Portable Document Format (PDF) file for the ICGC-07 schedule is available here PDF documents for the Parallel Workshop sessions are also available. Please click on the respective links below to see the schedules: (a) Classical General Relativity and Gravitational Waves (b) Cosmology (c) Quantum Gravity Participants who have been selected for poster presentation, should make them in B3 (28"X40") paper size.
ICGC-07 : Schedule
| Day 0: 16/12/2007 | ||
| 14:30 | Registration opens | |
| 19:30 | Reception Dinner | |
| Day 1: 17/12/2007 | ||
| 08:00 -- 09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 -- 09:30 | Opening Session & Welcome | |
| 09:30 -- 10:30 | Gary Hinshaw | Status of WMAP Data [ppt] |
| Tea break | ||
| 11:00 -- 12:00 | Subhabrata Majumdar | Cosmology with Clusters [pdf] |
| 12:00 -- 13:00 | HongSheng Zhao | Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Puzzles and an alternative solution [ppt] |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 14:30 -- 15:30 | Parallel Session Workshops : 60 Mins | |
| Tea break | ||
| 16:00 -- 17:30 | Parallel Session Workshops : 90 Mins | |
| Tea + snacks | ||
| 18:30 | Public Lecture by Gary Hinshaw | |
| Day 2: 18/12/2007 | ||
| 09:00 -- 10:00 | Subir Sarkar | Cosmology beyond the Standard model [pdf] |
| 10:00 -- 11:00 | John Conklin | The Gravity Probe B Experiment and Results [ppt] |
| Tea break | ||
| 11:30 -- 12:30 | Parampreet Singh | Big Bang Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantum Cosmology [pdf] |
| 12:30 -- 13:00 | David Langlois | Cosmological perturbations from inflation |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 16:00 -- 17:30 | Parallel Session Workshops : 90 Mins | |
| Tea + snacks | ||
| 20:00 | CONFERENCE BANQUET | |
| Day 3: 19/12/2007 | ||
| 09:00 -- 10:00 | B. Sathyaprakash | Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves [ppt] |
| 10:00 -- 11:00 | Rana Adhikari | Survey of Gravitational Waves Experiments [pdf] |
| Tea break | ||
| 11:30 -- 12:30 | John Baker | Survey of Numerical Relativity Results |
| 12:30 -- 13:00 | Alessandra Buonanno | Interfacing Analytical and Numerical Relativity in modeling binary black hole coalescences [pdf] |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 14:30 -- 15:30 | Parallel Session Workshops : 60 Mins | |
| Tea break | ||
| 16:00 -- 17:30 | Parallel Session Workshops : 90 Mins | |
| Tea + snacks | ||
| 18:00 | ASTROSAT PROGRAM | |
| Day 4: 20/12/2007 | ||
| 09:00 -- 10:00 | Maria Alessandra Papa | Data Analysis for Gravitational Wave Detectors [pdf] |
| 10:00 -- 11:00 | Andy Fabian | X-ray detection of spinning black hole [ppt] |
| Tea break | ||
| 11:30 -- 12:30 | Sumit Das | Cosmological Singularities in String Theory and Gauge-Gravity Duality [pdf] |
| 12:30 -- 13:00 | Samir Mathur | What do black holes tell us about the state of the early Universe? [pdf] |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 14:30 -- 15:30 | Alejandro Corichi | Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity [pdf] |
| Tea break | ||
| 16:00 -- 17:30 | Parallel Session Workshops : 90 Mins | |
| Tea + snacks | ||
| 18:30 | CULTURAL PROGRAM | |
| Day 5: 21/12/2007 | ||
| 09:00 -- 10:00 | Madhavan Varadarajan | Quantum Gravity and the Information Loss Problem [pdf] |
| 10:00 -- 11:00 | Andrew Jaffe | The Future of CMB Studies [pdf] |
| Tea break | ||
| 11:30 -- 12:00 | Martin Reuter | Asymptotic safety in Quantum Gravity [pdf] |
| 12:00 -- 12:30 | Keiichi Maeda | Beyond the Einstein-Hilbert Action [pdf] |
| 12:30 -- 13:00 | Juergen Ehlers | Summary |
| Lunch Break | ||