Special Session SS13  28 June 2017

Aims and scope

To remind our colleagues that the present grows out of the past and leads to the future. With this goal in mind, we have planned three 1.5 hour sessions on aspects of General Relativity as we see it, with 3 half-hour time slots within each, devoted to past, present, and future discoveries and problems.

Programme

  • 09.00 - 09.30 João Alves (in absentia of Virginia Trimble): Einstein's Second Biggest Blunder: The Uncertain Existence of Gravitational Waves
  • 09.30 - 10.00 Martin Rees: Why relativistic effects are crucial in high energy astrophysics
  • 10.00 - 10.05 Martin Rees: We will meet, but we shall miss him; there will be an empty chair. In memory of Neil Gehrels
  • 10.05 - 10.20 Dmitry Svinkin: Konus-Wind and the Interplanetary network observations of gravitational wave sources
  • 10.20 - 10.25 Tayebeh Tahamtan: Nonsymmetric Dynamical Thin-Shell Wormhole (Poster presentation)
  • 10.25 - 10.30 Irina Vavilova: General Relativity Theory: Recognition through Time (Poster presentation)


  • 12.30 - 14.00 LUNCH BREAK


  • 14.00 - 14.30 Alexander Blum: General Relativity - The first 50 years
  • 14.30 - 15.00 Jirí Bicák, David Heyrovsky, Martin Scholtz: Classical General Relativity: Light and Gravity
  • 15.00 - 15.30 Daniele Oriti: Beyond General Relativity, towards a quantum spacetime


  • 15.30 - 16.00 COFFEE BREAK


  • 16.00 - 16.30 Luisa Bonolis: The lead-up to first Texas Symposium and the emergence of relativistic astrophysics (EPJH sponsored lecture)
  • 16.30 - 17.00 Alessandra Buonanno: Current status of gravitational-wave observations with LIGO
  • 17.00 - 17.30 Monica Colpi: LISA: exploring the deep Gravitational Universe
  • Invited speakers

    • João Alves (University of Vienna, Austria)
    • Jiri Bicák (Charles University, Prague)
    • Alex Blum (MPIWG, Berlin)
    • Luisa Bonolis (MPIWG, Berlin)
    • Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany)
    • Monica Colpi (University of Milano Bicocca, Department of Physics G. Occhialini, Milano, Italy)
    • David Heyrovsky (Charles University, Prague)
    • Daniele Oriti (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany)
    • Martin Rees (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)
    • Martin Scholtz (Charles University, Prague)
    • Virginia Trimble (University of California, Irvine)

    Scientific organisers
    Luisa Bonolis (MPIWG, Berlin), Jürgen Renn (MPIWG, Berlin), Virginia Trimble (University of California, Irvine)

    Contact
    lbonolis @ mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

    Updated on Thu Jun 22 16:41:11 CEST 2017