The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, 22-27 June 1997, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Plenary Speakers

Monday, June 23, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Tulio Regge
The Quantum and Gravity: Assessment on Regge Calculus abs
09:10 Roger Penrose
The Aims and Present Status of Twistor Theory abs
09:50 Bryce DeWitt
The Quantum and Gravity: the Wheeler- DeWitt Equation abs
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 John Donoghue
Perturbative Dynamics of Quantum Gravity: Effective Field Theory abs
11:30 Yuval Ne'eman
The Quantum and Gravity: The Role of Symmetries abs
12:10 Ashoke Sen
Recent Developments in String Theory abs
12:50 Lunch Break

Tuesday, June 24, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Juan Maldacena
Black Holes is String Theory abs
09:15 Renaud Parentani
Black Hole Thermodynamics and Horizon Entropy abs
10:00 Claudio Teitelboim
2+1 Black Holes abs
10:45 Cofee Break
11:05 Jacob Bekenstein
Quantum Black Holes as Atoms abs
11:50 James York
Geometrical Hyperbolic Systems for General Relativity abs
12:35 Lunch Break
20:30 Memorial Session to B. Dicke (at the Renaissance Jerusalem Hotel)
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

Wednesday, June 25, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Alain Connes
Noncommutative Geometry and Gravitation abs
09:15 Amos Ori
Inner Structure of Spinning Black Holes abs
10:00 Brandon Carter
Progress on the Black Hole Uniqueness Problem abs
10:45 Coffee Break
11:05 David Blair
Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors for Bursts, Pulsars and Stochastic Backgrounds abs
11:50 Kenneth Strain
Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors Spanning 7 Decades of Frequency abs
12:35 Piero Rapagnani
The Virgo Project
12:50 Lunch Break

Thursday, June 26, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Felix Mirabel
Superluminal Sources in the Galaxy abs
09:15 Makoto Inoue
Maser in Active Galactic Nuclei abs
10:00 Ramesh Narayan
Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Horizons abs
10:45 Cofee Break
11:05 Luiz Da Costa
Assessment on the Large Scale Structure abs
11:50 Phil Lubin
Cosmological Parameters from the Cosmic Microwave Background abs
12:35 Lunch Break

Friday, June 27, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

13:00 Gustav Tamman
The Hubble Constant abs
13:40 Francis Everitt
the NASA Gravity Probe B - Status Report abs
14:40 Remo Ruffini
Concluding Remarks

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