APS April Meeting 2011 
Volume 56, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, April 30–May 3 2011;
Anaheim, California
Session Index
Session Q12: Numerical Relativity: Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Accretion Disks
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Sponsoring Units: GGR 
Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology 
Room:  Royal CD 
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
10:45AM - 10:57AM 
 
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Q12.00001: Gravitational and Electromagnetic Signatures from the Tidal Disruption of a White Dwarf by an Intermediate Mass Black Hole 
Roland Haas, Tanja Bode, Roman Shcherbakov, Pablo Laguna
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
10:57AM - 11:09AM 
 
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Q12.00002: Simulations of Eccentric Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers in Full GR 
Branson Stephens, William East, Frans Pretorius
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
11:09AM - 11:21AM 
 
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Q12.00003: Ultra Relativistic Fluid Collisions 
William East, Frans Pretorius, Branson Stephens
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
11:21AM - 11:33AM 
 
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Q12.00004: Relative stability of black hole threshold solutions in critical gravitational collapse 
Theodor Brasoveanu, Frans Pretorius
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
11:33AM - 11:45AM 
 
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Q12.00005: Equilibrium models of general relativistic magnetars 
Eric Hirschmann
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
11:45AM - 11:57AM 
 
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Q12.00006: Gravitational Collapse of k-essence 
David Garfinkle
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
11:57AM - 12:09PM 
 
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Q12.00007: Super-Extremal Spinning Black Holes via Accretion 
Pablo Laguna, Tanja Bode, Richard Matzner
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
12:09PM - 12:21PM 
 
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Q12.00008: Non-axisymmetric Instabilites in Thick Magnetised Tori Around Black Holes 
Tyler Landis, Peter Diener, Erik Schnetter, Burkhard Zink
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Monday, May 2, 2011 
12:21PM - 12:33PM 
 
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Q12.00009: Exploring Stability of General Relativistic Accretion Disks 
Oleg Korobkin, Ernazar Abdikamalov, Erik Schnetter, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Burkhard Zink
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