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500 Granville Street, Vancouver BC, V6C 1W6
16th Canadian Conference on
General Relativity and
Relativistic Astrophysics
6-8 July 2016, SFU Segal Building, Vancouver
… Still Under Construction
Invited Speakers
Registered Participant List
Matt Choptuik (UBC)
Valeri Frolov (Alberta)
David Garfinkle (Oakland)
Jack Gegenberg (New Brunswick)
Gil Holder (McGill)
Vicky Kaspi (McGill)
Luis Lehner (Perimeter)
Gregory Mendell (Caltech)
Don Page (Alberta)
Jocelyn Read (Fullerton)
Dejan Stojkovic (Buffalo)
David Wands (Portsmouth)
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Scientific:Ivan Booth (Memorial U)
Andrew Frey (Winnipeg)
Andrei Frolov (SFU)
Jeremy Heyl (UBC)
Hari Kunduri (Memorial U)
Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg)
Levon Pogosian (SFU)
Bill Unruh (UBC)
Local:Andrei Frolov (SFU)
Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg)
Levon Pogosian (SFU)
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CCGRRA-16
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Wednesday, July 6
Thursday, July 7
Friday, July 8
09:00
Matt Choptuik (UBC)
Black hole formation in Randall-Sundrum II braneworlds
Jocelyn Read (Fullerton)
Gravitational wave sources and discoveries
Valeri Frolov (Alberta)
Ghost-free gravity and black holes
09:45
Luis Lehner (Perimeter)
Gravitational waves and binary neutron stars
Gregory Mendell (Caltech)
Astrophysical Reach of the Advanced LIGO Detectors
Gil Holder (McGill)
Gravity on large scales: gravitational lensing of the CMB
11:00
David Wands (Portsmouth)
A relativistic approach to large-scale structure
Vicky Kaspi (McGill)
Fast radio bursts
Jack Gegenberg (New Brunswick)
Gravitational Yang-Mills theories
11:45
Dejan Stojkovic (Buffalo)
Non-locality and non-singularity in gravitational collapse
David Garfinkle (Oakland)
Gravitational wave memory
Parallel Sessions
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
14:00 Parallel Sessions
Parallel Sessions
Parallel Sessions
Don Page (Alberta)
Naked firewalls
16:00 Parallel Sessions
Parallel Sessions
Conference Ends
17:30 Reception
19:00 Public Lecture
The Fast Radio Sky by Victoria Kaspi
Conference Dinner
at Steamworks Brew Pub
Welcome Reception and Registration 17:00 - 20:00 on Tuesday, July 5
Conference Schedule
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Delta Vancouver Suites550 West Hastings Street (3 mins walk, $239/night + taxes)
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Conference Hotels and Venue
Sandman Hotel Vancouver180 West Georgia Street (10 mins walk, $122/night + taxes)
call 604-681-2211 and quote Group Number 870809
Sandman Suites on Davie1160 Davie Street (30 mins walk, $139.00/night + taxes)
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SFU Segal Building500 Granville Street (conference venue)
Masooma Ali (New Brunswick) Syed Hassan (New Brunswick) Marek Radzikowski (AUAF)
Sarfraz Ali (UBC) Jeremy Heyl (UBC) Sourya Ray (UACh)
Bruno Arderucio Costa (UBC) David Hobill (Calgary) Jocelyn Read (CSU Fullerton)
Pasquale Bosso (Lethbridge) Alireza Hojjati (UBC) David Renshaw (RASC)
Leo Brewin (Monash) Gil Holder (McGill) Kristin Schleich (UBC)
Matthew Choptuik (UBC) Viqar Husain (New Brunswick) Sanjeev Seahra (New Brunswick)
Dagoberto Contreras (UBC) Uzair Hussain (Memorial) Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)
Ramin Daghigh (Metropolitan State) Matthew Johnson (York) Sean Stotyn (Calgary)
De-Chang Dai (Shanghai Jiao Tong) Victoria Kaspi (McGill) Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana)
Anadi Das (SFU) David Kofron (Charlesin Prague) Benjamin Tippett (UBC Okanagan)
Arundhati Dasgupta (Lethbridge) Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg) Tilman Troester (UBC)
Michael Desrochers (UBC) Luis Lehner (Perimeter) Oleg Tsupko (IKI)
Farzad Fathizadeh (Caltech) Woei Chet Lim (Waikato) Jesse Velay-Vitow (SFU)
Heather Fong (Toronto, CITA) Elizabeth Loggia (UBC) David Wands (Portsmouth)
Andrei Frolov (SFU) Colin MacLaurin (Queensland) Donald Witt (UBC)
Valeri Frolov (Alberta) Alzbeta Medvedova (SFU) I-Sheng Yang (Perimeter)
