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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Fall
2005
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Wednesday
at
2:00pm in Room 1201 (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, spring 2004, fall 2004 and spring 2005.
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
| Wed.
Sep.
7 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Eli
Hawkins, University of Western Ontario and
Radboud University Nijmegen ``What's Wrong with Noncommutative Spacetime'' |
| Mon. Sep. 12 12:00pm Room 1201 |
Michel
Janssen, University of Minnesota ``The Sage of Princeton vs. the Scientist as a Young Man'' |
| Mon. Sep. 12 2:00pm Room 4316 |
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota ``Untying the Knot: How Einstein Found his Field Equations'' |
| Wed. Sep.
21 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Ted
Jacobson, University of Maryland ``Constraints on Einstein-Aether Theory'' |
| Mon. Sep. 26 3:00pm Room 4102 |
Emil
Mottola, LANL ``Gravity as an Effective Field Theory: Short Distance and Initial State Effects in Inflation'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Wed. Oct.
5 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Chris Eling, University of Maryland ``Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Spacetime'' |
| Mon. Oct. 24 1:30pm Room 4102 |
Chad Galley, University of Maryland ``Self-Force and Radiation Reaction from Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime'' |
| Wed. Oct.
26 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Renaud
Parentani, Université Paris XI ``Mode creation in expanding universes'' |
| Fri. Oct. 28 3:00pm Room 4102 |
Fotini
Markopoulou, Perimeter Institute ``Error-free quantum gravity'' |
| Tue. Nov. 1 12:00pm Room 4102 |
Stephen
Adler, IAS ``Quantum Theory as an Emergent Phenomenon'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 7 12:00pm Room 4102 |
Vyacheslav
Rychkov, Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, Pisa ``Black hole microstates and counting regular supergravity solutions'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Nov. 7 3:00pm Room 4102 |
Vyacheslav
Rychkov, Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, Pisa ``Theory of black hole production with applications to TeV-scale black holes in colliders and cosmic rays'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Wed. Nov. 16 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Jeremy
Schnittman, University of Maryland ``Spin-orbit resonance in black hole binaries'' |
| Wed. Nov. 23 |
No seminar: Thanksgiving |
| Mon. Dec. 12 1:30pm Room 4208 |
Stefano
Liberati, SISSA/ISAS, Italy ``Analog quantum gravity phenomenology in a 2-BEC system'' (JOINT seminar with the Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics group) |
