================================================================ The 15th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN 28 November (Mon) -- 2 December (Fri) 2005 final circular (15th Nov. 2005) ================================================================ Dear Collegue, The 15th workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation (JGRG15) will be held in Tokyo soon. For detailed information, please visit our Web page: URL: http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/jgrg15/index.php Place: Digital Hall, Bildg. West 9, Oookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/jgrg15/map.php?item=5 Date: 28 November (Mon) -- 2 December (Fri) 2005 List of invited speakers: Miguel-Angel Aloy Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts Vijay Balasubramanian On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics Bernard Carr TBA Mihalis Dafermos Black holes and the cosmic censorship conjectures Hector J. de Vega Inflation, fundamental physics and out of equilibrium field theory Andrew Jaffe The CMB in 2005: has anything changed? Nemanja Kaloper How I Learned to Like w < -1 Dark Energy Shiho Kobayashi Recent Progress in the Study of Gamma-Ray Bursts Robert Mann Eguchi-Hanson Solitons Robert Myers Inflation in AdS/CFT Masaru Shibata MHD simulations in dynamical spacetime Shigeki Sugimoto QCD and supergravity Junichi Tanaka Probing new physics with the LHC Masahito Ueda Collapsing dynamics and symmetry-breaking in Bose-Einstein condensates Oral Presentation: A liquid crystal display (LCD) projector, a document camera and an overhead projector (OHP) will be available. We suggest you to prepare hard copies for the document camera in case we have trouble on the LCD projector. Please do not use LCD projector for short oral presentation of posters. Poster Presentation: The size of the poster board is 168cm(hight) x 82(width)cm. We asign 3 minutes short oral presentation for all posters. Please check the programme and prepare hard copies or OHP viewgraphs. Registration: The registration desk is open from 10:00 to 16:40 on Monday. On the other four days the registration desk is open during the morning coffee break and the lunch time. Conference dinner: Conference dinner is held on November 30th from 18:30 on the third floor at the Centennial Hall, Tokyo Institute of Technology. http://www.libra.titech.ac.jp/cent/cent-e.html http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/ns_conf/map_ch.gif We collect the charge for the conference dinner at the registration desk. (The fee is expected to be 3,000 yen for student; 4,000 yen for faculty member) Proceedings:[Deadline:January 16, 2006] Please write your manuscript in English. Page limits: 4 pages. (20 pages for invited speakers) Please download a TeX format file from http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/jgrg15/jgrg15proc.tex Please prepare a PDF file of your manuscript. Please send your PDF file by one of the following two ways: E-mail to: jgrg15 @ phys.titech.ac.jp with subject including jgrg15_proc (your full name) (your presentation number) ex.) Subject: jgrg15_proc Tetsuya Shiromizu when your file size is large, please COMPRESS it. Postal mail to: T. Shiromizu Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo 152-8551 JAPAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme(15th Nov. 2005 version) Invited talk: 40+10 min Oral: 15+5 min 28th Nov. (Mon) Chair M. Sasaki(YITP,Kyoto) 11:00-11:50 Hector J. de Vega(Paris) Inflation, fundamental physics and out of equilibrium field theory 11:50-12:40 Nemanja Kaloper(UC,Davis) How I Learned to Like w < -1 Dark Energy 12:40-14:00 Lunch Chair J. Yokoyama(RESCEU,Tokyo) 14:00-14:50 Bernard Carr(Queen Mary, London/RESCEU) 14:50-16:30 Tomohiro Matsuda(SIT) PBH and DM from cosmic necklaces Tomohiro Harada(Kyoto) Super-horizon black hole and its evolution Shuntaro Mizuno(Waseda) Correspondence between Loop-inspired and Braneworld cosmology Kazuharu Bamba(Osaka) The possibility of realization of a curvaton scenario in a theory with two dilatons coupled to the scalar curvature Hiromi Saida(DIT) Black hole evaporation as nonequilibrium dynamics 16:30-17:00 Break Chair M. Siino(TITech) 17:00-18:30 Short Oral Presentation of Posters 29th Nov. (Tue) Chair TBF 9:00-9:50 Andrew Jaffe(Imperial College, London) The CMB in 2005: has anything changed? 