INERTIAL FORCES IN GR (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 213)
Chairman: R. Jantzen
08:00 Marek Abramowicz
Optical Geometry: A New Black Hole Paradigm ?
08:25 Jivri Bivcak and Oldvrich Semerak
The Interplay Between Forces Around Charged Rotating Black Holes
08:45 Fernando DeFelice
Properties of Orbits Around Kerr Black Holes
09:00 Roberto Soria and Fernando de Felice
Quasi-Local Measurements in Space-Time: A Gravitational Kaleidoskope
09:15 Robert Jantzen and Donato Bini
Translating Among the Various Languages of the Inertial Forces Game
09:35 Donato Bini and Andrea Merloni
Circular and Spherical Geodesics in Kerr: Gravitoelectromagnetism and Centrifugal Forces
10:00 Coffee Break
10:20 Reva Kay Williams
Penrose Processes and the Gravitomagnetic Field
10:40 I.B. Khriplovich and A.A. Pomeransky
Gravimagnetic Moment and Gravitational Interaction of Spinning Bodies
11:00 Donato Bini and Gianluca Gemelli
Gravitoelectromagnetism and the Motion of Spinning Test Particles in General Relativity
11:20 Roustam Zalaletdinov
On General and Restricted Covariance in General Relativity
11:40 A. P. Ryabushko, I. T. Niemanova, T. A. Jour
The Relativistic Field of the Gas-Dustlike Sphere With Gravitating
Center and the Motion of Spinning Test Body in this Field
12:00 M.M. Abdildin
Presentation of a Summary of the following abstracts:
M.M. Abdildin
Adiabatic Theory of Body Motion In GR Mechanics
M.M. Abdildin and M.S. Omarov
Correlation of Relativistic Spin-Spin and Magnetic Interactions in Two-Body GR Problem
M.M. Abdildin and M.K. Abdulgafarov
Metric of the Rotating Liquid Sphere and Hamilton-Jacobi Equation in GR Mechanics
M.M. Abdildin and A.A. Komaro
Some Approaches to Investigations of the Problems in GR Mechanics
M.M. Abdildin and M.S.Omarov
On the Hydrodynamical Analogy in GR Mechanics
I.L. Genkin
On Co-Ordinates Inside the Schwarzschild Sphere
ALTERNATIVE THEORIES: KALUZA-KLEIN (Popick Bldg. - 1st. fl.)
Chairman: V.N. Melnikov
08:00 U.Gunther and A.Zhuk
Gravitational Excitons From Extra-Dimensions
08:25 E.I.Guendelman and A.B.Kaganovich
Gravitational Theory Without the Cosmological Constant Problem
08:50 V.D.Ivashchuk, V.N.Melnikov
Exact Solutions In Multidimensional Gravity With Generalized
Intersecting P-Branes
09:15 S.Chatterjee
Inhomogeneous Cosmological Model in Kaluza-Klein Spacetime
09:35 T. Klosch, T.Strobl
Complete Classification of 1+1 Gravity Solutions
10:00 Coffee Break
10:20 P.Gali Macedo
Antigravity Effect in Jordan-Thiry Unified Field Theory
10:40 S.Cotsakis
Mathematical Problems in Quadratic And Higher--Order
Gravity And Cosmology
11:00 A.Macias, E.W.Mielke
Recovering An Effective Weinberg-Salam-Glashow
Model From Higher Dimensions
11:20 M.F.Borges, S.R.M.Masalkiene
Geometric Extended Gravity Theory of Yang-Mills Type
11:40 L.Halpern
Generalization of Gravitational Theory
EINSTEIN MAXWELL SYSTEMS (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 28)
Chairman: C. H. Lee and G. Bisnovati-Kogan
08:00 N. S. Kovalskaya
Solution of Einstein-Maxwell's Equation in the Form of Circular Polarized Waves
08:20 Mark Israelit
Torsional Weyl-Dirac Electrodynamics
08:40 Carlo Cattani and Ettore Laserra
Cauchy Problem for a Relativistic Charged Continuum
09:00 Zoltan Perjes
A Class of Einstein-Maxwell Fields Generalizing the Equilibrium Solutions
09:15 V. D. Gladush and R. A. Konoplya
Split Structures in General Relativity
09:30 L. A. R. Oliveira, M. Novello and J. M. Salim
Direct Electrogravitational Coupling and Photon Propagation
09:45 J. G. Cardoso
New Two-Component Spinor Formulae for Classical General Relativity
10:00 Coffee Break
10:20 M. Novello, V. A. De Lorenci and E. Elbaz
Can Purely Electomagnetic Interaction Produce Black Holes ?
