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KITP Program: Scanning New Horizons: GR Beyond 4 Dimensions (Jan 9 - Mar 10, 2006)
Coordinators: Luis Lehner, Dan Marolf, Rob Myers
Time Speaker Title
1/10, 12:00 p.m. Organizational Meeting
1/10, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Mukund Rangamani
University of Durham		 Causal Structures and Holography[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/12, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Veronika Hubeny
University Durham		 Looking Beyond Horizons via AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/13, 11:00 a.m. Rob Myers, Don Marolf Discussion: Gravity Beyond 4-D[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/17, 10:00 a.m. Dr. Jorge Pullin
Louisiana State University		 Approaches to Higher Dimensional Gravity
1/17, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Hideaki Kudoh
The University of Tokyo		 Black Hole/String Transition -- Origin of the Instability and the Effects of Charge[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/18, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Akihiro Ishibashi
University of Chicago		 Discussion: Mathematical Problems in Higher Dimensional Gravity
1/19, 10:00 a.m. Toby Wiseman Discussion: Curvature Flows
1/20, 11:00 a.m. Roberto Emparan Discussion: Open Questions about Black Rings and Black Holes
1/23, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Rob Myers
KITP & Perimeter Institute		 Scanning New Horizons: GR Beyond 4 Dimensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
1/24, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Niels Obers
Niels Bohr Institute		 Phases of Kaluza-Klein Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/26, 2:00 p.m. Drs. Gary Horowitz, Hideaki Kudoh, Roberto Emparan Discussion: Do Static Black Holes Exist on Randall-Sundrum Branes?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/27, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Luis Lehner Discussion: Black String Instabilities: End State and Dynamics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/31, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Gustavo Dotti
UNC, Argentina		 Review of BHs in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/01, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Simon Ross, Chair
University Durham		 Panel Discussion: Higher Dimensions and Higher Curvatures[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/03, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Per Kraus
UCLA		 Recent Developments in Black Hole Entropy and AdS/CFT
2/07, 12:30 p.m. Dr. David Berman Getting String Perturbation Theory from Membranes, or, the Moduli Space of Dimensionally Reduced 3d Gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/10, 11:30 a.m. Troels Harmark
Chair		 Panel Discussion:  Defining Tension of Extending Extended Black Objects
2/14, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Troels Harmark
Niels Bohr Institute		 Stationary and Axisymmetric Metrics in Higher Dimensional GR[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/15, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Bill Unruh
UBC		 Radiation Emitted by an Accelerated Oscillator[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/17, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Barak Kol
Hebrew University		 Discussion: Choptuik Scaling and the Merger Transition[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/22, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Samir Mathur
Ohio State University		 Dynamics of Supertubes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/22, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Tommy Levi
University Pennsylvania		 Black Holes, Fuzzballs and Foam[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/22, 3:45 p.m. Dr. Simon Ross
University Durham		 Non-Supersymmetric Solitons[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/24, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Iosif Bena
Institute for Advanced Study		 Geometric Transitions, Supertubes & Microstates[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/28, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Greg Galloway
University of Miami		 On the Topology of Black Holes in Higher Dimensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/01, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Lars Andersson
(University of Miami)
Dr. Jim Isenberg
(University of Oregon)		 Dynamical Horizons[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/02, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Stefan Hollands
University of Goettingen		 Discussion: Extra Symmetries for Black Holes in Higher Dimensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/07, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Marc Henneaux
Universite Libre de Bruxelles		 BKL Billiards and Lorentzian Kac-Moody Algebras in Four and Higher Dimensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/08, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Valeri Frolov
University of Alberta		 Gravitational Field of Higher Dimensional Gyratons[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/10, 11:00 a.m. Participants Closing Discussion Session[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

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