Jose Galvez Ghersi (SFU) Gregory Mendell (Caltech) Lingjun Zhou (Manitoba)
David Garfinkle (Oakland) Todd Oliynyk (Monash) Jonathan Ziprick (New Brunswick)
Jack Gegenberg (New Brunswick) Don Page (Alberta) Alex Zucca (SFU)
Cisco Gooding (Colorado, Boulder) Manu Paranjape (Montréal) Nosiphiwo Zwane (Perimeter)
Michael Green (Metropolitan State) Levon Pogosian (SFU)
Yuri Gusev (Lebedev) Amit Poudel (Florida Atlantic)
Registered Participants
Invited Speaker List
P1A QG/QFT
P1B Classical GR
14:00
Masooma Ali (UNB)
Linearised gravity with matter time
Woei Chet Lim (Waikato)
Non-orthogonally transitive G2 spike solution
14:20
Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg)
Polymer quantization of thin shell collapse
Donald Witt (UBC)
Searching for Primordial Black Holes
14:40
Syed Hassan (UNB)
Polymer inflation
Benjamin Tippett (Okanagan)
Traversable acausal retrograde domains in spacetime
15:00
Yuri Gusev (Lebedev Institute)
Finite temperature field theory
Marek Radzikowski (AUAF)
Geometric optics approximation and microlocal analysis in QFT on curved spacetime
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
P2A Cosmological Tests
P2B Black Holes
16:00
Matthew Johnson (York)
Observable non-linearities in cosmology
Bruno Arderucio Costa (UBC)
Unbounded entropies
16:20
Tilman Troester (UBC)
Probing the universe with lensing cross-correlations
Todd Oliynyk (Monash)
Dynamical compact bodies in General Relativity
16:40
Nosiphiwo Zwane (Perimeter)
Cosmological tests of everpresent Lambda
Sourya Ray (UACh)
Generalized Birkhoff's theorem and exotic black holes in Lovelock gravity
17:00
Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi (SFU)
Two-point correlators revisited: Fast and slow scales in multifield models of inflation
Uzair Hussain (Memorial)
Extreme mass ratio merger and horizon deformation
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Wednesday Parallel Sessions
P3A Classical Alternatives
P3B QG/QFT
14:00
Anadi Das (SFU)
The 5th force and General Relativity
Viqar Husain (UNB)
Dispersion relations and low energy excitation of Unruh detectors
14:20
Andrei Frolov (SFU)
Black holes in modified gravity
Lingjun Zhou (Manitoba)
A model for spherical firewall creation
14:40
Alex Zucca (SFU)
Cosmological test of scalar-tensor theories
Pasquale Bosso (Lethbridge)
Quantum gravity phenomenology from the generalized uncertainty principle
15:00
Levon Pogosian (SFU)
What can Cosmology tell us about Gravity?
Manu Paranjape (Montréal)
Gravitationally induced quantum transitions and the graviton laser
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
P4A Theory
P4B Astrophysical and Cosmological Tests
16:00
Farzad Fathizadeh (Caltech)
Modular forms in the spectral action of Bianchi-IX gravitational instantons
Heather Fong (CITA)
The rate of compact binary coalescences from LIGO observations
16:20
I-Sheng Yang (Perimeter)
Gravitational turbulence and instability of global AdS
Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana)
Radiation-reaction effects in black hole binaries
16:40
Leo Brewin (Monash)
Some applications of smooth lattice methods to Ricci flow and numerical relativity
Dagoberto Contreras (UBC)
Constraints on cosmic birefringence from Planck 2015 polarization data
17:00
David Kofron (Charles U. in Prague)
Separability of the Teukolsky equation and the Meissner effect on rotating C-metric
David Hobill (Calgary)
Astrophysical applications of the Tolman-VII solution
17:20
Sean Stotyn (Calgary)
Near horizon geometries as tangent spacetimes
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Thursday Parallel Sessions
Friday Parallel Sessions
P5 Remaining Talks
No Parallel Session
11:45
Sanjeev Seahra (UNB)
A big bounce, slow-roll inflation and dark energy from conformal gravity
12:05
Arundhati Dasgupta (Lethbridge)
Semi-classically corrected gravity and astrophysics
12:30
Lunch Break
14:00
Colin MacLaurin (Queensland)
Black holes as seen by falling observers
14:20
Jonathan Ziprick (UNB)
Discrete General Relativity
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