Mathematical Physics and General Relativity Symposium in Honor of Professor Ivor Robinson

Symposium Participants Photo

Written Reminiscences: Roger Penrose, Jiri Bicak, Peter Aichelburg, Michel Dahen, Wolfgang Kundt, Rainer Sachs, Andrzej Trautman, Josh Goldberg, Peter Hogan, Don Salisbury, Chris DeWitt

Video Reminiscences
     Stanley Deser 1 2
     Malcolm MacCallum 1

Schedule Sunday, May 7, 2017

Room: SLC 1.102

10:00-11:00AM In reminiscence of Professor Ivor Robinson
Speakers
:
Vladimir Dragovic, Professor and Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTD Hobson Wildenthal, Executive Vice President, UTD
Ali Hooshyar, Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTD
Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, Professor, Department of Physics, UTD
Joshua Goldberg, Emeritus Professor, Syracuse University
Wolfgang Rindler, Emeritus Professor, UTD

11:00-11:30AM

Coffee break

11:30-12:30PM

Peter A. Hogan

12:30-2:00AM

Lunch break

2:00-3:00PM

Jim Isenberg

Strong Cosmic Censorship

3:00-4:00PM

Robert Wald

4:00-4:30PM

Coffee break

4:30-4:45PM

Jens Boos

4:45-5:00PM

Mike Kesden

Learning about Black-Hole Formation by Observing Gravitational Waves

5:00-5:15PM

Maxim Arnold

On the discretizations of Evolutes and Involutes

 Conference Mixer, Sunday, May 7th, 5:30pm-7:30pm, Founders Atrium, second floor Schedule

Monday, May 8, 2017 Room: SLC 1.102

10:00-11:00AM

Mielnik Bogdan

11:00-11:30AM

Coffee break

11:30-12:30PM

Eric Poisson

12:30-2:00AM

Lunch break

2:00-3:00PM

Don N. Page

Anthropic Estimates for Many Parameters of Physics and Astronomy

3:00-3:30PM

Gerald Cleaver

3:30-4:00PM

Muhammad Sharif

Dynamics of Particles around Black Holes

4:00-4:30PM

Coffee break

4:30-4:45PM

Don Salisbury

4:45-5:00PM

Rishi Tiwari

Bulk Viscous cosmological model with variable Deceleration parameter

5:00-5:15PM

Archana Yadav

TBD

 Conference Banquet, Monday, May 8, 6:00pm Frankie's Mexican Cuisine, 2701 Custer Pkwy, Richardson, TX 75080

    Wolfgang Rindler's After Dinner Talk

    Banquet Photos

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Room: SLC 1.102

10:00-11:00AM

Pawel Nurowski

11:00-11:30AM

Coffee break

11:30-12:30PM

Peter Ozsvath

12:30-2:00AM

Lunch break

2:00-3:00PM

Lane Hughston

Higher-Dimensional Minkowskian Geometries

3:00-3:30PM

Sam Gralla

3:30-3:45PM

Peter Zimmerman

Amplifyed Perturbations of Rapidly Rotating Black Holes

3:45-4:00PM

Tomoki Ohsawa

Hamiltonian Dynamics of Semiclassical Wave Packets

4:00-4:30PM

Coffee break

4:30-4:45PM

Lindsay King

Testing gravity and the assembly of mass on galaxy cluster scales

4:45-4:55PM

Weikang Lin

4:55-5:05PM

Juan Servin

A relativistic treatment of tidal disruption by non-rotating black holes

5:05-5:15PM

Ben Cashen

Gravitomagnetic Dynamical Friction

5:15-5:25PM

Anani Adabrah

Relativistic quadrics

5:25-5:35PM

Joe Coleman

5:35-5:45PM

Nathan Steinle

5:45-5:55PM

Mathew Fong

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