CONTENTS the Marcel Grossmann Meetings

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CONTENTS

The Marcel Grossmann Meetings — Publications in this Series and Sponsors . v Organizing Committees ...... vii Marcel Grossmann Awards ...... ix Preface ...... xiii Inaugural Address ...... xix Marcel Grossmann Award Essay ...... xxi

PART A PLENARY AND REVIEW TALKS

A Brief History of X-Ray Astronomy in Germany Truemper, Joachim E...... 3 On the Discovery of the Kerr metric Kerr, Roy Patrick ...... 9 Chaos and Symmetry in String Cosmology Damour, Thibault ...... 39 Hidden Symmetries, Cosmological Singularities and the E10/K(E10) Sigma Model Kleinschmidt, Axel; Nicolai, Herman ...... 49 The Nature of Generic Cosmological Singularities Uggla, Claes ...... 73 QCD and String Theory Klebanov, Igor R...... 90 The Cosmic String Inverse Problem Polchinski, Joseph ...... 105 Loop Quantum Gravity: Four Recent Advances and a Dozen Frequently Asked Questions Ashtekar, Abhay ...... 126 String Theory Landscape and the Standard Model of Particle Physics Lust,¨ Dieter ...... 148 The Status of the Virgo Gravitational Wave Detector Bizouard, Marie-Anne; for the Virgo collaboration ...... 177 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Analytical Modeling of Binary Black Holes Coalescence Buonanno, Alessandra ...... 197 Binary Pulsars and General Relativistic Effects Kramer, Michael ...... 225 Space Astronometry and Relativity Mignard, Fran¸cois; Klioner, Sergei A...... 245 Neutrino Astronomy 2006 Halzen, Francis ...... 272 Dark Matter and Sterile Neutrinos Biermann, Peter L.; Munyaneza, Faustin ...... 291 Supercomputer Simulations of the Joint Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Quasars Springel, Volker ...... 309 CMB Observations: From BOOMERanG to Planck . . . and Beyond De Bernardis, Paolo ...... 326 The Origins and the Early Evolution of Quasars and Supermassive Black Holes Djorgovski, S. George; Volonteri, Marta; Springel, Volker; Bromm, Volker; Meylan, Georges ...... 340 On Gamma Ray Bursts Ruffini, Remo; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia; Chardonnet, Pascal; Cherubini, Christian; Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Fraschetti, Federico; Geralico, Andrea; Guida, Roberto; Patricelli, Barbara; Rotondo, Michael; Rueda Hernandez, Jorge Armando; Vereshchagin, Gregory; Xue, She-Sheng ...... 368 Passion for Precision Theodor, Hänsch W...... 506 The Genesis of General Relativity Renn, Juer¨ gen ...... 532 Superposition of Fields of Two Reissner-Nordström Sources Alekseev, George A.; Belinski, V.A...... 543 Quasiperiodic Oscillations due to Axisymmetric and Non- axisymmetric Shock Oscillations in Black Hole Accretion Chakrabarti, Sandip K.; Debnath, D.; Pal, P.S.; Nandi, A.; Sarkar, R.; Samanta, M.M.; Wiita, P.J.; Ghosh, H.; Som, D...... 569 Power Spectra of Black Holes (BH) and Neutron Stars (NS) as a Probe of Hydrodynamical Structure of the Source: Diffusion Theory and its Application to X-ray Observations of NS and July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

BH Sources Titarchuk, Lev; Shaposhnikov, Nikolai; Arefiev, Vadim ...... 589 Quark Matter in Compact Stars: Astrophysical Implications and Possible Signatures Bombaci, Ignazio ...... 605 Gauge Gravity and Electroweak Theory Hestenes, David ...... 629 Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Strings and Black Rings) Kunz, Jutta ...... 648 Some Remarks on Microlensing Towards LMC and M31 Jetzer, Philippe ...... 663 OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb — Gravity Reveals First Cool Rocky/Icy Exoplanet Dominik, Martin ...... 670 Theoretical Gravitational Lensing — Beyond the Weak-Field Small-Angle Approximation Perlick, Volker ...... 680 Nonsingular Collapse of Spherically Symmetric Charged Dust Krasinski,´ Andrzej; Bolejko, Krzysztof ...... 700 Quantum Cosmology Standpoint Vargas Moniz, Paulo ...... 708 Gamma Ray Burst Host Galaxies and the Link to Star-Formation Fynbo, Johan P.U.; Hjorth, Jens; Malesani, Daniele; Sollerman, Jesper; Watson, Darach J.; Jakobsson, Páll; Gorosabel, Javier; Jaunsen, Andreas O...... 726 Gamma-Ray Bursts with and without Supernova Fireworks Della Valle, Massimo ...... 736 Talking about Singularities Cotsakis, Spiros ...... 758 Time Machines and Quantum Theory Hadley, Mark J...... 778 Slowly and Rigidly Rotating Perfect Fluid Balls of Petrov Type D Bradley, Michael; Eriksson, Daniel; Fodor, Gyula; Rácz, István ...... 795 Numerical Wave Optics and the Lensing of Gravitational Waves by Globular Clusters Moylan, Andrew J.; McClelland, David E.; Scott, Susan M.; Searle, Antony C.; Bicknell, Geoff V...... 807 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Inflation, Bifurcations of Nonlinear Curvature Lagrangians and Dark Energy Mielke, Eckehard W.; Kusmartsev, Fjodor V.; Schunck, Franz E...... 824 Virgo Data Analysis for C6 and C7 Engineering Runs Cuoco, Elena et al...... 844 Leopold Ernst Halpern and the Generalization of General Relativity Overduin, James M.; Plendl, Hans S...... 870 Post-Newtonian Approximations, Compact Binaries, and Strong Field Tests of Gravity Blanchet, Luc; Grishchuk, L.P.; Schäfer, Gerhard ...... 881 Tests of Lorentz Symmetry in the Photon Sector Herrmann, Sven; Senger, Alexander; Möehle, Katharina; Kovalchuk, Evgeny; Peters, Achim; ...... 895 OPTIS – High Precision Test of Special and General Relativity in Space Läemmerzahl, Claus; Dittus, Hansjörg; Hackmann, Eva; Scheithauer, Silvia; Peters, Achim; Schiller, Stephan ...... 905 Testing Special and General Relativity: Clocks and Trajectories Dittus, Hansjörg; Lämmerzahl, Claus; Peters, Achim; Salomon, Christophe ...... 916 Laboratory Limits for Temporal Variations of Fundamental Constants: An Update Peik, Ekkehard; Lipphardt, Burghard; Schnatz, Harald; Tamm, Christian; Weyers, Stefan; Wynands, Robert ...... 941 Some Old and Some New Opportunities for Quantum Gravity Phenomenology Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni ...... 952 Visualization of Relativistic Effects Ruder, Hanns; Nollert, Hans-Peter; Mul¨ ler, Thomas; Borchers, Marc . . . 972

PART B PARALLEL SESSIONS

• Dark Matter Chairperson: Biermann, Peter Impact of Dark Matter on Reionization and Heating Mapelli, Michela; Ripamonti, Emanuele ...... 979 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Impact of Dark Matter Decays and Annihilations on Structure Formation Ripamonti, Emanuele; Mapelli, Michela ...... 982 Thermal and Chemical Evolution of the Primordial Clouds in Warm Dark Matter Models with keV Sterile Neutrinos in One- Zone Approximation Stasielak, Jaroslaw; Biermann, Peter L.; Kusenko, Alexander ...... 985 Restrictions on Sterile Neutrino Parameters from Astrophysical Observations Ruchayskiy, Oleg ...... 988 Upper Limits on Density of Dark Matter in Solar System Khriplovich, Iosif; Pitjeva, Elena ...... 991 The Observed Properties of Dark Matter on Small Astrophysical Scales Gilmore, Gerard ...... 994 Is Dark Matter Futile on the Brane? Gergely, László A.´ ...... 997 Direct X-Ray Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter Watson, Casey R...... 1000 Limits on the Dark Matter Particle Mass from Black Hole Growth in Galaxies Munyaneza, Faustin ...... 1003 Dark Matter: The Case of Sterile Neutrino Shaposhnikov, Mikhail ...... 1006 • Neutrino Masses: Experimental Chairperson: Drexlin, Guido Neutrino Background, Diffuse Backgrounds and CMB: Is the Picture Consistent? Popa, Lucia Aurelia; Vasile, Ana ...... 1019 Constraining the Cosmological Lepton Asymmetry through Cosmic Microwave Background Observations Lattanzi, Massimiliano; Ruffini, Remo; Vereshchagin, Gregory V...... 1022 Possible Neutrino-Antineutrino Oscillation under Gravity and its Consequences Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata ...... 1025 How Gravity Can Distinguish Between Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos Singh, Dinesh; Mobed, Nader; Papini, Giorgio ...... 1028 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Cosmic Rays Chairperson: Schlickeiser, Reinhard Anisotropies of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Serpico, Pasquale D...... 1033 Recent Progress in Describing Cosmic Ray Transport Tautz, Robert C...... 1036 Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Towards a New Astronomy Mattei, Alvise; Chardonnet, P...... 1039 • Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Observations Chairperson: Pian, Elena Extragalactic X-Ray Jets Worrall, Diana M...... 1045 Initial Results from the Suzaku Satellite Dotani, Tadayasu; The Suzaku Team ...... 1048 Soft Gamma Repeaters and Magnetars Hurley, Kevin C...... 1051 • Theoretical Models of Observations from Black Hole Candidates Chairperson: Chakrabarti, Sandip K. Epicyclic Frequencies and Resonant Phenomena Near Black Holes: The Current Status Aliev, Alikram N...... 1057 Humpy LNRF-Velocity Profiles in Accretion Discs Orbiting Rapidly Rotating Kerr Black Holes Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek; Slaný, Petr; Török, Gabriel ...... 1060 Standing Shocks in Pseudo-Kerr Geometry Mondal, Soumen; Chakrabarti, Sandip K...... 1063 Properties of Accretion Shock Waves in Viscous Flows with Cooling Effects Das, Santabrata; Chakrabarti, Sandip K...... 1066

