Unruh & Wald Fest:  Schedule
AUGUST 18-20, 2006

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (UBC)

SESSION A1: FRI AUG 18 AM, HEBB BUILDING, HEBB THEATER,  UBC


0900-0945
 Registration and Snacks
0945-1000
 Welcomes
1000-1115
 MW CHOPTUIK, UBC
 The Impact of Unruh & Wald on Numerical Relativity
1115-1130
 Coffee
1130-1245
 A ASHTEKAR, Penn State
 Quantum Nature of the Big Bang: Recent Analytical and Numerical Advances


SESSION A2: FRI AUG 18 PM, HEBB BUILDING, HEBB THEATER,  UBC


1430-1545
 J HARTLE, UCSB
 What's Wrong With Your Quantum Mechanics?
1545-1615
 Coffee
1615-1730
 KS THORNE, Caltech
 Quantum Non-Demolition in LIGO (Preliminary title)


SESSION A3: FRI AUG 18 PM, WESBROOK BUILDING, ROOM 100, UBC

SPECIAL FREE PUBLIC LECTURE!!
2000-2130
 SIR ROGER PENROSE, Oxford
 What Happened Before the Big Bang?
An Outrageous Resolution of a Profound Cosmological Mystery


SESSION B1: SAT AUG 19 AM, FOREST SCIENCES CTR, ROOM 1005, UBC


0900-1000
 Snacks
1000-1115
 W ZUREK, LANL
 Probabilities (and more) From Envariance
1115-1130
 Coffee
1130-1245
 T JACOBSON, U Maryland
 Black Hole Entanglement Entropy and Dispersion


SESSION B2: SAT AUG 19 PM, FOREST SCIENCES CTR, ROOM 1005, UBC


1430-1545
 JR BOND, CITA & U Toronto
 Inflation, Gravity Waves and the CMB
1545-1615
 Coffee
1615-1730
 G HOROWITZ, UCSB
 Surprises in Black Hole Evaporation


SESSION B3: SAT AUG 19 PM, GOLDEN OCEAN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT, Vancouver


1900-2300
 BANQUET at GOLDEN OCEAN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT, 2046 W 41st Ave, VANCOUVER, 604-263-8886


SESSION : SUN AUG 20 AM, FOREST SCIENCES CTR, ROOM 1005, UBC


0900-1000
 Snacks
1000-1115
 S HOLLANDS, Gottingen U
 Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime
1115-1130
 Coffee
1130-1245
 R SCHUTZHOLD, TU Dresden
 Effective Horizons in the Laboratory


Maintained by MW Choptuik, who is supported by CIAR, NSERC, CFI, BCKDF and UBC.