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Werner Israel Memorial Symposium

Canada/Pacific
BWC A104 (University of Victoria)

BWC A104

University of Victoria

Description

This symposium will celebrate the scientific career and legacy of Werner Israel, one of the leading figures in the development of our modern understanding of general relativity and black holes. Among many impactful contributions, Werner proved the foundational no-hair theorems for the exterior of static black holes, and later the phenomenon of mass inflation for the interior of rotating black holes (with his student E. Poisson); he devised the Israel junction conditions for extended gravitating sources, and developed the causal Muller-Israel-Stewart theory for relativistic thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. 

The symposium will be held in hybrid format on the campus of the University of Victoria, in Victoria BC, and will run over two full days May 18-19, 2023. The evening of May 18th will include a reception followed by a conference dinner.

In celebrating Werner's remarkable scientific legacy, the symposium aims to bring together researchers with interests aligned with various themes of Werner's research, both historical and modern. To this end, the focus of the meeting will be on properties of black holes and relativistic matter.

Invited Speakers

  • Ahmed Almheiri (NYUAD)
  • Patrick Brady (UW-Milwaukee)
  • Elena Georgi (Columbia)
  • Ruth Gregory (King's College London)
  • Gary Horowitz (UCSB)
  • Ted Jacobson (Maryland) 
  • Christoph Kehle (ETH Zurich)
  • Jess McIver (UBC)
  • Sharon Morsink (Alberta)
  • Carolyn Raithel (IAS Princeton)
  • Misao Sasaki (Tokyo,Kyoto)
  • Derek Teaney (Stony Brook)
  • Bill Unruh (UBC)
  • Amos Yarom (Technion)

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Local Organizing Committee

Nikita Blinov, Kristan Jensen, Pavel Kovtun, Eric Mefford, Adam Ritz, Karun Thanjavur

Scientific Advisory Committee

Valeri Frolov (Alberta), Shinji Mukohyama (Kyoto), Julio Navarro (UVic), Eric Poisson (Guelph), Frans Pretorius (Princeton)

Sponsors

Participants
  • Abhrajit Bhattacharjee
  • Adam Ritz
  • Afif Omar
  • Ajay Sharma
  • Alan Barnes
  • Alberto Roper Pol
  • Alex Koek
  • Andrei Zelnikov
  • Anish Agashe
  • Aroonkumar Beesham
  • Benjamin Tippett
  • Bernard Whiting
  • Cecilia Giavoni
  • Charles Robson
  • Che-Yu Chen
  • Christopher Alexander
  • Eduardo Bittencourt
  • Eric Mefford
  • Eric Poisson
  • Frank Hafner
  • Frans Pretorius
  • Gopal Yadav
  • Hari Kunduri
  • Helmut Rumpf
  • Ivan Booth
  • Jack Gegenberg
  • Janette Suherli
  • Jerome Quintin
  • John Hornstein
  • Jonathan Barenboim
  • Jose Pinedo Soto
  • José M Senovilla
  • Justin Albert
  • Kajol Paithankar
  • Kam To Billy Chan
  • Karun Thanjavur
  • Kate Taylor
  • Kayll Lake
  • Kristan Jensen
  • Kristin Schleich
  • Kumar Virbhadra
  • Kunal Pal
  • Kuntal Pal
  • Makoto Narita
  • Marc Schneider
  • Marco Maceda
  • Maria Internicola
  • Maximilian Kögler
  • Michel Lefebvre
  • Naouel Boulkaboul
  • Narasimha Reddy Gosala
  • Nassim Bozorgnia
  • P.C Lalremruati
  • Patrick Brady
  • Pavel Kovtun
  • Peter Aichelburg
  • Rahul Solanki
  • Rajeev Singh
  • Raphael Hoult
  • Robert Ford
  • Saeed Rastgoo
  • Saeid Foroughi-Abari
  • Shalabh Gautam
  • Sharon Morsink
  • Shinji Mukohyama
  • Siddharth Kumar Sahoo
  • Subhodeep Sarkar
  • Suresh C. Jaryal
  • Takahiro Uzu
  • Tevian Dray
  • Valeri Frolov
  • Valerio Faraoni
  • Viqar Husain
  • William Harvey
  • Xun Wang
  • Yuan K. Ha
  • Zakaria Belkhadria
  • Zodin mawia
    • 1
      Welcome BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

    • 2
      Black Hole Surprises BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Gary Horowitz (UCSB)
    • 3
      Aspects of the Black Hole Final State Proposal BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Ahmed Almheiri (NYUAD)
    • 10:40
      Break BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

    • 4
      Walls, Bubbles, and Israel! BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Ruth Gregory (King's College, London)
    • 5
      Gravitational collapse to extremal black holes and the third law of black hole thermodynamics BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Dr Christoph Kehle (ETH Zurich)
    • 12:20
      Lunch
    • 6
      LIGO is Quantum BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Bill Unruh (UBC)
    • 7
      Counting states of quantum space BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland)
    • 15:20
      Break BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

    • 8
      Multiple Classical Histories as a Solution to the Black Hole Information Loss Paradox BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Misao Sasaki (University of Tokyo/Kyoto University)
    • 9
      Stability problems in Mathematical GR BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Elena Giorgi (Columbia University)
    • 17:30
      Reception and Dinner University Club

      University Club

      University of Victoria
    • 10
      Gravitational-wave astronomy in 2023: progress and prospects BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Patrick Brady (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
    • 11
      The Universe in High Fidelity BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Jess McIver (UBC)
    • 10:40
      Break BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

    • 12
      Using General Relativity to Understand Neutron Stars BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Sharon Morsink (University of Alberta)
    • 13
      Probing hot and dense matter with neutron star mergers BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Dr Carolyn Raithel (IAS Princeton)
    • 12:20
      Lunch
    • 14
      Hydro, Heavy Ions, and Soft pions BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University)
    • 15
      Steady state holographic turbulence BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Amos Yarom (Technion)
    • 16
      Reflections & Closeout BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Speaker: Prof. Eric Poisson
    • Astbury Public Lecture - Whispers from the Universe: Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Neutron Stars BWC A104

      BWC A104

      University of Victoria

      Convener: Prof. Patrick Brady (University of Wisonsin - Milwaukee)