4 - 8 July 2011
Since the inaugural meeting of 1998 (held at Caltech's Capra ranch near San Diego) Capra meetings have been bringing together relativists interested in the problem of radiation reaction in relativity and its application to extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) as astrophysical sources of gravitational waves. The meetings address an important open problem in gravitational theory, made particularly relevant by the exciting prospect of directly observing gravitational waves from EMRIs in the near future.
The 2011 Capra meeting will be hosted by the School of Mathematics at the University of Southampton. As usual, the programme will focus on aspects of the self-force in general relativity, but will also seek to explore the promise of a synergy with other approaches to the two-body problem. Following the Capra tradition, the meeting will be informal. There will be no registration fee and no proceedings. The programme will include a few invited review talks , short contributed presentations (20-30 minutes slots) and open discussion sessions. Contributed talks on all aspects of the radiation reaction problem (including related topics such as EMRI astrophysics or data analysis) are welcome.
Interested colleagues are encouraged to register online at their earliest convenience.
| Title | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 1. Foundational aspects of the self force | A Harte (AEI) |
| 2. Numerical implementation and recent results | N Sago (YITP) |
| 3. Effective source approach | I Vega (Guelph) |
| 4. m-mode regularization | S Dolan (Southampton) |
| 5. Radiation-gauge approach | J Friedman (UWM) |
| 6. Effective One Body and the self force | T Damour (IHES) |
| 7. Comparison with post-Newtonian theory | A Le Tiec (UMD) |
| 8. Numerical Relativity at extreme mass ratios | C Lousto (RIT) |
| 9. Two-timescale methods and resonances | T Hinderer (Caltech) |
| 10. Kluge techniques and self-forced evolution | J Gair (Cambridge) |