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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
ITP Teachers Educational Forum on
Black Holes: Fact and Fiction
Saturday, February 6, 1999
Coordinators: O. Blaes. R. Blandford, D. Eardley and J.P. Lasota
Schedule
Time: | Speaker: | Title: |
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8:00 am | Registration | ITP Lobby |
9:00 am | David Gross Omer Blaes | Welcome to ITP Welcome to Conference |
9:30 am | Kip Thorne (Caltech) | Black Holes: Predicted Properties and Behaviors |
10:30 | Refreshment Break | ITP Courtyard |
11:00 | Roger Blandford (Caltech) | New horizons in black hole astrophysics |
12 Noon | Jim Lochner (NASA/GSFC) | Building a Black Hole in Your Classroom |
12:15 | Lunch Break | ITP Courtyard |
1:45 pm | Joe Polchinski (ITP) | What is String Theory and What Does It Have to Do With Black Holes? |
2:45 pm | Town Hall Meeting |
O. Blaes, R. Blandford, D. Eardley, D. Gross, J. Lochner, J. Polchinski,K. Thorne |
3:30 pm | Refreshment Break | ITP Courtyard |
4:00 | Stephen Hawking (Cambridge) | **TBA** |
5:00 pm | Conference Ends |