Scientific Program
Program Monday 13 March: Supernovae, Cosmology: and String theory 9.00am Welcome: Pro-Vice Chancellor Research 9.30am Presentations 1.00pm Lunch with Vice Chancellor, Vice Chancellory, UWA 2.30pm Presentations 6.00pm Italian Consulate Reception R. Ruffini: A model for gamma ray bursts R. Burman(UWA): Why are supernovae in our galaxy so frequent? M. Young: Significance of the discovery of very long period radio pulsars L. Campbell: The distribution of supernovae in galaxies S. K. Chakrabati (India): The effect of accretion disks on the signal from coalescing binaries M Cerdonio: New limits on gravitational wave bursts from multi-antenna coincidence experiments S. Woodings(UWA): Supernovae and their location in host galaxies A.Williams (P.Obs): The Rate of supernovae R. N. Manchester (CSIRO): Implications of the new fast neutron star binary discovery V.G. Gurzadyan (ICRA): The CMB properties in open universe D. Bini (CNR and ICRA): Electrodynamics in general relativity M. Bianco and S. S. Xue ( ICRA): Theory of intensity time of arrival correlations in gamma ray bursts I.McArthur(UWA): Progress in string theory D.Grasso: Title to be announced D. Coward (UWA): Detection of popcorn noise from cosmological supernovae Panel Discussion (Barish, Giazotto, Cerdonio, Blair, McClelland): Gravity wave Astronomy in 2050 Tuesday 14 March: Gravitational Wave Technology 9.00am 9.30am Presentations 1.00pm Lunch 2.00pm UNESCO Director of Physics: UNESCO's role in the development of physics 6.00pm US Consul-General Reception B. Barish (LIGO): The LIGO project A. Giazotto (INFN): The VIRGO project D. McClelland (ANU): Interferometry for advanced laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors C. Lock (UWA): Quantum limited measurements of resonant masses E. Ivanov (UWA): Next generation parametric transducer for Niobe J. Munch (Adelaide): High power lasers for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors Prof. Van Hieu (Vietnam): Title to be confirmed Prof. Li Qui Bin (Beijing): Title to be confirmed A. Lun: Gravitational Wave Sources L Ju(UWA): Sapphire and Silicon Test Masses suspended without Violin string modes ...