| Masooma Ali (New Brunswick) | Syed Hassan (New Brunswick) | Marek Radzikowski (AUAF) |
| Sarfraz Ali (UBC) | Jeremy Heyl (UBC) | Sourya Ray (UACh) |
| Bruno Arderucio Costa (UBC) | David Hobill (Calgary) | Jocelyn Read (CSU Fullerton) |
| Pasquale Bosso (Lethbridge) | Alireza Hojjati (UBC) | David Renshaw (RASC) |
| Leo Brewin (Monash) | Gil Holder (McGill) | Kristin Schleich (UBC) |
| Matthew Choptuik (UBC) | Viqar Husain (New Brunswick) | Sanjeev Seahra (New Brunswick) |
| Dagoberto Contreras (UBC) | Uzair Hussain (Memorial) | Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo) |
| Ramin Daghigh (Metropolitan State) | Matthew Johnson (York) | Sean Stotyn (Calgary) |
| De-Chang Dai (Shanghai Jiao Tong) | Victoria Kaspi (McGill) | Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana) |
| Anadi Das (SFU) | David Kofron (Charlesin Prague) | Benjamin Tippett (UBC Okanagan) |
| Arundhati Dasgupta (Lethbridge) | Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg) | Tilman Troester (UBC) |
| Michael Desrochers (UBC) | Luis Lehner (Perimeter) | Oleg Tsupko (IKI) |
| Farzad Fathizadeh (Caltech) | Woei Chet Lim (Waikato) | Jesse Velay-Vitow (SFU) |
| Heather Fong (Toronto, CITA) | Elizabeth Loggia (UBC) | David Wands (Portsmouth) |
| Andrei Frolov (SFU) | Colin MacLaurin (Queensland) | Donald Witt (UBC) |
| Valeri Frolov (Alberta) | Alzbeta Medvedova (SFU) | I-Sheng Yang (Perimeter) |
| Jose Galvez Ghersi (SFU) | Gregory Mendell (Caltech) | Lingjun Zhou (Manitoba) |
| David Garfinkle (Oakland) | Todd Oliynyk (Monash) | Jonathan Ziprick (New Brunswick) |
| Jack Gegenberg (New Brunswick) | Don Page (Alberta) | Alex Zucca (SFU) |
| Cisco Gooding (Colorado, Boulder) | Manu Paranjape (Montréal) | Nosiphiwo Zwane (Perimeter) |
| Michael Green (Metropolitan State) | Levon Pogosian (SFU) | |
| Yuri Gusev (Lebedev) | Amit Poudel (Florida Atlantic) |
Welcome Reception and Registration 17:00 - 20:00 on Tuesday, July 5
| P1A QG/QFT | P1B Classical GR | ||
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14:00 |
Masooma Ali (UNB) Linearised gravity with matter time |
Woei Chet Lim (Waikato) Non-orthogonally transitive G2 spike solution | |
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14:20 |
Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg) Polymer quantization of thin shell collapse |
Donald Witt (UBC) Searching for Primordial Black Holes | |
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14:40 |
Syed Hassan (UNB) Polymer inflation |
Benjamin Tippett (Okanagan) Traversable acausal retrograde domains in spacetime | |
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15:00 |
Yuri Gusev (Lebedev Institute) Finite temperature field theory |
Marek Radzikowski (AUAF) Geometric optics approximation and microlocal analysis in QFT on curved spacetime | |
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15:20 |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break | |
| P2A Cosmological Tests | P2B Black Holes | ||
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16:00 |
Matthew Johnson (York) Observable non-linearities in cosmology |
Bruno Arderucio Costa (UBC) Unbounded entropies | |
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16:20 |
Tilman Troester (UBC) Probing the universe with lensing cross-correlations |
Todd Oliynyk (Monash) Dynamical compact bodies in General Relativity | |
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16:40 |
Nosiphiwo Zwane (Perimeter) Cosmological tests of everpresent Lambda |
Sourya Ray (UACh) Generalized Birkhoff's theorem and exotic black holes in Lovelock gravity | |
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17:00 |
Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi (SFU) Two-point correlators revisited: Fast and slow scales in multifield models of inflation |
Uzair Hussain (Memorial) Extreme mass ratio merger and horizon deformation | |
| P3A Classical Alternatives | P3B QG/QFT | ||
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14:00 |
Anadi Das (SFU) The 5th force and General Relativity |
Viqar Husain (UNB) Dispersion relations and low energy excitation of Unruh detectors | |
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14:20 |
Andrei Frolov (SFU) Black holes in modified gravity |
Lingjun Zhou (Manitoba) A model for spherical firewall creation | |
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14:40 |
Alex Zucca (SFU) Cosmological test of scalar-tensor theories |
Pasquale Bosso (Lethbridge) Quantum gravity phenomenology from the generalized uncertainty principle | |
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15:00 |
Levon Pogosian (SFU) What can Cosmology tell us about Gravity? |
Manu Paranjape (Montréal) Gravitationally induced quantum transitions and the graviton laser | |
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15:20 |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break | |
| P4A Theory | P4B Astrophysical and Cosmological Tests | ||
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16:00 |
Farzad Fathizadeh (Caltech) Modular forms in the spectral action of Bianchi-IX gravitational instantons |
Heather Fong (CITA) The rate of compact binary coalescences from LIGO observations | |
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16:20 |
I-Sheng Yang (Perimeter) Gravitational turbulence and instability of global AdS |
Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana) Radiation-reaction effects in black hole binaries | |
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16:40 |
Leo Brewin (Monash) Some applications of smooth lattice methods to Ricci flow and numerical relativity |
Dagoberto Contreras (UBC) Constraints on cosmic birefringence from Planck 2015 polarization data | |
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17:00 |
David Kofron (Charles U. in Prague) Separability of the Teukolsky equation and the Meissner effect on rotating C-metric |
David Hobill (Calgary) Astrophysical applications of the Tolman-VII solution | |
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17:20 |
Sean Stotyn (Calgary) Near horizon geometries as tangent spacetimes |
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| P5 Remaining Talks | No Parallel Session | ||
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11:45 |
Sanjeev Seahra (UNB) A big bounce, slow-roll inflation and dark energy from conformal gravity | ||
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12:05 |
Arundhati Dasgupta (Lethbridge) Semi-classically corrected gravity and astrophysics | ||
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12:30 |
Lunch Break | ||
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14:00 |
Colin MacLaurin (Queensland) Black holes as seen by falling observers | ||
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14:20 |
Jonathan Ziprick (UNB) Discrete General Relativity | ||
| Scientific: | Ivan Booth (Memorial U) |
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| Andrew Frey (Winnipeg) | |
| Andrei Frolov (SFU) | |
| Jeremy Heyl (UBC) | |
| Hari Kunduri (Memorial U) | |
| Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg) | |
| Levon Pogosian (SFU) | |
| Bill Unruh (UBC) | |
| Local: | Andrei Frolov (SFU) |
| Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg) | |
| Levon Pogosian (SFU) | |