Tests of General Relativity and Alternatives: Theory Meets Experiment

Presentations

• Testing gravity with Lunar Laser Ranging: An update on the APOLLO experiment

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 10:45 AM – Jan. 28, 2017, 10:57 AM

  Authors

  • James Battat

    • Wellesley College

  • Nick Colmenares

    • University of California

  • Rodney Davis

    • Morehouse College

  • Louisa Huang Ruixue

    • Wellesley College

  • Thomas W. Murphy, Jr.

    • University of California

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• Alternative theories of gravity and Lorentz violation

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 10:57 AM – Jan. 28, 2017, 11:09 AM

  Authors

  • Rui Xu

    • INDIANA UNIVERSITY

  • Joshua Foster

    • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

  • V. Alan Kostelecky

    • INDIANA UNIVERSITY

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• Testing gravity at the micron scale using optically trapped nanospheres

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 11:09 AM – Jan. 28, 2017, 11:21 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew Geraci

    • University of Nevada Reno

  • Gambhir Ranjit

    • University of Nevada Reno

  • Mark Cunningham

    • University of Nevada Reno

  • Kirsten Casey

    • University of Nevada Reno

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• Spin Precessing Black Hole Binaries in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 11:21 AM – Jan. 28, 2017, 11:33 AM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Loutrel

    • Montana State University

  • Nicolas Yunes

    • Montana State Univ, Physics, XGI
    • Montana State University

  • Takahiro Tanaka

    • Kyoto University

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• Hamiltonian formalism for Perturbed Black Hole Spacetimes

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 11:33 AM – Jan. 28, 2017, 11:45 AM

  Authors

  • Deyan Mihaylov

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge

  • Jonathan Gair

    • University of Edinburgh

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• Relativistic stars in scalar-tensor theories with disformal coupling

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 11:45 AM – Jan. 28, 2017, 11:57 AM

  Authors

  • Hector O. Silva

    • University of Mississippi

  • Masato Minamitsuji

    • Instituto Superior T\'ecnico

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• Biconformal Compactification

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 11:57 AM – Jan. 28, 2017, 12:09 PM

  Authors

  • Benjamin Lovelady

    • Utah State Univ

  • James Wheeler

    • Utah State Univ

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• The Spacetime Between Einstein and Kaluza-Klein: Further Explorations

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 12:09 PM – Jan. 28, 2017, 12:21 PM

  Authors

  • Chris Vuille

    • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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• Constraining Gravity at Large Scales with Clusters of Galaxies

  ORAL

  Jan. 28, 2017, 12:21 PM – Jan. 28, 2017, 12:33 PM

  Authors

  • D. Rapetti

    • Univ. of Colorado, Boulder \& NASA ARC

  • M. Cataneo

    • U. of Copenhagen

  • F. Schmidt

    • Max Planck Inst. for Astrophys.

  • L. Lombriser

    • U. of Edinburgh

  • B. Li

    • Durham U.

  • A. Mantz

    • Stanford U.

  • S. Allen

    • Stanford U. \& SLAC Nat. Accel. Lab.

  • D. Applegate

    • Argelander Inst. for Astron.

  • P. Kelly

    • UC, Berkeley

  • A. von der Linden

    • Stony Brook U.

  • R. G. Morris

    • SLAC \& Stanford U.

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