Scientific Programme

Sunday, 5th September

 
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
20:00 - 22:00 Welcome reception
 

Monday, 6th September

 
8:15 - 8:45 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 Conference opening
 

Day 1: Fundamental vs. Effective Approaches in Theoretical Gravity

Chair: E. Alvarez   [Room: Falla]
 
9:00 - 9:50 A. Ashtekar Emergence of Space-time Structures (pdf)
9:50 - 10:40 T. Padmanabhan What can Classical Gravity tell us about Quantum Structure of Spacetime? (pdf)
 
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
 
11:10 - 11:50 M. Visser Horava gravity (pdf)
11:50 - 12:30 F. Barbero Black hole entropy: lessons from loop quantum gravity (pdf)
 
12:30 - 12:40 Mini break
 
12:40 - 13:20 G. Volovik Topology, thermodynamics and dynamics of quantum vacuum in effective theory (pdf)
13:20 - 14:00 R. Parentani Black hole lasers in Bose Einstein condensates (pdf)
 
14:00 - 16:00 Lunch break
 
 

Session I.A

Chair: M. Visser   [Room: Falla]
 
16:00 - 16:15 A. Fabbri Testing Hawking particle creation by black holes through correlation measurements (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 S. Finazzi Particle production in BEC with sonic horizons (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 S. Weinfurtner Black hole experiments: Testing effective field theories in curved spacetimes (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 C. Mayoral Correlation functions in black holes and whte holes formed by Bose-Einstein condensates (pdf)
17:00 - 17:15 G. Jannes Horizon effects for surface waves (pdf)
17:15 - 17:30 I. Booth Black brane entropy and hydrodynamics (pdf)
 
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee breakpdf
 
18:00 - 18:15 C. Eling The Membrane Paradigm and holographic hydrodynamics (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 G. Chirco Non-equilibrium spacetime thermodynamics, entanglement viscosity and KSS bound (pdf)
18:30 - 18:45 A. Tartaglia A strained space-time (ppt)
18:45 - 19:00 G. Abreu Tolman mass, generalized surface gravity, and entropy bounds (pdf)
19:00 - 19:15 N. Radicella The generalized second law in universes with quantum corrected entropy relations (pdf)
19:15 - 19:30 P. Martin-Moruno Thermal radiation from Lorentzian traversable wormholes (pdf)
 

Session I.B

Chair: G. Mena-Marugan   [Room: Andalucía II]
 
16:00 - 16:15 I.A. Bandos Multiple M-wave interaction with eleven dimensional supergravity (ppt)
16:15 - 16:30 M. Visinescu Higher order symmetries on curved spaces: gauge covariant approach and gravitational anomalies (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 W. Chemissany Attractors in Supergravity and Integrability (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 E.R. Livine U(N) Tools for Loop Quantum Gravity (pdf)
17:00 - 17:15 I. Garay U(N) invariant dynamics for a simplified loop quantum gravity model (pdf)
17:15 - 17:30 J. Diaz-Polo Band structure of the black hole entropy spectrum in loop quantum gravity (pdf)
 
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee break
 
18:00 - 18:15 E.F. Borja Black hole entropy quantization in LQG (pdf)
18:30 - 18:45 C. Bastos Noncommutative Black Holes (pdf)
18:45 - 19:00 A. Duenas-Vidal Collision of shock-waves in AdS and holography (pdf)
19:00 - 19:15 S. Gielen Classical general relativity as BF-Plebanski theory with linear constraints (pdf)
19:15 - 19:30 C. Soo Consistency of the canonical formulation of Horava Gravity (pdf)
19:30 - 19:45 J.J. López-Villarejo TransverseDiff gravity is to scalar-tensor as unimodular gravity is to General Relativity (pdf)
 

Tuesday, 7th September

 

Day 2: Geometric vs. Quantum Field/String Theory Approaches to Quantum Gravity

Chair: V. Aldaya   [Room: Falla]
 
9:00 - 9:50 E. Alvarez Particles, Strings and Gauge Theories (pdf)
9:50 - 10:40 C. Rovelli The dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity (pdf)
 
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
 
11:10 - 11:50 S. Liberati Quantum Gravity phenomenology: achievements and challenges (pdf)
11:50 - 12:30 E. Verdaguer Quantum induced metric fluctuations in de Sitter cosmology (pdf)
 
