Talk Titles and Abstracts
Abstracts (.pdf)
Abstracts (.doc)
Preliminary Schedule
Schedule (.pdf)
Schedule (.doc)
Friday, September 1
Location: Main Library (Irving K. Barber) Room 182
| 8:45 | --- | Welcome and Introduction | ||
| 9:00 | A. Ashtekar | Advances in General Relativity and Gravitation: A Broad Perspective | Slides | Video |
| 9:40 | P. Stamp | Overview of the Gravity Archive Project | Slides | Video |
| 10:15 | --- | Coffee | ||
| 10:30 | G. Ellis | Gravitational Theory and Cosmology: Past, Present, and Future | Slides | Video |
| 11:10 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | Video | |
| 12:10 | --- | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 | J. Norton | Einstein's Zurich Notebook | Slides | Video |
| 14:30 | W. Unruh | Black Hole Horizons and Universal Coordinates | Slides | Video |
| 15:00 | ---- | Coffee | ||
| 15:15 | C. Misner | My 'Assists' in Some Discoveries | Slides | Video |
| 15:35 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | Video | |
| 16:10 | M. Wright | The Archive Trust for Research: An Overview | Video | |
| 16:40 | C. Wong | Insights on Examples of Archive Functionality for Research, Public Access, and Education | Video | |
| 17:10 | --- | DISCUSSION and WRAP-UP | ||
| 17:45 | --- | END OF SESSION | ||
| --- | --- | DINNER BREAK | ||
| 19:30 | M. Rees | PUBLIC LECTURE: From Mars to the Multiverse | Slides | Video |
| Location: Hebb Main Lecture Theatre (Room 100) |
Saturday, September 2
Location: Main Library (Irving K. Barber) Room 302 (Dodson Room)
| 8:45 | H. Brown | How Einstein Came to Employ the Action-Reaction Principle in Justifying General Relativity | Slides | Video | |
| 9:15 | J. Weatherall | Motion of Small Bodies in Space-Time | Slides | Video | |
| 10:15 | --- | Coffee | |||
| 10:30 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | Video | ||
| 11:00 | J. Goldberg | Syracuse and Beyond | Slides(1/2) | Slides(2/2) | Video |
| 11:30 | W. Rindler | Some Remarks on Horizons in Friedmann Models | Slides | Video | |
| 12:00 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | Video | ||
| 12:30 | --- | LUNCH | |||
| 14:00 | R. Penrose | Conformal Boundaries: Old Ideas and New Developments | Slides | Video | |
| 14:40 | T. Newman | Almost Light-Cones and Applications | Slides | Video | |
| 15:10 | --- | Coffee | |||
| 15:20 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | Video | ||
| 16:00 | J. Hartle | The Impact of Cosmology on Quantum Mechanics | Slides | Video | |
| 16:40 | A. Barvinsky | Gravity: Past, Present, Future, from East to West | Slides | Video | |
| 17:20 | --- | DISCUSSION and WRAP-UP | Video | ||
| 18:00 | --- | END OF SESSION | |||
| 19:00 | --- | CONFERENCE BANQUET |
Sunday, September 3
Location: Main Library (Irving K. Barber) Room 302 (Dodson Room)
| 9:00 | C. Rovelli | Quantum Gravity: Past, Present, and Future | Slides | Video |
| 9:40 | M. Duff | Five Decades of the Gravitational Weyl Anomaly | Slides | Video |
| 10:15 | --- | Coffee | ||
| 10:30 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | Video | |
| 11:10 | S. Fulling | Is There a Cosmological Casimir Effect? On the Reality of Vacuum Energy | Slides | Video (includes discussion) |
| 11:40 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | ||
| 12:10 | --- | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 | R. Wald | Information Loss in Black Hole Evaporation | Slides | Video |
| 14:30 | J. Bardeen | Hawking Radiation and Information Loss - Insights from the Semi-Classical Stress-Energy Tensor | Slides | Video |
| 15:00 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION | Video | |
| 15:30 | --- | Coffee | ||
| 15:45 | G. Semenoff | Soft Quantum Gravity | Slides | Video |
| 16:25 | C. Misner | Thematic Analysis in BH Theory Development | Slides | Video |
| 16:45 | --- | DISCUSSION and WRAP-UP | Video | |
| 17:45 | --- | END OF SESSION |
Monday, September 4
Location: Main Library (Irving K. Barber) Room 302 (Dodson Room)
| 9:00 | D. Lehmkuhl | Towards a History of Binary Fields: LIGO and Numerical Relativity | Slides | Video |
| 9:30 | G. Hinshaw | The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) | Slides | Video |
| 10:00 | R. Kerr | The Kerr Solution | Slides | Video |
| 10:30 | --- | Coffee | ||
| 10:45 | --- | DISCUSSION SESSION and CONFERENCE CONCLUSION | Video | |
| 12:00 | --- | END OF MEETING |
A Note on Locations:
All 3 locations - the 2 library rooms in the Irving K. Barber learning centre, and the Hebb theatre - are within 100 metres of each other. They are in the very centre of campus, and the Hennings building (Physics and Astronomy) is located between the Main Library and the Hebb theatre. Please look at your maps to verify this.
We will attempt to signpost the location of the rooms in the library. If you do get lost, look for any sign which has the PiTP logo on it - seen at the bottom of this page.