The Group of Gravitation and Cosmology

Program

The 1^st PU International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology will feature a variety of plenary talks, contributed talks in main as well as in parallel sessions covering the topics on Gravitation and Cosmology.

Note:

The duration of the Plenary talks will be about 40 minutes while the contributed talks will be about 15 to 25 minutes.
The duration of talks will include 3-5 minutes for question/answers.

The conference schedule can be downloaded here.

Time (hours)	Sunday, January 27, 2019 Day-1
1600 – 1800	REGISTRATION Venue: The University Club, University of the Punjab, Lahore
1800 – 2100	WELCOME RECEPTION (Only for Outstation Guests) Venue: The University Club, University of the Punjab, Lahore

Time (hours)	Monday, January 28, 2019 Day-2
0830 – 0930	REGISTRATION
0930 – 1030	OPENING CEREMONY
1030 – 1115	Malcolm A. H. MacCallum (Public Talk) Black Holes and Neutron Stars
1115 – 1130	GROUP PHOTO
1130 – 1200	Tea Break
Chair: Bobomurat Ahmedov
1200 – 1240	Asghar Qadir A Tribute to Stephen Hawking
1240 – 1315	Suhail Zaki Farooqui Prospects of Wind and Solar Thermal Energy for Pakistan
1315 – 1430	Lunch Break
Parallel Session-I (Main Hall)
Chair: Sijie Gao
1430 – 1455	Ghulam Shabbir How to Find the Proper Curvature Collineations
1455 – 1515	Ibrar Hussain A Review of the Applications of Approximate Lie Symmetry Methods to Define the Energy Content of Some Black Hole Spacetimes
1515 – 1535	Rabia Saleem A Study of Warm Tachyon Inflation Using Hamilton's Jacobian Method
1535 – 1550	Qanitah Ama-Tul-Mughani Study of String Cloud with Minimal Geometric Deformation
1550 – 1610	Tea Break
Chair: Hyung Won Lee
1610 – 1625	Sehrish Iftikhar Particle Dynamics Near a Black Hole
1625 – 1640	Saadia Mumtaz Dynamical Analysis of Oscillating Gaseous System
1640 – 1655	Sobia Sadiq Stability of Charged Anisotropic Polytropes
1655 – 1710	Sara Ashraf Thermodynamics of Modified Cosmic Chaplygin Gas
Time (hours)	Parallel Session-II (Committee Room) Day-2
Chair: Sebastian Bahamonde
1430 – 1450	Suhail Khan Classification of LRS Bianchi Type I Spacetime Through its Conformal Killing Vector Fields
1450 – 1505	Umber Sheikh Rainbow Gravity: A Bridge between General Relativity and Quantum Theory
1505 – 1520	Muhammad Zubair Some Cosmic Aspects in Modified Teleparallel Theories
1520 – 1535	Muhammad Rizwan Shahzad A New Model of Quintessence Compact Stars in Rastall Theory of Gravity
1535 – 1550	Hammad Nazar Complexity Factor for Anisotropic Source in Non-minimal Coupling Metric f(R) Gravity
1550 – 1610	Tea Break
Chair: Khalid Saifullah
1610 – 1625	Fatima Shahid Some Reconstructed f(R) Models and Current Cosmos
1625 – 1640	Muhammad Tahir Gravitational Perfect Fluid Collapse in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
1640 – 1655	Rimsha Babar Quantum Tunneling and Corrections for Spin-1 Particles
1655 – 1710	Nimra Irshad Analysis of Anisotropic Universe via Interacting Dark Energy Model
Time (hours)	Parallel Session-III (Room 103) Day-2
Chair: Ghulam Shabbir
1430 – 1450	Ayub Khan Yousaf Zai Wavelet Analysis of Interaction of Radio Wave with the Ionosphere
1450 – 1505	Hasrat Hussain Shah Electromagnetic Counterpart of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Black Hole Binaries
1505 – 1520	Naeem Yousaf Dynamical Behavior of Particles Near Brane-World Black Hole
1520 – 1535	Umer Rehman Theoretical Investigation of Possible Prevention of Gravitational Collapse of Extremely Dense Magneto-Plasma Astrophysical Environment
1535 – 1550	Naveed Rafiq Energy Momentum Prescriptions of Ruban Spacetime
1550 – 1610	Tea Break
	Chair: Muhammad Jawed Iqbal
1610 – 1625	Allah Ditta Matter Accretion onto a Brane-World Black Hole via Hamiltonian Approach
1625 – 1640	Wajiha Javed Hawking Radiation Phenomenon
1640 – 1655	Saeeda Zia Physiognomies of Cosmic Compact Objects through Modified Theory of Gravity
1655 – 1710	Farzana Kousar Static Spherically Symmetric Wormholes in Generalized f(R, φ) Gravity

