Testing General Relativity with Astrophysical Observations – Program
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8:50am–9:40am Cliff Burgess (McMaster/Perimeter Institute) Effective field theories and modified gravity: A bad cop wrapped in a wet blanket standing in a cold shower 9:40-10:30 Norbert Wex (MPI, Bonn) Tests of gravity from radio pulsars 10:30-10:50 Coffee break 10:50-11:40 Pedro Ferreira (Oxford) Testing general relativity with cosmology 11:40-12:30 Nicolas Yunes (Montana State) Gravitational wave tests of general relativity 2:00pm Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Cardiff) [Discussion] Testing strong field gravity: Expectations from groundand space-based gravitational-wave detectors
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