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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Fall
2003
(Includes also other seminars
of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Friday
at 1:30pm in Room 4208
(unless otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Albert Roura (301-405-6032).
For information about scheduled seminars in the UMD Physics Department
look at the Department
Seminar Pages.
You can also see the lists of seminars
in previous semesters: spring
2001 , fall 2001
, spring 2002
, fall 2002
and spring 2003.
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
| Fri. Sept. 5 |
Larry Ford, Tufts University ``Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations and their Gravitational Effects'' |
| Fri. Sept. 12 |
Albert Roura, University of Maryland ``Stochastic gravity: fundamental issues and applications'' |
| Mon. Sept. 15 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Qaisar Shafi, Bartol Research Institute ``Where Does the Standard Model Come From?'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Wed. Sept. 24 12:00pm RESCHEDULED! Room 4220 |
David Fiske, University of Maryland / NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center ``Taming the constraints in numerical relativity'' |
| Fri. Oct.
3 |
Albert
Roura, University of Maryland ``Stochastic gravity (II): applications'' |
| Tue. Oct. 7 12:00pm Room 4316 |
Sanjiv
Shresta, University of Maryland ``Coherent dynamics in atom-field interactions'' (dissertation defense) (JOINT seminar with the Quantum Coherence and Information Theory group) |
| Fri. Oct.
10 |
No seminar because of the
Peter
Gabriel Bergmann Symposium. |
| Fri. Oct.
17 3:30pm |
Charles
Misner, University of Maryland ``Our newly discovered universe'' |
| Fri. Oct. 24 |
Stefano Liberati, SISSA/ISAS, Italy / University of Maryland ``Probing semiclassical analogue gravity in Bose-Einstein condensates with widely tunable interactions'' |
| Mon. Oct. 27 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Michael Douglas, Rutgers University ``Statistics of string vacua'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Wed. Oct.
29 2:00pm Room 2113 |
Bei-Lok Hu, University of Maryland ``Laboratory cosmology: particle creation, quenching and reheating in BEC atomic processes'' (JOINT seminar with the Theory group for Quarks, Hadrons and Nuclei and the Experimental Nuclear Physics group) |
| Fri. Oct. 31 |
Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland ``Probing extra dimensions down to a few micrometers using a superconductor accelerometer'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 3 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Axel Krause, University of Maryland ``Flux Compactifications, Moduli Stabilization and de Sitter from heterotic M-theory'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Wed. Nov.
5 2:00pm Room 2113 |
Daniel
Chung, University of Wisconsin ``How uncertain is the standard cosmological vacuum?'' (JOINT seminar with the Theory group for Quarks, Hadrons and Nuclei and the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Fri. Nov.
14 2:00pm |
Breno
Imbiriba, University of Maryland / NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center ``Numerical Evolution of Puncture Black Hole Using Fixed Mesh Refinement'' |
| Fri. Dec. 5 |
Vincent Moncrief, Yale University ``Light Cone Estimates for Einstein's Equations'' |
| Fri. Dec.
12 |
Bei-Lok
Hu, with Albert Roura and Philip Johnson, University of Maryland ``Misunderstandings of Unruh effect: Analysis of some proposed detection schemes'' (JOINT seminar with the Quantum Coherence and Information Theory group) |
| Mon. Dec. 15 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Mark Trodden, Syracuse University (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
