CONSERVATION LAWS (Popick Hall - 2nd fl.)*
Chairman: J. Katz
14.00 Donald Lynden-Bell
Machian Thought Experiments
14.20 Jiri Bicak
Conservation Laws for Cosmological Perturbations and Mach Principle
14.40 Alexander N. Petrov
On Superpotentials in General Relativity
15.00 Jacek Jezierski
** Talk Cancelled **
15.08 Tetsuya Shiromizu
The Total Hamiltonian of the Double Null Formalism and the Quasi-Local Energy
15.16 Daniel Sudarsky
Quasi-Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes and Their ADM Mass
15.24 Edward. N. Glass
From Taub Numbers to the Bondi Mass
15.32 E.V. Liverts
On the Wave Metrics in Cylindrical Symmetric Spacetime and Conservation Laws
15.40 Victor Olkhov
On Thermal Properties of Gravity
15.48 Rafael A. Vera
Non-Local Conservation Laws, from Quantums up to the Universe, Derived From an Explicit Equivalence
Principle
16:00 Coffee Break
16.20 Jean-Philippe Uzan
Conservation Laws and Cosmological Perturbations
16.40 Anthony Rizzi
Angular Momentum at Null Infinity
17.08 Robert B. Mann
Deformation Symmetry and the Palatini Method
17.16 Rostislav F. Polishchuk
Conservation Laws in General Relativity
17.24 Alberto Chamorro
Energy and Angular Momentum Distribution of Charged Rotating Black Holes
17.32 Alexander A. Chernitskii
A Direct Method for Obtaining the Differential Conservation Laws
17.40 Joseph Katz
Brief Survey of Conservation Laws
ALTERNATIVE THEORIES IN 4D I - F. W. HEHL (Popick Hall - 1st fl.)
14:00 C. Rovelli
General Relativity in terms of Dirac Eigenvalues
14:20 R.M. Zalaletdinov
Averaging Problem in General Relativity, Macroscopic Gravity and Using Einstein's Equations in Cosmology
M. Mars, R.M. Zalaletdinov
Space-time Averages in Macroscopic Gravity and Volume-preserving Coordinates
14:40 S.R. Valluri, W.L. Harper, R. Biggs
Newton's Precession Theorem, Eccentric Orbits and Mercury's Orbit
15:00 O.V. Demidova
From the History of the Russian Gravitational Society
15:12 E.E. Flanagan
Coordinate Invariant Formulation of Post-1-Newtonian
15:24 A.V. Zakharov
Macroscopic Einstein Equations for a System of Interacting Particles: Second-Order Accuracy in Interaction
Constant
15:36 R.M. Santilli
Isotopic Grand Unification with the Inclusion of Gravity
15:48 A.Yu. Neronov
General Relativity as Continuum With Microstructure. Formal Theory of Lie Pseudogroups Approach
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 R.T. Hammond, C. Gruver, P. Kelly
Scalar Field from Dirac Coupled Torsion
16:32 D. Rapoport
Torsion And Quantum and Hydrodynamical Fluctuations
16:44 M.B. Mensky, M. Israelit
Weyl Gauge Transformation Without Change of the Length Standard
16:56 B. Guilfoyle
Yang-Mills Metrics
17:08 S. Kaniel, Y. Itin
Gravity by Hodge de-Rham Laplacian on Frames
17:20 V. Olkhov
On Thermal Properties of Gravity
17:32 I.P. Denisova
Tensor Expressions in Rosen's Theory of Gravitation
17:44 R. Opher,U.F. Wichoski
On a Theory for Nonminimal Gravitational-Electromagnetic Coupling Consistent With Observational Data
17:56 C. Lammerzahl, R.A. Puntigam, F.W. Hehl
Can the Electromagnetic Field Couple to Post-Riemannian Structures ?
