Karl Schwarzschild Meeting 2015

from Monday, 20 July 2015 (08:15) to Friday, 24 July 2015 (18:00)
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015
22 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015
24 Jul 2015
AM
09:00 Welcome   ()
09:30 Introduction to the meeting - Prof. Achim Kempf (PI/Waterloo)   ()
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10:00
Keynote Speaker plenary session 1 (until 11:00) ()
10:00 On the importance of gravitational collapse in astrophysics - Prof. Luciano Rezzolla (ITP, Goethe University Frankfurt)   ()
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 The LHC is a GlueBall factory - probing a novel form of pure gauge matter from the early universe to cosmic rays - Prof. Horst Stöcker (FIAS & GSI)   ()
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09:00
Keynote Speaker plenary session 1 (until 11:00) ()
09:00 Ultra-relativistic Collisions and Black Hole Formation - Frans Pretorius   ()
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10:00 Black holes have no hair: what about neutron stars? - Valeria Ferrari (Sapienza Rome)   ()
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Keynote Speaker plenary session 2 (until 12:30) ()
11:30 Evidence for black hole compositeness: Physics of black hole information processing. - Georgi Dvali (LMU, Arnold Sommerfeld Center)   ()
09:00
Keynote Speaker plenary session 2 (until 11:00) ()
09:00 Quantum black holes as the link between microphysics and macrophysics - Prof. Bernard Carr (QMU, London)   ()
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10:00 Black hole evaporation in a cosmological context - Prof. George Ellis (Cape Town)   ()
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11:00 --- Coffe Break ---
11:30
Keynote Speaker plenary session 3 (until 12:30) ()
11:30 A surprising extension of the Schwarzschild metric - Prof. Carlo Rovelli (Marseille University)   ()
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09:30
Keynote Speaker plenary session 4 (until 10:30) ()
09:30 Conformal Bootstrap, Universality and Gravitational Scattering - Prof. Herman Verlinde (Princeton)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:55 --- Conference group photo ---
11:00
Keynote Speaker plenary session 4 (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Beyond Schwarzschild: Quantum implications for black holes - Prof. Steven Giddings (UC Santa Barbara)   ()
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12:00 Super-Entropic Black Holes - Robert Mann (University of Waterloo)   ()
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09:00
Keynote Speaker plenary session 5 (until 11:00) ()
09:00 Laboratory analogues of black hole evaporation and its partner particles - Prof. Ralf Schützhold (Uni Duisburg-Essen)   ()
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10:00 What if Spacetime is Bandlimited at the Planck scale? - Prof. Achim Kempf (PI/Waterloo)   ()
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Keynote Speaker plenary session 4 (until 12:30) ()
11:30 A menagerie of hairy black holes - Elizabeth Winstanley (The University of Sheffield)   ()
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Student plenary session 1 (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Extremal Rotating Black Holes in the Near-Horizon Limit: Phase Space and Symmetry Algebra - Ali Seraj (IPM, Tehran, Iran)   ()
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14:20 Black holes and causal structure with Lorentz violations - Mr Mattia Colombo (University of Nottingham)   ()
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14:40 Three-dimensional gravity with a conformally coupled scalar field: Chern-Simons-like formulation and black hole thermodynamics - Ms Marcela Cárdenas (Universidad de Concepción, Centro de Estudios Científicos)   ()
15:00 Thermal Corpuscular Black Holes - Andrea Giugno (University of Bologna)   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break and "Meet your mentor" ---
16:00
Junior plenary session (until 17:40) ()
16:00 A Modified Exponential Potential for Quintessence - Dr Hui-Yiing Chang (University of South Carolina Sumter)   ()
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16:20 Good properties of Schwarzschild's singularity - Cristi Stoica (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)   ()
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16:40 Testing general relativity on accelerators - Tigran Kalaydzhyan (Stony Brook University)   ()
