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CIAR Gravity and Cosmology Programme
2001 Meeting: Scientific Schedule

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Fri 16 Feb Sat 17 Feb Sun 18 Feb Mon 19 Feb Tue 20 Feb
Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
Session Chair: Bousso Session Chair: Pen Session Chair: Abraham Session Chair: Netterfield
08:00-
08:30
Wald "Stability Issues for Spacetimes with `Extra' Dimensions" Horava "Searching for de Sitter in String Theory" Dvali "The Brane-Induced Gravity" Kaspi "Young Neutron Stars"
08:30-
09:00
Unruh "Stability Issues for Black Strings" Bousso "de Sitter space and the Lambda-N correspondence" Randall "A String Realization of Localized Gravity on AdS Branes" Chen "Almost Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"
09:00-
09:30
Myers "Instability of ultra-spinning black holes" Banks "M-theory observables for cosmological space-times" Ovrut "Colliding Branes and the Origin of the Universe" Couchman "Numerical Galaxy Formation: The End of the Beginning?"
Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
Session Chair: Horava Session Chair: Dvali Session Chair: Navarro Discussion Period
10:00-
10:30
Israel "Black Hole Evaporation, Entanglement, and Conditional Entropy" Bond "Cosmological parameters from CMB + LSS" Kallosh "Axions and Branes"
10:30-
11:00
Page "Black Hole Configurations with Total Entropy Less Than A/4" Dine "Moduli, Supersymmetry, and Cosmology" Semenoff "Wilson Loops in AdS/CFT"
11:00-
11:30
Silk "Massive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation" Horowitz "Bosonic M Theory" Peet "Stringy Singularity Resolution"
Lunch Lunch Lunch End of Meeting
[free] [free] [free]
Snack Snack Snack
Session Chair: Chen Session Chair: Peet Session Chair: Kaspi
17:00-
17:30
Kofman "Very Early Universe" Choptuik "Black Holes Without Black Holes - Excision Techniques in Numerical Relativity" Carlberg "w, a.k.a. The Cosmic Equation of State from Observations"
17:30-
18:00
Linde "Inflation 2001" Netterfield "CMB with Boomerang" Abraham "Dark Energy With CFHT"
18:00-
18:30
Binetruy "The radion field in brane cosmology" Susskind "A Heretical Talk about de Sitter Space" Navarro "The Problem with Cold Dark Matter"
Welcome and Buffet Dinner 19:00-21:00 Dinner Dinner Dinner
Wine party 20:30--

N.B.: Breakfast is served 07:00-09:00; lunch 11:30-13:30, and dinner 17:30-19:30.

Sunday official activities: Advisory Board 14:00-17:00; Programme Meeting 20:00-22:00.

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Last modified: February 13, 2001.