TIME MACHINES (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 28)
Chairman: A. Carlini
16:20 M. Visser
the Reliability Horizon for Semiclassical Quantum Gravity
16:36 C.J. Fewster
Classical And Quantum Initial Value Problems for Models of Chronology Violation
16:52 S. Krasnikov
Time Machines With Non Compactly Generated Cauchy Horizons
17:08 F. de Felice
Cosmic Time Machines: Observational Implications
17:24 F. Schein and P.C. Aichelburg
Lorentzian Wormholes in a De Sitter Cosmos
17:40 K. Maeda, A. Ishibashi and M. Narita
On a Causality Violation and Singularities
17:56 R.J. Slagter
On the Dynamical Evolution of Spinning Einstein Yang-Mills Strings
18:12 A. K. Guts
Time Machine and Foliations
18:17 M.Y. Konstantinov
Causality in Topologically Non Trivial Spacetimes
18:22 C.S. Unnikrishnan
Gravity and Time Machines
18:27 A. Carlini, I.D. Novikov and M.B. Mensky
Laws of Physics in the Presence of Time Machines
MASS INFLATION (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 27) Chairman: Eric Poisson 14:00 Lior M. Burko Structure of the Cauchy Horizon Singularity 14:20 Amos Ori Asymptotic Behavior of Gravitational NP Perturbations Inside Spinning Black Holes 14:40 Patrick R. Brady, Serge Droz and Sharon M. Morsink The Generic Black Hole Singularity 15:00 S. Hod and T. Piran Mass Inflation in Dynamical Gravitational Collapse of Charged Scalar Field 15:20 G. Lavrelashvili Mass Inflation Inside Non-Abelian Black Holes 15:40 Galtsov D.V., Donets E.E., and Zotov M.Yu., Oscillatory And Power-Law Mass-Inflation in Non-Abelian Black Holes 16:00 Coffee Break 16:20 J.S.F. Chan and R.B. Mann, Radiative Falloff in non-Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes 16:40 Chris M. Chambers, A Numerical Approach To Cauchy Horizon Stability In Black Hole-de~Sitter Spacetimes 17:00 D.A. Konkowski and T.M. Helliwel Stability of Cauchy Horizons in Plane Wave Spacetimes
GW BARS (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 26)
Chairman: G. Pizzela
14:00 P. Astone et al., presented by V.Fafone
Operation of the Gravitational Wave Detector Nautilus
14:25 M.Bonaldi et al., presented by A.Ortolan
the Gravitational Wave Antenna Auriga: A Progress Report
14:50 P.Astone et al., presented by P.Bonifazi
Upper Limit At 1.8 Khz for A G.W.Stochastic Background With the Altair Resonant Mass Detector
15:00 I.S. Heng, D.G. Blair, E.N. Ivanov, M.E. Tobar
the Calibration and Foltering of Data from a Resonant Mass G.W. Antenna
15:25 W.O. Hamilton, W.W. Johnson, E. Mauceli, M. McHugh and A.Morse
Transducer Development for the Allegro Detector
15:50 M.Bassan and the ROG collaboration
Advances in Capacitive Transducers for Resonant Antennas
16:10 Coffee Break
16:30 M.E.Tobar el al., presented by C.R.Locke
Next Generation Resonant-Mass G.W. Detector With a Sapphire Dielectric Transducer Readout
16:55 E. Coccia and the ROG collaboration
Spherical G.W. Detectors
GR IN SPACE (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 29)
Chairman: K. Nordtvedt
14:00 J. Muller and M. Schneider
What Can Lunar Laser Ranging Provide to Relativity ?
14:20 D. Vokrouhlicky and K. Nordtvedt
Recent Experimental Tests of the Isotropy of Graviational Physics
14:40 M.T. Zuber, D.E. Smith, J.B. Abshire, B.G. Bills and D.R. Skillman
A Mission Concept For Measuring the Quadrupole Moment of the Sun and Certain Relativisitic Parameters
15:00 A.D. Alexeev, K.A. Bronnikov, N.I. Kolosnitsyn,M.Yu. Konstantinov and V.N. Melnikov
SEE Rpoject For Measuring the Gravitational Interaction Parameters
15:20 I. Ciufolini
A Detection of the Lense-Thirring Effect in the LAGEOS Orbits
15:40 S. Buchman
The Gyroscope System for the Relativity Mission
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 M. Heifetz, C.W.F. Everitt, G.M. Keiser and A.S. Silbergleit
Data Reduction, Error Analysis and Identification of Systematic Errors in the Gravity Probe B Experiment
16:40 D. Bardas
Integration and Test of the Gravity-Probe B Flight Prototype Instrument
17:00 B. Muhlfelder, J.M. Lockhart, J. Mester and M. Luo
The Gravity-Probe B Squid-Based Gyroscope Readout System
17:20 G.R. Uspensky, A.V. Tselin ,V.B. Pintchuk and A.A. Zubrilo
About One Opportunity of Measurement of the Gravitational Dragging Factor of Light
17:40 I. Strukov
Relict Radiation, Experimental Status
18:00 D. E. Smith and M. T. Zuber
Prospects for Centimeter Laser Ranging Throughout the Inner Solar System in the Coming Decade
QUANTUM FIELDS IN CURVED SPACETIME I (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 214)
Chairman: V. Belinski
14:00 R. Penrose
Fundamental Issues of Curved-Space Quantization
14:30 T. Jacobson
High Frequency Problem for Quantum Fields Outside Black Holes
15:30 B. Harms
Semiclassical Quantization in Black Hole Space-Time
16:15 Coffee Break
16:30 V. Belinski, V. Mur, B. Karnakov, N. Narozhny
On the Theory of the Unruh Effect
17:00 M. Visser
Gravitational Vacuum Polarization: Energy Conditions in the Unruh Vacuum
17:15 G. Ph. Spindel, R. Parentani and S. Massar
Interecting Charged Particles in an Electric Field and the Unruh Effect
17:30 D. Sudarsky
Bremsstrahlung by Static Charges Outside a Static Black Hole?