Model of Radiating Annuli near Black Holes for Iron Kα Line Proﬁle Interpretations Zakharov, Alexander F...... 1069 QPOs due to Centrifugally Supported Shocks around Stellar-Mass and Supermassive Black Holes Okuda, Toru; Teresi, Vincenzo; Molteni, Diego ...... 1072 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Observing the Flares of Sgr A* with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer Paumard, Thibaut; Mul¨ ler, Thomas; Genzel, Reinhard; Eisen- hauser, Frank; Gillessen, Stefan ...... 1075 Simulating VLBI Images of Sgr A* Noble, Scott C.; Leung, Po Kin; Gammie, Charles F.; Book, Laura G. . . . 1078 • Astrophysical Black Holes Chairperson: Chakrabarti, Sandip K. Astrophysical Black Holes — Do They Have Boundary Layers? Chakrabarti, Sandip K.; Ghosh, Himadri; Som, Debopam ...... 1085 Secondary Perturbation Eﬀects in Keplerian Accretion Disks: Elliptical Instability Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata ...... 1098 Gravitational Collapse of Population III Stars Suwa, Yudai; Takiwaki, Tomoya; Kotake, Kei; Sato, Katsuhiko ...... 1101 Near-Infrared Observations of Sagittarius A* Trippe, Sascha; Paumard, Thibaut; Gillessen, Stefan; Otto, Thomas; Eisenhauser, Frank; Martins, Fabrice; Genzel, Reinhard . . . . . 1104 Long-Term Monitoring of the Hard X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Emission from Galactic Black Hole with BATSE Case, Gary L.; Anzalone, Evan; Cherry, Michael L.; Rodi, James C.; Ling, James C.; Radocinski, Robert G; Wells, Derek; Wheaton, William A...... 1107 Marginally Stable Thick Discs Orbiting Kerr-de Sitter Black Holes Slan´y, Petr; Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek ...... 1110 Black Holes in Scalar Field or Quintessential Cosmology Harada, Tomohiro ...... 1113 A New Solution for Einstein Field Equation in General Relativity Mousavi, Sadegh ...... 1116

Pseudo-Kerr Geometry Mondal, Soumen; Chakrabarti, Sandip K...... 1119 Extreme Gravitational Lensing by Supermassive Black Holes Bozza, Valerio ...... 1122 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Spectral and Timing Appearances of the Galactic and Extragalactic Black Holes Chairperson: Titarchuk, Lev Physical Characteristics of XTE J1650-500 and GRS 1915+105 with BeppoSAX Montanari, Enrico; Titarchuk, Lev; Frontera, Filippo ...... 1127 Spectral and Timing Properties of Magnetized Advective Flows with Standing Shocks Mandal, Samir; Chakrabarti, Sandip K...... 1130 Estimating Black Hole Masses in ULXs Soria, Roberto ...... 1133 • Extreme Properties of Neutron Stars: Observations and Theory Chairperson: Mendez, Mariano Equation of State of Dense Matter in Neutron Stars Cernˇ ý, Slavom´ır; Stone, Jiˇrina, R˘´ıkovská; Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek; Hled´ık, Stanislav ...... 1139 Detectability of Gravitational Waves from the r-Mode Instability in Newly-Born Neutron Stars Sá, Paulo M.; Tomé, Brigitte ...... 1142 X-Ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars: A Review of the Latest Timing and Spectral Properties Zane, Silvia ...... 1145

X-Ray Observations of Neutron Stars and the Equation of State at Very High Densities Truemp¨ er, Joachim E...... 1148 Eigenmodes of Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars Boutloukos, Stratos ...... 1152 Parameter Space Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Around Magnetized Compact Objects Das, Santabrata; Chakrabarti, Sandip K...... 1155 Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Millisecond Pulsars Vigelius, Matthias; Payne, Donald; Melatos, Andrew ...... 1158 Dynamical Stability of Fluid Spheres in Spacetimes with a Nonzero Cosmological Constant Hled´ık, Stanislav; Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek; Mr´azov´a, Kristina ...... 1161 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Strange Stars Chairperson: Usov, Vladimir Strangelets in Cosmic Rays Madsen, Jes ...... 1167 Can Strange Stars be Distinguished from Neutron Stars? Harko, Tiberiu; Cheng, Kwong Sang ...... 1177 Pair Winds in Schwarzschild Spacetime with Application to Strange Stars Aksenov, Alexey, G.; Milgrom, Mordehai; Usov, Vladimir, V...... 1180 Evidence for White Dwarfs with Strange-Matter Cores Mathews, Grant J.; Suh, In-Saeng; Lan, Nguyen Quynh; Otsuki, Kaori; Weber, Fridolin ...... 1183 • Thermal Behavior of Compact Stars Chairperson: Page, Dany Magnetars: Internal Heating and Energy Budget Yakovlev, Dmitry G.; Kaminker, Alexander D.; Potekhin, Alexan- der Y.; Shternin, Peter S.; Chabrier, Gilles; Shibazaki, Noriaki ...... 1189 Trapping of Neutrinos in Extremely Compact Neutron Stars Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek; Urbanec, Martin; Török, Gabriel; Hled´ık, Stanislav; Hlad´ık, Jan ...... 1192 A Self-Consistent Model of the Isolated Neutron Star RX J0720.4- 3125 Miralles, Juan A.; Pons, Jose A.; Perez-Azorin, J. Fernando; Miniutti, Giovanni ...... 1195 kHz QPO Pairs Expose the Neutron Star of Circinus X-1 Boutloukos, Stratos; van der Klis, Michiel; Altamirano, Diego; Klein Wolt, Marc; Wijnands, Rudy ...... 1198 Neutron Star Atmospheres and X-Ray Spectra Kundt, Wolfgang ...... 1201 • Alternative Theories (A) Chairperson: Schmidt, Hans-Juergen Anisotropically Inflating Universes Hervik, Sigbjørn; Barrow, John D...... 1207 Thick Brane Solution with Two Scalar Fields Dzhunushaliev, Vladimir; Schmidt, Hans-Juer¨ gen; Myrzakulov, Kairat; Myrzakulov, Ratbay ...... 1210 Shear Dynamics in Bianchi I Cosmologies with Rn-Gravity Leach, Jannie A.; Dunsby, Peter K.S.; Carloni, Sante ...... 1213 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Gravity and Nambu–Goldstone Modes Bluhm, Robert; ...... 1217 Spontaneous Lorentz Breaking, Nambu-Goldstone Modes, and Gravity Potting, Robertus ...... 1220 The Significance of Matter Coupling in f(R) Gravity Sotiriou, Thomas P...... 1223 Constraining Alternative Theories of Gravity with the Energy Conditions Perez Bergliaffa, Santiago Esteban ...... 1226 An f(R) Gravitation for Galactic Environments Sobouti, Yousef ...... 1230 Causality and Superluminal Fields Bruneton, Jean-Philippe ...... 1233 Gravitation as a Vacuum Nonlinear Electrodynamics Effect Chernitskii, Alexander A...... 1236 Asymptotic Flatness and Birkhoff’s Theorem in Higher-Derivative Theories of Gravity Clifton, Timothy ...... 1239 Cosmological Model with a Born-infield Type Scalar Field Kerner, Richard; Serie, Emmanuel; Troisi, Antonio ...... 1242 A Teleparallel Representation of the Weyl Lagrangian Vassiliev, Dmitri ...... 1245 Nonlinear Supersymmetric General Relativity Shima, Kazunari; Tsuda, Motomu ...... 1248 Black Hole Solutions in N > 4 Gauss-Bonnet Gravity Alexeyev, Stanislav O.; Popov, Nikolai ...... 1251 Electrostatics and Confinement in Einstein’s Unified Field Theory Antoci, Salvatore; Liebscher, Dierck-Ekkehard; Mihich, Luigi ...... 1254 Galactic Disks in Theories with Yukawian Gravitational Potential de Araujo, Jose Carlos N.; Miranda, Oswaldo D...... 1257 On the Field Theoretic Description of Gravitation Nieuwenhuizen, Theo M...... 1260 De Sitter Stability in Theories with Second Order Curvature Terms Toporensky, Alexey V.; Tretyakov, Petr V...... 1263 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Basic Relations of a Unified Theory of Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Gravitation Ostermann, Peter ...... 1266 Physical Interpretation and Viability of Various Metric Nonlinear Gravity Theories Sokolowski, Leszek M...... 1269 • Alternative Theories (B) Chairperson: Hammond, Richard Are Active and Passive Electric Charges Equal? Läemmerzahl, Claus; Macias, Alfredo; Mul¨ ler, Holger ...... 1275 Charged Fluid Dynamics in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity with Torsion Wang, Chih-Hung ...... 1278 Validation of the Weak Equivalence Principle in a Spatially-VSL Gravitation Model Broekaert, Jan ...... 1281 • Higher Dimensional Theories Chairperson: Coley, Alan Exact Solution of the 5D Space-Time-Matter Universe and Their Implications Fukui, Takao ...... 1287 Hamiltonian Theory of Brane-World Gravity Kovács, Zoltón; Gergely, László A.´ ...... 1290 Casimir Force Test of a 6D Brane World Linares, Román; Morales-Técotl, Hugo A.; Pedraza, Omar ...... 1293 Electro-Weak Model within a 5-Dimensional Lorentz Group Theory Lecian, Orchidea Maria; Montani, Giovanni ...... 1296 Spacetimes with Constant Scalar Invariants Hervik, Sigbjørn; Coley, A.A.; Pelavas, Nicos ...... 1299 Higher Dimensional VSI Spacetimes and Supergravity Fuster, Andrea; Pelavas, Nicos ...... 1302

VSI & VSIi Spacetimes in Higher Dimensions Pravdov´a, Alena ...... 1305 The Electro-Weak Model as a Phenomenological Issue of Multidimensions Cianfrani, Francesco; Montani, Giovanni ...... 1308 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Hamiltonian Formulation of the 5-D Kaluza-Klein Model and Test-Particle Motion Lacquaniti, Valentino; Montani, Giovanni ...... 1311 Electromagnetism and Perfect Fluids Interplay in Multidimen- sional Spacetimes Mitskievich, Nikolai V...... 1314 Torsion Induces Gravity Aros, Rodrigo ...... 1317 Final Fate of Higher-Dimensional Spherical Dust Collapse in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity Maeda, Hideki ...... 1320 Classiﬁcation of the Weyl Tensor in Higher Dimensions and its Applications Pravda, Vojtˇech ...... 1323 • Geometric Calculus in Gravity Theory Chairperson: Hestenes, David Geometrical and Kinematical Aspects of Rindler Observers Romero, Carlos; Brasileiro Formiga, Jansen ...... 1329 On the Zeros of Spinor Fields and an Orthonormal Frame Gauge Condition Nester, James M...... 1332 New Special Solutions of the Ricci Flow Equation in Two Dimen- sions Using a Linearization Approach Visinescu, Anca; Visinescu, Mihai ...... 1335

