Numerical Relativity Session

Tuesday, 17 December 1996, 2-4 pm

Preliminary Program

Chair: Edward Seidel (Potsdam)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Edward Seidel, eseidel@aei-potsdam.mpg.de

Speakers

Time for each talk is either 10 min. (8 min. + 2 min. for discussion) or 7 min. (5 min. + 2 min.).

2:00 Thomas Baumgarte, Greg Cook, Mark Scheel, Stuart Shapiro, Saul Teukolsky (Illinois and Cornell), "Binary Neutron Stars in Quasi-Equilibrium Circular Orbits" (10 mins)
2:10 Fred Rasio (MIT), "Test calculations for GR motivated by hydro calculations of binary coalescence" (7 mins)
2:17 Jose-Maria Ibanez (Valencia), "General Relativistic Hydrodynamics" (10 mins)
2:27 Jorge Pullin (Penn State), "Colliding black holes: how far with the close approximation can you go?"(7 mins)
2:34 Hans-Peter Nollert (Penn State), "A slightly less grand challenge: Colliding black holes using perturbation techniques"(7 mins)
2:41 William Krivan (Penn State), "Dynamics of spin 2 fields in Kerr background geometries: Towards the close limit of colliding black holes"(7 mins)
2:48 David Bernstein and Michael Holst (Caltech), "A 3D Finite Element Solver for the Initial-Value Problem"(10 mins)
2:58 Bernd Bruegmann (Albert Einstein Institute), "Adaptive mesh and geodesically sliced Schwarzschild spacetime in 3+1 dimensions"(10 mins)
3:08 Karen Camarda (Albert Einstein Institute), "3D Black Hole Initial Data and Evolutions"(10 mins)
3:18 Wai-Mo Suen (Washington University), "Numerical evolutions of Black Holes and Neutron Stars"(10 mins)
3:28 Masaru Shibata (Osaka University) and Takashi Nakamura (Kyoto University), "Finding 3D Apparent Horizons, with Applications to Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Evolutions"(10 mins)
3:38 Pablo Laguna & Alex Wolszczan (Penn State), "Arrival-Times from Binary Pulsars with Rotating Black Hole Companions"(10 mins)
3:48 Motoyuki Saijo, Hisa-aki Shinkai and Kei-ichi Maeda (Waseda University), "Can we detect Brans-Dicke scalar gravitational waves in gravitational collapse?"(7 mins)

Posters

• Aidan J. Keane, John F.L. Simmons, Robin M. Green, (Glasgow), "Radiative Acceleration in Schwarzschild Metric and the Relativistic Eddington Limit"
  
• David Hobill, (Calgary), "Discretely Self-similar Cosmological Collapse"
  
• Franz Schunck, (Sussex), "Rotating boson stars"
  
• Tomohiro Harada, (Kyoto University), "Scalar Gravitational Wave from Oppenheimer-Snyder Collapse in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity"
  
• Helio V. Fagundes, (Sao Paulo), "A perturbed Kantowski-Sachs Cosmological Model"
  
• Hisa-aki Shinkai and Gen Yoneda, (Waseda University), "Dynamics in the Ashtekar gravity"
  
• K. Maeda and S. Suzuki, (Waseda University), "Chaos in a spinning particle around a black hole and gravitational waves"
  
• Keisuke Taniguchi, (Kyoto Univerity), "Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Coalescing Neutron Star-Black Hole Binary ---Generalized Pseudo-Newtonian Potential Approach---"
  
• Serguei Komissarov, (Leeds), "An upwind scheme for relativistic MHD"
  
• Tatsuhiko Koike, (Keio Univ.), "Renormalization group and critical behaviour in gravitational collapse"
  
• William Krivan, Pablo Laguna, Hans-Peter Nollert, Philippos Papadopoulos, Jorge Pullin (Penn State), "Towards the close limit of colliding black holes"
  
• Kouichirou Hirata, (Kyoto University), "The critical phonomena of the inflation model"
  
• J. Lombardi (Cornell), F. Rasio (MIT), & S. Shapiro (UIUC), "Post-Newtonian Hydrodynamic Effects during Neutron Star Binary Coalescence"
  
• Beverly Berger (Oakland U.) and Vincent Moncrief (Yale), "Spatially Inhomogeneous Cosmologies near the Singularity"
  
• Douglas Swesty (NCSA) and Ed Wang (Washington U.), "3-D Numerical Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers on Cartesian Grids"