Karl Schwarzschild Meeting 2015

from Monday, July 20, 2015 (8:15 AM) to Friday, July 24, 2015 (6:00 PM)
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 20, 2015
Jul 21, 2015
Jul 22, 2015
Jul 23, 2015
Jul 24, 2015
AM
9:00 AM Welcome  
9:30 AM Introduction to the meeting - Prof. Achim Kempf (PI/Waterloo)  
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10:00 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 1 (until 11:00 AM)
10:00 AM On the importance of gravitational collapse in astrophysics - Prof. Luciano Rezzolla (ITP, Goethe University Frankfurt)  
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM 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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9:00 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 1 (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM Ultra-relativistic Collisions and Black Hole Formation - Frans Pretorius  
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10:00 AM Black holes have no hair: what about neutron stars? - Valeria Ferrari (Sapienza Rome)  
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11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 2 (until 12:30 PM)
11:30 AM Evidence for black hole compositeness: Physics of black hole information processing. - Georgi Dvali (LMU, Arnold Sommerfeld Center)  
9:00 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 2 (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM Quantum black holes as the link between microphysics and macrophysics - Prof. Bernard Carr (QMU, London)  
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10:00 AM Black hole evaporation in a cosmological context - Prof. George Ellis (Cape Town)  
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11:00 AM --- Coffe Break ---
11:30 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 3 (until 12:30 PM)
11:30 AM A surprising extension of the Schwarzschild metric - Prof. Carlo Rovelli (Marseille University)  
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9:30 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 4 (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Conformal Bootstrap, Universality and Gravitational Scattering - Prof. Herman Verlinde (Princeton)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:55 AM --- Conference group photo ---
11:00 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 4 (until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM Beyond Schwarzschild: Quantum implications for black holes - Prof. Steven Giddings (UC Santa Barbara)  
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12:00 PM Super-Entropic Black Holes - Robert Mann (University of Waterloo)  
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9:00 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 5 (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM Laboratory analogues of black hole evaporation and its partner particles - Prof. Ralf Schützhold (Uni Duisburg-Essen)  
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10:00 AM What if Spacetime is Bandlimited at the Planck scale? - Prof. Achim Kempf (PI/Waterloo)  
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11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 4 (until 12:30 PM)
11:30 AM A menagerie of hairy black holes - Elizabeth Winstanley (The University of Sheffield)  
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PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Student plenary session 1 (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Extremal Rotating Black Holes in the Near-Horizon Limit: Phase Space and Symmetry Algebra - Ali Seraj (IPM, Tehran, Iran)  
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2:20 PM Black holes and causal structure with Lorentz violations - Mr Mattia Colombo (University of Nottingham)  
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2:40 PM 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)  
3:00 PM Thermal Corpuscular Black Holes - Andrea Giugno (University of Bologna)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break and "Meet your mentor" ---
4:00 PM
Junior plenary session (until 5:40 PM)
4:00 PM A Modified Exponential Potential for Quintessence - Dr Hui-Yiing Chang (University of South Carolina Sumter)  
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4:20 PM Good properties of Schwarzschild's singularity - Cristi Stoica (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)  
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4:40 PM Testing general relativity on accelerators - Tigran Kalaydzhyan (Stony Brook University)  
5:00 PM Black hole entropy in the presence of Chern-Simons term and holography - Dr Tatsuo Azeyanagi (Ecole Normale Superieure)  
5:20 PM Flat space higher spin gravity with chemical potentials - Mirah Gary (Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien)  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Student plenary session 2 (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM Einstein-Charged Scalar Field Theory: Black Hole Solutions and Their Stability. - Supakchai Ponglertsakul  
2:20 PM Lovelock Black Hole Thermodynamics - Antonia Micol Frassino  
2:40 PM Quantum chaos inside black holes - Andrea Addazi (INFN)  
3:00 PM Black Hole Entropy From Multisymplectic Geometry - Eugene Kur (University of California, Berkeley)  
3:20 PM Generalized Uncertainty Principle in extradimensions - Sven Köppel (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Sciences)  
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3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
Senior scientist session 2 (until 5:00 PM) (Room 0.101)
4:00 PM Analog Duality - Sabine Hossenfelder (Nordita)  
4:30 PM Bounds on the un-particle sector from Casimir effect experiments - Orlando Panella (INFN)  
4:00 PM
Senior scientist session 1 (until 5:30 PM) (Lecture Hall)
4:00 PM A quantum cosmic censorship - Roberto Casadio (Alma Mater Bologna University)  
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4:30 PM Emergent Cosmology, Inflation and Dark Energy from SSB of Scale Invariance - Prof. Eduardo Guendelman (Ben Gurion University)  
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5:00 PM Black holes sourced by a massless scalar - Mariano Cadoni (University of cagliari)  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 3 (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Flat space holography - Prof. Daniel Grumiller (TU Vienna)  
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3:00 PM Visit of the Kleiner Feldberg Observatory  
8:00 PM --- Conference Dinner ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Keynote Speaker plenary session 1 (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Clocks exploring the gravitational interaction - Prof. Claus Lämmerzahl (ZARM/Bremen)  
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3:00 PM
Junior plenary session (until 3:20 PM)
3:00 PM Quantum-gravity phenomenology with primordial black holes - Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University Nijmegen)  
3:20 PM --- Technical break ---
3:30 PM
Senior scientist session 3 (until 5:30 PM) (Room 0.100, Lecture Hall)
3:30 PM Supermassive Black Holes, Black Hole Pairs & the Event Horizon Telescope - Silke Britzen (MPIfR)  
4:00 PM Self Sustained Traversable Wormholes in Distorted Gravity - Prof. REMO GARATTINI (University of Bergamo)  
4:30 PM Axially symmetric black hole solutions in f(R) gravity - Prof. Mariafelicia De Laurentis (Tomsk State Pedagogical University)  
5:00 PM General Relativity from a Canonical Transformation Formalism - Jürgen Struckmeier (GSI)  
3:30 PM
Senior scientist session 4 (until 5:30 PM) (Room 0.200)
3:30 PM AdS black holes in worldline holography - Dr Dennis D. Dietrich (Goethe-Universität)  
4:00 PM The nature of trapping horizons in collapses forming black holes - Dr Ilia Musco (CNRS, Observatorire de Paris, LUTH (Meudon))  
4:30 PM Gravitational tests of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle - Dr Fabio Scardigli (American University of the Middle East)  
5:00 PM Size scaling of self gravitating polymers and strings - Shoichi Kawamoto (Chung Yuan Christian University)  
5:30 PM Integration and Path-Integration by Differentiation - Achim Kempf (PI/Waterloo)  
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6:00 PM Closed Session - Schwarzschild Price Comittee  
6:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
7:00 PM --- Technical break ---
7:30 PM
Schwarzschild Memorial lecture (until 8:30 PM)
7:30 PM Singularities, horizons, firewalls and local conformal symmetry - Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)  
8:30 PM --- Refreshment at FIAS faculty club and proclamation of the Schwarzschild Prize winners ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Plenary discussion: "Gravity/Information"  
4:00 PM Conference summary and concluding remarks  
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