• Black Hole and Pair Creation in Strong Fields Chairperson: Greiner, Walter Pair Creation in Inhomogeneous Fields Schubert, Christian ...... 1341 Monopole Decay in a Variable External Field Monin, Alexander K.; Zayakin, Andrey V...... 1346 World-Making with Extended Gravity Black Holes for Cosmic Natural selection in the Multiverse Scenario Barrau, Aurelien ...... 1349 Neutral Nuclear Core vs Super Charged One Rotondo, Michael; Ruﬃni, Remo; Xue, She-Sheng ...... 1352 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Rings and Black Strings) Chairperson: Kunz, Jutta Gravitational Perturbations of Higher Dimensional Rotating Black Holes Kunduri, Hari K.; Lucietti, James; Reall, Harvey S...... 1359 Gravitating Non-Abelian Solitons and Hairy Black Holes in Higher Dimensions Volkov, Mikhail S...... 1379 Derivation of the Dipole Black Ring Solutions Yazadjiev, Stoytcho S...... 1397 Charged Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensions Kunz, Jutta; Navarro-Lérida, Francisco; Viebahn, Jan; Maison, Dieter ...... 1400 Solitonic Generation of Solutions Including Five-Dimensional Black Rings and Black Holes Mishima, Takashi; Iguchi, Hideo ...... 1403 Kaluza-Klein Black Hole with Gravitational Charge in Einstein- Gauss-Bonnet Gravity Maeda, Hideki; Dadhich, Naresh K...... 1406 Higher Dimensional Rotating Charged Black Holes Aliev, Alikram N...... 1409 Perturbative Stability and Absorption Cross-Section in String Corrected Black Holes Moura, Filipe ...... 1412 Ultrarelativistic Boost of the Black Ring Ortaggio, Marcello; Krtouˇs, Pavel; Podolský, Jiˇr´ı ...... 1415 The Results of a New Solution of the Einstein Field Equations in General Relativity and Black Hole New Movement Mousavi, Sadegh ...... 1418 Hamiltonian Treatment of Static and Collapsing Spherically Symmetric Charged Thin Shells in Lovelock Gravity Dias, Gon¸calo A.S.; Lemos, José P.S.; Gao, Sijie ...... 1421 New Nonuniform Black String Solutions Kleihaus, Burkhard; Kunz, Jutta; Radu, Eugen ...... 1424 Lovelock Gravity and The Counterterm Method Bostani, Neda; Dehghani, Mohammad Hossein; Sheykhi, Ahmad . . . . . 1427 LG(Landau-Ginzburg) in GL(Gregory-Laflamme) Kol, Barak; Sorkin, Evgeny ...... 1431 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Causal Structure Around Spinning 5-Dimensional Cosmic Strings Slagter, Reinoud Jan ...... 1434 Short Distances, Black Holes, and TeV Gravity Agulló, Iván; Navarro-Salas, José; Olmo, Gonzalo J...... 1437 Black String Solutions with Negative Cosmological Constant Mann, Robert; Radu, Eugen; Stelea, Cristian ...... 1440 Matched Asymptotic Expansion for Caged Black Holes Gorbonos, Dan; Kol, Barak ...... 1443 Perturbatively Non-Uniform Charged Black Strings: A New Stable Phase Miyamoto, Umpei; Kudoh, Hideaki ...... 1446 • Analog Models of and for General Relativity Chairperson: Volovik, Grigory From Quantum Hydrodynamics to Quantum Gravity Volovik, Grigory ...... 1451 Looking Beyond the Horizon Babichev, Eugeny; Mukhanov, Viatcheslav; Vikman, Alexander ...... 1471 A Dielectric Analogue Model of the Kerr Equatorial Plane Rosquist, Kjell ...... 1475 Bose-Einstein Condensates and QFT in Curved Space-Time Fagnocchi, Serena ...... 1479 Electromagnetic Light Rays in Local Dielectrics De Lorenci, Vitorio A.; Klippert, Renato ...... 1482 Scattering Problems on Rotating Acoustic Black Holes Cherubini, Christian; Filippi, Simonetta ...... 1485 • Black Hole Thermodynamics Chairperson: Khriplovich, Iosif Thermodynamical Properties of Hairy Black Holes with Cosmo- logical Constant Nadalini, Mario; Vanzo, Luciano; Zerbini, Sergio ...... 1491 Radiation of Quantized Black Holes. Is it Observable? Khriplovich, Iosif ...... 1494 Effects of Quantized Fields on the Spacetime Geometries of Static Spherically Symmetric Black Holes Anderson, Paul R.; Binkley, Mathew; Calderon, Hector; Hiscock, William A.; Mottola, Emil; Vaulin, Ruslan ...... 1497 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Thermodynamic Quantities of Kaluza-Klein Black Holes with Squashed Horizons Kurita, Yasunari; Ishihara, Hideki ...... 1500 Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics Page, Don N...... 1503 Entropy from Conformal Horizon States in D-Dimensional Spheri- cal, Toroidal, and Hyperbolic Anti-de Sitter Black Holes Lemos, José P.S.; Dias, Gon¸calo A.S...... 1508 Thermodynamic Geometries of Black Holes Aman,˚ Jan E.; Bengtsson, Ingemar; Pidokrajt, Narit; Ward, John . . . . 1511 • Alternative Black Hole Models Chairperson: Mazur, Pawel O. On Quantum Effects in the Vicinity of Would-be Horizons Marecki, Piotr ...... 1517 Stable Dark Energy Stars: An Alternative to Black Holes? Lobo, Francisco S.N...... 1520 Horizon News Function and Quasi-Local Energy-Momentum Flux Near Black Hole Wu, Yu-Huei ...... 1523 Black Holes or Eternally Collapsing Objects? Mitra, Abhas; Glendenning, Norman K...... 1526 The Proposed Black Holes Around Us Kundt, Wolfgang ...... 1529 Gravastars and Bifurcation in Quasistationary Accretion Malec, Edward; Roszkowski, Krzysztof ...... 1537 • Numerical Relativity, Black Hole Collisions, and Algebraic Computation Chairperson: Husa, Sascha Lifetime of Oscillons Fodor, Gyula; Forgács, Péter; Grandclément, Philippe; Rácz, István . . . . 1543 A Virtual Trip to the Schwarzschild-de Sitter Black Hole Bakala, Pavel; Hled´ık, Stanislav; Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek; Truparová Kamila; Cerm´ˇ ak, Petr ...... 1546 Similarity Solutions Using DESOLV Vu, Khai T.; Butcher, J.; Carminati, John ...... 1549 xTensor: A Free Fast Abstract Tensor Manipulator Mart´ın-Garc´ıa, José M...... 1552 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Tensor Computer Algebra Mart´ın-Garc´ıa, José M...... 1555 • Simulations of Relativistic Flows and Compact Objects Chairperson: Font, Jose A. Relativistic MHD Simulations and Synthetic Synchrotron Emission Maps: A Diagnostic Tool for Pulsar Wind Nebulae Del Zanna, Luca; Volpi, Delia; Amato, Elena; Bucciantini, Nicoló ...... 1561 GRMHD Simulations of Jet Formation with RAISHIN Mizuno, Yosuke; Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi; Koide, Shinji; Hardee, Philip; Fishman, Gerald J...... 1564 Standing Shocks in Pseudo-Kerr Geometry Mondal, Soumen; Chakrabarti, Sandip K...... 1567 Evolving Relativistic Fluid Spacetimes Using Pseudospectral Methods and Finite Differencing Duez, Matthew D.; Kidder, Lawrence E.; Teukolsky, Saul A...... 1570 3D Relativistic MHD Simulation of a Tilted Accretion Disk Around a Rapidly Rotating Black Hole Fragile, P. Chris; Anninos, Peter; Blaes, Omer M.; Salmonson, Jay D...... 1573 Fragmentation of General Relativistic Quasi-Toroidal Polytropes Zink, Burkhard Sebastian; Stergioulas, Nikolaos; Hawke, Ian; Ott, Christian D.; Schnetter, Erik; Mul¨ ler, Ewald ...... 1576 Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Relativistic MHD Neilsen, David; Hirschmann, Eric W.; Anderson, Matthew; Liebling, Steven L...... 1579 3-D GRMHD and GRPIC Simulations of Disk-Jet Coupling and Emission Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Watson, Michael; Hardee, Philip; Fuerst, Steve; Wu, Kinwah; Fishman, Gerald J...... 1582 Resistive General Relativistic MHD Simulations of Jet Formation Around Kerr Black Hole Koide, Shinji; Shibata, Kazunari; Kudoh, Takahiro ...... 1585 Making Up a Short GRB: The Bright Fate of Mergers of Compact Objects Aloy, Miguel Angel; Mimica, Petar ...... 1589 Spacetime Modes of Rapidly Rotating Relativistic Stars Stergioulas, Nikolaos; Kokkotas, Kostas D.; Hawke, Ian ...... 1592 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Dynamics of Compact Binaries Chairperson: Rezzolla, Luciano Reducing Orbital Eccentricity in Binary Black Hole Simulations Pfeiffer, Harald P.; Brown, Duncan A.; Kidder, Lawrence E.; Lindblom, Lee; Lovelace, Geoffrey; Scheel, Mark A...... 1597 Negative Komar Masses in Regular Stationary Spacetimes Ansorg, Marcus; Petroff, David ...... 1600 Constraint Relaxation Marronetti, Pedro ...... 1603 Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations of Multiple Orbits for Close Neutron Star Binaries Mathews, Grant J.; Haywood, J. Reese; Wilson, James R...... 1606 The Final Fate of Binary Neutron Star Systems: What Happens After the Merger? Duez, Matthew D.; Liu, Yuk Tung; Shapiro, Stuart L.; Stephens, Branson C.; Shibata, Masaru ...... 1609 Head-On Collisions of Different Initial Data Sperhake, Ulrich; Brugmann,¨ Bernd; González, José A.; Hannam, Mark D.; Husa, Sascha ...... 1612 Tearing instability in Relativistic Magnetically Dominated Plasmas Barkov, Maxim V.; Komissarov, Serguei S.; Lyutikov, Maxim ...... 1615 • Black Hole Collisions Chairperson: Lousto, Carlos Black Hole Bremsstrahlung in the Nonlinear Regime of General Relativity Oliveira, Henrique P.; Soares, I. Damiao; Tonini, Eduardo V...... 1621 Hyperboloidal Foliations with I -Fixing in Spherical Symmetry Zenginoˇglu, Anil; Husa, Sascha ...... 1624 High-Order Perturbations of a Spherical Spacetime Brizuela, David; Mart´ın-Garc´ıa, José Mar´ıa; Mena Marugán, Guillermo A...... 1627 Analytic Solutions of the Linearized Einstein Equations Used to Test and Develop a Characteristic Code Bishop, Nigel T...... 1630 The Kerr Metric in Bondi-Sachs Form Venter, Liebrecht R.; Bishop, Nigel T...... 1633 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Binary Black Hole Merger Waveforms in the Extreme Mass Ratio Limit Damour, Thibault; Nagar, Alessandro ...... 1636 • CMB Theory Chairperson: Dore, Olivier CMB Anomalies from Relic Anisotropy Gumr¨ uk¸¨ cuo¨ ˇglu, A. Emir; Contaldi, Carlo, R.; Peloso, Marco ...... 1641 Can Extragalactic Foregrounds Explain the Large-Angle CMB Anomalies? Rakić, Aleksandar; Räsänen, Syksy; Schwarz, Dominik J...... 1647 A New Realization of a Low Quadrupole Universe Lee, Wo-Lung ...... 1653 Perturbations of Dark Sectors from the CMB Bashinsky, Sergei ...... 1659 • CMB Experiment Space Chairperson: Masi, Silvia Observations of the CMB and Galactic Foregrounds at 11–17 GHz: The COSMOSOMAS Experiment Hildebrandt, Sergi R...... 1667 • CMB Data Analysis Chairperson: Natoli, Paolo Probing Cosmic Dark Ages with the CMB Polarization Measure- ments Popa, Lucia Aurelia; Stefanescu, Petruta; Burigana, Carlo ...... 1671 Dark Energy Constraints from Needlets Analysis of WMAP3 and NVSS Data Pietrobon, Davide; Balbi, Amedeo; Marinucci, Domenico ...... 1674 The Matter Power Spectrum as a Tool to Discriminate Dark Matter-Dark Energy Interaction Olivares, Germán; Pavón, Diego; Atrio-Barandela, Fernando ...... 1677 The BRAIN Experiment Polenta, Gianluca; for the BRAIN collaboration ...... 1680 • Observational Gravitational Lensing Chairperson: Jetzer, Philippe Microlensing with the Radioastron Space Telescope Zakharov, Alexander F...... 1691 Microlensing Towards M31 Calchi Novati, Sebastiano ...... 1694 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Does the LMC Halo Contribute Signiﬁcantly to the MACHO Events? Scarpetta, Gaetano ...... 1697 A New Analysis of the MEGA M31 Microlensing Events Nucita, Achille A.; Ingrosso, Gabriele; De Paolis, Francesco; Strafella, Francesco; Calchi Novati, Sebastiano; Scarpetta, Gae- tano; Jetzer, Philippe ...... 1700 On the Lens Nature in Microlensing Searches De Paolis, Francesco; Ingrosso, Gabriele; Nucita, Achille A...... 1702 • Theoretical Gravitational Lensing Chairperson: Perlick, Volker Gravitational Lensing by Braneworld Black Holes Whisker, Richard ...... 1707 Gravitational Lensing of Stars Surrounding Supermassive Black Holes Bozza, Valerio; Mancini, Luigi ...... 1710 Kerr Black Holes Gravitational Lensing in the Strong Deﬂection Limit: An Analytical Approach De Luca, Fabiana ...... 1713 On Gravitational Lensing by a Kerr Black Hole Sereno, Mauro; De Luca, Fabiana ...... 1716 Testing Theories of Gravity with Black Hole Lensing Keeton, Charles R.; Petters, Arlie O...... 1719 Gravitational Lensing by Higher Dimensional Black Holes Majumdar, Archan S.; Mukherjee, Nupur ...... 1722

