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            All sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.

         Participants who wish to make short presentations during the extended discussion
         periods should contact the session chair.
 
 

	Tuesday, June 22, 1999:
Time:	Speaker:	Title:
8:00 am	Registration	ITP Lobby
8:45	David Gross	Welcome to the ITP
8:55	Don Marolf	Welcome to the Conference
	Topic: String Theory	Chair:  Ted Jacobson
9:00	Gary Horowitz (Univ. California, Santa Barbara)	Black Holes in String Theory[Audio]
9:50	Discussion
10:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:00	Joe Polchinski (Univ. California, Santa Barbara)	Lessons from Field Theory/String Theory Duality[Audio]
11:50	Discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch Break	ITP Front Patio
	Topic: Gravitational Waves	Chair:  Kip Thorne
2:00	John Friedman (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)	Gravitational Waves from Unstable Neutron Stars[Audio]
2:50	Discussion
3:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
4:00	Eanna Flanagan (Cornell University)	Gravitational Wave Detection: Prospects and Challenges[Audio]
4:50	Discussion
5:30	End of Session
	Wednesday, June 23, 1999
	Topic:  Numerical Relativity	Chair:  Matt Choptuik
9:00 am	Richard Price (Univ. of Utah)	Collisions of Black Holes[Audio]
9:50	Discussion
10:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:00	Carsten Gundlach (Univ. of Chicago)	Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse[Audio]
11:50	Discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch Break	ITP Front Patio
	Topic:  Quantum Geometry	Chair:  Jorge Pullin
2:00	John Baez (Univ. California, Riverside)	Spin Networks, Spin Foam and Quantum Gravity[Audio]
2:50	Discussion
3:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
4:00	Abhay Ashtekar (Pennsylvania State Univ.)	Quantum Geometry of Isolated Horizons and Black Hole Entropy[Audio]
4:50	Discussion
5:30	End of Session
	Thursday, June 24, 1999
	Topic:  Quantum Gravity	Chair:  Don Marolf
9:00 am	Carlo Rovelli (Univ. of Pittsburgh)	Dynamics in Loop Quantum Gravity[Audio]
9:50	Discussion
10:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:00	Rob Myers  (McGill University)	On the Gravity of the AdS/CFT Correspondence[Audio]
11:50	Discussion
12:30 pm	SPECIAL EVENT:  Beach Barbeque	Goleta Beach, Area "D" Afternoon Free
	Friday, June 25, 1999
	Topic:  Mathematical Relativity	Chair:  Helmut Friedrich
9:00 am	Rick Schoen (Stanford Univ.)	Vacuum Spacetimes Which are Identically Schwarzschild near Spatial Infinity[Audio]
9:50	Discussion
10:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:00	Hubert Bray (MIT-Math)	The Penrose Mass/Area Inequality[Audio]
11:50	Discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch Break	ITP Front Patio
	Contributed Session I	Chair: Vince Moncrief
2:00	Jorge Pullin (Pennsylvania State Univ.)	Consistent Canonical Quantizations of Gravity[Audio]
2:30	Daniel Sudarsky (ICN-UNAM)	Large Fluctuations in the Horizon Area and What They Can Tell Us About Quantum Gravity [Audio]
3:00	Ingemar Bengtsson (Stockholm Univ.)	Anti-de Sitter Black Holes[Audio]
3:30	Kristen Schleich (Univ. of British Columbia)	Exotic Spaces in Quantum Gravity [Audio]
4:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
	Contributed Session 2	Chair: Istvan Racz
4:30	Sean Hayward (YITP-Kyoto Univ.)	Black Hole Dynamics[Audio]
5:00	Chris Beetle (Pennsylvania State Univ.)	A Hamiltonian Approach to the Mass of Isolated Black Holes[Audio]
5:30	Lior Burko (Cal Tech)	Strength of the Null Singularity inside Black Holes[Audio]
6:00	End of Session
	Saturday, June 26, 1999
	Topic:  Classical General            Relativity	Chair: Lars Andersson
9:00 am	Jim Isenberg (Univ. of Oregon)	Understanding the Evolution of Cosmological Spacetimes[Audio]
9:50	Discussion
10:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:00	Wald (chair),  Berger, Ehlers, Laguna	Panel Discussion on Classical Relativity[Audio]
12:30 pm	Lunch Break	ITP Front Patio
	Contributed Session 3	Chair: Eric Hirschmann
2:00	Keith Lockitch (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)	The R-Mode Oscillations of Relativistic Stars[Audio]
2:30	Sacha Husa (Univ. of Pittsburgh)	Topology Change of Event Horizons and the Merger of Asymmetric Black Holes [Audio]
3:00	Luis Lehner (Univ. of Texas-Austin)	Astrophysical Applications of Numerical Relativity[Audio]
3:30	Roberto Gomez (Univ. of Pittsburgh)	Strong Field Radiation form the Post-Merger of Two Black Holes [Audio]
4:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
	Contributed Session 4	Chair: Steve Carlip
4:30	Wei-Tou Ni (National Tsing Hua University)	Equivalence Principle, Lorentz Invariance, and the Microscopic Origin of Gravity [Audio]
5:00	Don Witt (Univ. of British Columbia)	Topological Censorship and Black Hole Topologies[Audio]
5:30	Jurgen Ehlers (MPI-Golm)	Null Cone Singularities in Gravitational Lensing[Audio]
6:00	End of Conference