Eigth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
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Jerusalem, 22 - 27 June 1997
at the Givat Ram Campus, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

The cornerstone for Hebrew University was laid in 1918 on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem and the University opened its gates in 1925. The university operates today four campuses with nearly 23,000 students. The conference took place in the Givat Ram campus that houses the Science faculty. Albert Einstein, who help founding the University, was a member of the first board of trustees. Einstein's archives are kept today at the National Library at Givat Ram.

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General topics discussed:

  • Rigorous and Exact Solutions
  • Quantum Gravity
  • Cosmology
  • Mathematical Astrophysics
  • Observational Astrophysics
  • Precision Experiments

Over five days the Symposium included invited review talks on the major topics along with contributed presentations describing current research in the many sub-fields represented. Contributed papers have been presented in parallel sessions and in poster format.

International Organizing Committee

D. Blair, Y. Choquet-Bruhat, D. Christodoulou, T. Damour, J. Ehlers, F. Everitt, Fang Li Zhi, S. Hawking, Y. Ne'eman, R. Ruffini (chair), A. Salam, H. Sato, R. Sunayev, S. Weinberg

 

Local Organizing Committee

J. Bekenstein, M. Carmeli, A. Casher, A. Dar, A. Dekel, J. Horwitz, J. Katz, M. Milgron, S. Nussinov, A. Ori, T. Piran (chair), C. Sonnenschein

 

Local Scientific Secretariat

S. Ayal, H. El-Ad, S. Hod, S. Kobayashi, R. Sari

 

For Further Information contact:

Prof. Tsvi Piran
Racah Inst. of Physics
Hebrew Univ.
Jerusalem 91904
ISRAEL
Phone: +972-(0)2-658 4233
Fax: +972-(0)2-561 1519
Mail: mg8@shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il

Conference secretariat:
ORTRA,
P.O. Box 50432
Tel Aviv 61500
ISRAEL
Phone: +972-(0)3-5177888
Fax: +972-(0)3-5174433,
Mail: ortra@trendline.co.il

International Coordinating Committee

 

  • Bob Jantzen (chair)
  • ARGENTINA: Chimento L.P., Jakubi A.S.
  • ARMENIA: Gurzadyan V. 
  • AUSTRALIA: Fackerell E.D.,Lun T., Manchester R., Opat G., Scott S., Szekeres P. 
  • AUSTRIA: Urbantke H. 
  • AZERBAIJAN: Seidov Z.F. 
  • BELGIUM: Henneaux M. 
  • BELORUSSIA: Inkevich A.V. 
  • BOLIVIA: Aguirre C. 
  • BRAZIL: Aguiar O., Novello M., Villela T. 
  • CANADA: Cooperstock F., Israel W., Unruh W. CHILE: Teitelboim C.
  • CHINA: Gao J.G., Cheng Fu Zhen, Li Qibin 
  • COLOMBIA: Torres S. 
  • COSTA RICA: de Teramond G. 
  • CZECK REPUBLIC: Bicak J. 
  • CROATIA: Tadic Z. 
  • DENMARK: Novikov I. 
  • ECUADOR: Hoeneissen B. 
  • EL SALVADOR: Violini G. 
  • ESTONIA: Einasto J. 
  • FRANCE: Deruelle N., Iliopoulos J., Mignard F.
  • GEORGIA: Kharadze E.K. 
  • GERMANY: Hehl F.H., Hillebrandt W., Neugebauer G. 
  • GREECE: Kotsakis, S. 
  • HONG KONG: Yu A. 
  • HUNGARY: Perjes Z. INDIA: Chitre S.M., Narlikar J., Radakrishnan,
  • IRELAND: O'Murchada N. 
  • ISRAEL: Finzi A., Jamer M., Peres A. 
  • ITALY: Preparata G., Regge T., Treves A. 
  • JAPAN: Fujimoto M., Futamase T., Nakamura T., Sasaki M., Sato K., Tomimatsu A. 
  • KAZACHSTAN: Abdildin A.M. 
  • KOREA: Cho Y.M., Lee C.H., Song D.J. 
  • KYRGYZSTAN: GurovichV.Ts. 
  • LITHUANIA: Pyragas K.A. 
  • MEXICO: Plebanski J., Rosenbaum M., Ryan M. 
  • MOLDOVA: Chernigovsky S., Gaina A. 
  • MORROCO: Chamcham K. 
  • NETHERLANDS: Berends F.A. 
  • POLAND: Demianski M., Sokolowski L., Trautman A. 
  • ROMANIA: Visinescu M.
  • RUSSIA: Bisnovatyi-Kogan G.S., Boyarchuck A.A., Chechetkin V.M., Khriplovich Yu.B., Melnikov V., Starobinsky A.A. 
  • SLOVENIA: Cadez A 
  • SPAIN: Ibanez J., Perez-Mercader J., Verdaguer E.
  • SOUTH AFRICA: Maharaj S. 
  • SWEDEN: Rosquist K. 
  • SWITZERLAND: Hajicek P., Jetzer P. 
  • TAIWAN: Ni W.T. 
  • TURKEY: Nutku Y. UK: Barrow J., Gibbons G.W, Ross G. 
  • UKRAINE: Fomin P.I. 
  • USA: Ashtekar A., Bardeen J., DeWitt-Morette C., Finkelstein D., Frieman J., Halpern L., Hellings R., Klauder J., Mashhoon B., Nordtvedt K., Parker L., Schwarz J., Shapiro I., Smoot G., Teukolsky S., Thorne K.S., York J. 
  • UZBEKISTAN: Zalaletdinov R.M. 
  • VATICAN CITY: Stoeger W. 
  • VENEZUELA: Percoco U. 
  • VIETNAM: Van Hieu Nguyen 
  • YUGOSLAVIA: Sijacki D.

