"Exploring the Full Range of Classical Electrodynamics: from Applied Physics to General Relativity"
4th GIF Workshop
October 19 - 24, 2014
Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
Program and Materials
בכינוס השתתפו חוקרים מהארץ ומהעולם. כ-10 מההרצאות הועברו ע"י חוקרים מהמרכז האקדמי לב
Arrival: Sunday, October 19, 2014, Welcoming Party
Lectures: October 20, 21, 23
Excursion to Local Sites of Interest : October 22
Proposed Topics: Premetric Electrodynamics, Finsler Spacetime, Uniform Acceleration, Clock Hypothesis, Maximal Acceleration
Preliminary list of participants
Yakov Bekenstein, The Hebrew University, Israel
Alberto Favaro, Oldenburg University, Germany
Yaakov Friedman, JCT, Israel
Eduardo Guendelman, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Friedrich Wilhelm Hehl, University of Cologne, Germany
Lawrence Horwitz, Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Yakov Itin, JCT and Hebrew University, Israel
Claus Laemmerzahl, ZARM, University of Bremen, Germany
Martin Land, Hadassah College, Israel
Israel Nowik, The Hebrew University, Israel
Volker Perlick, ZARM, University of Bremen, Germany
Uziel Sandler, JCT, Israel
Tzvi Scarr, JCT, Israel
Roee Steiner, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Menachem Steiner, JCT, Israel
Shlomo Engelberg, JCT, Israel
Additional information chayaa@jct.ac.il
PROGRAM
Sunday, October 19, 2014
19:00-22:00: Reception
Monday, October 20, 2014
9:00- 9:30: Registration
9:30-10:00: Opening Ceremony
10:00-11:00: Friedrich Wilhelm Hehl, University of Cologne, “Kummer tensor”
11:15-12:15: Claus Laemmerzahl, ZARM, University of Bremen, “On the measurement of the gravitomagnetic clock effect”
12:15-13:30: Lunch
13:30-14:30: Yakov Itin, JCT and Hebrew University, “Optic tensor and skewon covector”
14:45-15:45: Yaakov Friedman, JCT, “Pulse Propagation in Single Resonant Media and Time Spectrum”
16:00-17:00: Volker Perlick, ZARM, University of Bremen, “On a Finsler-type modification of the Coulomb law”
17:15-18:15: Tzvi Scarr, JCT, “Relativistic Rotations”
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
9:30-10:30: Friedrich Wilhelm Hehl, University of Cologne, “A theory of the skewon field: between electrodynamics and gravitation”
10:45-11:45: Uziel Sandler, JCT, “Lagrangian Fuzzy Dynamics of Physical and Non-Physical Systems”
12:00-13:00: Yakov Itin, JCT and Hebrew University, “Skewon modification of light cone”
13:00-14:15: Lunch
14:15-15:15: Shlomo Engelberg, JCT, “Critical Thresholds in Euler-Poisson Equations”
15:30-16:30: Alberto Favaro, Oldenburg University, “Electromagnetic Media with Two Light Cones”
16:45-17:45: Ezra Yudkin, JCT, “Testing Einstein’s time dilation and the Clock Hypothesis”
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Excursion
Thursday, October 23, 2014
9:30-10:30: Wei-Tou Ni, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan
"On axion, dilaton and skewon modifications in cosmic wave propagation"
10:45-11:45: Yaakov Friedman, JCT, “Testing Einstein’s Clock Hypothesis at PETRAIII”
12:00-13:00: Martin Land, Hadassah College, “Pair production in classical electrodynamics”
13:00-14:15: Lunch
14:15-15:15: Eduardo Guendelman, Ben Gurion University, “Scalar gauge fields, coupling electromagnetism to global charge, dynamical charges and confinement”
15:30-16:30: Roee Steiner, Ben Gurion University, Israel " Dynamical Couplings in Gauge Theories and Relation to Confinement Mechanisms"
16:45-17:45: Gootwiling David Hai, JCT, “Self-dual electromagnetic tensor and the pre-potential”
