Strong-field gravity: black holes, event horizons, and cosmology

Presentations

• The beginnings of black hole horizons

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 3:30 PM – May 1, 2011, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Dieter Brill

    • Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland

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• Event Horizons from black-hole rings

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 3:42 PM – May 1, 2011, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Marcelo Ponce

    • Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Carlos Lousto

    • Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Yosef Zlochower

    • Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
    • Rochester Institute of Technology
    • RIT

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• Dynamical Horizons of Distorted Rotating Black Holes

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 3:54 PM – May 1, 2011, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Tony Chu

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Harald Pfeiffer

    • Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  • Michael Cohen

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Generic Ringdown Frequencies at the Birth of a Kerr Black Hole

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 4:06 PM – May 1, 2011, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Aaron Zimmerman

    • Caltech

  • Yanbei Chen

    • Caltech

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• A physically motivated framework to describe black hole perturbations

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 4:18 PM – May 1, 2011, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Anil Zenginoglu

    • Caltech

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• Late--time Kerr tails: ``up" and ``down" excitations

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 4:30 PM – May 1, 2011, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Gaurav Khanna

    • University of Massacusetts Dartmouth
    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Lior M. Burko

    • University of Alabama in Huntsville

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• Finding Mixmaster Dynamics in Collapsing Cosmological Spacetimes

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 4:42 PM – May 1, 2011, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Beverly K. Berger

    • National Science Foundation

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• A new framework for analyzing the effects of small scale inhomogeneities in cosmology

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 4:54 PM – May 1, 2011, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Stephen Green

    • University of Chicago

  • Robert Wald

    • University of Chicago

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• Violation of the equivalence principle via the Unruh effect

  ORAL

  May 1, 2011, 5:06 PM – May 1, 2011, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Steve Wilburn Wilburn

    • CSU Fresno

  • Douglas Singleton

    • CSU Fresno
    • California State University, Fresno

  • Emil Akhmedov

    • ITEP
    • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

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