Monday, June 23, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Tulio Regge
  The Quantum and Gravity: Assessment on Regge Calculus abs
09:10 Roger Penrose
  The Aims and Present Status of Twistor Theory abs
09:50 Bryce DeWitt
  The Quantum and Gravity: the Wheeler- DeWitt Equation abs
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 John Donoghue
  Perturbative Dynamics of Quantum Gravity: Effective Field Theory abs
11:30 Yuval Ne'eman
  The Quantum and Gravity: The Role of Symmetries abs
12:10 Ashoke Sen
  Recent Developments in String Theory abs
12:50 Lunch Break

Tuesday, June 24, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Juan Maldacena
  Black Holes is String Theory abs
09:15 Renaud Parentani
  Black Hole Thermodynamics and Horizon Entropy abs
10:00 Claudio Teitelboim
  2+1 Black Holes abs
10:45 Cofee Break
11:05 Jacob Bekenstein
  Quantum Black Holes as Atoms abs
11:50 James York
  Geometrical Hyperbolic Systems for General Relativity abs
12:35 Lunch Break
20:30 Memorial Session to B. Dicke (at the Renaissance Jerusalem Hotel)
  Ken Nordtvedt
Dicke and Mach's Principle
Cliff Will
Dicke and Experimental Gravity
Brandon Carter
Dicke and the Anthropic Principle
Francis Everitt and Remo Ruffini
Short reminiscences of Dicke

Wednesday, June 25, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Alain Connes
  Noncommutative Geometry and Gravitation abs
09:15 Amos Ori
  Inner Structure of Spinning Black Holes abs
10:00 Brandon Carter
  Progress on the Black Hole Uniqueness Problem abs
10:45 Coffee Break
11:05 David Blair
  Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors for Bursts, Pulsars and Stochastic Backgrounds abs
11:50 Kenneth Strain
  Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors Spanning 7 Decades of Frequency abs
12:35 Piero Rapagnani
  The Virgo Project  
12:50 Lunch Break

Thursday, June 26, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

08:30 Felix Mirabel
  Superluminal Sources in the Galaxy abs
09:15 Makoto Inoue
  Maser in Active Galactic Nuclei abs
10:00 Ramesh Narayan
  Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Horizons abs
10:45 Cofee Break
11:05 Luiz Da Costa
  Assessment on the Large Scale Structure abs
11:50 Phil Lubin
  Cosmological Parameters from the Cosmic Microwave Background abs
12:35 Lunch Break

Friday, June 27, 1997 (Wise Auditorium)

13:00 Gustav Tamman
  The Hubble Constant abs
13:40 Francis Everitt
  the NASA Gravity Probe B - Status Report abs
14:40 Remo Ruffini
  Concluding Remarks  
Monday
June 23
Tuesday
June 24
Thursday
June 26
Friday
June 27
Conservation Laws
Katz
Exact Solutions I
Robinson
Exact Solutions II
Robinson
Inertial Forces in GR
Jantzen
Alt. Theories in 4D I
Hehl
Hairy BH
Maison
Alt. Theories in 4D II
Hehl
Alt. Theories Kaluza-Klein
Melnikov
Time Machines+
Carlini
Chaos in GR
Gurzadyan
Boson Stars+
Mileke
Einstein Maxwell Systems
Chul H Lee
Mass Inflation
Poisson
Numerical Relativity I
Marck
Critical Phenomenona*
Brady
Algebraic Computations*
Parker
GW Bars
Piezella
GW Interferometers
Spero
GW Sources
Blanchet
GW Future+
Fujimoto
GR in Space
Nordtvedt
Experimental tests
Will
Observational Cos
Einasto
Equiv Principle in space
Jafry
Quantum Fields I
Belinski
Time in Quantum Gravity
Horwitz
Quantum Field II
Belinski
Canonical QG
Kodama
Strings
Rabinovici
Casimir Effect
Mostepanko
BH Thermodynamics I
Jacobson
BH Thermodynamics II+
Jacobson
Inflation+
Sasaki
Quantum Cosmology
Starobinski
Early Universe
Deruelle
Nonsingular Cosmology
Novello
Topological Defects
Durrer
Astro-particles
Dar
CMB*
Sugiyama
Dark Matter
Cowsik
Grav Lenses*
Petters
Extragalactic*
Treves
Astrophys BH
Abramowicz
GRBs
Band
QPO's*
L. Stella
Binary NS+
Nakamura
Microlenses
Jetzer
    Numerical Relativity II+
Marck
 
  Regular Sessions - 14:00 - 18:20 (8:00-12:20 on Friday)
* Short Sessions - 14:00 - 16:00 (8:00-10:00 on Friday)
+ Short Sessions - 16:20 - 18:20 (10:00-12:20 on Friday)

There will be a 20 minutes coffee break between 16:00 and 16:20 (10:00-10:20 on Friday)

There will be a tour of Jerusalem on wednesday afternoon.