test test

Geometry and the Universe

A Symposium on General Relativity

C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
Stony Brook University
Thursday and Friday, 20-21 October 2005


[Program/Media] [Registration] [Travel/Hotel] [Maps] [Poster]

Speakers: Titles:
Sean Carroll
Chicago
Dark energy, or worse?
Thibault Damour
IHÉS Bures
General relativity, experiment and gravitational waves
Jürgen Ehlers
MPI Potsdam
Einstein's path to GR
Francis Everitt
Stanford
Testing Einstein with orbiting gyroscopes
Gary Gibbons
Cambridge
Singularity theorems and black holes
Maurice Goldhaber
BNL
Remembering Einstein
James Hartle
Santa Barbara
The future of gravity
Daniel Kennefick
Arkansas
History of gravity waves
Michael Kramer
Manchester
From the binary to the double pulsar: Precision tests of general relativity
Robert Pound
Harvard
Gravitational redshift
Remo Ruffini
Rome
Energy of black holes, dark matter, dark energy
Irwin Shapiro
Harvard
Past and future GR experiments:
Equivalence principle, time delay, black holes
John Stachel
Boston
Einstein's odyssey: from special to general relativity
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
Stony Brook
From spinors to supergravity
Erik Verlinde
Amsterdam
Strings and black holes



Organizing committee: Alfred Goldhaber, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, William Weisberger

Supported by the Simons Foundation and Stony Brook University, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics.