PROGRAM                                          

Venue : The Ball Room, Holiday Inn Resort Goa

 

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS   To be published by Journal of Physics Conference Series. 

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Wednesday 14th Dec.    :

                                        Day of Arrival

                                        Registration : 5-7 p.m.  

                                        Poster Session W1 : Classical General Relativity and Gravitational Waves 3 p.m. onwards. [Poster Viewing 6-7 p.m.]

 

Thursday 15th Dec.         

                                        0930 - 0945 : Inaugural Remarks : IAGRG President Pankaj S. Joshi       SLIDES OF TALK

                                        0945 - 1045 : Keynote Address by Kip Thorne                   SLIDES OF TALK .key      SLIDES OF TALK .pdf                   [Chairperson : Tejinder Singh]

                                        1045 - 1115 : Coffee break

                                        1115  -  1215  :  Keynote Address  by  P. James E. Peebles           SLIDES OF TALK                 [Chairperson : Tarun Souradeep]

                                        1215 - 1400 : Lunch Break

                                        1400- 1730 : Will Run in Parallel :

                                         W1. Gravitational Waves    W2. Cosmology.  Mini-Session I.  Gravity as an Emergent Phenomenon. 

 

                                        1800- 1815 : The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences - an introduction     Spenta R. Wadia

                                        1815 - 1930 : The ICGCs : A Retrospective

                                           Chairperson : Ajit Kembhavi

                                           Jayant Narlikar : ICGC-87 As I See Today  SLIDES OF TALK

                                           C. V. Vishweshwara : ICGC - A Cartoon Chronicle 

 

                                        1930-2130 : Welcome Reception

 

                                        0900 - 1930 : Poster session W1 continued [Poster Viewing 1300-1400 hrs] 

 

Friday 16th Dec.              

0930 - 1100 : Plenary Lectures :

Robert Kirshner        SLIDES OF TALK .ppt    SLIDES OF TALK .pdf

Mihalis Dafermos     SLIDES OF TALK.                        

[Chairperson : S. M. Chitre]

1100 - 1130 : Coffee Break

1130 - 1300 : Plenary Lectures : 

Eric Adelberger      [ SLIDES OF TALK ]            

Dipankar Bhattacharya    [ SLIDES OF TALK ]   SLIDES OF TALK .pdf               

[Chairperson : Naresh Dadhich]

                                        1300  -  1500  :  Lunch Break

                                        1500  - 1830 :  Will Run in Parallel :

                                        W1. Classical General Relativity     W3. Early Universe    Mini-Session II : Dark Energy 

 

                                        1900 - 2000 : Evening Lecture by Abhay Ashtekar : The Big Bang and the Quantum     SLIDES OF TALK         [Chairperson : Ghanashyam Date]

 

                                        0900 - 2000 : Poster Session W2 : Cosmology [Poster viewing 2-3 p.m.]

                                        2000 - 2200 : Conference Banquet

 

Saturday 17th Dec.         

0930 - 1100 Plenary Lectures :

Bernard Schutz     SLIDES OF TALK .key    SLIDES OF TALK .pdf

J. R. Bond     SLIDES OF TALK

[Chairperson :   Sanjeev Dhurandhar]

1100 - 1130 Coffee Break

1130 - 1300  Plenary Lectures :

Luis Lehner.     SLIDES OF TALK

Shiraz Minwalla    SLIDES OF TALK.                    

[Chairperson : A. R. Prasanna]

                                        1300 - 1500 Lunch Break

                                        0900 - 1500 Poster Session W2 continued [Poster viewing 2-3 p.m.]

                                        1500 - 2000 : Conference Excursion

 

Sunday 18th Dec.           

0930 - 1100 Plenary Lectures :

Stan Whitcomb.     SLIDES OF TALK

Francois Bouchet                 SLIDES OF TALK

[Chairperson : Bala Iyer]

1100 - 1130 Coffee Break

1130 - 1300 Plenary Lectures :

Rafael Sorkin    SLIDES OF TALK.            

Masaru Shibata     SLIDES OF TALK

[Chairperson : Sumati Surya]

                                       1300 - 1500 Lunch Break

                                       1500 - 1830  Will Run in Parallel :

                                        W2. Cosmology      W3. Quantum Gravity  Mini-Session III. Gravitational Wave Astronomy   

                                       0900  - 2000  Poster session W3: Quantum Gravity and Early Universe  [Poster viewing  2-3 p.m.]

 

Monday 19th Dec.          

0930 - 1100 Plenary Lectures :

Priyamvada Natarajan    SLIDES OF TALK

David Wands                       SLIDES OF TALK

[Chairperson : N. Panchapakesan]

1100 - 1130 Coffee Break

1130  -  1300  Plenary lectures  :

Gary Horowitz.       SLIDES OF TALK

John Ellis                            SLIDES OF TALK .pptx          SLIDES OF TALK .pdf

[Chairperson : Amol Dighe]

                                       1300  - 1330  Announcement of Poster Prizes. Closing Remarks.

                                       1330 - 1500 Lunch Break

                                       0900 - 1500 Poster session W3 contd. [poster viewing 2-3 p.m.]

                                       1500 : End of conference