Iron Kα Line Profiles and Shadow Shapes as Evidences of a Gravitational Lensing in a Strong Gravitational Field near BHs Zakharov, Alexander F.; De Paolis, Francesco; Nucita, Achille A.; Ingrosso, Gabriele ...... 1725 Lensing Effects on Gravitational Waves in a Clumpy Universe Yoo, Chul-Moon; Nakao, Ken-ichi; Kozaki, Hiroshi; Takahashi, Ryuichi . . 1728 QSO Lensing Miranda, Marco; Jetzer, Philippe; Macciò, Andrea V...... 1731 JLenses and XFGLenses Frutos-Alfaro, Francisco; Sol´ıs-Sánchez, Hugo ...... 1734 Wave Fronts in General Relativity Theory Grave, Frank; Frutos-Alfaro, Francisco; Mul¨ ler, Thomas; Adis, Daria . . . 1737 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure Chairperson: Sheth, Ravi Spherical Voids in a Newton-Friedmann Universe Triay, Roland; Fliche, Henri H...... 1743 • Dark Energy and Universe Acceleration Chairperson: Starobinsky, Alexei Dark Energy and Universe Acceleration of Nonlinear Supersym- metric General Relativity Shima, Kazunari; Tsuda, Motomu ...... 1749 Testing the Dark-Energy-Dominated Cosmology by the Solar- System Experiments Dumin, Yurii V...... 1752 A Darkless Spacetime Tartaglia, Angelo; Capone, Monica ...... 1755 On Intrinsic Invariance in Gurzadyan-Xue Cosmological Models Khachatrian, Harutyun; Vereshchagin, Gregory V.; Yegorian, Gegham . . . 1758 Phantom Dark Energy and its Cosmological Consequences. Dabr¸ owski, Mariusz P...... 1761 The Generalized Second Law in Dark Energy Dominated Universes Izquierdo, Germán; Pavón, Diego ...... 1764 Accelerated Expansion by Non-Minimally Coupled Scalar Fields Bieli, Roger ...... 1767 Vacuum Energy Generating Mechanisms in Cosmic Expansion with Natural UV Cutoff Kempf, Achim ...... 1770 New Kinematical Constraints on Cosmic Acceleration Rapetti, David; Allen, Steve W.; Amin, Mustafa A.; Blandford, Roger D...... 1773 Dark Energy and Decaying Dark Matter Mathews, Grant J.; Lan, Nguyen Quynh; Wilson, James R...... 1776 Gravitational Instanton-Solution to Cosmological Constant Xue, She-Sheng ...... 1779 An Alternative Source for Dark Energy Wanas, Mamdouh I...... 1782 An Awesome Hypothesis for Dark Energy: The Abnormally Weighting Energy Fuzfa,¨ André; Alimi, Jean-Michel ...... 1785 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Perturbations of a Cosmological Constant Dominated Universe Vasuth,´ Mátyás; Czinner, Viktor ...... 1788 On the Gurzadyan-Xue Cosmological Models and the Dynamics of Density Perturbation Yegorian, Gegham ...... 1791 Scalar-Tensor Dark Energy Models Ganouji, Radouane; Polarski, David; Ranquet, Andre; Starobinsky, Alexei A...... 1794 Reconstruction of Dark Energy Using Supernova and Other Datasets Alam, Ujjaini; Sahni, Varun; Starobinsky, Alexei A...... 1797 f(R) Dark energy: From the Time of Recombination till Present Day Gurovich, Viktor; Folomeev, Vladimir; Tokareva, Iya ...... 1800 Probing Dynamical Dark Energy with Press-Schechter Mass Functions Le Delliou, Morgan ...... 1803 Broken Scale Invariance and Quintessence (A Quarter of a Century Ago) Venturi, Giovanni ...... 1807 • Topology of the Universe Chairperson: Demianski, Marek An Axisymmetric Object-Based Search for a Flat Compact Dimension Mathews, Grant J.; Menzies, Dylan ...... 1813 Topological Gravitation on Graph Manifolds Mitskievich, Nikolai V.; Efremov, Vladimir N.; Hernández Magdaleno . . . 1816 Supernovae Constraints on Cosmological Density Parameters and Cosmic Topology Rebou¸cas, Marcelo J...... 1819 Supernovae Constraints on DGP Model and Cosmic Topology Rebou¸cas, Marcelo J...... 1824 • Inhomogeneous Cosmology Chairperson: Krasinski,˜ Andrzej Reinterpreting Dark Energy Through Backreaction: The Minimally Coupled Morphon Field Larena, Julien; Buchert, Thomas; Alimi, Jean-Michel ...... 1831 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Initial Conditions for Primordial Black Hole Formation Musco, Ilia; Polnarev, Alexander G...... 1834 Is the Apparent Acceleration of the Universe Expansion Driven by a Dark Energy-Like Component or by Inhomogeneities? Marie-Noëlle; Célérier ...... 1837 Evolution of a Void and an Adjacent Galaxy Supercluster in the Quasispherical Szekeres Model Bolejko, Krzysztof ...... 1847 Covariant Description of the Inhomogeneous Mixmaster Chaos Benini, Riccardo; Montani, Giovanni ...... 1857 The Mass and the Geometry of the Cosmos Hellaby, Charles; Lu, Hui-Ching ...... 1860 • Nonsingular Cosmology — Inflation Chairperson: Novello, Mario Emergent Universe with Bulk Viscosity Mukherjee, Sailo; Paul, Bikash C.; Dadhich, Naresh K.; Maharaj, Sunil D.; Beesham, Aroonkumar ...... 1873 Bulk Viscosity Impact on the Scenario of Warm Inflation Mimoso, Jose Pedro; Nunes, Ana; Pavón, Diego ...... 1876 • Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Effects in the Early Universe Chairperson: Vargas Moniz, Paulo Scalar Field Phase Dynamics in Preheating Charters, T.; Nunes, Ana; Mimoso, Jose Pedro ...... 1881 Branch Wave Functions for Quasi-Classical Homogeneous Universes Craig, David ...... 1884 Quantum Phantom Cosmology Sandhöefer, Barbara ...... 1887 Generic Evolutionary Quantum Universe Battisti, Marco Valerio; Montani, Giovanni ...... 1890 Quantum Cosmology from Three Different Perspectives Esposito, Giampiero ...... 1893 On the Thermal Boundary Condition of the Wave Function of the Universe Bouhmadi-López, Mariam; Vargas Moniz, Paulo ...... 1898 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Dark Energy from Quantum Wave Function Collapse of Dark Matter Majumdar, Archan S.; Home, D...... 1901 Cosmological Perturbations in Quantum Cosmological Back- grounds Pinto-Neto, Nelson ...... 1904 Classical and Quantum Aspects of the Inhomogeneous Mixmaster Chaoticity Benini, Riccardo; Montani, Giovanni ...... 1909 Cosmological Dynamics with Vacuum Polarization Toporensky, Alexey V.; Tretyakov, Petr V...... 1912 Some Cosmological Consequences of Loop Quantum Gravity Mulryne, David J.; Tavakol, Reza ...... 1915 Semiclassical Supersymmetric Quantum Gravity Kiefer, Claus; Luck,¨ Tobias; Vargas Moniz, Paulo ...... 1920 Multigravity and Spacetime Foam Garattini, Remo ...... 1925 Boundary Conditions and Predictions of Quantum Cosmology Page, Don N...... 1928 Quantum Cosmology with Nontrivial Topology Fagundes, Helio V.; Vargas, Teoﬁlo ...... 1933 Non-Singular Solutions in Loop Quantum Cosmology Vereshchagin, Gregory V...... 1936 Minimal Energy and Factor Ordering in Quantum Cosmology Hinterleitner, Franz; Steigl,˘ Roman ...... 1939 On the False Vacuum Bubble Nucleation Lee, Bum-Hoon; Lee, Chul Hoon; Lee, Wonwoo; Park, Chanyong . . . . . 1942

