Matt Visser: Conference Proceedings


Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings


28 Sept 2011
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22.  Status of Horava gravity: A personal perspective.
     e-Print: arXiv:1103.5587 [hep-th]
     ERE2010, Granada, Spain. 
     Journal of Physics: Conference Series 314 (2011) 012002.

21.  Entropy bounds for uncollapsed matter.
     (with Gabriel Abreu)
     e-Print: arXiv:1011.4538 [gr-qc]
     ERE2010, Granada, Spain. 
     Journal of Physics: Conference Series 314 (2011) 012035.

20.  Polarization modes for strong-field gravitational waves.
     (with Bethan Cropp)
     e-Print: arXiv:1011.5904 [gr-qc]
     ERE2010, Granada, Spain. 
     Journal of Physics: Conference Series 314 (2011) 012073.
	
19.  Quasi-normal frequencies: Semi-analytic results for highly damped modes.
     (with Jozef Skakala)
     e-Print: arXiv:1011.4634 [gr-qc]
     ERE2010, Granada, Spain. 
     Journal of Physics: Conference Series 314 (2011) 012074.

18.  Projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity in a nutshell.
     (with Silke Weinfurtner and Thomas Sotiriou)
     e-Print: arXiv:1002.0308 [gr-qc] 
     First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity (MCCQG), 
     Kolymbari (Crete, Greece), September 14-18, 2009
     Journal of Physics: Conference series 222 (2010) 012054. 
     doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/222/1/012054

17.  Signature-change events in emergent spacetimes with anisotropic scaling.
     (with Silke Weinfurtner and  Angela White)
     NEB XIII: 13th Conference on Recent Developments in Gravity, Thessaloniki, Greece, 4-6 Jun 2008.
     e-Print: arXiv:0905.4530 [gr-qc]
     Journal of Physics: Conference series 189 (2009) 012046. 
     doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/189/1/012046

16.  Birefringence in pseudo-Finsler spacetimes.
     (with Jozef Skakala) 
     NEB XIII: 13th Conference on Recent Developments in Gravity, Thessaloniki, Greece, 4-6 Jun 2008.
     e-Print: arXiv:0810.4376 [gr-qc] 
     Journal of Physics: Conference series 189 (2009) 012037. 
     doi:10.1088/1742-6596/189/1/012037

15.  Small, dark, and heavy: But is it a black hole?
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, Sebastiano Sonego)
     Veli Losinj workshop on Black Holes in general relativity and string theory
     Proceedings of Science (BHs GR & Strings) 2009, 010.

14.  Black holes in general relativity.
     Veli Losinj workshop on Black Holes in general relativity and string theory
     Proceedings of Science (BHs GR & Strings) 2009, 001.

13.  Revisiting the semiclassical gravity scenario for gravitational collapse.
     (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, and Sebastiano Sonego)
     ERE 2008.
     AIP Conference Proceedings 1122 (2009) 99-106.
     doi: 10.1063/1.3141347

12. Analogue spacetimes: Toy models for ''quantum gravity''.
    (with Silke Weinfurtner)
    From Quantum to Emergent Gravity: Theory and Phenomenology, Trieste, Italy, June 2007.
    e-Print: arXiv:0712.0427 [gr-qc]
    Proceedings of Science: PoS(QG-Ph)042. 

11. On the phenomenon of emergent spacetimes: An instruction guide for experimental cosmology.
    (with Silke Weinfurtner, Piyush Jain, and Crispin Gardiner)
    From Quantum to Emergent Gravity: Theory and Phenomenology, Trieste, Italy, June 2007.
    e-Print: arXiv:0804.1346 [gr-qc]
    Proceedings of Science: PoS(QG-Ph)044.