12:30 - 12:40 Mini break
 
12:40 - 13:20 E.A. Bergshoeff Massive (Super-)Gravities in Three Dimensions (pdf)
13:20 - 14:00 E. Mottola New Horizons in Gravity: Dark Energy and Condensate Stars (pdf)
 
14:00 - 16:00 Lunch break
 
16:00 - 20:00 Visit to La Alhambra (buses depart from "Palacio de Congresos")
 

Wednesday, 8th September

 

Day 3: Theoretical Cosmology vs. Physical Cosmology

Chair: J.M.M. Senovilla   [Room: Falla]
 
9:00 - 9:50 M. Longair The Frontiers of Observational Cosmology and the Confrontation with Theory (pdf)
9:50 - 10:40 J. Garriga The multiverse and conformal invariance (pdf)
 
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
 
11:10 - 11:50 G. Mena-Marugan Loop Quantum Cosmology: A cosmological theory with a view (pdf)
11:50 - 12:30 A. Achucarro Heavy physics in the CMB (ppt)
 
12:30 - 12:40 Mini break
 
12:40 - 13:20 M. Colpi Massive binary black holes in the cosmic landscape (pdf)
13:20 - 14:00 R. Rebolo The Polarization of the CMB and the QUIJOTE experiment (ppt)
 
14:00 - 15:30 Lunch break
 

Session III.A

Chair: T. Pawlowski   [Room: Falla]
 
15:30 - 15:45 T. Tanaka Discretisation parameter and operator ordering in loop quantum cosmology with the cosmological constant (pdf)
15:45 - 16:00 M. Martin-Benito Quantum Gowdy Model within the new LQC Improved Dynamics (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 J. Olmedo Further improvements in the understanding of isotropic loop quantum cosmology (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 F. Vidotto Toward Spinfoam Cosmology (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 C. Asensio Applications of an exact counting formula in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 I. Agullo Inflation, Quantum Field Renormalization, and CMB Anisotropies (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
 
17:30 - 17:45 L. Lorenz Stochastic inflation in compact extra dimensions (pdf)
17:45 - 18:00 F. Amemiya Reduced phase space quantization of FRW universe (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 G.J. Olmo Non-singular Universes a la Palatini (pdf)
18:30 - 18:45 D. Saez-Gomez Cosmological solutions in F(R) Horava-Lifshitz gravity (pdf)
18:45 - 19:00 J.P. Mimoso f(G) modified gravity and the energy conditions (pdf)
 

Session III.B

Chair: F. Atrio-Barandela   [Room: Andalucía II]
 
16:00 - 16:15 M. Bruni Unified Dark Matter models with fast transition and observational constraints (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 W. Zimdahl Unified and interacting models of the cosmological dark sector (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 D. Pavon Holographic dark energy at the Ricci scale (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 A. Montiel-Arenas The parameter of the dark energy equation of state for high redshifts (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 M. Morita Gravitational wave background in modified gravity dark energy models (pdf)
17:45 - 18:00 F.S.N. Lobo Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark gravity (ppt)
18:00 - 18:15 L. Fernandez-Jambrina W-singularities in cosmological models (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 Hoi-Lai Yu Quasi-local energy flux through cosmological dynamical horizons (pdf)
18:30 - 18:45 P.M. Sa Gravitational waves in hybrid quintessential inflation (ppt)
18:45 - 19:00 A. de la Cruz-Dombriz Complete photon spectra from WIMPs (pdf)
 

Session III.C

Chair: M. Bastero-Gil   [Room: Andalucía I]
 
15:30 - 15:45 M. Bouhmadi-Lopez Black holes die hard: can one spin-up a black hole past extremality? (pdf)
15:45 - 16:00 T. Sotiriou Astrophysical black holes as particle colliders (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 D. Rubiera-Garcia Electrically charged black hole solutions in generalized gauge field theories (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 R. Svarc The behaviour of geodesics in constant-curvature spacetimes with expanding impulsive gravitational waves (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 A. Carrasco Uniqueness of static spacetimes with MOTS (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 M. Shimano Closed trapped surfaces in higher dimensional self-similar Vaidya spacetime (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 S.I. Vacaru Principles of Einstein-Finsler Gravity and Perspectives in Modern Cosmology (pdf)
17:45 - 18:00 J.E. Cuchi Double shell stars as source of the Kerr metric in the CMMR approximation (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 P. Cizek Linear perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole by thin disc (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 L.F.O. Costa Gravitomagnetism and the significance of the curvature scalar invariants
18:30 - 18:45 B. Cropp General polarization modes for the Rosen gravitational wave (pdf)
18:45 - 19:00 J. Skakala Semi-analytic results for quasinormal frequencies (ppt)
 
