William Fairbank Meetings
Held with the First ICRANet Workshop, the third meeting focused on the Lense-Thirring effect around the Earth, neutron stars, and black holes.
The First ICRANet Workshop and the Third William Fairbank Meeting were devoted to the Lense-Thirring effect: the coupling between the rotation of a mass and the orbital motion of bodies around it, as predicted by general relativity.
The meeting connected theoretical understanding, experimental verification, and observational evidence around the Earth, neutron stars, and black holes. It reviewed gravitomagnetism, spin-orbital angular momentum coupling, noninertial forces, spinning test bodies, and the interpretation of possible measurements.
The program took place between Rome and Pescara, with sessions at ICRA, the University of Rome "La Sapienza", and the ICRA Network in Pescara. It included the status of the Stanford Gravity Probe B mission, LAGEOS satellite measurements, compact-object signatures, and assessments of error analysis.
The topics below summarize the scientific scope preserved in the historical meeting materials.
Equations of motion of spinning particles in electrodynamics and general relativity
Inertial forces and gravitoelectromagnetism
The Stanford Gravity Probe B mission status
Probing the Lense-Thirring effect with the LAGEOS satellite
Probing the Lense-Thirring effect with neutron stars and black holes
Assessment of error analysis
The names listed here follow the migrated legacy archive for this meeting.
Marek Abramowicz; John D. Anderson; Ignazio Ciufolini; Demetrios Christodoulou; Wei Cui; Thibault Damour; Francis Everitt; Leopold Halpern; I.B. Khriplovich; Robert Jantzen; Kenneth Nordtvedt; Hans Ohanian; R. Reasemberg; John Ries; Remo Ruffini, chairman; Luigi Stella; Aldo Treves
Donato Bini; Sabrina Casanova; Gianluca Gemelli; Gianluca Israel; Andrea Merloni; Costantino Sigismondi, chairman
