Text Box: 24th IAGRG Meeting Recent Advances in Gravitation and Cosmology 5-8 February, 2007

 

Plenary Program – IAGRG 24                                    Updated  01-02-2007

 

 

5th February

6th February

7th February

8th February

09:30 – 10:15

Inauguration

T. Padmanabhan

R. Gopakumar

P. S. Joshi

10:15 – 11:00

Bala Iyer

Amit Ghosh

S. Tsujikawa

T. R. Seshadri

11:00 – 11:30

Tea Break

Tea Break

Tea Break

Tea Break

11:30 – 12:15

S. Majumdar

H. Kodama

G. Date

V-R Lecture

12:15 – 13:00

J. S. Bagla

S. Dhurandhar

M. Vardharajan

CLOSE
(IAGRG General Body Meeting)

13:00 – 14:30

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

14:30 – 17:30

WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP

18:00 – 18:45

 

N. Dadhich

 

19:00 – 20:00

Dinner

 

Dinner

 

20:00 – 21:30

 

Workshop Dinner

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions at IAGRG 24

February 5, Monday

Session I: Classical gravity and gravitational waves

Time

Speaker

Title
14:30 -- 15:00 Archan S Majumdar Higher dimensional black holes: Cosmological implications and observational signatures
15:00 -- 15:30 Naresh Dadhich New black hole: An example of pure curvature creation
15:30 -- 15:45 Ashutosh Mahajan Critical collapse of Einstein cluster
15:45 -- 16:00 Ranjan Sharma Gravitational collapse in Vaidya-Reissner-Nordstr
16:00 -- 16:15 Tea break
16:15 -- 16:30 Ujjal Debnath Gravitational collapse in higher dimensional Husain spacetime
16:30 -- 16:45 Soma Nath Quasi-spherical collapse with cosmological constant
16:45 -- 17:00 K. D. Patil Nature of the singularities arising in the gravitational collapse of Husain spacetime
17:00 -- 17:15 Ratna Koley Braneworlds in six dimensions: New models with bulk scalars
17:15 -- 17:30 Mohammed Saleh Saleh Qusailah Gravitational recoil of inspiralling black-hole binaries to second

Session II: Cosmology

Time

Speaker

Title
14:30 -- 15:00 Gianluca Calcagni Progress in nonlocal tachyon cosmology
15:00 -- 15:30 Eleftherios Papantonopoulos Gravity in six dimensions
15:30 -- 15:45 Aseem Paranjape The possibility of cosmic acceleration via spatial averaging in general relativity
15:45 -- 16:00 Rajeev Kumar Jain Amplification of tachyonic perturbations at super Hubble scales
16:00 -- 16:15 Tea break
16:15 -- 16:30 Supratik Pal Structure formation on the brane: A mimicry
16:30 -- 16:45 Sudipta Das Curvature driven accelerated expansion of the universe
16:45 -- 17:00 Patrick Das Gupta Formation of Kerr blackholes in the early universe
17:00 -- 17:15 P. K. Suresh Inflaton field in DGP brane-world model
17:15 -- 17:30 Tanwi Bandyopadhyay Collapse dynamics of a star of dark matter and dark energy


February 6, Tuesday

Session I: Classical gravity and gravitational waves

Time

Speaker

Title
14:30 -- 14:45 P. I. Kuriakose Scalar hair for an AdS black hole
14:45 -- 15:00 L. D. Singh Non-stationary rotating black holes: Entropy and Hawking radiation
15:00 -- 15:15 Sushant G. Ghosh Radiating black hole solutions
15:15 -- 15:30 Hemwati Nandan Schwarzschild solution in Higgs scalar tensor theory of gravitation
15:30 -- 15:45 Debasis Bhattacharyya Black holes in an expanding universe
15:45 -- 16:00 Tea break
16:00 -- 16:15 Farook Rehaman Wormhole with varying cosmological constant
16:15 -- 16:30 Kanti R. Jotania Relativistic strange stars -- Models on paraboloidal spacetimes
16:30 -- 16:45 Avnish Kumar Sisodiya Role of diquark interactions in strange diquark stars
16:45 -- 17:00 D.W. Deshkar Exact non-spherical relativistic star
17:00 -- 17:15 S. Deshingkar To be announced

Session II: Cosmology

Time

Speaker

Title
14:30 -- 14:45 Ng Ibohal Non-stationary de Sitter cosmological models with variable
14:45 -- 15:00 Thiyam Jairam Singh Rotating anisotropic two-fluid model universes coupled with radiation and scalar field
15:00 -- 15:15 Chandraprakash Singh Early viscous universe with variable gravitational and cosmological "constants"
15:15 -- 15:30 Suresh Kumar Bianchi type II cosmological models with constant deceleration parameter
15:30 -- 15:45 Bivudutta Mishra Bianchi type V cosmological model in scale invariant theory
15:45 -- 16:00 Tea break
16:00 -- 16:15 Umesh Kumar Pareek Bianchi type I string dust cosmological model with magentic field in general relativity
16:15 -- 16:30 Radhika Goyal Bianchi type IX inflationary cosmological models for perfect fluid distribution in general relativity
16:30 -- 16:45 Rajni Gupta Bianchi type I magentized barotropic perfect fluid cosmological model in general relativity
16:45 -- 17:00 Anirudh Pradhan FRW universe with variable G and lambda term


February 7, Wednesday

Session III: Quantum gravity

Time

Speaker

Title
14:30 -- 15:00 Sumati Surya The causal set approach to quantum gravity
15:00 -- 15:30 Supriya Kar Noncommutative D-braneworld and extremal black hole geometries
15:30 -- 15:45 Kinjal Banerjee Loop quantization of the Gowdy T^3 Model
15:45 -- 16:15 Tea break
16:15 -- 16:30 Alok Laddha Loop quantization of CGHS model
16:30 -- 16:45 T. P. Singh Quantum mechanics without classical spacetime: Implications for the quantum measurement problem
16:45 -- 17:00 Suman Ghosh Particle creation in a warped spacetime with an extra dimension

Sessions I & II: Classical gravity, gravitational waves and cosmology

Time

Speaker

Title
14:30 -- 14:45 B. K. Sinha Electrical spinning particle in Einsteins unified field theory
14:45 -- 15:00 Subenoy Chakraborty Brane world solutions of perfect fluid in the background
15:00 -- 15:15 Anju Rai Some Bianchi type III string cosmological models with bulk viscosity
15:15 -- 15:30 J.P.Singh / Rishi Kumar Tiwari An LRS Bianchi type I cosmological model with time-dependent lambda term
15:30 -- 15:45 M.K.Yadav Some magnetized bulk viscous string cosmological models in general relativity
15:45 -- 16:15 Tea break
16:15 -- 16:30 S. K. Sahu Tilted Lrs Bianchi type I cosmological model with a scalar field
16:30 -- 16:45 K. S. Bhamra To be announced
16:45 -- 17:00 Sarbeswar Choudhury To be announced