8th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction

11 Jul 2005, 09:00 → 14 Jul 2005, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

Cosener's House

The Capra meetings are annual gatherings of theorists working on the problem of radiation reaction in general relativity. This meeting was attended by 35 participants.

Monday 11 July

09:00 → 10:00 Registration

11:30 → 12:30 Welcome

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Tidal distortion of nonrotating black holes

Speaker: Eric Poisson University of Guelph

Talk Poissonl.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Quasi-local contribution to the gravitational self-force

Speaker: Warren Anderson University of Milwaukee

Talk Anderson.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 Schwarzschild pertubations in the Lorenz gauge

Speaker: Leor Barack University of Southampton

Talk Barack.pdf Barack.ppt

17:30 → 17:50 Session End

Tuesday 12 July

09:00 → 10:00 Gravitational self-force effects on orbits around a non-rotating black hole

Speaker: Steve Detweiler University of Gainsville

Talk DetweilerII_part_1.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Regularization parameters for gravitational self-force effects in the Schwarzschild geometry

Speaker: Kim

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Gravitational Self-force on a Particle in the Schwarzschild Background

Speaker: Nakano Hiroyuki University of Osaka City

Talk nakano.pdf nakano.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Radiation reaction for a scalar charges particle in Schwarzschild eccentric orbit

Speaker: Wataru Hikida University of Kyoto

Talk Hikida.pdf Hikida.ppt

15:00 → 16:00 Time-domain Finite-Element Simulations of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries

Speaker: Carlos Sopuerta Penn State University

Talk sopuerta.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 The pragmatic and self-force approaches in the perturbative two-body problem

Speaker: Alessandro Spallicci

17:30 → 17:50 Session End

Wednesday 13 July

09:00 → 10:00 Reconstruction of Black Hole Metric Pertubations from Weyl Curvature II: The Reggee-Wheeler gauge

Speaker: Carlos Lousto University of Brownsville

Talk Lousto.pdf Lousto.ppt

10:00 → 11:00 Towards Metric Pertubations of Kerr

Speaker: Larry Price University of Gainsville

Talk Price.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Steps towards metric perturbation in the Kerr spacetime

Speaker: Bernard Whiting University of Gainsville

Talk Whiting.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Toward the 2 nd order self-force

Speaker: Eran Rosenthal University of Guelph

Talk Rosenthal.ppt

15:00 → 16:00 Numerical kludge wave forms for scoping out LISA data analysis. Part I

Speaker: Jonathan Gair University of Cambridge

Talk GairI_aprt1.pdf GairI_aprt1.ppt

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 Adiabatic radiation reaction to the orbits in Kerr Spacetime

Speaker: Norichika Sago University of Osaka

Talk Sago.pdf Sago.ppt

17:30 → 17:50 Conference Dinner

17:50 → 18:20 Coffee

Thursday 14 July

09:00 → 10:00 Adiabatic radiation reaction

Speaker: Steve Drasco Cornell University

Talk drasco.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Mapping space time with LISA

Speaker: Kostas Glampedakis University of Southampton

Talk Glampedakis.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Numerical kludge wave forms for scoping out LISA data analysis. Part II

Speaker: Jonathan Gair University of Cambridge

Talk DetweilerI_part2.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Search for spinning Black Holes Binaries in advanced LIGO

Speaker: BS Sathyaprakash

Talk Jones.pdf Jones.ppt

15:00 → 16:00 LISA astronomy of interacting white dwarf binaries

Speaker: A Vecchio

Talk Vecchio.pdf Vecchio.ppt

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 Discussion

17:30 → 17:50 Meeting End