| 7:00a-8:45a |
Breakfast |
| 8:45a-9:00a |
Brenda
Shakotko, BIRS, Welcome
and
Introduction to BIRS |
| 9:00a-9:50a |
Douglas
Arnold, University of
Minnesota; Introduction to
the Einstein Field Equations [PDF1 & PDF2] |
| 9:50a-10:10a |
DIscussion |
| 10:10a-10:30a |
Coffee
and Discussion |
| 10:30a-11:20a |
Matt Choptuik, University
of
British Columbia; Survey of
numerical approximations of black hole
spacetimes [PDF | PS] |
| 11:20a-11:40a |
Discussion |
| 11:40a-3:00p |
Lunch,
Free Time, Guided Tour of
BIRS: Buffet Lunch from 11:30a-1:30a |
| 1:00-2:00p |
GUIDED
TOUR OF BIRS! |
| 3:00p-3:30p |
Thomas Baumgarte,
Bowdoin
College; Survey of neutron
star simulations in NR [PDF] |
| 3:30p-3:45p |
Coffee
and Discussion |
| 3:45p-4:15p |
Eric Hirschmann,
Brigham Young
University; Black hole
"no-hair" theorems and numerical relativity [PDF |
PS] |
| 4:15p-4:30p |
Discussion |
| 4:30p-4:45p |
Break |
| 4:45p-5:15p |
David
Garfinkle, Oakland University;
Numerical
simulations
of gravitational singularities [PPT | PDF] |
| 5:15p-5:30p |
Discussion |
| 5:30p-7:30p |
Buffet
Dinner (5:30-7:30) and Free Time |
| 7:00a-9:00a |
Breakfast |
| 9:00a-9:30a |
Oscar
Reula, University of Cordoba;
On strong
hyperbolicity of Einstein's equations [PDF] |
| 9:30a-9:45a |
Discussion |
| 9:45a-10:15a |
Olivier
Sarbach, Caltech; Boundary conditions
for Einstein's equations [PDF] |
| 10:15a-10:30a |
Discussion |
| 10:30a-10:45a |
Coffee
Break |
| 10:45a-11:15a |
Carsten
Gundlach, University of
Southampton; Hyperbolicity
of
second order systems [PDF] |
| 11:15a-11:30a |
Discussio |
| 11:30a-11:45a |
GROUP
PHOTO! |
| 11:45a-2:45p |
Break;
Buffet Lunch from 11:30a-1:30p |
| 2:45p-3:00p |
Coffee
Break |
| 3:00p-3:50p |
Heinz
Kreiss, KTH; Difference
approximations for second order hyperbolic systems [PDF] |
| 3:50p-4:10p |
Discussion |
| 4:10p-5:00p |
Eitan
Tadmor, University of Maryland;
Detection, reconstruction and approximate
evolution of piecewise smooth solutions [PDF] |
| 5:00p-5:20p |
Discussion |
| 5:20p-7:30p |
Buffet Dinner (5:30-7:30) and Free Time |
| 7:30p-9:00p |
Poster
Session |
| 7:00a-9:00a |
Breakfast |
| 9:00a-9:30a |
Jeff
Winicour, University of
Pittsburgh; A model
black hole
excision problem [PDF] |
| 9:30a-9:45a |
Discussion |
| 9:45a-10:15a |
Frans
Pretorius, Caltech; Toward binary black
hole simulations in numerical relativity [PPT | PDF
| PDF/MPEGs] |
| 10:15a-10:30a |
Discussion |
| 10:30a-10:45a |
Coffee
Break |
| 10:45a-11:15a |
Manuel
Tiglio, Louisiana State University;
High order
methods
for multi-block evolutions in numerical relativity [PPT | PDF
| PDF/MPEGs] |
| 11:15a-11:30a |
Discussion |
| 11:30a-3:45p |
Break;
Buffet Lunch from 11:30a-1:30pm |
| 3:45p-4:00p |
Coffee
Break |
| 4:00p-4:30p |
Michael
Holst, UC San Diego; Finite element
methods in numerical relativity [PDF] |
| 4:30p-4:45p |
Discussion |
| 4:45p-5:15p |
Richard
Falk, Rutgers University; Finite element
methods for hyperbolic systems [PDF] |
| 5:15p-5:30p |
Discussion |
| 5:30p-7:30p |
Break;
Buffet Dinner from 5:30p-7:30p |
| 7:00a-9:00a |
Breakfast |
| 9:00a-9:30a |
Nicolae
Tarfulea, Purdue University -
Caulmet; Constraint
preserving
boundary conditions in NR [PDF] |
| 9:30a-9:45a |
Discussion |
| 9:45a-10:15a |
Alexander
Alekseenko, Cal State
Northridge;
Constrained
evolution and differential boundary conditions [PDF] |
| 10:15a-10:30a |
Discussion |
| 10:30a-10:45a |
Break |
| 10:45a-11:15a |
Helmut
Friedrich, AEI, Potsdam; Problems of
calculating wave signals which characterize isolated systems [PDF] |
| 11:15a-11:30a |
Discussion |
| 11:30a-1:30p |
Buffet
Lunch from 11:30a-1:30p |
| 1:30p-5:30p |
FREE
AFTERNOON!! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT!! |
| 5:30p-7:30p |
Buffet
DInner |
| 7:30p-8:00p |
Ralf Hiptmair, ETH Zurich; Conservative discretization of Einstein-Dirac equations in spherical symmetry [PDF] |
| 8:00p-8:15p |
Discussion |
| 8:15p-8:45p |
Snorre Chistiansen, University of Oslo; On constraint preservation in numerical simulations of Yang-Mills equations [PDF] |
| 7:00a-9:00a |
Breakfast |
| 10:15a-10:30a |
Coffee Break |
| 12:00 NOON |
CHECK OUT (i.e. please be checked out by 12:00 Noon) |
| 11:30a-1:30p |
Buffet Lunch |