2007 Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, LA. Special Session on Numerical Relativity

Joint Mathematics Meetings New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

Special Session on Numerical Relativity, Sunday, January 7, 2007. 8:00am -- 10:55 am, 1:00pm--5:55pm.

Location. Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (500 Canal Street · New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 · Phone: (504) 525-2500) 3-rd floor, Napoleon Ballroom D2 (see the floor plan).

Session Schedule. The session schedule can be accessed at the AMS web site: http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2098_program_ss26.html#title

Morning Session (8:00am ---10:55am)
8:00am-8:45am	Lee Lindblom	Caltech	Generalized Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes	.pdf
15 min. break
9:00am-9:25am	Jie Qing	University of California Santa Cruz	On the Uniqueness of Asymptotically AdS Space-Times
5 min. break
9:30am-9:55am	Deborah Konkowski	U.S. Naval Academy	Quantum Mechanical Healing of Classical Spacetime Singularities	.pdf
5 min. break
10:00am-10:25am	Ronghua Pan	Georgia Institute of Technology	Blowup of Smooth Solutions for Relativistic Euler Equations	.pdf
5 min. break
10:30am-10:55am

Poster Session (11:00am ---11:45am) informal
Alexander Alekseenko	California State University, Northridge	Well-Posed Initial-Boundary Value Problem for Constrained Evolution	.pdf

Afternoon Session (1:00 pm ---10:55am)
1:00pm-1:45pm	Pablo Laguna	Penn State University	Binary Black Hole Simulations and the Hunt for Gravitational Waves	.pdf
15 min. break
2:00pm-2:25pm	Blake Temple	University of California, Davis	A Proposal to Numerically Simulate a Cosmic Shock Wave by Use of a Locally Inertial Glimm Scheme
5 min. break
2:30pm-2:55pm	Olivier Sarbach	Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Mexico	A Minimization Problem for the Lapse and the Initial-Boundary Value Problem for Einstein's Field Equations
5 min. break
3:00pm-3:25am	Joerg Frauendiener	University of Tuebingen, Germany	Geometric Discretisation of General Relativity	.pdf
5 min. break
3:30pm-3:55pm	Luisa T. Buchman	University of Texas at Austin	Towards Absorbing Outer Boundaries in General Relativity	.pdf
5 min. break
4:00pm-4:25pm	Michael J. Holst	University of California, San Diego	Some Results on Constraints in GR
5 min. break
4:30pm-4:55pm	Dale Choi	Korea Inst. of Science and Technology Information	Simulations of Binary Black Hole Mergers
5 min. break
5:00pm-5:25pm	J. David Brown	North Carolina State Univ.	Modifying the Einstein Equations off the Constraint Hypersurface	.pdf
5 min. break
5:30pm-5:55pm	Robert Martin	University of Waterloo, Canada	A Method for Covariant Discretization of Space-Time Using Shannon Sampling Theory	.pdf

Planning Your Talk. Planning you presentation, please take into consideration the visual equipment that will be available at the meeting. Each presentation room at the meeting is equipped with an overhead projector and an LCD projector. (The speakers are strongly advised to use their own laptops with the LCD projector, however, we will try to have a spare laptop with .pdf and .ppt capabilities for the session just in case.) Notice that no black/whiteboards will be available. If you need to write to answer a question, please, use the blank transparencies and the overhead projector (will be provided).

Description. The special session aims to bring together a cohort of applied scientists with expertise in (1) solutions to the Einstein field equations, exact and by numerical approximations, (2) reformulations of Einstein equations for numerical evolution, (3) accurate description of appropriate initial data and boundary conditions for systems of partial differential equations, (4) computational methods developed in other areas which are suitable for numerical simulation of the Einstein field equations, and (5) analysis of the partial differential equations that arise in numerical relativity with the common goal of sharing knowledge in the field, beginning new collaborations, and exploring ideas for incorporating efficient new techniques that will advance the state of knowledge in the area.

Participation. Participation in the session can be a combination of the following three forms:

an invited talk. Sorry, the applications for the invited talks are now closed. We sincerely apologize to those who received the invitation and can not submit the abstract due to the overflow. If you are interested in presenting your work a the session, we are organizing a short poster session. Please e-mail to organizers, if you are interested in presenting a poster.
an informal poster presentation. For those who is interested to present their research on a poster, we have organized a poster session during the break between the morning and the afternoon session (11:00am--11:45am). Notice that poster presentations will not appear in proceedings. No invitation is needed for the poster board, simply e-mail the organizers if you plan to have a poster.
participation in the meeting. We anticipate very strong quality talks and sparking discussions at the sessions. Everybody interested in numerical relativity, general relativity, and the disciplines adjacent to it, especially nonlinear PDEs, numerical methods, and/or astrophysics, are very welcome to attend the session. Please, e-mail organizers if you plan to attend so we can publish the participants list.

Registration. All speakers need to register for the meeting. Note that we negotiated a special discount with AMS for Physics Faculty / Research Faculty. Effective now, Physics Faculty may register at the member price, which is $208 if registered before December 13, and $271 if registered at the meetings. For assistance with reduced price registration, please e-mail the organizers (alexander.alekseenko@csun.edu or mukherjeea@mail.montclair.edu.) -- to apply the reduced fees a copy of the e-mal from the meeting's director has to be presented. We will be happy to send you a copy of this e-mail or assist with the reduced registration directly.

Members of the AMS can register on-line at https://www.ams.org/meetreg?meetnum=2098.

For more information, please go to the 2007 Joint Mathematics Meetings Web Page

Last Updated December18, 2006