10:40 Takashi Okamura
On Scattering off the Extreme Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole in N=2 Supergravity
11:00 O.Chedia, T.Kachniashvili, G.Machabeli, I.Nanobashvili
Generation of the electrostatic field in the relativistic plasma of pulsar magnetosphere
11:25 M. van Putten
Knots in simulations of magnetized relativistic jets.
11:50 S.G.Moiseenko
2-D simulation of magnetorotational mechanism
ALGEBRAIC COMPUTATION (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 27)
Chairman: L. Parker
08:00 Sergei A. Klioner
Eins: A Package for Operations With Indexed Objects Within Mathematica
08:17 Michael N. Polozov
Lorentz Transformations and Real Quaternions
08:34 A. Hoglund
Tensign, the Philosophy Behind a New User Interface
08:51 M. Kavian
A Centralized Tensor Database
09:08 M. Kavian
A New Algebraic Tensor Computation System
09:25 L. Parker
Tensor Analysis With MathTensor, an Update
GW FUTURE (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 26)
Chairman: M. Fujimoto
10:20 E. Coccia
Spherical Gravitational Wave Detectors
10:45 A.V. Gusev and V.V. Kulagin
Optical Fabry-Perot Sensor With Variable Ultrashort Length as a Readout Element for Spherical Gravitational
Antenna
11:05 L.V. Verozub
Gravitational Wave Detector
11:25 P.T. Polochtchouk
Future Detectors for High Frequency Gravitational Waves
11:40 E.E. Flanagan and S. Hughes
Nonlinear Filtering Methods for Searching for Burst Gravitational Waves
12:00 A. Vecchio and C. Cutler
Observing Coalescing Binaries With Space-Based Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors: Angular
Resolution and Astrophysical Parameter Measurements
EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE IN SPACE (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 29)
Chairman: Y. Jafry
08:00 P. Fayet
Determination of the Gravitational Constant, Testing the Equivalence Prinicple and Aspherical Gravitational
Monopoles
08:30 R.A. Vera
Cosmic Tests for a More Explicit Equivalence Principle
08:50 C.W.F. Everitt, C. Lages
Ministep Mission Overview
09:20 V.I Denisov, N.V Kravtsov, V.B Pinchuk
Using Two-Frequency Lasers in Gravitational Experiments
09:40 S. Vitale
Ministep Disturbance Management
10:00 Coffee Break
10:20 N.A Lockerbie
Gravitational And Magnetic Stability Considerations for the Test-Mass
Designs of the Ultrasensitive Ministep Experiment
10:40 W Vodel, S Nietzsche, J.V Zameck Glyscinski, H Dittus, S Lochmann,
C Mehls
High Sensitive Squid-Based Position Detectors for Application in Gravitational Experiments
11:00 O. Clavier, R. Torii, D.B. DeBra
Ministep Squid Position Sensor Development
11:20 B Lange
Seperating Out the Radial-Offset Error in a Two-Sphere Equivalence-Principle Experiment In A Sattelite
11:30 B Lange
The Two-Color Transcollimator, a Precision Position Detector for a Sattelite Two-Sphere Equivalence-Principle
Experiment
11:35 B Lange
Suppressing Radial Non-Observability in a Two-Sphere Equivalence-Principle Experiment By Gravity-Gradient
Cancellation
11:40 VIafolla, E Lorenzini, V Milyukov
Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle iIn Stratospheric Free-Fall
12:00 H Dittusy, S Lochmann, C Mehls, W Vodel, H Koch, S Nietzsche, J.V Zameck Glyscinski, P Mazilu
Free Fall Experiments on Drop-Tower Bremen - A High Precision Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle
CANONICAL QG (Popick Bldg. - 2nd fl.)
