10th Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

May 28-31, 2003

Eric Poisson
Department of Physics
University of Guelph

Scientific program

The Conference opens at 5:00pm on Wednesday May 28 with a welcoming reception at the University Club. The University Club is located on the 5th floor of the University Centre (please consult the on-line map of the Guelph campus). Registration will take place during the reception, which will conclude at 8:00pm. Food and drinks will be available.

The conference proper begins on Thursday May 29. Morning sessions will be devoted to invited talks, while afternoon sessions will be devoted to contributed talks. The morning sessions will take place in room 105 of the MacNaughton building (which houses the Department of Physics). The afternoon sessions will be held in parallel in MacNaughton 105 and in room 103 of the University Centre.

Schedule for Thursday, May 29, 2003

Schedule for Friday, May 30, 2003

Schedule for Saturday, May 31, 2003

Title and abstract for all invited and contributed talks

The conference banquet will take place on Friday, May 30, at the Whippletree (4th floor of the University Centre). It begins at 7:00pm.

The conference ends at 2:00pm on Saturday, May 31.

Instructions to contributed speakers

The duration of all contributed talks is 12 minutes plus a 3 minute question period. It is understood that speakers can continue to talk after the alloted 12 minutes, but that the extra time will be subtracted from the question period. No speaker will be allowed to go on beyond the 15 minutes.

Because the schedule of contributed talks is tight, it is necessary to impose a rather strict policy regarding computer-based presentations:

Both conference rooms will be equipped with data projectors and will be staffed with knowledgeable personnel who will help the speakers connect their laptop to the projector. It is understood that by the time the talk is supposed to start, the speaker will have the talk loaded and ready to go. It will then be just a matter of getting the laptop connected to the projector, which in most cases should take no time at all.

Please note that speakers are expected to provide their own laptop. It will not be practical to let speakers install their talks on a locally-supplied machine.

If, for any reason whatsoever, it appears not to be possible to get the laptop connected to the projector within seconds, the computer-based presentation will have to be aborted. The speaker will then be asked to resort to a transparency-based presentation.

It is fundamental that speakers who intend to give a computer-based presentation come equipped with back-up transparencies. We will not be able to tolerate any technical delays during the sessions devoted to contributed talks.

We thank all contributed speakers for agreeing to follow this policy.

On-line proceedings

We shall follow the recent tradition and produce only on-line proceedings for the Conference. We therefore intend to post, after the conference, the presentations of all invited and contributed speakers on these web pages.

The speakers who intend to contribute to these on-line proceedings are informed that in order to do so, they will have to supply their presentation in Portable Document Format (PDF). Although we will try, during the conference, to accomodate those who cannot readily produce PDF documents from their transparencies, it will be primarily the speaker's responsibility to supply us with their talks in a ready-to-post format.