Symposium on Gravity and Light

Slides

Time	Monday (30th)	Tuesday (1st)	Wednesday (2nd)	Thursday (3rd)
10.00-11.00	Opening remarks;    Optical geometry and lensing (Marcus Werner)	Curvature perturbation in non- minimally coupled multi-field inflation models and its conformal frame dependence (Misao Sasaki)	Gravitational lensing by an exotic lens object with negative convergence (Hideki Asada)	On the shadows of black holes and of other compact objects (Volker Perlick)
11.15-12.15	Gravitational optics (Gary Gibbons)	Matter phenomenology dictates the underlying gravity theory (Frederic Schuller)	Extreme trapping horizon (Tetsuya Shiromizu)	On k-jet field approximations to geodesic deviation equations (Ricardo Gallego Torromé)
14.00-15.00	Some applications of Finsler geometry to topological lensing (Erasmo Caponio)	Gravitational lensing as a probe of the physics and geometry of the universe (Jean-Philippe Uzan)	Gravitational lensing and black hole shadow (Kei-ichi Maeda)	Magnification invariants and the A,D,E family of caustic singularities (Amir Aazami)
				Magnification relations of singular isothermal quadrupole lens (Zhe Chu)
15.30-16.30	Does Λ bend light? (Masumi Kasai)	Killing symmetry and hidden conserved quantity on Finsler manifold (Takayoshi Ootsuka)		Concluding remarks (Shinji Mukohyama) Symposium end 16.00