Chairman: H. Kodama
08:00 Rovelli, Carlo
Nonperturbative loop quantum gravity
08:40 De Pietri, Robert
The relation between the connection and the loop representation
of quantum gravity
09:00 Mielke, Eckehard
Chern--Simons Induced Chiral Supergravity
09:10 Rainer, Martin
The Role of the Dilaton in Diffeomorphism Covariant Quantum Theory
09:30 J. Nelson
Constants of Motion and the Conformal Anti-de-Sitter Algebra in (2+1)-Dimensional Gravity
09:45 J. Krause
Quantization of the Poincare Group in 1+1 Dimensions
09:55 Khokhlov
on Quantization of a free Gravitational Field
10:05 Coffee Break
10:20 Minzoni, A.A. and Rosenbaum, Marcos and Ryan, Michael P., Jr.
Problems of Minisuperspace Canonical Quantization
10:40 P. Szydlowski
Eisenhart's Principle and a New Formulation of Minisuperspace
10:55 Tanimoto Masayuki and Koike Tatshiko and Hosoya Akio
Hamiltonians for Spatially Compact Homogeneous Universes
11:15 Pervushin, Victor
Description of Friedmann Observables in Quantum Universe
11:35 Obregon, Octavio and Ryan, Michael P.
Minisuperspace Canonical Quantization of ``Black Hole'' Systems By Means of Wick Rotations Of Quantum
Cosmological States
11:45 Moniz, Paulo
From Reissner-Nordstr\"Om Quantum States to Charged Black Holes Mass Evaporation
12:05 Kodama, H.
Summary Talk
BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS II (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 214)
Chairman: T. Jacobson
10:20 C.J. Hunter and S.W. Hawking
The Entropy of Instantons With NUT Charge
10:40 M. Banados
Black Holes of Constant Curvature in 5d Chern-Simons Sugrav
11:00 I. Dymnikowa
Thermodynamics of Nonsingular Black Hole
11:20 N. Svaiter and L. Ford
Black Hole Horizon Fluctuations
11:40 F. Vendrell and M. Ortiz
Covariant Path Integrals and Black Holes
12:00 J. R. A. Salazar and J. M. T. Sarmiento
Rindler Space Entropy
12:10 F. Scardigli
Black Hole Entropy: A Spacetime Foam Approach
NONSINGULAR COSMOLOGY (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 102)
Chairman: M. Novello
08:00 V. N. Melnikov
Non Singular Multidimensional Cosmological Models
08:20 M. Novello, J M Salim, L A R Oliveira, E Elbaz
Geometrizex Instantons and the Creation of the Universe
08:40 A. V. Minkevich
Non Singular Inflationary Cosmological Models
09:00 L. F. Jambrina
Globally Hyperbolic Geodesically Complete Cosmological Model
09:15 I. Shapiro
On the Inflationary Solutions in Higher Derivative Gravity with Dilaton Field
09:30 K. H. Kong, H Q Lu, K S Cheng, P C W Fung
Bianchi Cosmology with Spinning Matter and Magnetic Field in the Einstein-Cartan Theory
09:45 R. X. Saibatalov
Electromagnetic Field in Rotating and Expanding Universe
10:00 Coffee Break
10:20 N. P. Neto
Non Singular Cosmology and the Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Gravity
10:40 A. M. Baranov and I. V. Jabrun
On Open Universe Model with Viscosity
10:55 J. M. Salim, H. P. Oliveira, S. L. Sautu
Non Singular Inflationary Cosmologies in Weyl Integrable Space Time
11:05 Jai-Chan Hwang
Newtonian Limits of the Relativistic Cosmological Perturbations
11:20 S. Scott
Isotropic Singularities in Cosmology
11:35 M. Novello
General Comments and further discussions
DARK MATTER (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 25)
Chairman: R. Cowsick
08:00 R. Cowsik
Introduction - Astronomical Observations on Dark Matter