Time (hours)	Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Day-3
Chair: Malcolm A. H. MacCallum
0930 – 1010	Hyung Won Lee Gravitational Wave Detection and Multimessenger Astrophysics
1010 – 1050	Francesco De Paolis Probing the Dark Matter Nature by Gravitational Microlensing
1050 – 1130	Seyed Muhammad Sadegh Movahed Statistical Self-similarity of Pulsar Timing Residuals: A Robust Pipeline for Searching Stochastic Gravitational Wave
1130 – 1200	Tea Break
Chair: Cosimo Stornaiolo
1200 – 1225	Jameel Un Nabi Accelerating the r-process: Allowed and Forbidden Beta Decay Rates of Waiting Point Nuclei
1225 – 1250	Andrew Miller Results of a Search for a Postmerger Remnant of Binary Neutron Merger GW170817
1250 – 1315	Ghulam Abbas Strong Gravitational Lensing for the Photons Coupled to Weyl Tensor in Kiselev Black Hole
1315 – 1400	Lunch Break
1400 – 2100	LOCAL EXCURSION (Only for Outstation Guests)

Time (hours)	Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Day-4
Chair: Seyed Muhammad Sadegh Movahed
0930 – 1010	Sijie Gao First Law and Smarr Formula of Black Hole Mechanics in Nonlinear Gauge Theories
1010 – 1050	Gonzalo J. Olmo Using General Relativity to Explore Modified Gravity Effects
1050 – 1130	Cosimo Stornaiolo Tomographic Analysis of the De Sitter Model in Quantum Cosmology
1130 – 1200	Tea Break
Chair: Gonzalo J. Olmo
1200 – 1230	Sebastian Bahamonde New Exact Black Holes Solutions in f(R,ϕ,X) Gravity by Noether's Symmetry Approach
1230 – 1255	Muhammad Azam Modeling of Compact Objects and their Stability
1255 – 1315	Abdul Jawad Cosmological Implications of Scalar Field Models
1315 – 1430	Lunch Break
Parallel Session-I (Main Hall)
Chair: Asghar Qadir
1430 – 1455	Zahid Ahmad Gravitational Collapse of Anisotropic Fluid in f(R) Gravity
1455– 1515	M. Jamil Amir Gravitational Dust Collapse in f(R,T) Modified Theory of Gravity
1515 – 1535	Hafiza Rizwana Kausar Mathematical and Physical Overview of Gravitational Waves
1535 – 1550	Jameela Abbas Deflection of Light for Kerr-Newman-AdS Black Hole with Quintessence
1550 – 1610	Tea Break
	Chair: Ayub Khan Yousaf Zai
1610 – 1625	Rubab Manzoor Stellar Evolution in Modified Gravity
1625 – 1640	Iqra Nawazish Existence of Physically Viable Wormholes in f(R,T) Gravity
1640 – 1655	Arfa Waseem Study of Stellar Structures in Curvature-Matter Coupling Gravity
1655 – 1710	Nisa Amir The Einstein Toolkit
Time (hours)	Parallel Session-II (Committee Room) Day-4
Chair: Jameel Un Nabi
1430 – 1450	Muhammad Jawed Iqbal/Syed Faisal ur Rahman Studying Dark Energy and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe through Multi-Wave and Multi-Wavelength Observations
1450 – 1505	Jamil Ahmad Quartic Quasi-Topological Gravity
1505 – 1520	Usman Alam Gillani Linear Cosmological Perturbations in almost Scale-Invariant Fourth-Order Gravity
1520 – 1535	Askar Ali Rotating Black Holes and Nonlinear Electrodynamics
1535 – 1550	Rashida Bibi Solution of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations with Anisotropic Negative Pressure
1550 – 1610	Tea Break
Chair: Sabbir Rahman
1610 – 1625	Muhammad Ilyas Killing Symmetry of Specific Non-static Spherically Symmetric Space-times in Presence of Torsion Fields
1625 – 1640	Muhammad Usman The Cosmological Constant and the Vacuum Energy of the Quintessential Dark Energy Higgs Potential
1640 – 1655	Muhammad Bilal Azam Dark Energy in Causal Set Theory
1655 – 1710	Sadia Sattar An Effect of Electromagnetic on Gravitational Collapse in f(R,T) Theory of Gravity

1900 – 2100

CONFERENCE BANQUET

Time (hours)	Thursday, January 31, 2019 Day-5
Chair: Francesco De Paolis
0930 – 1010	Malcolm A. H. MacCallum Spacetimes with Local Isotropy Groups
1010 – 1050	Bobomurat Ahmedov Optical Properties of Axially Symmetric Compact Gravitational Objects
1050 – 1130	Sabbir Rahman On the Existence of Exotic Matter in Classical Newtonian Mechanics and General Relativity
1130 – 1200	Tea Break
Chair: Muhammad Sharif
1200 – 1225	Maryam Aghaei Abchouyeh Thermodynamics and Geometry of Anyon Black Holes
1225 – 1245	Ayesha Ikram On the Stability of Einstein Universe
1245 – 1310	Discussions/Comments
1310 – 1345	CLOSING
1345	Lunch