10. Emergent rainbow spacetimes: Two pedagogical examples.
    Time and Matter 2007, Beld, Slovenia, 26-31 Aug 2007.
    e-Print: arXiv:0712.0810 [gr-qc]
    Proceedings of the second conference on Time and Matter.
    Edited by M. O'Loughlin, S. Stanic, and D. Veberic.
    University of Nova Gorica Press, 2008, pp 191-205. 

9.  Linearized warp drive and the energy conditions.
    (with Francisco Lobo)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0412065 
    Beyond General Relativity. Proceedings of the 2004 Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE2004).
    Edited by: N. Alonso-Alberca, E. Alvarez, T. Ortin, M.A. Vazquez-Mozo. 2007. 214pp.
    Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Press, Madrid (Spain).
    Collecion de Estudios, volume 119. 978-84-8344-059-79.

8.  Solution generating theorems for perfect fluid spheres.
    (with Petarpa Boonserm and Silke Weinfurtner)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0609088 
    Proceedings of the NEB XII conference, Napflio, Greece, 2006.
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 68 (2007) 012055.

7.  Cosmological milestones and energy conditions.
    (with Celine Cattoen)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0609064 
    Proceedings of the NEB XII conference, Napflio, Greece, 2006.
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 68 (2007) 012011.

6.  Understanding the Shape of Java Software.
    (with Gareth Baxter, Marcus Frean, James Noble, Mark Rickerby, Hayden Smith, Hayden Melton, and Ewan Tempero)
    ACM SIGPLAN Notices 41/10 (2006) 397-412.
    Proceedings of the 2006 OOPSLA Conference
    (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications.)
    ISSN: 0362-1340
    PDF 

5.  Modelling Planck-scale Lorentz violations via analogue models.
    (with Silke Weinfurtner and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0512127 
    Proceedings of the 4th Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (QG05), 
    Cala Gonone, Sardinia, Italy, 12-16 Sep 2005. 
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 33 (2006) 373--385.

4.  Superluminal censorship.
    (with Bruce Bassett and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9810026
    QG99 Proceedings: The third conference on Quantum Gravity 
    and Constrained Systems,
    Villa Simius, Sardinia, Sept 1999.
    Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement) 88 (2000) 267--270.
    [Local PDF (287 K)]

3.  Chi-Variable-Speed-of-light Cosmologies.
    (with Bruce Bassett, Carmen Molina-París, and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive: astro-ph/0001481
    QG99 Proceedings: The third conference on Quantum Gravity 
    and Constrained Systems,
    Villa Simius, Sardinia, Sept 1999.
    Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement) 88 (2000) 259--262.

2.  Perturbative superluminal censorship and the null energy condition.
    (with Bruce Bassett and Stefano Liberati)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9908023
    General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics,
    Proceedings of the Eighth Canadian Conference,
    edited by C.P Burgess and R.C. Meyers,
    (AIP Press, Melville, New York, 1999), pages 301--305.

1.  Sonoluminescence and the QED vacuum.
    (with Stefano Liberati, Francesco Belgiorno, and Dennis Sciama)
    e-Print Archive: quant-ph/9904008
    The Casimir Effect 50 Years Later,
    Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on 
    Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, 
    Leipzig, September 1998,
    edited by: Michael Bordag, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999), pages 100--113.


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Articles in Non-refereed Conference Proceedings


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Note: Formal refereeing of conference proceedings has not in the past
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16. Cosmographic analysis of dark energy.
    (with Celine Cattoen)
    e-Print: arXiv:0906.5407 [gr-qc]
    DARK 2009 proceedings. World Scientific. Singapore. 2010. Pages 287-300.
    Editors: H Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, I Krivosheina.

15. Solution Generating Theorems for Perfect Fluid Spheres and the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation
    (with Petarpa Boonserm and Silke Weinfurtner)
    East-West Journal of Mathematics, special volume (2007) 175-187.
    (Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications,
     August 2007, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.)   

14. Buchdahl-Like Transformations in General Relativity
    (with Petarpa Boonserm)
    Thai Journal of Mathematics 5 (2007) 209-223.
    (Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Fixed Point theory, 
     July 2007, Chang Mai University, Bangkok, Thailand.)