PART C PARALLEL SESSIONS • The GRB – Supernova Connection Chairperson: Chardonnet, Pascal Swift Observations of GRB050712 De Pasquale, Massimiliano; Poole, Tracey; Zane, Silvia; Page, Mathew; Breeveld, Alice; O’Mason, Keith; Grupe, Dicke; Burrows, David; Nousek, John; Roming, Peter; Krimm, Hans; Gehrels, Neil; Zhang, Bing; Kobayashi, Shiho ...... 1947 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

No Astrophysical Dyadospheres Page, Don N...... 1950 Magnetized Hypermassive Neutron Star Collapse: A Candidate Central Engine for Short-Hard GRBs Stephens, Branson C.; Duez, Matthew D.; Liu, Yuk Tung; Shapiro, Stuart L.; Shibata, Masaru ...... 1953 Theoretical Interpretation of Luminosity and Spectral Properties of GRB 031203 Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Chardonnet, Pascal; Fraschetti, Federico; Ruﬃni, Remo; Xue, She-Sheng ...... 1956 GRB980425 and the Puzzling URCA1 Emission Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia; Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Guida Roberto; Ruﬃni, Remo J...... 1959 • The Afterglow, Short and Long GRBs Chairperson: Arkhangelskaja, Irene

The Ep,i–Eiso Correlation and the Nature of Sub-Energetic GRBs Amati, Lorenzo ...... 1965 The GRB Detected by AVS-F Apparatus Onboard CORONAS-F Satellite in 2001–2005 Years Arkhangelskaja, Irene V.; Arkhangelsky, Andrey I.; Glyanenko, Alexander S.; Kotov, Yuri D.; Kuznetsov, Sergey N...... 1968 Special Relativistic Simulations of Magneto-Driven Jet from Core-Collapse Supernovae Takiwaki, Tomoya; Kotake, Kei; Yamada, Shoichi; Sato, Katsuhiko . . . . 1971 Theoretical Interpretation of “Long” and “Short” GRBs Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Caito, Letizia; Chardonnet, Pascal; Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Fraschetti, Francesca; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo; Xue, She-Sheng ...... 1974 Theoretical Interpretation of GRB011121 Caito, Letizia; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo ...... 1977 On GRB 060218 and the GRBs Related to Supernovae Ib/c Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo ...... 1981 The “Fireshell” Model in the Swift Era Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Ruffini, Remo ...... 1989 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

GRB970228 as a Prototype for the Class of GRBs with an Initial Spikelike Emission Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia; Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo ...... 1992 Theoretical Interpretation of GRB060124: Preliminary Results Guida, Roberto; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia; Dainotti Maria Giovanna; Ruffini, Remo ...... 1995 • GRBs and Host Galaxies Chairperson: Bjornsson, Gunnlaugur Numerical Counterparts of GRB Host Galaxies Courty, Stéphanie; Björnsson, Gunnlaugur; Gudmundsson, Einar H. . . . 2003 The Host Galaxies of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Mid-Infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope Le Floc’h, Emeric ...... 2006 Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Gas and Dust Starling, Rhaana; Wijers, Ralph; Wiersema, Klaas ...... 2009 Low Redshift GRBs and their Host Galaxies Tanvir, Nial R...... 2012 The Analysis of GRB Redshift Distribution Arkhangelskaja, Irene V...... 2015 Fundamental Properties of GRB-Selected Galaxies: A Swift/VLT Legacy Survey Jakobsson, Páll; Hjorth, Jens; Fynbo, Johan P.U.; Gorosabel, Javier; Jaunsen, Andreas O...... 2019 • GRB Observations by SWIFT Chairperson: Angelini, Lorella The Swift XRT: Early X-Ray Afterglows Tagliaferri, Gianpiero ...... 2025 Initial Results from Swift/UVOT Marshall, Francis E...... 2030 Investigation of Jet Break Features in Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts Sato, Garo et al...... 2033 Recent Results from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope Krimm, Hans A.; for the Swift/BAT team ...... 2036 Optical Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts at the First Russian Robotic Telescope MASTER Tyurina, Nataly; Lipunov, Vladimir M.; Kornilov, Victor G.; Gorbovskoy, Evgeniy S.; Kuvshinov, Dmirtiy A...... 2039 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Cosmological Singularities Chairperson: Cotsakis, Spiros Flat, Radiation Universes with Quadratic Corrections and Asymp- totic Analysis Cotsakis, Spiros; Tsokaros, Antonios ...... 2045 The Recollapse Problem of Closed Isotropic Models in Second Order Gravity Theory Miritzis, John ...... 2048 Big-Rip, Sudden Future and Other Exotic Singularities in the Universe Dabr¸ owski, Mariusz; Balcerzak, Adam ...... 2051 Braneworld Cosmological Singularities Antoniadis, Ignatios; Cotsakis, Spiros; Klaoudatou, Ifigeneia ...... 2054 Generalized Puiseux Series Expansion for Cosmological Milestones Cattoën, Céline; Visser, Matt ...... 2057 • Chaos in General Relativity and Cosmology Chairperson: Gurzadyan, Vahe Chaos in the Yang-Mills Theory and Cosmology: Quantum Aspects Matinyan, Sergei ...... 2063 Chaos, Gravity and Wave Maps with Target SU(2) Szybka, Sebastian Jan ...... 2078 Chaos in Core-Halo Gravitating Systems Ghahramanyan, Tigran; Gurzadyan, Vahe G...... 2081 Transient Chaos in Scalar Field Cosmology on a Brane Toporensky, Alexey ...... 2084 Toward a Holographic Origin of Cosmological Large Scale Structure Mureika, Jonas R...... 2087 Vector Field Induced Chaos in Multi-dimensional Homogeneous Cosmologies Benini, Riccardo; Kirillov, A. Alexander; Montani, Giovanni ...... 2090 • Einstein-Maxwell Systems Chairperson: Lee, Chul Hoon Dynamo Action on Relativistic Spherical Stars Nadiezhda, Montelongo-Garcia; Thomas, Zannias ...... 2095 External Electromagnetic Fields of a Slowly Rotating Magnetized Star with Nonvanishing Gravitomagnetic Charge Ahmedov, Bobomurat J.; Khugaev, Avas V.; Rakhmatov, Nemat I. . . . . 2098 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Aligned Electromagnetic Excitations of the Kerr-Schild Solution Burinskii, Alexander ...... 2101 Static Perturbations of a Reissner-Nordström Black Hole by a Charged Massive Particle Bini, Donato; Geralico, Andrea; Ruffini, Remo ...... 2104 Charged Black String Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations in Higher Dimensions Lee, Chul Hoon ...... 2107 On the Hypothesis of Gravimagnetism Abdil’din, Meirkhan M.; Abishev, Medeu E...... 2110 Static Perturbations of a Reissner-Nordström Black Hole by a Charged Massive Particle Bini, Donato; Geralico, Andrea; Ruffini, Remo ...... 2113 • Theoretical Issues in GR Chairperson: Brill, Dieter A Framework for the Discussion of Singularities in General Relativity Whale, Benjamin E.; Scott, Susan M...... 2119 Axial Symmetric Gravitomagnetic Monopole in Cylindrical Coordinates Kagramanova, Valeria G.; Ahmedov, Bobomurat J...... 2122 Optical Reference Geometry and Inertial Forces in Kerr-de Sitter Spacetimes Kováˇr, Jiˇr´ı; Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek ...... 2125 On the Construction of Syzgies of the Polynomial Invariants of the Riemann Tensor Lim, Allan E.K.; Carminati, John ...... 2128 A General Covariant Stability Theory Wanas, Mamdouh I.; Bakry, Mohamed A...... 2131 Relativistic Generalization of the Inertial and Gravitational Masses Equivalence Principle Mitskievich, Nikolai V...... 2134 Static Perturbations by a Point Mass on a Schwarzschild Black Hole Bini, Donato; Geralico, Andrea; Ruffini, Remo ...... 2137 Spatial Noncommutativity in a Rotating Frame Beciu, Mircea ...... 2140 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