9:50-10:40 Junichi Tanaka(Tokyo) Probing new physics with the LHC 10:40-11:10 Break Chair T. Chiba(Nihon Univ) 11:10-12:50 Masumi Kasai(Hirosaki) No-go theorem for accelerating universe by nonlinear backreaction Chul-Moon Yoo(Osaka City) Research of the nature of dark matter via the lensing effects to high redshift type Ia supernovae observation Bo Feng(RECSEU,Tokyo) The Quintom model of dark energy Tomo Takahashi(ICRR,Tokyo) Dark Energy and Cross Correlation of CMB with LSS Kazuhide Ichikawa(ICRR,Tokyo) Constraining dark energy from the baryon acoustic peak and supernovae 12:50-14:00 Lunch Chair A. Hosoya(TITech) 14:00-14:50 Masahito Ueda(TITech) Collapsing dynamics and symmetry-breaking in Bose-Einstein condensates 14:50-16:10 Alan Cornell(YITP,Kyoto) Graviton emission from a higher-dimensional black hole Hirotaka Yoshino(TITech) Close-limit analysis for collision of two black holes in higher dimensions Antonino Flachi(YITP,Kyoto) Dynamics of domain walls in black hole spacetimes Hideo Iguchi(Nihon Univ) Solitonic generation of 5-dimensional black ring solutions 16:10-17:10 Break and Poster Session Chair S. Mukohyama(Tokyo) 17:10-18:30 Keisuke Izumi(Kyoto) Avoidance of ghost problem in DGP braneworld model Ken Matsuno(Osaka City) Deformed horizons and singularities in five dimensional charged black holes Shunji Matsuura(Tokyo) Geometrical Aspects of D-branes : Black Hole Microstates Shinpei Kobayashi(RESCEU,Tokyo) Geometrical Aspects of D-branes : Boundary States and Gravity Solutions 30th Nov. (Wed) Chair Y. Kojima(Hiroshima) 9:00-9:50 Shiho Kobayashi(Liverpool, John Moores) Recent Progress in the Study of Gamma-Ray Bursts 9:50-10:40 Miguel-Angel Aloy(MPA, MaxPlanck) Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts 10:40-11:10 break Chair H. Asada(Hirosaki) 11:10-12:30 Atsushi Taruya(Tokyo) Generalized variational principle for stellar dynamics and quasi-equilibrium states in N-body system Masafumi Seriu(Fukui) Analytical study of axi-symmetric shell collapses Kouji Ogawa(Osaka City) Gravitational Radiation from Stationary Rotating Cosmic Strings Teruaki Suyama(Kyoto) Wave effects in gravitational lensing by a cosmic string 12:30-14:00 Lunch Chair A. Tomimatsu(Nagoya) 14:00-14:50 Masaru Shibata(Tokyo) MHD simulations in dynamical spacetime 14:50-15:50 Masaaki Takahashi(Aichi Univ of Education) MHD Shocks for Accreting Plasma onto a Black Hole Kentaro Takami(Hiroshima) The verification of Tidal effects in the relativistic treatment Ryoji Takahashi(Louisiana State) 3D numerical simulation of Orbiting Binary Black Holes 15:50-16:50 Break and Poster session Chair K. Oohara(Niigata) 16:50-18:10 Kenta Kiuchi(Waseda) Gravitational wave from realistic stellar collapse : odd parity perturbation Katsuhiko Ganz(Kyoto) Adiabatic Evolution of 'Constant' of Motion in Kerr Backgroung Hideki Asada(Hirosaki) Progress in 2 body observational problem Masaru Siino(TITech) Operator geometry and algebraic quantum gravity 18:30- Party at the TITech Centennial Hall 1st Dec. (Thu) Chair J. Soda(Kyoto) 9:00-9:50 Robert Myers(Perimeter Institute) Inflation in AdS/CFT 9:50-10:40 Shigeki Sugimoto(Kyoto) QCD and supergravity 10:40-11:10 Break Chair T. Tanaka(Kyoto) 11:10-12:30 Hiroshi Kozaki(Osaka City) Classification of Cohomogeneity-one membranes Shinji Mukohyama(Tokyo) Cosmology with Warped String Compactification Tsutomu Kobayashi(Kyoto) The spectrum of gravitational waves in Randall-Sundrum braneworld cosmology Sugumi Kanno(Kyoto) Effective Action Approach to String Gas Compactification 12:30-14:00 Lunch Chair K. Maeda(Waseda) 14:00-14:50 Vijay Balasubramanian(Pennsylvania) On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics 14:50-16:10 Takashi Tamaki(Kyoto) Black hole entropy in loop quantum gravity Kenmoku Masakatsu(Nara Women) Scalar Field Contribution to Rotating Black Hole Entropy Jun-ichirou Koga(Waseda) Universal property from local geometry of Killing horizon Kunihito Uzawa(Kyoto) Moduli Instability in a Warped Compactification 16:10-17:10 Break and Poster session Chair T. Shiromizu(TITech) 17:10-18:30 Hideki Ishihara(Osaka City) Inner structure of Kaluza-Klein black