Geometry and the Universe:
Symposium Program and Media
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| Thursday October 20, 2005 | |||||||
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| Morning Lecture Session: 9:00am - 12:30pm, Math. Phys. Conf. Rm. S-240 | |||||||
| Introduction and welcome by the organizers, YITP director George Sterman, and Stony Brook University president Shirley Strum Kenny | Download: |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am | Jürgen Ehlers | Einstein's path to GR | |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am | James Hartle | The future of gravity | |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am | break | ||||||
| Robert Pound | Gravitational redshift | |
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| Lunch: 12:30pm - 2:00pm | |||||||
| Afternoon Lecture Session: 2:00pm - 5:30pm, Math. Phys. Conf. Rm. S-240 | |||||||
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Francis Everitt | Testing Einstein with orbiting gyroscopes | |
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Remo Ruffini | Energy of black holes, dark matter, dark energy | |
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| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | break | ||||||
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Thibault Damour | General relativity, experiment and gravitational waves | |
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| Reception & Dinner: 6:30pm - 10:30pm, Port Jefferson Country Club: | |||||||
| Maurice Goldhaber | Remembering Einstein | |
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| Daniel Kennefick | History of Gravity Waves | |
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| Friday October 21, 2005 | |||||||
| Morning Lecture Session: 9:00am - 12:30pm, Math. Phys. Conf. Rm. S-240 | |||||||
| 9:00am - 10:00am | Sean Carroll | Dark energy, or worse? | |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am | Gary Gibbons | Singularity theorems and black holes | |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am | break | ||||||
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Irwin Shapiro | Past and future GR experiments: Equivalence principle, time delay, black holes | |
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| Lunch: 12:30pm - 2:00pm | |||||||
| Afternoon Lecture Session: 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Math. Phys. Conf. Rm. S-240 | |||||||
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Erik Verlinde | Strings and black holes | |
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Michael Kramer | From the binary to the double pulsar: Precision tests of general relativity | |
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| General Public Lecture: 4:30pm - 5:30pm, Student Activities Center Auditorium: | |||||||
| John Stachel | Einstein's odyssey: from special to general relativity | |
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