On Energy and Momentum of the Friedman and Some More General Universes Garecki, Janusz ...... 2143 Quasilocal Energy for an Unusual Slicing of Static Spherically Symmetric Metrics Chen, Chiang-Mei; Nester, James M...... 2146 Quasilocal Energy for Cosmological Models Nester, James M.; Chen, Chiang-Mei; Liu, Jian-Liang ...... 2149 Relative Strains in General Relativity Bini, Donato; de Felice, Fernando; Geralico, Andrea ...... 2152 Dyonic Kerr-Newman Black Holes, Complex Scalar Field and Cosmic Censorship Semiz, Ibr˙ ahim ...... 2155 The Ideas of GR, Quantization, Non-equilibrium Theormodynam- ics and Gravimagnetism in Planetary Cosmogony Abdil’din, Meirkhan M.; Abishev, Medev E.; Beissen, Nurzada A...... 2158 • Wormholes, Energy Conditions and Time Machines Chairperson: Hadley, Mark N-Spheres: Regular Black Holes, Static Wormholes and Gravastars with a Tube-Like Core Zaslavskii, Oleg B...... 2169 Averaged Energy Inequalities for Non-Minimally Coupled Classical Scalar Fields Osterbrink, Lutz W...... 2172 Self-Sustained Traversable Wormholes and the Equation of State Garattini, Remo ...... 2175 Classical and Quantum Wormholes in a Cosmology with Decaying Dark Energy Darabi, Farhad ...... 2178 Nariai-Bertotti-Robinson Spacetimes as a Building Material for One-Way Wormholes with Horizons, but without Singularity Mitskievich, Nikolai V.; Medina Guevara, Mar´ıa Guadalupe; Rodr´ıguez, H´ector Vargas ...... 2181 Cosmic Time Machines and Gamma Ray Bursts De Felice, Fernando ...... 2184 Static and Dynamic Traversable Wormholes Adamiak, Jaroslaw P...... 2187 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Wormholes in the Accelerating Universe González-D´ıaz, Pedro F.; Mart´ın-Moruno, Prado ...... 2190 Traversable Wormholes Supported by Cosmic Accelerated Ex- panding Equations of State Lobo, Francisco S.N...... 2193 On Wormholes of Massless K-Essence Estevez-Delgado, Joaquin; Zannias, Thomas ...... 2196 Dynamic Wormhole Spacetimes Coupled to Nonlinear Electrodynamics Berrocal Arellano, Aarón V.; Lobo, Francisco S.N...... 2199 • Exact Solutions (Mathematical Aspects) Chairperson: Alekseev, George Robinson-Trautman Spacetimes in Higher Dimensions Ortaggio, Marcello; Podolský, Jiˇr´ı ...... 2205 Solutions of Seiberg-Witten and Einstein-Maxwell-Dirac Equations in Euclidean Signature Cihan, Sa¸clio˘glu ...... 2208 Euler Numbers on Cobordant Hypersurfaces Harriott, Tina A.; Williams, Jeff G...... 2211 Symmetries of the Weyl Tensor in Bianchi V Spacetimes Kashif, Abdul Rehman; Saifullah, Khalid; Shabbir, Ghulam S...... 2213 Classification of Spacetimes according to Conformal Killing Vectors Saifullah, Khalid ...... 2216 Exact Solutions for Radiating Relativistic Star Models Misthry, Suryakumari S.; Maharaj, Sunil D...... 2219 An EMP Model of Bianchi 1 Cosmology Williams, Floyd L...... 2222 Exact Static Solutions for Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity in (3+1)-Dimensions Bilge, Ayse H.; Daghan, Durmus ...... 2225 Thermodynamic Description of Inelastic Collisions in General Relativity Neugebauer, Gernot; Hennig, Jöerg ...... 2228 Distorted Killing Horizons and Algebraic Classification of Curva- ture Tensors Pravda, Vojtˇech; Zaslavskii, Oleg B...... 2231 Quasi-Stationary Routes to the Kerr Black Hole Meinel, Reinhard ...... 2234 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Classification Results on Purely Magnetic Perfect Fluid Models Wylleman, Lode; Van den Bergh, Norbert ...... 2237 Purely Electric Perfect Fluids of Petrov Type D Wylleman, Lode ...... 2240 Self-Dual Fields on the Space of a Kerr-Taub-Bolt Instanton Aliev, Alikram N.; Sa¸clio˘glu, Cihan ...... 2243 The Kerr Theorem, Multisheeted Twistor Spaces and Multiparticle Kerr-Schild Solutions. Burinskii, Alexander ...... 2246 Electrical Force Lines of a 2-Soliton Solution of the Einstein- Maxwell Equations Pizzi, Marco ...... 2249 Monodromy Transform Approach in the Theory of Integrable Reductions of Einstein’s Field Equations and Some Applications Alekseev, George ...... 2252 Closed Timelike Curves and Geodesics of Gödel-Type Metrics Sario˘glu, Ozg¨ ur¨ ...... 2255 Conformal Symmetries in Spherical Spacetimes Maharaj, Sunil D.; Moopanar, Selvan ...... 2258 A Theorem of Beltrami and the Integration of the Geodesic Equations Boccaletti, Dino; Catoni, Francesco; Cannata, Roberto; Zampetti, Paolo . . 2261 Gravitational Collapse and Horizon Formation in 2+1 Dimensional Gravity Brill, Dieter; Khetarpal, Puneet ...... 2264 Purely Magnetic Silent Universes Do Not Exist Vu, Khai T.; Carminati, John ...... 2268 • Exact Solutions (Physical Aspects) Chairperson: Scott, Susan M. Zeeman-Type Dragging in the Kerr-Newman and NUT Spacetimes Mitskievich, Nikolai V.; López Ben´ıtez, Luis I...... 2273 Physical Implications for the Uniqueness of the Value of the Integration Constant in the Vacuum Schwarzschild Solution Mitra, Abhas ...... 2276 Singularity Analysis of Generalized Cylindrically Symmetric Spacetimes Konkowski, Deborah A.; Helliwell, Thomas M...... 2279 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Some Properties of Kerr Geometry with a Repulsive Cosmological Constant Petrásek, Martin; Hled´ık, Stanislav ...... 2282 Solution Generating Theorems: Perfect Fluid Spheres and the TOV Equation Boonserm, Petarpa; Visser, Matt; Weinfurtner, Silke ...... 2285 Spherically Symmetric Gravitational Collapse of Perfect Fluids Lasky, Paul; Lun, Anthony ...... 2288 High-Speed Cylindrical Collapse of Two Dust Fluids Sharif, Muhammad; Ahmad, Zahid ...... 2291 Some Physical Consequences of the Multipole Structure of the Kerr and Kerr-Newman Solutions Rosquist, Kjell ...... 2294 Visualising Spacetimes via Embedding Diagrams Hled´ık, Stanislav; Stuchl´ık, Zdenˇek; Cipko, Alois ...... 2299 Canonical Analysis of Radiating Atmospheres of Stars in Equilibrium Kovács, Zoltón; Gergely, László A.;´ Horváth, Zsolt ...... 2302 • Self-Gravitating Systems Chairperson: Mielke, Eckehard W. Platonic Sphalerons in Einstein-Yang-Mills and Yang-Mills-Dilaton Theory Kleihaus, Burkhard; Kunz, Jutta; Myklevoll, Kari ...... 2307 Comment on “General Relativity Resolves Galactic Rotation without Exotic Dark Matter” by F.I. Cooperstock and S. Tieu Fuchs, Burkhard; Phleps, Stefanie ...... 2310 Solitonic and Non-Solitonic Q-Stars Verbin, Yosef ...... 2313 Rotating Monopole-Antimonopole Pairs and Vortex Rings Neemann, Ulrike; Kunz, Jutta; Kleihaus, Burkhard ...... 2316 Sources of Static Cylindrical Spacetimes Zˇofka, Martin ...... 2319 Gravitating Multi-Skyrmions Kleihaus, Burkhard; Ioannidou, Theodora; Kunz, Jutta ...... 2322 A New Exact Static Thin Disk with a Central Black Hole González, Guillermo A...... 2325 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Bifurcations of Nonlinear Curvature Lagrangians in the Boson Star Model Schunck, Franz E...... 2328 Approximate Dynamics of Dark Matter Ellipsoids Bisnovatyi-Kogan, Gennadyl S.; Tsupko, Oley Yu...... 2331 Nonextensive Statistical Theory of Density Distributions in Grav- itationally Clustered Structures Leubner, Manfred P...... 2334 General Relativistic Accretion with Backreaction Karkowski, Janusz; Kinasiewicz, Bogusz; Mach, Patryk; Malec, Edward; Swier´ czynski,´ Zdobyslaw ...... 2337 Non-Homogeneous Axisymmetric Models of Self-Gravitating Systems Cherubini, Christian; Filippi, Simonetta; Ruﬃni, Remo; Sepul- veda, Alonso; Zuluaga, Jorge I...... 2340 Gravitational Wave Damping from a Self-Gravitating Vibrating Ring of Matter around a Black Hole Basu, Prasad; Chakrabarti, Sandip K...... 2343 Variational Principles and Hamiltonian Formulation of Spherical Shell Dynamics Kijowski, Jerzy; Magli, Giulio; Malafarina, Daniele ...... 2346 • Operating GW Detectors Chairperson: Bassan, Massimo Virgo Commissioning Progress Barsuglia, Matteo; for the Virgo Collaboration ...... 2351 Results from LIGO Observations: Stochastic Background and Continuous Wave Signals Christensen, Nelson; for the Ligo Scientiﬁc Collaboration ...... 2356 Explorer and Nautilus Gravitational Wave Detectors - A Status Report Bassan, Massimo; for the ROG Collaboration ...... 2359 AURIGA on the Air: Sensitivity, Calibration, Diagnostics and Observations Ortolan, Antonello; for the AURIGA collaboration ...... 2365 • Advanced GW Detectors Chairperson: Blair, David Optical Spring at Thermal Equilibrium Di Virgilio, Angela ...... 2373 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Measurements of Electrical Charge Distribution Variations on Fused Silica Prokhorov, Leonid G.; Mitrofanov, Valery P...... 2376 Developments toward Monolithic Suspensions for Advanced Grav- itational Wave Detectors Heptonstall, Alastair; Cantley, Caroline; Crooks, David; Cumming, Alan; Hough, James; Jones, Russell; Martin, Iain; Rowan, Sheila; Cagnoli, Gianpietro ...... 2379 Concept Study of Yukawa-like Potential Tests Using Dynamic Gravity-Gradients with Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors Raffai, Péter; Márka, Szabolcs; Matone, Luca; Márka, Zsuzsa ...... 2382 Astrophysical Sources of the Gravitational Waves Lipunov, Vladimir M...... 2385 • Space and Third Generation GW Detectors Chairperson: Hough, Jim DECIGO: The Japanese Space Gravitational Wave Antenna Ando, Masaki; et al...... 2393 Design and Construction of the LISA Technology Package Optical Bench Interferometer Killow, Christian J.; Bogenstahl, Johanna; Perruer-Lloyd, Michael; Ward, Henry; Robertson, David I.; Guzmán Cervantes, Felipe; Steier, Frank ...... 2398 Compact Binary Inspiral and the Science Potential of Third- Generation Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors Van Den Broeck, Chris; Sengupta, Anand S...... 2401 Discrete Sampling Variation Measurement Technique for Sub-SQL Sensitivity Detection of Gravitational Waves Danilishin, Stefan L.; Khalili, Farid Ya...... 2404 The Detection of Gravitational Waves with Matter Wave Interferometers Delva, Pacˇome; Angonin, Marie-Christine; Tourrenc, Philippe ...... 2407 • GW Data Analysis Chairperson: Ricci, Fulvio Detecting LISA Sources Using Time-Frequency Techniques Gair, Jonathan R.; Jones, Gareth ...... 2413 Determining the Neutron Star Equation of State using the Narrow- Band Gravitational Wave Detector Schenberg de Araujo, Jose Carlos N.; Marranghello, Guilherme F...... 2416 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Approximate Waveform Templates for Detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with LISA Gair, Jonathan R...... 2419 GW-Detector’s Output Processing at the Non-Gaussian Noise Background Gusev, Andrei V.; Popov, Serghei M.; Rudenko, Valentin ...... 2422 Detecting a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves in the Presence of Non-Gaussian Noise Himemoto, Yoshiaki ...... 2426 Coincidences between the Gravitational Wave Detectors EX- PLORER and NAUTILUS in the Years 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2004 Pizzella, Guido ...... 2429 Incoherent Strategies for the Network Detection of Periodic Gravitational Waves Astone, Pia; Frasca, Sergio; Palomba, Cristiano ...... 2438 Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves: Simple Criterion for Optimal Detector Networks Prix, Reinhard ...... 2441 First Coincidence Search among Periodic Gravitational Wave Source Candidates Using Virgo Data Palomba, Cristiano; for the Virgo Collaboration ...... 2444 Primordial Black-Hole Gravitational Wave Background Noise in the LISA, DECIGO and BBO Frequency Bands de Araujo, Jose Carlos N.; Aguiar, Odylio D.; Miranda, Oswaldo P. . . . . 2448 • Recent Advances in the History of General Relativity Chairperson: Renn, Juergen The Einstein-Varićak Correspondence on Relativistic Rigid Rotation Sauer, Tilman ...... 2453 The History of the So-Called Lense-Thirring Effect Pfister, Herbert ...... 2456 M.-A. Tonnelat’s Research Concerning Unified Field Theory Goenner, Hubert ...... 2459 Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics Salisbury, Donald C...... 2467 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Stellar and Solar Positions in 1701-1703 Observed by Francesco Bianchini at the Clementine Meridian Line in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome, and its Calibration Curve Sigismondi, Costantino ...... 2470 • Strong Gravity and Binaries Chairperson: Blanchet, Luc The Effacing Principle in the Post-Newtonian Mechanics Kopeikin, Sergei; Vlasov, Igor ...... 2475 Gravitational Waves of a Lense-Thirring System Vasuth,´ Mátyás; Majár, János ...... 2478 York Map, Non-Inertial Frames and the Physical Interpretation of the Gauge Variables of the Gravitational Field Lusanna, Luca ...... 2481 • Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Binary Objects Chairperson: Schaefer, Gerhard Accurate and Efficient Gravitational Waveforms for Certain Galactic Compact Binaries Tessmer, Manuel; Gopakumar, Achamveedu ...... 2487 Dimensional Regularization of the Gravitational Interaction of Point Masses in the ADM Formalism Damour, Thibault; Jaranowski, Piotr; Schäefer, Gerhard ...... 2490 New Results at 3PN via an Effective Field Theory of Gravity Porto, Rafael A...... 2493 Orbital Phase in Inspiraling Compact Binaries Vasuth,´ Mátyás; Mikóczi, Balázs; Gergely, László A.´ ...... 2497 Gravitational Wave Emission from a Stellar Companion Black Hole in Presence of an Accretion Disk Around a Kerr Black Hole Basu, Prasad; Chakrabarti, Sandip K.; Mondal, Soumen; Goswami, Kushalendu ...... 2500 The Second Post-Newtonian Order Generalized Kepler Equation Gergely, László A.;´ Keresztes, Zoltón; Mikóczi, Balázs ...... 2503 • Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance Chairperson: Peters, Achim The Standard-Model Extension and Tests of Relativity Russell, Neil ...... 2509 New Measurements of the One-Way Speed of Light and its Relation to Clock-Comparison Experiments Unnikrishnan, C.S...... 2512 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Test of Time Dilation with a Two-Velocity Atomic Clock Saathoﬀ, Guido; Karpuk, Sergej; Reinhardt, Sascha; Buhr, Hen- rik; H¨ansch, Theodor W.; Holzwarth, Ronald; Huber, Gerhard; Novotny, Christian; Schwalm, Dirk; Udem, Thomas; Wolf, An- dreas; Zimmermann, Marcus; Gwinner, Gerald ...... 2515 • Laboratory Gravity Tests Chairperson: Laemmerzahl, Claus Atom Interferometry for Precision Tests of Gravity: Measurement of G and Test of Newtonian Law at Micrometric Distances Bertoldi, Andrea; Cacciapuoti, Luigi; de Angelis, Marella; Drullinger, Robert E.; Ferrari, Gabriele; Lamporesi, Giacomo; Poli, Nicola; Prevedelli, Marco; Sorrentino, Fiodor; Tino, Guglielmo M...... 2519 Development of Accelerometer Prototype for Testing the Equiva- lence Principle in Free Fall Iafolla, Valerio; Lucchesi, David; Milyukov, Vadim; Nozzoli, Sergio; Santoni, Francesco; Shapiro, Irvin I.; Lorenzini, Enrico C.; Cosmo, Mario L.; Ashenberg, Joshua; Cheimets, Peter N.; Glashow, Sheldon ...... 2530 Measurement of the Gravitational Constant G Meyer, Hinrich; Kleinevoss, Ulf; Piel, Helmut ...... 2534 Solar Radius at Minimum of Cycle 23 Sigismondi, Costantino ...... 2537 The Newtonian Gravitational Constant: Modern Status and Perspective of New Determination Milyukov, Vadim; Luo, Jun ...... 2540 Relativistic Astrometry with Gaia: Advances in the RAMOD Project Bucciarelli, Beatrice; Crosta, Maria Teresa; Lattanzi, Mario G.; Vecchiato, Alberto; Preti, Giovanni; de Felice, Fernando ...... 2543 • Clock and Space Tests of Gravity Chairperson: Salomon, Christophe Dynamical Clock Synchronization in Einstein’s Theory: Implica- tions for ACES mission of ESA Lusanna, Luca ...... 2549 STEP Prototype Development Status Mehls, Carsten et al...... 2553 On Stellar System Tests of the Cosmological Constant Sereno, Mauro; Jetzer, Philippe ...... 2556 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

