The 13th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation




Scientific Program:

--- Oral Presentation ---

Monday, December 1

[Chair: Kojima, Yasufumi]
11:00 - 11:50  N. Kawai (Tokyo Institute of Technology),   
               "Observations of gamma ray bursts"
11:50 - 12:40  K. Ioka (Osaka),    
               "Theories of gamma-ray bursts"
12:40 - 13:07  Short Oral Presentation of Posters (3min x 9: ID No. A-)

13:07 - 14:10  Lunch and Poster Session

[Chair: Hosoya, Akio]
14:10 - 14:30  S. A. Hayward (Ewha Womans),
               "New laws of black-hole dynamics"  
14:30 - 14:50  S.-W. Kim (Ewha Womans),
               "Gravitational perturbation of wormhole"
14:50 - 15:10  S. Karino (Tokyo), 
               "Dynamically unstable modes in differentially rotating stars"
15:10 - 15:30  H. Iguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), 
               "Gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical stellar collapse to a black hole"
15:30 - 15:50  M. Takahashi (Aichi University of Education),
               "Hydromagnetic horizon boundary conditions in a black hole magnetosphere"

15:50 - 16:10  Coffee Break

[Chair: Takahashi, Masaaki]
16:10 - 16:30  Y. Kojima (Hiroshima), 
               "Stationary electromagnetic fields around a slowly rotating magnetized neutron star"
16:30 - 16:50  E. Mitsuda (Nagoya),
               "Electromagnetic radiation from naked singularity in self-similar spacetime"
16:50 - 17:10  M. Seriu (Fukui),
               "Effect of the rotational pressure on the cylindrical shell collapse: A model analysis" 
17:10 - 17:30  H. Maeda (Waseda),
               "Stability criterion for self-similar solutions with a scalar field and those with a stiff fluid"
17:30 - 17:50  T. Hiramatsu (Tokyo),
               "Evolution of gravitational waves from inflationary brane-world"

17:50 - 18:10  Coffee Break

[Chair: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro]
18:10 - 18:58  Short Oral Presentation of Posters (3min x 16: ID No. B-)


Tuesday, December 2

[Chair: Kanda, Nobuyuki]
 9:30 - 10:20  R. Takahashi (NAO), 
               "Operational status of TAMA300"
10:20 - 11:10  A. Lazzarini (Caltech),
               "Status of LIGO: First science run and future operations"

11:10 - 11:30  Coffee Break

[Chair: Oohara, Ken-ichi]
11:30 - 11:50  H. Takahashi (Osaka),
               "Search for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries using TAMA300 data"
11:50 - 12:10  M. Saijo (Kyoto), 
               "Collapse of differentially rotating supermassive stars"
12:10 - 12:30  K. Kotake (Tokyo),
               "Gravitational radiation from the collapse of massive stars"
12:30 - 12:57  Short Oral Presentation of Posters (3min x 9: ID No. C-)

12:57 - 14:00  Lunch and Poster Session

[Chair: Nakamura, Takashi]
14:00 - 14:50  N. Seto (Caltech), 
               "DECIGO and BBO"
14:50 - 15:40  K. Omukai (Oxford/NAO),
               "Formation of the first stars"

15:40 - 16:00  Coffee Break

[Chair: Chiba, Takeshi]
16:00 - 16:20  T. Nakamura (Kyoto),
               "Deci hertz Laser Interferometer can determine the position of the Coalescing Binary Neutron
                Stars within an arc minute a week before the final merging event to Black Hole"
16:20 - 16:40  M. Kasai (Hirosaki), 
               "Algebraic approach to gravitational lensing"
16:40 - 17:00  R. Takahashi (Kyoto), 
               "Quasi-geometrical optics approximation in gravitational lensing"
17:00 - 17:20  H. Saida (Daido Institute of Technology),
               "Paradox between particle number and energy flux for Hawking radiation"

17:20 - 19:00  Poster Session


Wednesday, December 3

[Chair: Shiromizu, Tetsuya]
 9:30 - 10:20  T. Moroi (Tohoku), 
               "Curvaton"
10:20 - 11:10  S. H. H. Tye (Cornell),
               "Brane inflation: From superstring to cosmic strings"

