Scientific Program

Invited Speakers: Michael Holst (UC San Diego); Jörg Frauendiener (University of Otago)
Scientific Committee: Snørre Christiansen (University of Oslo); Jonathan R. McDonald (Friedrich Schiller University); Warner A. Miller (Florida Atlantic University); Gerhard Zumbsuch (Friedrich Schiller University)

Wednesday	Name	Talk
9:00 - 9:30	Registration
9:30 - 10:30	Warner Miller (FAU)	Regge Calculus as a Dynamical Theory: The Fundamental Role of Dual Tessellations	[pdf]
	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Snorre H. Christiansen (U Oslo)	On the Linearization of Regge Calculus in 3D
	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Benjamin Bahr (AEI)	Reparametrization invariance, constraints and perfect actions in Regge Calculus	[pdf]
	Break
15:00 - 15:30	Frank Peuker (U Jena)	Simulations of testbed space-times in Regge Calculus: Least-squares solutions, convergence and application of external grid generators	[pdf]
	Hike to and Dinner at Fuchsturm

Thursday
9:00 - 10:00	Jörg Frauendiener (U Otago)	Discrete Geometric Structures in General Relativity	[pdf]
10:00 - 10:30	Ronny Richter (U Tübingen)	On the Application of Discrete Differential Forms in General Relativity	[pdf]
	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Gerhard Zumbusch (U Jena)	Finite Elements Methods for Wave Equations	[pdf]
	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Michael Holst (UC San Diego)	Analysis and Finite Element Approximation of the Einstein Constraints	[pdf]
	Break
15:00 - 15:30	David Radice (AEI)	Very High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for General Relativistic Hydrodynamics in Spherical Symmetry	[pdf]
15:30 - 16:30	Olindo Zanotti (AEI)	Resistive Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics with Galerkin Methods	[pdf]
	Break
16:45 - 17:45	Ilia Musco (U Oslo)	Numerical Aspects of Primordial Black Hole Formation	[pdf]

Friday
9:30 - 10:00	Joachim Giesen (U Jena)	Minimizing Absolute Gaussian Curvature Locally	[pdf]
10:00 - 11:00	Bruno Benedetti (TU Berlin)	Locally Constructible Manifolds

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