R. Cowsik, P.M.S. Namboodiri and D. Sugimoto
Caustics and Other Complex Structure in the Phase Space Distribution of Particles of Dark Matter
08:15 R. Peccei
Dark Matter From the Perspective of a Particle Physicist
08:55 S. Filipppi, H.W. Lee and R. Ruffini
Landau Damping of Fermions Perturbations in an Expanding Universe
09:02 E. Griv
Disk-Halo Interaction in Flat Galaxies
09:09 Y.M. Cho and Y.Y. Keun
Dilatonic Dark Matter - A New Paradigm
09:16 H. Quevedo, M. Salgado and D. Sudarsky
The Oscillating G Model: A Possible Explanation for the Apparent Periodicity In The Galaxy
Distribution and for the Cosmological Non-Baryonic Matter
09:23 F. Schunck
A Scalar Field Matter Model for Dark Halos of Spiral And Dwarf Galaxies
09:30 H.W. Lee
Evolution of Power Spectrum for Ions
09:37 A.F. Zakharov and M.V. Sazhin
Non-Compact Astronomical Objects as Microlenses
09:44 H. Minakata
Particle Physics Implications of Dark Matter Massive Neutrinos
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 D.B. Cline
Experimental Searches For Dark Matter Particles
D.B. Cline
Progress and Prospects in the Direct Search for Supersymmetric Dark Matter Particles
11:10 R. Cowski, C. Ratnam and P. Bhattacharjee
Comments on Particles of Galactic Dark Matter
11:17 P. Jetzer
Microlensing Implications for Halo Dark Matter
11:24 F. De Paolis, P. Jetzer, G. Ingrosso and M. Roncadelli
Baryonic Dark Matter
11:31 K. Volkamer and C. Streicher
Experimental Evidence of A New Type of Quantized, Cold Dark Matter With Quanta as Integer Multiples Of The
Plank Mass
11:38 K. Volkamer and C. Streicher
A Theory of Superluminal Particles With Real Mass Content In Agreement
With Experiment Evidence Of A New Type Of Quantized, Cold Dark Matter
11:45 M. Yu. Konstantinov
Some Geometrical Models The Possible Class of Particles Able to Travel Faster Than Light
11:52 V.A. Kuzmin and V.R. Rubakov
Super Energy Cosmic Rays: A Window to Post-Inflationary Reheating Epoch
of the Universe
11:59 V.A. Kuzmin
A Simultaneous Solution to Baryogenesis and Dark Matter Problems
12:06 V. Burdyuzha and G. Vershkov
The Role of Pseudo Goldstone-Bosons on Evolution of Baryon Structures
12:13 Concluding remarks
GAMMA RAY BURSTS (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 101)
Chairman: D. Band
08:00 D. Band
The Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery
08:20 E. Costa
Beppo/SAX Observations of Gamma Ray Bursts and their X-Ray Counterparts
08:50 G. J. Mathews and J. R. Wilson
Gamma-Ray Bursts from Neutron Star Binaries
09:05 M. Ruffert and H.-T. Janka
A Variety of Coalescing Neutron Star Models
09:30 S. Kobayashi, R. Sari and T. Piran
Can Internal Shocks Produce the Variability in GRBs ?
09:45 R. Sari and T. Piran
The Death of the `External Shock' Models
10:05 Coffee Break
10:25 R. Pilla and A. Loeb
Spectral and Temporal Characteristics of Internal Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts
10:55 A. Pozanenko
Time Domain Consequences of the Cosmological Nature of Gamma-Ray Bursts
11:10 A. Mitra
A Probable Mechanism for the Origin of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
11:30 E. Opher and R. Opher
A Unified Model for Gamma-Ray Bursters, Galactic Microquasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
11:50 T. Y. Yurjevna
The Selective Effects of the Gamma-Ray Bursts Detection
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