| Monday, Sept. 21st |
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| CHAIR: R. Akhoury |
| 9:00am |
Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 9:30am |
Welcome |
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| 9:45am |
Alexander Dolgov |
University of Ferrara, INFN, and ITEP |
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"Primordial black holes and contemporary universe" |
| 11:00am |
Sergei Sibiryakov |
EPFL |
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"Is there a consistent non-relativistic theory of quantum gravity?" |
| 12:15pm |
Lunch in 337 West Hall |
| 1:45pm |
Cedric Deffayet |
APC (CNRS, Paris, France) |
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"Recovering General Relativity from massive gravity" |
| 3:00pm |
Luis Lehner |
Perimeter Institute/Univ of Guelph |
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"Black hole binaries as inducers of light" |
| 4:15pm |
Afternoon Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 4:45pm |
Tanmay Vachaspati |
Case Western Reserve Univ./IAS |
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"Gravitational Collapse" |
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| Tuesday Sept. 22nd |
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| CHAIR: A. Vikman |
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| 9:00am |
Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 9:30am |
Shinji Mukohyama |
IPMU, University of Tokyo |
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"Ghost condensate and black hole" |
| 10:45am |
Jacob Bekenstein |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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"Charged black holes in the presence of a variable fine-structure "constant" |
| 12:00pm |
Lunch at the Michigan Union (U Club First Floor) at 530 S. State Street |
| 1:30pm |
Andrei Frolov |
Simon Fraser University |
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TBA |
| 2:45pm |
Doug Richstone |
University of Michigan |
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"Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies" |
| 4:00pm |
Afternoon Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 4:30pm |
Evgeny Babichev |
APC Paris |
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"Vainshtein mechanism and massive gravity" |
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| Wednesday Sept. 23rd |
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| CHAIR: H. Elvang |
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| 9:00am |
Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 9:30am |
Sean Hartnoll |
Harvard University |
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"Quantum oscillations and black hole ringing" |
| 10:45am |
Andrei Gruzinov |
CCPP, New York University |
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"Hod's time-temperature bound" |
| 12:00pm |
Geoffrey Compere |
University of California |
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"The Extremal Black Hole/CFT Correspondence" |
| 1:00pm |
Lunch in 337 West Hall |
| 2:30pm |
Sergei Dubovsky |
Stanford University |
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"Discovering string axions with astrophysical black holes" |
| 3:45pm |
Afternoon Refreshments and Coffee in 335 West Hall |
| 4:00pm |
Physics Department Colloquium |
| Jacob Bekenstein |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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"The saga of the varying fine-structure constant" |
| 6:30pm |
Workshop Dinner- Details in your Packet |
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| Thursday Sept. 24th |
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| CHAIR: C. Deffayet |
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| 9:00am |
Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 9:30am |
Valeri Frolov |
University of Alberta |
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"Black Holes and Hidden Symmetries" |
| 10:45am |
Ramy Brustein |
Ben-Gurion University |
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"Proof of a universal lower bound on the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio" |
| 12:00pm |
Lunch in 337 West Hall |
| 1:30pm |
Gabriele Veneziano |
College de France & CERN |
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"Transplanckian string collisions and black holes" |
| 2:45pm |
Peter Tinyakov |
Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) |
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"Modified black hole solutions in massive gravity" |
| 4:00pm |
Afternoon Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 4:30pm |
Oriol Pujolas |
CERN, Switzerland |
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"Micro Black Holes and the Democratic Transition" |
| 6:30pm |
Workshop Dinner- Details in your Packet |
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| Friday Sept. 25th |
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| CHAIR: A. Dolgov |
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| 9:00am |
Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall |
| 9:30am |
Martin Bojowald |
Penn State University |
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"Black hole dynamics in loop quantum gravity" |
| 10:45am |
Cole Miller |
University of Maryland |
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"Exploring black holes with current and future astronomical observations" |
| 12:00pm |
Lunch in 337 West Hall |
| 1:30pm |
David Garfinkle |
Oakland University |
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"The nature of general gravitational singularities" |
| 2:45pm |
Ignacy Sawicki |
CCPP, New York University |
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"Implications of a Large Number of Species for Cosmology" |
| 4:00pm |
Alexander Vikman |
CCPP, New York University |
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"Spontaneous Lorentz Symmetry Breaking and Black Hole thermodynamics" |
