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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS SPRING 2010
The seminars take place every Thursday at 2:30 pm in Room 4102 unless otherwise stated below. For more information about GRT group seminars contact Manuel Tiglio (Physics 4205E and CSIC 4129) or Peter Shawhan (Physics 4205B). For information concerning the Elementary Particle Theory group seminars see the EPT seminar page, the Theoretical Quarks, Hadrons, Nuclei group seminars see the TQHN seminar page, and scheduled seminars in the UMD Physics Department see the Department seminar pages.
Seminars from previous semesters can be found here: spring 2002, fall 2002, spring 2003, fall 2003, spring 2004, fall 2004, spring 2005, fall 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, spring 2007, fall 2007, spring 2008, fall 2008, spring 2009 and fall 2009.
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Thursday, Jan. 28 2:30 pm Room 4102 |
Nico Yunes,
Princeton University
"General Relativity on trial: Gravitational waves and the parameterized post-Einsteinian framework" |
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Thursday, Feb. 11 2:30 pm Room 4102 |
Michele Levi,
Racah Institute, Hebrew University
"Gravitational spin couplings from effective field theory" |
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Friday, Feb. 12 3:30 pm Room 4102 |
Larry Ford,
Tufts University
TBA |
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Thursday, Feb. 18 2:30 pm Room 4102 |
Benjamin Owen,
Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Pennsylvania State University
"Why LIGO results are already interesting" |
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MCFP Colloquium Thursday, March 4 3:30 pm Room 1201 |
Tom Appelquist,
Yale University
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MCFP Colloquium Thursday, April 1 3:30 pm Room 1201 |
Stefano Profumo,
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Friday, April 9 1:00 pm Room 4102 |
Christian Ott,
California Institute of Technology
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Wednesday, April 28 4:00 pm Room 1201 |
Michel Janssen,
University of Minnesota
"'No success like failure...': Einstein's quest for general relativity" |
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MCFP Colloquium Thursday, April 29 3:30 pm Room 1201 |
Michel Janssen,
University of Minnesota
"Jordan and the wave-particle duality of light" |
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Physics Colloquium Tuesday, May 4 4:00 pm Room 1410 |
Abhay Ashtekar,
Penn State University
"Quantum nature of the Big Bang in simple models" |