11:10 - 11:30  Coffee Break

[Chair: Maeda, Kei-ichi]
11:30 - 11:50  O. Seto (National Chiao Tung),
               "D-term inflation in type I inspired models"
11:50 - 12:10  S. Mukohyama (Harvard),
               "A dynamical approach to the cosmological constant"
12:10 - 12:30  K. Kohri (Osaka),
               "Hadronic decay of SUSY particle and destruction of light elements"
12:30 - 12:50  M. Morita (Ochanomizu),
               "An alternative to LCDM cosmology with Bose-Einstein condensate"
12:50 - 13:10  J. Soda (Kyoto),
               "Cosmological perturbations in braneworld: Effective theory approach"

13:10 - 14:00  Lunch and Poster Session

[Chair: Tomita, Kenji]
14:00 - 14:50  N. Sugiyama (NAO),
               "About CMB"
14:50 - 15:10  N. Kogo (Osaka),
               "Reconstructing the primordial spectrum from WMAP data by the cosmic inversion method"
15:10 - 15:30  K. Yamamoto (Hiroshima),
               "Power spectrum analysis to explore the dark energy"
15:30 - 15:50  M. Oguri (Tokyo),
               "Decaying cold dark matter and the high redshift cluster abundance"

15:50 - 16:10  Coffee Break

[Chair: Tanaka, Takahiro]
16:10 - 16:30  B. Bassett (Kyoto),
               "The coincidence problem and axion-photon mixing"
16:30 - 16:50  T. Fukui (Dokkyo),
               "Accelerating expansion of the present universe in a generalized scalar-tensor cosmology"
16:50 - 17:10  H. Kozaki (Osaka City), 
               "Distance-redshift relation in a Swiss-cheese universe"
17:10 - 18:00  G. E. Volovik (Helsinki), 
               "What can one say on the quantum vacuum using condensed-matter experience?"

18:30 -        Bunquet 


Thursday, December 4

[Chair: Okamura, Takashi]
 9:30 -  9:50  K. Nakamura (NAO), 
               "General framework of the higher order gauge invariant perturbation theory"
 9:50 - 10:10  E. Czuchry (Kyoto),
               "Null hypersurfaces in general relativity"
10:10 - 10:30  F. Takahashi (Tokyo),
               "Spontaneous baryogenesis in flat directions"
10:30 - 10:50  K. Tezuka (Chiba),
               "Quantum Poincare algebra and ultra high energy cosmic rays"
10:50 - 11:10  K. Uzawa (Kyoto),
               "Dilaton dynamics in type IIB supergravity"

11:10 - 11:30  Coffee Break

[Chair: Nambu, Yasusada]
11:30 - 11:50  S. Kobayashi (Kyoto),
               "Dynamical D-branes in closed string field theory"
11:50 - 12:10  K. Takahashi (Tokyo),
               "Cosmology and two-body problem of D-branes"
12:10 - 12:30  Y. Kurita (Kyoto),
               "CFT description of the three-dimensional Hawking-Page phase transition"
12:30 - 12:50  T. Torii (Waseda),
               "Covariant gravitational equations on brane world with Gauss-Bonnet term in bulk"
12:50 - 13:10  S. Mizuno (Waseda),
               "Cosmology in a brane-induced gravity model with trace-anomaly terms"

13:10 - 14:00  Lunch and Poster Session

[Chair: Kodama, Hideo]
14:00 - 14:50  K. Maeda (Kyoto), 
               "Are supersymmetric compactifications unstable?"
14:50 - 15:10  K. Koyama (Tokyo),
               "Stabilization and cosmology in brane-world models"
15:10 - 15:30  T. Tanaka (Kyoto),
               "Cosmological perturbation in Randall-Sundrum braneworld"

15:30 - 15:50  Coffee Break

[Chair: Sasaki, Misao]
15:50 - 16:10  H. Yoshino (Nagoya),
               "Aichelburg-Sexl boost of Kerr black holes in higher-dimensions"
16:10 - 16:30  S. Kanno (Kyoto),
               "Gravitational waves from black strings"
16:30 - 16:50  G. Kang (KIAS),
               "Classical stability of black branes"
16:50 - 17:10  T. Tamaki (Kyoto),
               "Radionic non-uniform black strings"


