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Sunday, September 25, 2005
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| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM in Geology Museum |
Registration |
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Registration and Refreshments |
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| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM in Geology Museum |
Opening |
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Opening address by Professor A Bawa, DVC: Research |
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| 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Naresh Dadhich, IUCAA
"Why are there four basic forces in nature?" |
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| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Charles Hellaby, Maths & Applied Maths, University of Cape Town
"The Mass of the Cosmos and the Cosmic Parameters" |
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| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Gareth Amery, UKZN
"Embedding spherically symmetric spacetimes in higher dimensions" |
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| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM in Geology Museum |
Tea |
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| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Jayant Narlikar, IUCAA
"Gravitational collapse with negative energy fields" |
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| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Sanjay Wagh, Central India Research Institute, Nagpur, India
"Progress with a Universal Theory of Relativity" |
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| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Kavilan Moodley, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal
"Strong field tests of gravity" |
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| 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Erwin Bruning, School of Mathematical Sciences, UKZN
"Comparison of clock rates" |
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| 5:30 PM - 12:00 AM in SC |
Conference dinner |
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Conference Dinner at the University Staff Club - Scully Hall |
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Monday, September 26, 2005
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| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Nigel Bishop, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of South Africa
"The Kerr soultion in Bondi-Sachs form" |
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| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Jaroslaw Adamiak, UNISA
"Static and Dynamic Traversable Wormholes" |
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| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Chi Wai Lai, Mathematical Science, University of South Africa
"Type I Critical Phenomena for axisymmetric spacetime" |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Caroline Zunckel, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Department, UCT
"On magnetic fields and gravitational waves" |
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| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Hui-Ching Lu, Dpt of Maths and Applied Maths, University of Cape Town
"Obtaining the spacetime metric from cosmological observations" |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Krzysztof Bolejko, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences
"Supernovae Ia observations in the inhomogeneous Universe" |
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| 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM in Geology Museum |
Tea |
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| 11:20 AM - 12:10 PM in S 8 |
Public Talk |
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Presentation
Jayant Narlikar, IUCAA
"Theory of Relativity" |
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| 12:10 PM - 2:00 PM in SU PDR |
Lunch |
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Principal's Dining Room |
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| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Ajit Kembhavi, IUCAA
"Galaxies and black holes" |
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| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
AMOS KUBEKA, DEPARTMENT MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (UNISA)
"Perturbations of the Schwarzschild Black Hole" |
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| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Bob Osano, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Dept/ University of Cape Town
"Relic gravitational waves" |
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| 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Naureen Goheer, Dpt. of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
"The isotropic and homogeneous initial singularity on the brane" |
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| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM in Geology Museum |
SARS meeting |
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Election of Office Bearers |
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| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM in Geology Museum |
Tea |
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| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM in Geology Museum |
Talk |
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Presentation
Peter Dunsby, University of Cape Twon
"Bounce Conditions in f(R) Cosmologies" |
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| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Jannie Leach, University of Cape Town
"Shear dynamics in Bianchi I models with f(R)-gravity" |
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| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM in Geology Museum |
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Presentation
Anslyn John, University of Cape Town
"Gravitational wave effects in astrophysical plasmas" |
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