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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Fall
2004
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Wednesday
at
2:00pm in Room 4102 (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,
spring 2003,
fall 2003 and spring 2004.
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
| Wed. Sept.
8 Room 1304 |
Albert
Roura, University of Maryland ``MIGO is no better than LIGO'' |
| Wed. Sept. 15 |
Chris Fleming, University of Maryland ``The Universe Tunneling from Nothing'' (informal presentation) |
| Wed. Sept.
22 |
Neil
Lambert, King's College London ``Brane Decay'' |
| Wed. Oct. 6 |
Markus
Luty, University
of Maryland ``IR Modification of GR'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Fri. Oct. 8 |
Markus
Luty, University
of Maryland ``IR Modification of GR (II)'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Wed. Oct.
13 |
Cole
Miller, University
of Maryland ``High Amplitude Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals'' |
| Fri. Oct. 15 | Matthew
Kleban, IAS ``Poincaré Recurrences and Topological Diversity'' |
| Mon. Oct. 25 |
John H.
Schwarz, Caltech ``Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 1 1:15pm Room 1201 |
Robert C.
Myers, Perimeter
Insitute, Canada ``Cosmic superstrings II'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 1 2:30pm Room 1201 |
David
Reitze, University
of Florida ``The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory: Lasers at the Frontiers of Astrophysics'' (JOINT seminar with the Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics group) |
| Tue. Nov. 9 |
Andy
Strominger, Harvard ``Black Hole Attractors and the Topological String'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 15 |
Mark
Trodden, Syracuse
University ``Two Faces of Speculation about Cosmic Acceleration'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 22 |
Anthony
Zee, Santa Barbara, KITP ``Some Speculative Thoughts about the Cosmological Constant'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 29 |
Marvin
Weinstein, SLAC ``Cosmology Quantized in Cosmic Time'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Tue. Nov. 30 4:00pm Room 1410 |
Edward
Seidel, Lousiana
State University ``Using Supercomputers to Collapse Gravitational Waves, Collide Black Holes (and Study other Cataclysms)'' (Department COLLOQUIUM) |
| Dec. 1 |
Nemanja
Kaloper, UC
Davis ``Exorcising w < -1'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Dec. 6 1:00pm Room 1201 |
Joseph
Polchinski, Santa
Barbara ``Regge Scattering in String Theory and QCD'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Dec. 6 2:30pm |
Joe
Henson, UC
San Diego ``Recent progress in the causal set quantum gravity program'' |
| Fri. Dec. 10 10:30am Bldg. 60 auditorium @ NRL |
Seth
Lloyd, MIT ``Quantum Limits to Measuring Spacetime Geometry'' (Quantum information and coherence seminar at the Naval Research Laboratory) |
| Fri. Dec. 17 2:00pm |
Conrad
Schiff, University
of Maryland ``Modeling Extended Fluid Objects in General Relativity'' (DOCTORAL DEFENSE; Dissertation Committee Chair: Prof. Charles W. Misner) |