20:00 - 21:00 SEGRE Popular Talk (at the Hotel "Palacio de Santa Paula")
 

Thursday, 9th September

 

Day 4: Relativity vs. Astrophysics

Chair: J.M. Ibáñez (introduction)  [Room: Falla]
 
9:30 - 10:20 R. Narayan Astrophysical Black Holes: What Can They Tell Us About Gravity? (pdf)
10:20 - 11:10 T. Baumgarte Relativistic Astrophysics and Numerical Relativity (pdf)
 
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break
 
11:40 - 12:20 J.A. Font Towards modelling the central engine of short GRBs (pdf)
12:20 - 13:00 A. Sintes Gravitational wave astronomy: a multi-messenger approach (pdf)
13:00 - 13:40 A. Lobo Milli-Hertz Gravitational Waves: LISA and PathFinder (pdf)
 
13:40 - 15:30 Lunch break
 

Session IV.A. Dedicated to the memory of S Brian Edgar

Chair: A. Barnes   [Room: Falla]
 
15:30 - 15:35 A. Barnes Chairman's Introduction (pdf)
15:35 - 15:45 J.M.M. Senovilla (Paper by the late Brian Edgar) (Conformally) semi-symmetric spaces and special semi-symmetric Weyl tensors (pdf)
15:45 - 16:00 J.E. Aman Investigation of all Ricci semi-symmetric and all conformally semi-symmetric spacetimes (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 O.F. Blanco Second-order symmetric spactimes in arbitrary dimension (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 N. Van den Bergh Conformally Einstein Perfect Fluid Spacetimes (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 L. De Groote The role of special conformal Killing tensors in GR (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 A. Garcia-Parrado Gomez-Lobo A special class of Petrov type D vacuum space-times in dimension five (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 R. Vera Conformastat electrovacuum spacetimes: the complete solution (pdf)
17:45 - 18:00 M. Bradley Density growth in Kantowski-Sachs models with a cosmological constant (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 N. Pidokrajt On the extremality and ultraspinning instability of Myers-Perry black holes (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 I. Brito The Einstein field equations for cylindrically symmetric elastic configurations (pdf)
 

Session IV.B

Chair: C. Bona   [Room: Andalucía II]
 
15:30 - 15:45 S. Husa Numerical evolution of spinning black holes and the detection of their gravitational wave signals (pdf)
15:45 - 16:00 D. Pollney Nonlinear memory in binary black hole waveforms (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 F. Guzman LISA and LISA Pathfinder: gravitational wave observation in space (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 P. Canizares Time-domain modeling of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 Y. Sekiguchi Collapse of rotating very massive stellar core to a black hole and a disk (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 P. Montero General Relativistic simulations of collapsing supermassive stars (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 I. Cordero-Carrion First gravitational waves in FCF in a dynamical spacetime with matter content (pdf)
17:45 - 18:00 P. Cerda-Duran Hydromagnetic instabilities and magnetic field amplification in core collapse supernovae (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 K. Kotake Gravitational-wave signatures in successful vs. failed core-collapse supernovae (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 H. Sotani Non-axisymmetric Torsional Oscillations of Relativistic Stars (pdf)
 

Session IV.C

Chair: M. Bruni   [Room: Andalucía I]
 
15:30 - 15:45 M. Bastero-Gil Non-linear metric perturbation enhancement of primordial gravitational waves (pdf)
15:45 - 16:00 F. Atrio-Barandela Bulkflows from Clusters of Galaxies (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 E. Guerras Valera Extragalactic Dark Matter Halos and QSO Properties through Gravitational Microlensing (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 T. Harada Black hole candidates and the Kerr bound (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 F.S. Guzman Spherical Boson Stars as Black Hole mimickers (pdf)
 