17:00 Black hole entropy in the presence of Chern-Simons term and holography - Dr Tatsuo Azeyanagi (Ecole Normale Superieure)   ()
17:20 Flat space higher spin gravity with chemical potentials - Mirah Gary (Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien)   ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Student plenary session 2 (until 15:40) ()
14:00 Einstein-Charged Scalar Field Theory: Black Hole Solutions and Their Stability. - Supakchai Ponglertsakul   ()
14:20 Lovelock Black Hole Thermodynamics - Antonia Micol Frassino   ()
14:40 Quantum chaos inside black holes - Andrea Addazi (INFN)   ()
15:00 Black Hole Entropy From Multisymplectic Geometry - Eugene Kur (University of California, Berkeley)   ()
15:20 Generalized Uncertainty Principle in extradimensions - Sven Köppel (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Sciences)   ()
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15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Senior scientist session 1 (until 17:30) (Lecture Hall)
16:00 A quantum cosmic censorship - Roberto Casadio (Alma Mater Bologna University)   (Lecture Hall)
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16:30 Emergent Cosmology, Inflation and Dark Energy from SSB of Scale Invariance - Prof. Eduardo Guendelman (Ben Gurion University)   (Lecture Hall)
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17:00 Black holes sourced by a massless scalar - Mariano Cadoni (University of cagliari)   (Lecture Hall)
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16:00
Senior scientist session 2 (until 17:00) (Room 0.101)
16:00 Analog Duality - Sabine Hossenfelder (Nordita)   (Room 0.101)
16:30 Bounds on the un-particle sector from Casimir effect experiments - Orlando Panella (INFN)   (Room 0.101)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Keynote Speaker plenary session 3 (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Flat space holography - Prof. Daniel Grumiller (TU Vienna)   ()
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15:00 Visit of the Kleiner Feldberg Observatory   ()
20:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Keynote Speaker plenary session 1 (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Clocks exploring the gravitational interaction - Prof. Claus Lämmerzahl (ZARM/Bremen)   ()
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15:00
Junior plenary session (until 15:20) ()
15:00 Quantum-gravity phenomenology with primordial black holes - Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University Nijmegen)   ()
15:20 --- Technical break ---
15:30
Senior scientist session 3 (until 17:30) (Room 0.100, Lecture Hall)
15:30 Supermassive Black Holes, Black Hole Pairs & the Event Horizon Telescope - Silke Britzen (MPIfR)   (Room 0.100, Lecture Hall)
16:00 Self Sustained Traversable Wormholes in Distorted Gravity - Prof. REMO GARATTINI (University of Bergamo)   (Room 0.100, Lecture Hall)
16:30 Axially symmetric black hole solutions in f(R) gravity - Prof. Mariafelicia De Laurentis (Tomsk State Pedagogical University)   (Room 0.100, Lecture Hall)
17:00 General Relativity from a Canonical Transformation Formalism - Jürgen Struckmeier (GSI)   (Room 0.100, Lecture Hall)
15:30
Senior scientist session 4 (until 17:30) (Room 0.200)
15:30 AdS black holes in worldline holography - Dr Dennis D. Dietrich (Goethe-Universität)   (Room 0.200)
16:00 The nature of trapping horizons in collapses forming black holes - Dr Ilia Musco (CNRS, Observatorire de Paris, LUTH (Meudon))   (Room 0.200)
16:30 Gravitational tests of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle - Dr Fabio Scardigli (American University of the Middle East)   (Room 0.200)
17:00 Size scaling of self gravitating polymers and strings - Shoichi Kawamoto (Chung Yuan Christian University)   (Room 0.200)
17:30 Integration and Path-Integration by Differentiation - Achim Kempf (PI/Waterloo)   ()
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18:00 Closed Session - Schwarzschild Price Comittee   ()
18:00 --- Coffee Break ---
19:00 --- Technical break ---
19:30
Schwarzschild Memorial lecture (until 20:30) ()
19:30 Singularities, horizons, firewalls and local conformal symmetry - Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)   ()
20:30 --- Refreshment at FIAS faculty club and proclamation of the Schwarzschild Prize winners ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Plenary discussion: "Gravity/Information"   ()
16:00 Conference summary and concluding remarks   ()
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