17:45 U. Gerlach
Acceleration-Induced Geometry of the Space of Solutions to the Klein-Gordon Equaton
18:00 J. Lindig and V. Mostepanenko
Particle Creation and Vacuum Polarization of Nonconformal Scalar Field Near the Isotropic Cosmological
Singularity
18:15 I.B. Khriplovich
Superluminal Velocity of Photons in a Gravitational Background
STRING THEORY (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 101)
Chairman: E. Rabinovici
14:00 A.Giveon
Brane Dynamics and N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
14:30 J.M. Maldacena
15:00 A. Sen
Recent Developments in String Theory
15:30 C. Angelantonj and M. Bianchi
Toroidal Compactifications of the Type I Superstring Revisited
15:45 M. Bianchi, A. Sagnotti and S. Ferrara
Low-energy Analysis of Four-Dimensional N=1 Type I Superstrings
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 J. Cruz, J. M. Izquierdo, D. J. Navarro and J. Navarro-Salas
Dirac Quantization of Matter-Coupled 2D Dilaton-Gravity Models
16:35 H. Liebl and W. Kummer and D.V. Vassilevich
Exact Path Integral Quantization of Generic 2-D Dilaton Gravity
16:50 C. Angelantonj and G. Pradisi
Chiral Asymmetry in Four-Dimensional Type I Superstring Vacua
17:00 M. Asorey, J.L. Lopez, I.L. Shapiro
On the Quantum Gravity Theory With Arbitrary High Derivatives
17:10 M. Bianchi
Type I Vacua in the Web of String Dualities
17:20 S. Kar
Focusing Of Worldsheets in the Classical Nambu-Goto Theory of Strings
17:30 D. S. Popovic, M. Blagojevic and B. Sazdovic
Symmetries of the Induced 2D Gravity
17:40 G. Pradisi and Y. S. Stanev
Open Descendants of Gepner Models in D=6
17:50 J.M. Raya, L.J. Garay, P.F. Gonzalez-Diaz, G. A. Mena Marugan
Minimum Size From Strings and Wormholes
INFLATION (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 28)
Chairman: M. Sasaki
16:20 A. A. Starobinsky
Quantitative Description of Space-Time During and After Stochastic Inflation
16:40 L. Kofman, A. Linde and A.A. Starobinsky
Reheating and Preheating After Inflation
17:10 D. V. Galtsov
Yang-Mills Driven Inflation
17:30 G. Dvali, S. Dimopoulos and R. Rattazzi
Dynamical Inflation and Unification Scale on Quantum Moduli Spaces
17:50 V.N. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva
A New Class of the Inflationary Models With $\Lambda$-term
18:10 J. Garriga, X. Montes, M. Sasaki and T. Tanaka
Canonical Perturbations in the One Bubble Universe
18:40 J. Garriga and V.F. Mukhanov
On Classical Anisotropies in Models of Open Inflation
19:00 M. Sasaki, T. Tanaka and Y. Yakushige
Wall Fluctuation Modes and Tensor CMB Anisotropy in Open Inflation Models
19:20 E. W. Mielke
Second-Order Reconstruction of Inflationary Dynamics Compatible With Recent COBE Data
TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 213)
Chairman: R. Durrer
14:00 N. G. Phillips
Statistical Modeling of Texture Dynamics
14:20 M. Sakellariadou
Scaling and Small Scale Structure in Cosmic String Networks
14:40 T. Hara
Hierarchical Structure of Astronomical Objects in the Cosmic String Scheme of Structure Formation
15:00 M. Nagasawa
Formation Probability of Non-Topological Electroweak Strings
15:20 J.P. Uzan
the No-Defect Conjecture in Cosmic Crystallography
15:40 B. Carter
Electromagnetic Self-Interaction in Strings
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 A. Gangui
Those Circular Current--Carrying Cosmic String Loops Leading to Vortons
16:40 V. Frolov
The Interaction of Cosmic Strings and Black Holes
17:00 B. Boisseau
Can a Self-Gravitating Thin Cosmic String Obey the Nambu-Goto Dynamics ?
17:20 A. Ishibashi
On the Perturbation of a Domain Wall Coupled to Gravitational Waves
17:30 K. Nakamura
Cylindrical Domain Walls and Gravitational Waves
17:40 I.L. Bogolubsky
2D Topological Solitons as Cosmic Strings
17:50 R.J. Cova
Soliton Scattering in the Periodic $O(3)$ Model
18:00 N.R. Khusnutdinov
Ground State Energy of a Scalar Field in the Spacetime of a Cosmic String with Finite Thickness
GRAV LENSES (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 25)
Chairman: A. Petters
14:00 A. Petters
Introduction
14:05 A. Petters and F. Wicklin
Fixed Points due to Point Mass Gravitational Lenses
14:20 V. Perlick
On the Classification of Stable Caustics
14:50 Coffee Break
15:00 P. Piccione
the Fermat Principle in General Relativity and the Gravitational Lens Effect
15:30 A. Zakharov
Caustic Singularities of the Cusp Type in the Theory of Gravitational Lenses
15:50 J. Franco
The Theory of Relativity: Is it Solid?
QPO'S (Sprinzak Bldg. - Room 102)
Chairman: L. Stella
14:00 W. Zhang
KHz QPOs in LMXRBs
14:30 E. Morgan
QPOs from black hole candidates
15:00 P. Kaaret
High Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations and the Marginally Stable Orbit
15:30 L. Stella
A Relativistic Model For Linking the Low-Frequency (5-50 Hz) and Khz QPO in Ow Mass X-Ray Binaries
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