16:45 - 17:00 C. Chirenti Quasinormal modes for the charged Vaidya metric (pdf)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 P. Sukova Onset of geodesic chaos in the black-hole-disc system (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 Jose Luis Blazquez Salcedo Models of Relativistic Neutron Stars with Surface Crust (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 J. Beltran Jimenez Cosmic magnetic fields and dark energy in extended electromagnetism (pdf)
 
 
 
18:30 - 19:30 SEGRE assembly
 
20:30 - 23:00 Conference dinner
 
 

Friday, 10th September

 

Day 5: Mathematical Relativity vs. Numerical Relativity (opening illustration)

Chair: M. Mars   [Room: Falla]
 
9:30 - 10:20

L. Lehner

Numerical relativity as a tool for discovery

 (pdf)
10:20 - 11:10 S. Dain Axially symmetric spacetimes: numerical and analytical perspectives (pdf)
 
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break
 
11:40 - 12:20 J.A. Valiente-Kroon Geometric invariants for initial data sets: analysis, computer algebra and numerics (pdf)
12:20 - 13:00 J.M. Martin-Garcia Computational methods in General Relativity: From exact tensor computations to numerical simulations (pdf)
13:00 - 13:40 M. Ansorg The interior of axisymmetric and stationary black holes: Numerical and analytical studies (pdf)
 
13:40 - 15:30 Lunch break
 

Session V.A

Chair: M. Sanchez   [Room: Falla]
 
15:30 - 15:45 A. Barnes On Vacuum Space-times of Embedding Class Two (pdf)
15:45 - 16:00 J.M.M. Senovilla Singularity theorems assuming trapped submanifolds of arbitrary dimension (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 M. Ortega New examples of marginally trapped surfaces and tubes in warped spacetimes (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 A. Nielsen The slicing dependence of axisymmetric trapping horizons in Vaidya spacetimes (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 J. Jezierski Conformal Yano-Killing tensors in General Relativity (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 Lau Loi So Algebraic Rainich conditions for the fourth rank tensor V (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 E. Nungesser Isotropization of non-diagonal Bianchi I spacetimes with collisionless matter (pdf)
17:45 - 18:00 E. Minguzzi Causality and entropic arguments pointing to a null Big Bang hypersurface (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 A. Alho The Einstein-Klein-Gordon-Friedrich system and the non-linear stability of scalar field Cosmologies (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 J. Podolsky Cylindrically and toroidally symmetric solutions with a cosmological constant (pdf)
 

Session V.B

Chair: S. Husa   [Room: Andalucía II]
 
15:30 - 15:45 C. Bona Action principle for numerical-relativity evolution systems (ppt)
15:45 - 16:00 R. Richter Hyperbolicity of Hamiltonian formulations in General Relativity (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 M. Zilhao Simulations of black holes in compactified space-times (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 H. Witek Numerical relativity in D-dimensional spacetimes - Collisions of black holes and wave extraction (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 J.J. Ferrando Emission and null coordinates: geometrical properties and physical construction (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 J.A. Morales-Lladosa From emission to inertial coordinates: an analytical approach (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 N. Puchades From emission to inertial coordinates: a numerical approach (pdf)
17:45 - 18:00 T. Mediavilla Gradolph Studying the microlens mass function from statistical analysis of the caustic concentration (ppt)
 

Session V.C

Chair: B. Janssen   [Room: Andalucía I]
 
15:30 - 15:45 F. Navarro-Lerida Charged Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (pdf)
15:45 - 16:00 J. Tafel Symmetric solutions of Einstein's equations in higher dimensions (pdf)
16:00 - 16:15 T. Malek Higher-Dimensional Kerr-Schild Spacetimes with (A)dS Background (pdf)
16:15 - 16:30 T. Mishima Thermal Equilibrium of Black Dirings (pdf)
16:30 - 16:45 T. Igata Stable Bound Orbits around Black Rings (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 R. Ferraro The regular cosmic string in Born-Infeld gravity (pdf)
 
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 - 17:45 Eyo Eyo Ita Instanton representation of Plebanski gravity (ppt)
17:45 - 18:00 J. Hruska Generating Method Based on Conformal Invariance of the Maxwell Field (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 D.O. Devecioglu Conserved Charges of Quadratic Curvature Gravity Theories in Arbitrary Backgrounds (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 M. Calixto Unruh Effect and the Breakdown of the Conformal Symmetry (pdf)