Workshops > CAPRA 2012


15th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity

 June 11-15, 2012

CSIC Building (#406), Room 1115.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions  

Monday, June 11

8:30 - 9:00 BREAKFAST (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
MORNING
SESSION		  
9:00 - 9:15 Manuel Tiglio (University of Maryland)
Welcoming Remarks
9:15 - 10:15 Adam Pound (University of Southampton)
“Self-force: Foundations and formalism”
10:15 - 11:15

Barry Wardell (University College Dublin)
“Self-force: Numerical implementations”
11:15 - 11:45 COFFEE BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
11:45 - 12:30 Leor Barack (University of Southampton)
“Self-force: Overview of results”
12:30 - 12:50 Discussion Session (Open)
12:50 - 1:50 LUNCH BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
AFTERNOON
SESSION		  
1:50 - 2:40

John Friedman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Progress on orbiting particles in a Kerr background”
2:40 - 3:05

Sam Dolan (University of Southampton)
“Time-domain schemes for gravitational self-force”
3:05 - 3:30

Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana University)
“Self-force and orbital evolution for a scalar particle in a generic orbit in Kerr spacetime”
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
4:00 - 4:25

Abraham Harte (Albert Einstein Institute)
“Green functions, caustics, and self-force”
4:25 - 4:50

Anil Zenginoglu (California Institute of Technology)
“Numerical calculation of Green functions in black hole spacetimes”
4:50 - 5:15

Eric Poisson (University of Guelph)
“Self-force as probe of internal structure”
5:15 - 5:40

Gonzalo Ares de Parga (Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas)
“The stronger principle of equivalence and the equation of motion for a point like charged particle”

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Tuesday, June 12

8:30 - 9:00 BREAKFAST (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
MORNING
SESSION		  
9:00 - 9:25 Niels Warburton (University of Southampton)
“Evolution of inspiral orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole”
9:25 - 10:15

Ian Vega & Peter Diener (University of Guelph)
“Self-consistent motion of a scalar charge around a Schwarzschild black hole”
10:15 - 10:40

Roland Haas (Caltech)
“Self-force driven inspiral of a scalar point particle into a Schwarzschild black hole”
10:40 - 11:10 COFFEE BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
11:10 - 11:35 Soichiro Isoyama (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics)
“The post-adiabatic corrections to the gravitational wave phase for quasicircular extreme mass-ratio inspirals into a Kerr black hole”
11:35 - 12:00 Tanja Hinderer (University of Maryland)
“Two-timescale description of zoom-whirl orbits”
12:00 - 12:50 Discussion session (orbital evolution)
12:50 - 1:50 LUNCH BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
AFTERNOON
SESSION		  
1:50 - 2:40

Chad Galley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech)
“Effective field theory and radiation reaction”
2:40 - 3:05

Adam Pound (University of Southampton)
“Second order gravitational self-force”
3:05 - 3:30

Sam Gralla (University of Maryland)
“Second order gravitational self-force”
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
4:00 - 4:25

Scott Field (University of Maryland)
“Fast waveform extraction from gravitational perturbations”
4:25 - 4:50

Peter Zimmerman (University of Guelph)
“Electromagnetic self-force as a cosmic censor”
4:50 - 5:40 Discussion session (open)
EVENING
ACTIVITIES
6:30 DINNER at the TBA

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Wednesday, June 13

8:30 - 9:00 BREAKFAST (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
MORNING
SESSION		  
9:00 - 9:50 John Baker (NASA-GSFC)
“Progress and prospects toward a space-based gravitational-wave observatory”
9:50 - 10:15

Anna Heffernan (University College Dublin)
“High-order expansions of the Detweiler-Whiting singular field”
10:15 - 10:40

Thomas Linz (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
“The self-force on accelerated charges in generic spacetimes”
10:40 - 11:10 COFFEE BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
11:10 - 11:35 Huan Yang (California Institute of Technology)
“Hamiltonian approach for EMRI in Schwarzschild spacetimee”
11:35 - 12:00 Justin Vines (Cornell University)
“Constructing a Hamiltonian for the conservative self-force”
12:00 - 12:50 Discussion session (Resonances)
12:50 - 1:50 LUNCH BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
AFTERNOON
SESSION		  
1:50 - 2:40

Alexandre Le Tiec (University of Maryland)
“Self-force for comparable mass binaries”
2:40 - 3:05

Chad Galley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech)
“Resumming and improving black hole perturbation theory for binaries with any mass ratio”
3:05 - 3:30

Bernard Whiting (University of Florida)
“Exploring the self-force – post-Newtonian interface”
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK (CSCAMM Lobby: 4th floor)
4:00 - 4:25

Seth Hopper (Albert Einstein Institute)
“Eccentric orbits on a Schwarzschild spacetime: Transforming metric perturbations from Regge-Wheeler to Lorenz gauge”
4:25 - 4:55

Charles Evans, Tommy Osburn, and Erik Forseth (University of North Carolina)
“Metric perturbations from eccentric orbits on Schwarzschild: Frequency domain calculations”
4:55 - 5:40 Discussion session (open)

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Thursday, June 14

MORNING
SESSION		  
9:00 - 12:40 Discussions/Interactions Between the Participants
12:40 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
SESSION		  
2:00 - 5:40 Discussions/Interactions Between the Participants

Friday, June 15

MORNING
SESSION		  
9:00 - 12:00Discussions/Interactions Between the Participants
12:00 CLOSING

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