 July	Wednesday 11 July	Thursday 12 July	Friday 13 July
9.00am - 10.00am	Stan Whitcomb	Badri Krishnan	Peter Schneider	Hans Ringstroem	Maria Alessandra Papa
10.00am - 11.00am	Laurent Friedel	Bernd Bruegman	Renata Loll	Jonathan Feng	Robert Myers
11.30am - 12.30pm	Steve McMillan	Daniel Eisenstein	Francis Everitt	Daniel Shaddock	Ralf Schuetzhold

* This is subject to change at any time without notice.

Main banner captions:

image 1: 'Distribution of detached white-dwarf–white-dwarf binaries in our galaxy as a function of the gravitational wave frequency and chirp mass.' from Simulation of the white dwarf–white dwarf galactic background in the LISA data Jeffrey A Edlund, Massimo Tinto, Andrzej Królak, and Gijs Nelemans 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S913-S926

image 2: 'A three-dimensional visualization of the mesh including the excised region and the refinement around the particle.', from A toy model for testing finite element methods to simulate extreme-mass-ratio binary systems Carlos F Sopuerta, Pengtao Sun Pablo Laguna and Jinchao Xu 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 251-285

image 3: 'Scalar gravitational field > at time t = 140M (n = 30 000).', from A toy model for testing finite element methods to simulate extreme-mass-ratio binary systems Carlos F Sopuerta, Pengtao Sun Pablo Laguna and Jinchao Xu 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 251-285