Other Directions in Gravity I

Presentations

• Hawking Radiation, Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation, and Black Hole Fireballs

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:15 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:27 PM

  Presenters

  • Fumika Suzuki

    • University of Tokyo ICEPP

  Authors

  • Fumika Suzuki

    • University of Tokyo ICEPP

  • Octavio Guerrero

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Pablo Laguna

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Kostas Kokkotas

    • University of Tuebingen

  • Wojciech Zurek

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

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• Self-Gravitating Hawking Atmosphere of a Black Hole Fireball: Equilibrium Configurations

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:27 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:39 PM

  Presenters

  • Pablo Laguna

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Pablo Laguna

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Kostas Kokkotas

    • University of Tuebingen

  • Octavio Guerrero

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Wojciech Zurek

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Fumika Suzuki

    • University of Tokyo ICEPP

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• Self-Gravitating Hawking Atmosphere of a Black Hole Fireball: Radial Perturbations

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:39 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:51 PM

  Presenters

  • Octavio Guerrero

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Pablo Laguna

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Wojciech Zurek

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Octavio Guerrero

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Kostas Kokkotas

    • University of Tuebingen

  • Fumika Suzuki

    • University of Tokyo ICEPP

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• Growth of a Black Hole in a Scalar Field Cosmology

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:51 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:03 PM

  Presenters

  • Jake Doherty

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Pablo Laguna

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Jake Doherty

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Miguel Gracia-Linares

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Gravitational waves on Kerr: Perturbations of extremal and near-extremal black holes

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:03 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:15 PM

  Publication: R. Berens, T. Gravely, and A. Lupsasca, "Gravitational Waves on Kerr Black Holes III: Extremal and Near-Extremal Metric Perturbations", in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Roman Berens

    • Vanderbilt University

  Authors

  • Roman Berens

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Alexandru Lupsasca

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Trevor Gravely

    • Vanderbilt University

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• Quasinormal modes of Kerr-Newman black holes: revisiting the Dudley-Finley approximation

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:15 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:27 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05354

  Presenters

  • Sagnik Saha

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Sagnik Saha

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Hector O. Silva

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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• The self-force on moving charges in Schwarzschild spacetime: an intuitive approach

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:27 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:39 PM

  Presenters

  • Alan Wiseman

    • University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  Authors

  • Alan Wiseman

    • University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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• Anomalous Force-Free Electrodynamic Solutions in Black Hole Spacetimes

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:39 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:51 PM

  Presenters

  • Govind Menon

    • Troy University

  Authors

  • Govind Menon

    • Troy University

  • Rakshak Adhikari

    • Troy University

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• Recognition of classical general coordinate covariance in historical approaches to quantum gravity

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:51 PM – March 19, 2026, 3:03 PM

  Presenters

  • Donald Salisbury

    • Austin College

  Authors

  • Donald Salisbury

    • Austin College

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