The Lense-Thirring Effect and the Pioneer Anomaly: Solar System Tests Iorio, Lorenzo ...... 2558 The Equivalence Principle and Its Tests in the Context of Gravity, Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology Unnikrishnan, C.S...... 2561 The Flyby-Anomaly Läemmerzahl, Claus; Dittus, Hansjöerg ...... 2564 Gravity Tests and the Pioneer Anomaly Jaekel, Marc-Thierry; Reynaud, Serge ...... 2567 • Astrometry Chairperson: Klioner, Sergei A Nice Tool for Relativistic Astrometry: Synge’s World Function Teyssandier, Pierre; Le Poncin-Lafitte, Christophe ...... 2573 Lunar Laser Ranging: A Space Geodetic Technique to Test Relativity Mul¨ ler, Jur¨ gen ...... 2576 APOLLO: Next Generation Lunar Laser Ranging Murphy, Thomas W. Jr.; Michelsen, Eric L.; Orin, Adam E.; Battat, James B.; Stubbs, Christopher W.; Adelberger, Eric G.; Hoyle, C.D.; Swanson, H. Erik ...... 2579 Metric Extensions of General Relativity and Gravity Tests in the Solar System Reynaud, Serge; Jaekel, Marc-Thierry ...... 2582 Measurement of the PPN-γ Parameter with a Space-Born Dyson- Eddington-like Experiment Vecchiato, Alberto; Gai, Mario; Lattanzi, Mario G.; Morbidelli, Roberto . . 2585 Relativistic Light Deflection near Giant Planets Using Gaia Astrometry Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Klioner, Sergei A.; Torra, Jordi ...... 2588 Astrometrical Microlensing with Radioastron Zakharov, Alexander F...... 2591 Asteroidal Occultation of Regulus: Differential Effect of Light Bending Sigismondi, Costantino; Troise, Davide ...... 2594 Testing General Relativity by Astrometric Measurements Close to Jupiter, the Real GAREXPart II Crosta, Maria Teresa; Gardiol, Daniele; Lattanzi, Mario G.; Morbidelli, Roberto ...... 2597 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Relativistic Tests from the Motion of Asteroids Hestroffer, Daniel; Mouret, Serge; Berthier, Jérôme; Mignard, Fran¸cois . . 2600 • Quantum Gravity Phenomenology Chairperson: Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni Effective Vacuum Refractive Index from Gravity and Present Ether-Drift Experiments Consoli, Maurizio ...... 2605 Quantum Gravity Effects in Rotating Black Holes Reuter, Martin; Tuiran, Erick ...... 2608 Lorentz Symmetry from Lorentz violation in the Bulk Bertolami, Orfeu; Carvalho, Carla ...... 2611 Quantum Gravity and Spacetime Symmetries Lehnert, Ralf ...... 2615 Lorentz Invariance Violation in Higher Order Electrodynamics Lorek, Dennis; Läemmerzahl, Claus ...... 2618 Hubble Meets Planck: A Cosmic Peek at Quantum Foam Ng, Y. Jack ...... 2621 Evolutionary Reformulation of Quantum Gravity Montani, Giovanni ...... 2626 Kerr’s Gravity as a Quantum Gravity on the Compton Level Burinskii, Alexander ...... 2631 A Link between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Rosquist, Kjell ...... 2634 Spacetime Fluctuations and Inertia Göklu,¨ Ertan; Läemmerzahl, Claus; Camacho, Abel; Macias, Alfredo . . . . 2639 Quantum Gravity in Cyclic (Ekpyrotic) and Multiple (Anthropic) Universes with Strings and/or Loops Chung, T.J...... 2642 • Quantum Fields Chairperson: Belinski, Vladimir Quantum Liouville Theory with Heavy Charges Menotti, Pietro; Tonni, Erik ...... 2647 On the Path Integral for Non-Commutative (NC) QFT Dehne, Christoph ...... 2650 An Irreducible Form for the Asymptotic Expansion Coefficients of the Heat Kernel of Fermions Yajima, Satoshi; Higasida, Yoji; Fukuda, Makoto; Tokuo, Shoshi; Kubota, Shin-Ichiro; Kamo, Yuki ...... 2653 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Quantum Anomalies for Generalized Euclidean Taub-Newman- Unti-Tamburino Metrics Visinescu, Mihai; Visinescu, Anca ...... 2656 A New Expression for the Transition Rate of an Accelerated Particle Detector Louko, Jorma; Satz, Alejandro ...... 2659 On the Geometrization of the Electromagnetic Interaction for a Spinning Particle Cianfrani, Francesco; Milillo, Irene; Montani, Giovanni ...... 2662 Can EPR Correlations be Driven by an Effective Wormhole? Santini, Eduardo Sergio ...... 2665 Is Torsion a Fundamental Physical Field? Lecian, Orchidea Maria; Mercuri, Simone; Montani, Giovanni ...... 2668 Unitary Quantization of the Gowdy T 3 Cosmology Corichi, Alejandro; Cortez, Jerónimo; Mena Marugán, Guillermo A. . . . 2671 On the Interaction of the Gravitational Field of a Cosmic String with Some Quantum Systems Marques, Geusa; Bezerra, Valdir B...... 2674 Einstein-Rosen Waves Coupled to Matter Barbero Gonzalez, Jesus Fernando; Garay, Inaki;˜ Villasenor,˜ Eduardo J.S...... 2677 Electromagnetic Radiation from a Charge Rotating in Schwarzschild Spacetime Castineir˜ as, Jorge; Crispino, Lu´ıs C.B.; Murta, Rodrigo; Matsas, George E.A...... 2680 Recent Developments in Quantum Energy Inequalities Fewster, Christopher J...... 2683 Black Holes as Boundaries in 2D Dilaton Supergravity Bergamin, Luzi; Grumiller, Daniel ...... 2686 Quasinormal Modes for Arbitrary Spins in the Schwarzschild Background Khriplovich, Iosif; Ruban, Gennady ...... 2692 Can Quantum Mechanics Heal Classical Singularities? Helliwell, Thomas M.; Konkowski, Deborah A...... 2695 Quantizing Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity with Fermions: The Vienna Way Meyer, René ...... 2698 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Vacuum Polarization for a Spinor Massive Field in an Einstein- Maxwell Spacetime Bezerra, Valdir B.; Khusnutdinov, Nail R...... 2701 • Casimir Effect and Short-Range Gravity Chairperson: Mostepanenko, Vladimir The Casimir Effect in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories Mostepanenko, Vladimir M...... 2707 Local and Global Casimir Energies in a Green’s Function Approach Milton, Kimbal A.; Cavero-Peláez, Inés; Kirsten, Klaus ...... 2727 Boundary Induced Quantum Fluctuation Effects: From Moving Mirror to Electron Coherence Hsiang, Jen-Tsung; Lee, Da-Shin ...... 2746 A Theory of Electromagnetic Fluctuations for Metallic Surfaces and van der Waals Interactions between Metallic Bodies Bimonte, Giuseppe ...... 2749 Theory of the Casimir Effect between Dielectric and Semiconductor Plates Klimchitskaya, Galina L.; Geyer, Boro ...... 2752 A Novel Experimental Approach for the Measure of the Casimir Effect at Large Distances Antonini, Piergiorgio; Bressi, Giacomo; Carugno, Giovanni; Galeazzi, Giuseppe; Messineo, Giuseppe; Ruoso, Giuseppe ...... 2755 Measurement of the Casimir Force in the Range above 5 Microns and Detection of the Finite Temperature Effect Rajalakshm, Gurumukthy I.; Suresh, Doravari; Cowsik, Ramanath; Unnikrishnan, C.S...... 2758 Scalar Casimir Effect with Non-Local Boundary Conditions Saharian, Aram; Esposito, Giampiero ...... 2761 Sample Dependence of the Casimir Force Pirozhenko, Irina; Lambrecht, Astrid, Svetovoy, Vitaly B...... 2764 Casimir Interaction between Absorbing and Meta Materials Intravaia, Francesco; Henkel, Carsten ...... 2767 Casimir Energy and a Cosmological Bounce Herdeiro, Carlos A.R...... 2770 Photon Generation from the Vacuum: An Experiment to Detect the DCE Braggio, Caterina; Bressi, Giacomo; Carugno, Giovanni; Ruoso, Giuseppe; Zanello, Dino ...... 2773 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

