PROGRAM
Venue : The Ball Room, Holiday Inn Resort Goa
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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS To be published by Journal of Physics Conference Series.
- Maximum page limit: Plenary Talks, Evening Talks, Reports by Mini-session chairs and parallel session chairs : 16 pages. Mini-session Talks : 8 pages. Parallel session talks and posters : 4 pages. LAST DATE FOR RECEIVING WRITE-UPS IS MARCH 31, 2012. All submissions will be refereed following a standard peer review process. Expected date of publication is September 2012.
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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