13. Solution generating theorems: Perfect fluid spheres and the TOV equation
    (with Petarpa Boonserm and Silke Weinfurtner)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0609099 
    Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Conference on General Relativity.
    Edited by H. Kleinert, R. T. Jantzen, and R. Ruffini.
    (World Scientific, Singapore, 2008). pp 2285-2287.
 
12. Generalized Puisieux series expansion for cosmological milestones
    (with Celine Cattoen)
    e-Print Archive:  gr-qc/0609073 
    Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Conference on General Relativity.
    Edited by H. Kleinert, R. T. Jantzen, and R. Ruffini.
    (World Scientific, Singapore, 2008). pp 2057--2059.

11. Acoustics in Bose-Einstein condensates as an example of broken Lorentz symmetry.
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati) 
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/0109033
    Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry (CPT01), 
    Edited by Alan Kostelecky. 
    World Scientific, Singapore, 2002. Pages 336--340.

10. Energy conditions and their cosmological implications.
    (with Carlos Barceló)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0001099
    Plenary talk presented at Cosmo99.
    Cosmo99 Proceedings; Trieste, Sept/Oct 1999.
    Edited by U Cotti, R Jeannerot, G Senjanovic, and A Smirnov.
    World Scientific, Singapore, 2000. Pages 98-112.

9.  Acoustic black holes.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9901047
    Virtual proceedings of the Advanced School on Cosmology
    and Particle Physics, Peniscola, Spain, June 1998. 

8.  General dynamic wormholes and violation of the null energy condition.
    (with David Hochberg)
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9901020
    Virtual proceedings of the Advanced School on Cosmology
    and Particle Physics, Peniscola, Spain, June 1998.

7.  Gravitational vacuum polarization.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9710034
    Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
    on General Relativity; Jerusalem, June 1997,
    edited by: Tsvi Piran, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999),
    pages 842--845.

6.  The reliability horizon.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9710020
    Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
    on General Relativity; Jerusalem, June 1997,
    edited by: Tsvi Piran, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999),
    pages 608-610.

5.  Energy conditions and Galaxy formation.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9710010
    Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
    on General Relativity; Jerusalem, June 1997,
    edited by: Tsvi Piran, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999),
    pages 1348--1350.

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Pre-arXiv articles
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4.  Wheeler--DeWitt quantum gravity in (2+1) dimensions. 
    in:  Beyond the Standard Model II: Proceedings of the
    International Conference in High Energy Physics,
    Norman, Oklahoma, 1--3 November 1990,  
    edited by:  K. A. Milton, R. Kantowski, and M. A. Samuel,  
    (World Scientific, Singapore, 1991), pages 354--359.

3.  Quantum wormholes in Lorentzian signature.  
    in:  Proceedings of the Rice meeting, 1990 meeting of the 
    Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, 
    edited by:  B. Bonner and H. Miettinen, 
    (World Scientific, Singapore, 1990), volume 2, pages 858--860.

2.  Feeble forces. 
    (with Itzhak Bars)
    in:  Proceedings of the 23'rd International Conference in 
    High Energy Physics,  Berkeley, July 1986,
    edited by:  S. C. Loken, 
    (World Scientific, Singapore, 1987), volume 2, pages 1032--1037.

1.  Fermion families in superstring theory. 
    (with Itzhak Bars)
    in:  Proceedings of the Oregon meeting, 1985 Annual meeting of the 
    Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, 
    edited by:  R. Hwa,  
    (World Scientific, Singapore, 1986), pages 829--834.



Articles in Non-refereed Conference Proceedings: in Press



1. The quantum interest conjecture in (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski space.
   Gabriel Abreu, Matt Visser
   e-Print: arXiv:1001.1180 [gr-qc]
   Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossmann conference. (Paris, July 2009.)



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