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XXVI SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics

Gravity

From the Hubble Length to the Planck Length

Summer School Program

Click on the title of a lecture to access scanned transparencies and recorded audio/video for each talk.

Chairman
Mon. Aug. 3
D. Burke
Tue. Aug 4
L. Dixon
Wed. Aug 5
C. Prescott
Thur. Aug 6
D. Burke
Fri. Aug 7
L. Dixon
Mon. Aug 10
C. Prescott
Tue. Aug 11
D. Burke
9:00-10:00 Relativistic Gravity and Some Astrophysical Applications

R. Wagoner

Gravitational Lenses (Weak and Strong) and Dark Matter

T. Tyson

Sources of Gravitational Waves (and Their Signatures)

S. Finn

10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:30 The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment

C. Will

Ground-Based Detection of Gravitational Waves

P. Saulson

11:30-11:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:45-12:45 X-Ray Emission from Compact Sources

L. R. Cominsky

Large-Scale Structure

A. Dekel

Gravity at the Planck Length

J. Polchinski

12:45-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-4:00 STUDY PERIOD/TOURS OF SLAC DISCUSSION SESSION STUDY PERIOD/TOURS OF SLAC
4:00-6:00 DISCUSSION SESSIONS IN ORANGE ROOM LICK OBS. TOUR DISCUSSION SESSIONS IN ORANGE ROOM
6:00 p.m. Social Hour Chinese Dinner Jazz Night Social Hour Social Hour BBQ Dinner Nadel's Quartet Social Hour Social Hour Social Hour Mexican Fiesta Mariachi Band

Topical Conference Program


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