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The 10th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction 

Huntsville, Alabama

25-29th June, 2007

The 10th Capra Meeting and Workshop on Radiation Reaction will be held 25-29 June, 2007, on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In keeping with previous Capra meetings tradition, the meeting will include two parts: In the first participants will present talks, and the second will be devoted to a workshop aimed to facilitate discussions, brainstorming, and collaboration. As the usual practice in previous Capra meeting has been, the focus of the meeting is on radiation reaction in general relativity in the broad sense. As always, talks on tangential topics (e.g., astrophysics of extreme mass ratio binaries) are encouraged and welcome.

The Program is now available. We are planning to divide the meeting into two parts: the first, starting on June 25, will be the Capra meeting, including contributed talks. The Capra meeting will be followed by the workshop (starting the afternoon of June 27), in which we’ll break up into informal discussion groups, and encourage collaboration and brainstorming.

Historical note The first meeting in this series was held in August 1998 at a ranch in northeastern San Diego county. This ranch was once owned by Frank Capra, the American director of such movies as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' and “It's a Wonderful Life''. Capra was a Caltech alumnus, and donated the ranch to Caltech. In the tradition of the “Texas'' symposia, we call each meeting in this series a “Capra'' meeting, even if the venue is rather removed from Capra's ranch.

The venue of the meeting will be Administrative Science Building, room 114 (ASB114), a short walk from the Bevill Center. The workshop following the meeting will be in the Materials Science Building.

For more information: email burko@uah.edu

Past Capra meetings:

1998 Capra Ranch, California

1999 UCD, Ireland

2000 Caltech

2001 AEI, Germany

2002 Penn State

2003 Kyoto, Japan

2004 UTB, Texas

2005 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England

2006 UWM, Wisconsin

Monday, 25th June at ASB 114

Tuesday, 26th June at ASB 114

Wednesday, 27th June at ASB 114

Participants 

Speakers:

• Paul Anderson

• Leor Barack

• Lior Burko

• Steven Detweiler

• Darren Golbourn

• Sam Gralla

• Roland Haas

• Dong-Hoon Kim

• Ezra Ted Newman

• Adam Pound

• Larry Price

• Norichiga Sago

• Carlos Sopue

• Jonathan Thornburg

• Ian Vega

• Bernard Whiting

Participants of have not given formal talks:

• Mark Cassals (UCD)

• John Friedman (UWM)

• Seth Hopper (UNC)

• Manish Jadhav (UAH)

• Ken-Ichi Nishikawa (UAH)

• Misao Sasaki (Kyoto)

• Alessandro Spallicci (Universite d’Orleans)

• Val Tenyotkin (UNC)

• Barry Wardell (UCD)

• Anya Zhuravskaya (Southampton)

Housing

We have reserved two blocks of rooms, at the Bevill Center and at the Fairfield Inn. The Bevill Center rooms are available only between 6/24 and checkout by 6/27. They would therefore be particularly convenient for those who are coming only for the Capra meeting itself, and are not staying for the workshop. The rooms at the Fairfield Inn are available for the entire period.

If you need help with setting you with a roommate, please send an email.

Bevill Center rooms: A block of rooms is reserved at the Bevill Center on UAH campus, walking distance from the venue of the meeting. These rooms are only for 6/24 through 6/27!

Room rates are: 

Non-smoking double (2 double beds)      $67

Hotel rooms are subject to state at local taxes, currently 12% state lodging tax and $1.00 city lodge fee per room per night. These rates include a continental breakfast.

Cancellation policy: If you cancel at least 48 hours prior to arrival, you will not be charged.

Check-in time: 3pm. Check-out time: 12pm.

Reservations cut off:

The unreserved rooms will be released June 10, 2007. Room rates may be higher after the cut off.

To make reservations:

Call the Bevill Center (888) 721-9428, or email bevillcetersales@uah.edu. Mention the group “10th Capra Conference” to get the above rates.

Fairfield Inn rooms: A block of rooms is reserved at the Fairfield Inn, 2.8 miles from campus.

Room rates are:

Non-smoking double (2 double beds)      $84

Non-smoking king                                 $87

Hotel rooms are subject to state at local taxes, currently 12% state lodging tax and $1.00 city lodge fee per room per night. These rates include a complimentary continental breakfast.

Cancellation policy: If you cancel at least by 6pm of the day of arrival, you will not be charged.

Check-in time: 3pm. Check-out time: 12pm.

Reservations cut off:

The unreserved rooms will be released June 10, 2007. Room rates may be higher after the cut off.

To make reservations:

Call the Fairfield Inn (800) 228-2800 (Fairfield Inn Marriott number), or (256) 971-0921. Mention the group “10th Capra Meeting” to get the above rates.

Cheaper (or more expensive) hotel rooms may be found elsewhere, but it may not be very easy, due to a large convention in town overlapping in part with our meeting..

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