holes Makoto Tanabe(Waseda) Stationary Spacetime from Intersecting M-brane Umpei Miyamoto(Waseda) Is there a stable phase of non-uniform black branes? Shinsuke Kawai(Kyoto) Fractional space-like branes on a time-like orbifold 2nd Dec. (Fri) Chair K. Nakao(Osaka City) 9:00-9:50 Robert Mann(Perimeter Institute) Eguchi-Hanson Solitons 9:50-10:40 Mihalis Dafermos(Cambridge) Black holes and the cosmic censorship conjectures 10:40-11:00 Break Chair H. Ishihara(Osaka City) 11:00-13:00 Sumio Yamada(Tohoku) On Penrose inequality with charge Ashutosh Mahajan(Tata Institute) Critical Behaviour in Gravitational Collapse of Tangential Pressure Model Ken-ichi Nakao(Osaka City) Numerical study of naked singularity Sean A. Hayward(Penn state) Angular momentum and conservation laws for dynamical black holes Makoto Yoshikawa(Kyoto) New dynamical solutions for the Einstein-scalar field system and their asymptotic behaviors Eiji Mitsuda(Nagoya) Time evolution of density perturbations in self-similar gravitational collapse of a perfect fluid ---------------------------------------- Poster Presentation: The size of the poster board is 168cm(hight) x 82(width)cm. We asign 3 minutes short oral presentation for all posters on 28th November. Please check the programme and prepare sheets. The poster session will be closed on 1st of December. P1 Noriyuki Kogo Signal-to-noise ratio of the CMB angular trispectrum using the full radiative transfer functions P2 Yuuiti Sendouda Covariant boundary conditions for perturbation in compactified codimension-two braneworlds P3 Hideki Maeda Effects of Gauss-Bonnet term on the final fate of gravitational collapse P4 Shunichiro Kinoshita Second order perturbation and energy loss by the KK modes in the RS model P5 Hideaki Kudoh Detecting (an)isotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds with next-generation space interferometers P6 Yoshiaki Himemoto Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational waves in presence of non-Gaussianity P7 Hiroyuki Nakano Gravitational Self-force for Low Multipole Modes P8 Hideyuki Tagoshi Search for inspiraling neutron star binaries by TAMA300 detector P9 Tomoki Watanabe The accelerating universe and spin-interacting fields in Einstein-Cartan theory P10 Shinya Tomizawa Solitonic solutions of five dimensional vacuum Einstein equations generated by the inverse scattering method P11 Noriko Shiiki Skyrme Branes P12 Konosuke Sawa Muon anomalous magnetic moment in higher dimensions P13 Masato Nozawa Effects of Lovelock terms on the final fate of gravitational collapse P14 Shuichiro Yokoyama Wronskian Formulation for the Spectrum of Curvature Perturbations P15 Yasunari Kurita Thermodynamics of a Kalza-Klein black hole P16 Kouji Nakamura Second order gauge invariat perturbation theory and cosmological perturbations P17 Fujii Shunsuke HIGH-ENERGY EFFECTIVE THEORY FOR A BULK BRANE P18 Nobuyuki Sakai Can we create a universe in the laboratory? P19 Yoshiaki Ohkuwa A new canonical formalism of f(R)-type gravity in terms of Lie derivatives P20 Takayuki Tatekawa Non-Gaussianity of one-point distribution functions in the Universe P21 Kenji Hotta Non-BPS D9-branes in the Early Universe P22 Daisuke Ida Equilibrium problem of non-BPS black holes in D=5 supergravity P23 Shintaro Sawayama Black Hole Evapolation in Vaidya Spacetime P24 Masato Minamitsuji Can thick braneworlds be self-consitent ? P25 Takeshi Hattori Non-Gaussianity from multi-field stochastic inflation P26 BABACAR SANE, ELIZABETH ADADE THERMODYNAMIC EMSEMBLES AND GRAVITATION P27 V. O. Thomas Non-adiabatic Gravitational Collapse with Anisotropic core P28 Bharat Ratanpal CORE-ENVELOPE MODELS OF SUPERDENSE STAR WITH ANISOTROPIC ENVELOPE P29 ALIMI Stabilization of test particles in Space-Time-Matter theory P30 Naveen Bijalwan Charged Analogues of Shear-free Relativistic fluids P31 Kapil connection between Relativity and Wave Mechanism P32 BHAKTA BAHADUR SUNUWAR TBA P33 Shahram Jalalzadeh Stabilization of test particles in Space-Time-Matter theory. P34 M. Ayub Faridi Review on Foliation of Spacetime P35 Farhad Darabi Dual signature changing classical cosmologies and an inflation-like solution P36 SATYAVARAPU NAGA PARAMESWARA GUPTA MISSING MASS IN DYNAMIC UNIVERSE MODEL OF COSMOLOGY