• Loop Quantum Gravity, Quantum Geometry, Spin Foams Chairperson: Lewandowski, Jerzy

The Emergence of AdS2 from Quantum Fluctuations Ambjørn, Jan; Janik, Romuald; Westra, Willem; Zohren, Stefan . . . . . 2779 The Ponzano-Regge Model and Reidemeister Torsion Barrett, John W.; Naish-Guzman, Ileana ...... 2782 The Proca-Field in Loop Quantum Gravity Helesfai, Gabor ...... 2785 Ambiguity of Black Hole Entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity Tamaki, Takashi; Nomura, Hidefumi ...... 2788 Exploring the Diffeomorphism Invariant Hilbert Space of a Scalar Field Sahlmann, Hanno ...... 2791 Nieh-Yan Invariant and Fermions in Ashtekar-Barbero-Immirzi Formalism Mercuri, Simone ...... 2794 A Generalized Schröedinger Equation for Loop Quantum Cosmology Salisbury, Donald C.; Schmitz, Allison ...... 2797 Spectral Analysis of the Volume Operator in Loop Quantum Gravity Brunnemann, Johannes; Rideout, David ...... 2800 Counting Entropy in Causal Set Quantum Gravity Zohren, Stefan; Rideout, David ...... 2803 Algebraic Approach to ‘Quantum Spacetime Geometry’ Raptis, Ioannis; Wallden, Petros; Zapatrin, Romàn ...... 2806 Noncummutative Translations and ?-Product Formalism Daszkiewicz, Marcin; Lukierski, Jerzy; Woronowicz, Mariusz ...... 2809 • Brane Worlds and String Motivated Cosmology Chairperson: Galtsov, Dmitry Black Holes on Cosmological Branes Gergely, László A.´ ...... 2815 Generalized Cosmological Equations for a Thick Brane Khakshournia, Samad ...... 2818 Cerenkov Radiation from Collisions of Straight Cosmic (Super)Strings Melkumova, Elena; Gal’tsov, Dmitri V.; Salehi, Karim ...... 2821 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

High-Energy Effects on the Spectra of Cosmological Perturbations in Braneworld Cosmology Hiramatsu, Takashi; Koyama, Kazuya; Taruya, Atsushi ...... 2824 Braneworlds and Quantum States of Relativistic Shells Ansoldi, Stefano ...... 2827 Rotating Braneworld Black Holes Aliev, Alikram N...... 2830 General Solution for Scalar Perturbations in Bouncing Cosmologies Bozza, Valerio ...... 2833 Constraints on Accelerating Brane Cosmology with Exchange between the Bulk and Brane Mathews, Grant J.; Umezu, Ken-Ichi; Kajino, Toshitaka; Ichiki, Kiyomoto; Nakamura, Ryoko; Yahiro, Masanobu ...... 2836 Testing DGP Modified Gravity in the Solar System Iorio, Lorenzo ...... 2839 The Dynamics of Scalar-Tensor Cosmology from RS Two-Brane Model Kuusk, Piret; Järv, Laur; Saal, Margus ...... 2842 Self-T-Dual Brane Cosmology Rinaldi, Massimiliano ...... 2845 • Brane Worlds Chairperson: Bianchi, Massimo Catching Photons from Extra Dimensions Dobado, Antorio; Maroto, Antorio L.; Cembranos, Jose A.R...... 2851 Lorentz Invariance Violation in Braneworld Models Koroteev, Peter A...... 2854 The Bazanski Approach in Brane-Worlds: A Brief Introduction Kahil, Magd Elias ...... 2857 • M-Theory and Dualities Chairperson: Stelle, Kellogg M-Theory and Dualities Mac Conamhna, Ois´ın ...... 2863 AdS Spacetimes in M-Theory Gauntlett, Jerome P.; Mac Conamhna, Ois´ın A.P.; Mateos, Toni; Waldram, Daniel ...... 2875 Global Aspects of Seven–Brane Configurations Bergshoeff, Eric A.; Hartong, Jelle; Ort´ın, Tomás; Roest, Diederik . . . . 2878 July 21, 2008 11:37 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9.75in x 6.5in contents

Duality and Black Hole Partition Functions Mohaupt, Thomas ...... 2881 M-Theory on Calabi-Yau Five-folds Haupt, Alexander S.; Stelle, Kellogg S...... 2884 Hagedorn Transition and Chronology Protection in String Theory Herdeiro, Carlos A.R...... 2887 KK-Masses and Dipole Theories Landsteiner, Karl; Montero, Sergio ...... 2890

List of Participants ...... 2893 Author Index ...... 2911