Run by The Australasian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation
The Sixth Australasian Conference on
General Relativity and Gravitation
8 – 11 February 2012         Queenstown, New Zealand
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Provisional programme

The scientific programme of the conference will run Thursday 9th to Saturday 11th February inclusive, with a welcome reception to be held on the evening of Wednesday 8th February. The details below are indicative as the programme has yet to be announced.

Wednesday 8th February

17:00 – 22:00Registration and Reception.
18:00 – 19:30Drinks and canapés

Thursday 9th February

9:00Steve MaddoxGalaxy surveys and large-scale structure in the universe
9:40Loretta DunneNew insights on galaxy formation using gravitational telescopes in the Herschel-ATLAS
10:00Christopher GordonThe extreme tail of the non-Gaussian mass function
10:20Jenni AdamsUltra-compact mini halos – a route to constraints on dark matter and inflation?
10:40Morning Tea
11:10Rachel WebsterMicrolensing quasars
11:50Peter SmaleHubble flow variance and the cosmic rest frame
12:10David WiltshireCosmic structure, the cosmic rest frame and the CMB dipole
12:30Ashan NazerCosmic Microwave Background and inhomogeneous cosmological models
12:50Lunch
15:00Teppo MattssonCosmological backreaction
15:20Susan Scott
15:50Phil ThrelfallGravitational entropy for anisotropic futures within the quiescent cosmology framework
16:10Matt VisserConservative entropic forces
16:40Afternoon Tea
17:10Robert ThompsonDielectric analogue spacetimes
17:30Valentina BaccettiInertial frames without the relativity principle - Breaking Lorentz symmetry
17:50Cheng-Yang LeeThe symmetry of Elko dark matter
18:10Vladimir BurdyuzhaThe solution of the cosmological constant problem
18:30ASGRG AGM
19:00 Close

Friday 10th February

9:00Richard EastherGravitational waves From the early universe
9:40Andrew MelatosNuclear astrophysics with gravitational wave telescopes
10:20Morning Tea
10:50Daniel ShaddockFrom LISA to GRACE: space-based gravitational observations
11:30Renate MeyerMarkov chain Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian gravitational radiation data analysis
12:10Svetlana DligatchRecent developments in multilayer optical coatings for gravitational wave astronomy
12:30Ra IntaCompressive sampling techniques for improving the localisation of gravitational wave burst events
12:50Lunch
15:00Joerg HennigSmooth Gowdy symmetric generalized Taub-NUT solutions
15:20Ted FackerellAxisymmetric, hypersurface-orthogonal geometrodynamics is completely integrable
15:40Kunihito UzawaDe Sitter solutions in warped compactifications and modulus stabilization
16:00Prado Martin-MorunoConstruction of thin shell gravastars
16:20Malcolm AndersonThe dynamics of a relativistic spinning particle
16:40Afternoon Tea
17:10Pablo GalavizStability and chaos of hierarchical three black hole configurations
17:30Ben WhaleImplementation of the conformal Einstein equations using summation by parts operators
17:50Kyle TateSimplicial quantum gravity in Lorentzian signature
18:10Robert WardThe next generation of ground based gravitational wave detection
18:30Close
19:30Conference Dinner

Saturday 11th February

9:00Florian BeyerGuided tour through AVTD regions of the BKL world
9:40Woei Chet LimDynamics near spacelike singularities are more inhomogeneous than conjectured by BKL
10:10Herbert PfisterExistence vs. nonexistence of static and axisymmetrically rotating fluid stars in Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity
10:40Morning Tea
11:10Todd OliynykLagrange coordinates for the Einstein-Euler equations
11:50Joerg FrauendienerWitten spinors on maximal, conformally flat hypersurfaces
12:10Krzysztof BolejkoApparent and absolute horizons in the Szekeres models
12:30Richard BarryThe abstract boundary and extensions of space-times
12:50John SteeleConformal Vectors in Space-Times
13:10Lunch and Close