Third Annual Gulf Coast Gravity Conference (GC)^23 Huntsville, Alabama 23 –24 March, 2007

Schedule of Talks

Friday, March 23, 2007

10:00	Welcoming and announcements
10:15	Scott Hawley		Belmont University	Spin-Spin Coupling Study via Mesh Refinement Techniques
10:30	Michael Watson		Fisk University	Initial Simulation of Jet Formation Using a General Relativistic Particle-in-Cell Code
10:45	Alan Farrell	S	University of Texas at Brownsville	Numerical Stability of Neutron Star Structure Calculation
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Peter Diener		Louisiana State University	Kicks from spinning binary black hole systems
11:30	Enrique Pazos	S	Louisiana State University	The effect of the background geometry on the extracted wave forms
11:45	Arunava Roy	S	University of Mississippi	Production of Black Holes by cosmic rays
12:00	Miguel Megevand	S	Louisiana State University	Scalar field confinement as a model for accreting systems
12:15	Lunch
2:45	Richard Price		University of Texas at Brownsville	Late time tails in the Kerr geometry
3:00	Carl Blaksley	S	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Late time tails of extreme black holes
3:15	Manish Jadhav	S	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Black hole quasi-normal mode spectroscopy with LISA: progress report
3:30	Yasushi Mino		University of Texas at Brownsville	Present status on the issue of radiation reaction

Saturday, March 24, 2007

10:00	Marco Cavaglia	University of Mississippi	Gravitational diffraction radiation
10:15	Pedro Marronetti	Florida Atlantic University	Binary black holes on Workstations: Large kicks for generic spin orientations
10:30	Vitor Cardoso	University of Mississippi	Inspiral-merger-ringdown transition for unequal-mass black-hole binaries
10:45	Chris Beetle	Florida Atlantic University	A Heuristic Formulation of the Periodic Standing-Wave Approach in General Relativity
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Lior Burko	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Accurate time-domain gravitational waveforms for EMRIs
11:30	Brett Bolen	Western Kentucky University	Gauss-Bonnet FRW Cosmology
11:45	Ruslan Vaulin	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Stress Tensor of the Trace Anomaly in Black Hole Spacetimes
12:00	Mart Gibson		The Quantum Metric
12:15	GGR Prize

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