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Schedule for Summer School

All talks will take place in the Panofsky Auditorium

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29
August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5
Monday, July 25  
Chairman C. Prescott  
9:00 - 10:00 AM General Relativity Primer S. Carroll
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM General Relativity Primer S. Carroll
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM General Relativity Primer S. Carroll
12:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM Gravity Probe - B Instrument and Data Reduction G. Keiser
3:00 - 3:45 PM Gravity Probe - B and General Relativity J. Mester
4:00 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Welcome Reception  
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Tuesday, July 26  
Chairman J. Jaros  
9:00 - 10:00 AM Gravitational Radiation A. Buonanno
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM Gravity Wave Interferometers G. Gonzalez
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Gravity Wave Interferometers G. Gonzalez
12:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM GR Test Using Laser and Radio Ranging Experiments K. Nordtvedt
3:00 - 3:45 PM LISA S. Larson
4:00 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Dinner  
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Wednesday, July 27  
Chairman T. Kamae  
9:00 - 10:00 AM Gravitational Radiation A. Buonanno
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM General Relativity Tests with Pulsars I. Stairs
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Polarization in CMBR S. Church
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM Gravitational Wave Detection with Pulsars D. Backer
3:00 - 3:45 PM Tests of Alternative Theories of Gravity G. Esposito-Farese
4:00 - 6:00 PM SLAC Tour  
6:00 PM Social Hour  
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Thursday, July 28  
Chairman C. Prescott  
9:00 - 10:00 AM Black Holes S. Hughes
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM Black Holes S. Hughes
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Neutron Stars J. Lattimer
12:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Structure Formation T. Di Matteo
3:00 - 3:45 PM Gamma Ray Bursts seen by SWIFT D. Burrows
4:00 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Poster Session  
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Friday, July 29  
Chairman J. Hewett  
9:00 - 10:00 AM Extreme Neutron Stars C. Thompson
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM Neutron Stars J. Lattimer
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Observations of Black Holes A. Fabian
12:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM Black Holes in the Galactic Center E. Quataert
3:00 - 3:45 PM GLAST-Large Area Telescope E. do Couto e Silva
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Monday, August 1  
Chairman J. Jaros  
9:00 - 10:00 AM Unifying the Forces K. Dienes
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM Extra Dimensions R. Sundrum
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Proton Decay CK Jung
12:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM Black Holes at Accelerators B. Webber
3:00 - 3:45 PM Precision SUSY and the GUT Scale G. Blair
4:00 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Social Hour  
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Tuesday, August 2  
Chairman T. Kamae  
9:00 - 10:00 AM Unifying the Forces K. Dienes
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM Extra Dimensions R. Sundrum
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Extra Dimension Searches at Accelerators T. Berry
12:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM Tests of Gravity at the Millimeter Scale and Below J. Long
3:00 - 3:45 PM SUSY Searches at the Tevatron M. Schmitt
4:00 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Poster Session  
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Wednesday, August 3  
Chairman J. Hewett  
9:00 - 10:00 AM String Cosmology E. Silverstein
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM Extra Dimensions R. Sundrum
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Probing Dark Matter Using Gravitational Lensing P. Natarajan
12:45 - 2:15 AM Lunch  
2:15 - 3:00 PM News from SDSS R. Scranton
3:00 - 3:45 PM Results from Auger J. Beatty
4:00 - 6:00 PM SLAC Tour  
6:00 - 8:30 PM Soccer Game  
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Thursday, August 4  
Chairman J. Jaros  
9:00 - 10:00 AM String Theory for Physicists J. Lykken
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM String Theory for Physicists J. Lykken
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Cosmological Constant S. Kachru
12:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch  
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Probing Dark Matter at Colliders A. Birkedal
3:00 - 3:45 PM LSST S. Kahn
4:00 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Dinner  
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Friday, August 5  
Chairman T. Kamae  
9:00 - 10:00 AM The Gravity of Dark Energy R. Kolb
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break  
10:30 - 11:30 AM String Theory for Physicists J. Lykken
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break  
11:45 - 12:45 PM Beyond Einstein: Embarking on the Second Century of Relativity R. Kolb
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