END


--- Poster Presentation ---

ID    Name        Title

A- 1  Y. Sendouda (Tokyo), 
      "Cosmic-ray antiprotons from primordial black holes in the braneworld"
A- 2  O. Pujolas (Kyoto),
      "Stabilization of the hierarchy in brane models"
A- 3  D. Ida (Tokyo Institute of Technology),
      "Rotating black holes at future colliders"
A- 4  K. Aoyanagi (Waseda),
      "Creation of a brane world"
A- 5  T. Kobayashi (Kyoto),
      "Brane cosmological perturbations and bulk scalars from a new perspective"
A- 6  M. Minamitsuji (Osaka/Kyoto),
      "Local conservation law and backreaction problems in the brane models (Tentative)"
A- 7  K. Ichiki (Tokyo/NAO),
      "Causal structure and gravitational waves in brane world cosmology"
A- 8  H. Yoshiguchi (Tokyo),
      "Bulk geometry and gravity on the brane in a bulk inflaton model"
A- 9  I. Tanaka (Osaka City),
      "Gravitational wave propagation in static brane universe"

B- 1  R. Takahashi (Kyoto),
      "Shapes of black hole shadows in accretion disks"
B- 2  K. Taniguchi (Tokyo),
      "Various features of quasiequilibrium sequences of binary neutron stars in general relativity"
B- 3  Y. Sekiguchi (Tokyo),
      "A criterion for direct black hole formation in rapidly rotating steller collapse "
B- 4  M. Ishii (Tokyo),
      "Numerical study of tidal disruption problem in  neutron star - black hole binary systems"
B- 5  N. Matsunaga (Hiroshima),
      "Stationary electromagnetic field in curved spacetime"
B- 6  U. Miyamoto (Waseda),
      "Can semi-classical effect recover the cosmic censorship?"
B- 7  Y. Morisawa (Kyoto),
      "On uniqueness of five-dimensional rotating black holes"
B- 8  T. Ohba (Nagoya),
      "Deformed Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black hole"
B- 9  T. Mishima (Nihon),
      "Comments on generalized Weyl solutions"
B-10  E. Tanaka (Ochanomizu),
      "Chiral gravity in higher dimensions"
B-11  H. Emoto (KEK),
      "Spacetime singularity and massive gravity"
B-12  J. Yoshida (Waseda),
      "Chaotic preheating"
B-13  A. Taruya (Tokyo),
      "Gravothermal catastrophe and quasi-equilibrium structure in N-body systems"
B-14  T. Tatekawa (Waseda),
      "Expansion law and fractal structure in one-dimensional self-gravitating system"
B-15  H. Koyama (NAO),
      "The connection between the two-point and the three-point correlation 
       functions in the non-linear gravitational clustering regime"
B-16  K. Tomita (Kyoto),
      "Possibilities to suppress the low multipoles in the CMB anisotropies"

C- 1  H. Nakano (Osaka City),
      "Effective search method for gravitational ringing of black holes"
C- 2  H. Sotani (Waseda),
      "Constraint on the EOS of quark matter by gravitational observation"
C- 3  R. Fujita (Osaka),
      "Gravitational waves from a particle orbiting a Kerr black hole"
C- 4  N. Sago (Kyoto/Osaka), 
      "Gauge problem in the gravitational self-force: 
       First post-Newtonian force in the Regge-Wheeler gauge"
C- 5  W. Hikida (Kyoto),
      "A new analytical method for self-force regularization"
C- 6  H. Furuhashi (Nagoya),
      "Instability of massive scalar field in Kerr-Newman space-times"
C- 7  N. Okuyama (Waseda),
      "Dynamics of brane in 5-dimensional bulk and non-singular brane cosmology"
C- 8  K. Bamba (Osaka),
      "Large-scale magnetic fields from inflation in dilaton electromagnetism"
C- 9  Y. Araki (Nagoya),
      "Amplificaiton of super-horizon scale magnetic fields during preheating"