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


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Peter Bergmann
Luigi Bianchi
George Birkhoff
Herman Bondi
Elie Cartan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Elwin Christoffel
Willem de Sitter
Bryce Seligman DeWitt
Robert L. Dicke
Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac
Frank Watson Dyson
Arthur Eddington
Albert Einstein
William Martin Fairbank
Richard Phillips Feynman
Erwin Finlay Freundlich
Alexander Friedmann
George Gamow
Kurt Gödel
Marcel Grossmann
David Hilbert
Fred Hoyle
Edwin Hubble
Leopold Infeld
Pascual Jordan
Theodor Kaluza
Oskar Klein
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.

Lev Davidovich Landau
Abbé Georges Lemaître
Tullio Levi-Civita
André Lichnerowitz
Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz
Hermann Minkowski
Emmy Noether
Gunnar Nordström
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Wolfgang Pauli
Alexei Zinovievich Petrov
Hans Reissner
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Bernhard Riemann
Howard Percy Robertson
Leonard Isaac Schiff
Erwin Schrödinger
Karl Schwarzschild
John Lighton Synge
Abraham Haskel Taub
Hans Thirring
Richard Chace Tolman
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Joseph Weber
Hermann Weyl
David T. Wilkinson
Yakov Zel'dovich
Fritz Zwicky