8th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction

Jul 11, 2005, 9:00 AM → Jul 14, 2005, 6:30 PM 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, July 11

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Registration

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Welcome

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Tidal distortion of nonrotating black holes

Speaker: Eric Poisson University of Guelph

Talk Poissonl.pdf

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Quasi-local contribution to the gravitational self-force

Speaker: Warren Anderson University of Milwaukee

Talk Anderson.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Schwarzschild pertubations in the Lorenz gauge

Speaker: Leor Barack University of Southampton

Talk Barack.pdf Barack.ppt

5:30 PM → 5:50 PM Session End

Tuesday, July 12

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM 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 AM → 11:00 AM Regularization parameters for gravitational self-force effects in the Schwarzschild geometry

Speaker: Kim

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee

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

Speaker: Nakano Hiroyuki University of Osaka City

Talk nakano.pdf nakano.ppt

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Radiation reaction for a scalar charges particle in Schwarzschild eccentric orbit

Speaker: Wataru Hikida University of Kyoto

Talk Hikida.pdf Hikida.ppt

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Time-domain Finite-Element Simulations of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries

Speaker: Carlos Sopuerta Penn State University

Talk sopuerta.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM The pragmatic and self-force approaches in the perturbative two-body problem

Speaker: Alessandro Spallicci

5:30 PM → 5:50 PM Session End

Wednesday, July 13

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM 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 AM → 11:00 AM Towards Metric Pertubations of Kerr

Speaker: Larry Price University of Gainsville

Talk Price.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee

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

Speaker: Bernard Whiting University of Gainsville

Talk Whiting.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Toward the 2 nd order self-force

Speaker: Eran Rosenthal University of Guelph

Talk Rosenthal.ppt

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM 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

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Adiabatic radiation reaction to the orbits in Kerr Spacetime

Speaker: Norichika Sago University of Osaka

Talk Sago.pdf Sago.ppt

5:30 PM → 5:50 PM Conference Dinner

5:50 PM → 6:20 PM Coffee

Thursday, July 14

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Adiabatic radiation reaction

Speaker: Steve Drasco Cornell University

Talk drasco.pdf

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

Speaker: Kostas Glampedakis University of Southampton

Talk Glampedakis.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee

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

Speaker: Jonathan Gair University of Cambridge

Talk DetweilerI_part2.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Search for spinning Black Holes Binaries in advanced LIGO

Speaker: BS Sathyaprakash

Talk Jones.pdf Jones.ppt

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM LISA astronomy of interacting white dwarf binaries

Speaker: A Vecchio

Talk Vecchio.pdf Vecchio.ppt

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Discussion

5:30 PM → 5:50 PM Meeting End