Shining Light on Black Holes Workshop

September 21-25, 2009

University of Michigan
West Hall Room 340
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1040

 

 

Shining Light on Black Holes Workshop 

Tentative Schedule

Monday, Sept. 21st  
CHAIR: R. Akhoury
9:00am Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
9:30am Welcome
9:45am Alexander Dolgov University of Ferrara, INFN, and ITEP
"Primordial black holes and contemporary universe"
11:00am Sergei Sibiryakov EPFL
"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)
"Recovering General Relativity from massive gravity"
3:00pm Luis Lehner Perimeter Institute/Univ of Guelph
"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
"Gravitational Collapse"
Tuesday Sept. 22nd  
CHAIR: A. Vikman
9:00am Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
9:30am Shinji Mukohyama IPMU, University of Tokyo
"Ghost condensate and black hole"
10:45am Jacob Bekenstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"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
 TBA
2:45pm Doug Richstone University of Michigan
"Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies"
4:00pm Afternoon Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
4:30pm Evgeny Babichev APC Paris
"Vainshtein mechanism and massive gravity"
Wednesday Sept. 23rd  
CHAIR: H. Elvang
9:00am Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
9:30am Sean Hartnoll Harvard University
"Quantum oscillations and black hole ringing"
10:45am Andrei Gruzinov CCPP, New York University 
"Hod's time-temperature bound"
12:00pm Geoffrey Compere University of California 
"The Extremal Black Hole/CFT Correspondence"
1:00pm Lunch in 337 West Hall
2:30pm Sergei Dubovsky Stanford University
"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
"The saga of the varying fine-structure constant"
6:30pm Workshop Dinner- Details in your Packet
   
Thursday Sept. 24th  
CHAIR: C. Deffayet
9:00am Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
9:30am Valeri Frolov University of Alberta
"Black Holes and Hidden Symmetries"
10:45am Ramy Brustein Ben-Gurion University
"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
"Transplanckian string collisions and black holes"
2:45pm Peter Tinyakov Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
"Modified black hole solutions in massive gravity"
4:00pm Afternoon Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
4:30pm Oriol Pujolas CERN, Switzerland
"Micro Black Holes and the Democratic Transition"
6:30pm Workshop Dinner- Details in your Packet
Friday Sept. 25th  
CHAIR: A. Dolgov
9:00am Morning Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
9:30am Martin Bojowald Penn State University
"Black hole dynamics in loop quantum gravity"
10:45am Cole Miller University of Maryland
"Exploring black holes with current and future astronomical observations"
12:00pm Lunch in 337 West Hall
1:30pm David Garfinkle Oakland University
"The nature of general gravitational singularities"
2:45pm Ignacy Sawicki CCPP, New York University
"Implications of a Large Number of Species for Cosmology"
4:00pm Alexander Vikman CCPP, New York University
"Spontaneous Lorentz Symmetry Breaking and Black Hole thermodynamics"

 

 

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