MG11 Preliminary Plenary Program

Monday 24

• Opening ceremony
• Marcel Grossmann Awards
• Roy Kerr [*]
  roy.kerr@canterbury.ac.nz
  On the solution of Einstein's equations for a rotating object
• Ya Sinai [*]
  sinai@math.princeton.edu
  How mathematicians and physicists found each other in the theory of dynamical systems
• Thibault Damour [*]
  damour@ihes.fr
  Cosmology and string theory
• Sasha Polyakov [*]
  polyakov@feynman.princeton.edu
  The structure beyond spacetime
• Hermann Nicolai [*]
  Hermann.Nicolai@aei.mpg.de
  Hidden symmetries and cosmological singularities

Tuesday 25

• Claes Uggla  [*, *]
  claes.uggla@kau.se
  The nature of generic cosmological singularities
• Eva Silverstein [*]
  evas@slac.stanford.edu
  Cosmological singularities in string theory
• Igor Klebanov [*]
  klebanov@princeton.edu
  Gauge Theories, Strings and Cosmology
• Joe Polchinski [*]
  joep@itp.ucsb.edu
  Cosmic superstrings
• Dieter Luest [*]
  luest@theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de
  String theory and the standard model of particle physics
• Abhay Ashtekar [*]
  ashtekar@gravity.phys.psu.edu
  Loop quantum gravity

Wednesday 26

• Karsten Danzmann [*]
  kvd@mpq.mpg.de
  LISA
• Marie Anne Bizouard [*]
  mabizoua@lal.in2p3.fr
  VIRGO
• David Shoemaker [*]
  dhs@ligo.mit.edu
  LIGO: Status of instruments and observations
• Alessandra Buonanno [*]
  buonanno@umd.edu
  Analytical approach to the coalescence of binary black holes
• Francis Everitt [*]
  francis@relgyro.stanford.edu
  The NASA Gravity Probe B Mission: technical report
• Michael Kramer [*]
  mkramer@jb.man.ac.uk
  Binary pulsars and general relativistic effects

Thursday 27

• Richard Mushotzky [*]
   richard@xray-5.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Intermediate mass black holes and x-ray sources
• Josh Grindlay [*]
  jgrindlay@cfa.harvard.edu
  Globular clusters and millisecond pulsars
• Rashid Sunyaev [*]
  rsunyaev@mpa-garching.mpg.de
  The sky in the hard x-ray spectrum
• Reinhard Genzel [*]
  genzel@mpe.mpg.de
  The black hole in our galactic center
• Fulvio Melia [*]
  melia@physics.arizona.edu
  Black holes in galactic nuclei
• George Djorgovski [*]
  george@astro.caltech.edu
  The origins of massive black holes and quasars at high redshifts
• Remo Ruffini [*]
  ruffini@icra.it
  Gamma ray bursts

Friday 28

• Volker Springel [*]
  vspringel@mpa-garching.mpg.de
  Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
• David Spergel [*]
  dns@astro.princeton.edu
  WMAP and its cosmological implications
• Paolo De Bernardis [*]
  Paolo.DeBernardis@roma1.infn.it
  CMB science from Boomerang to PLANCK
• Francis Halzen [*]
  halzen@pheno.physics.wisc.edu
  ICE CUBE
• Peter Biermann [*]
  plbiermann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
  Sterile neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology
• [to be announced]

Saturday 29

• John Mester [*]
  mester@relgyro.stanford.edu
  Equivalence principle from space
• Francois Mignard [*]
  francois.mignard@obs-nice.fr
  Relativistic effects from HIPPARCOS and GAIA missions
• Theodor Haensch [*]
  t.w.haensch@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE
  Precise Clocks
• Roberto Gilmozzi [*]
  rgilmozz@eso.org
  Science and technology of the European ELT
• Ethan J. Schreier [*]
  ejs@aui.edu
  ALMA
• Michael Garcia [*]
  mgarcia@head.cfa.harvard.edu
  Science from Chandra to Constellation-X
• Juergen Renn [*]
  renn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
  The genesis of general relativity

Evening speakers

• Hans Ruder [*]
  Visualization of Relativistic Effects
   
• Günther Hasinger [*]
  X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Semiconductor Laboratory
   
• Christian Spiering [*]
  Neutrino Experiments

updated: 7-june-2006