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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Fall 2006
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Tuesday at 2:00pm in Room 1201 (unless otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Jeremy Schnittman (Physics 4205D).
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, spring 2005, fall 2005, and spring 2006.


Date, Time, Place Speaker, Affiliation, Title 
(sometimes linked to an abstract)
Tues. Sept. 19
2:00pm
Room 1201
Brendan Foster, University of Maryland
``Aetherial Gravity''
Fri. Sept. 29 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!)
2:00pm
Room 1201
Greg Cook, Wake Forest University
``Circular Orbits and Spin in Black-Hole Initial Data''
Tues. Oct.  3
2:00pm
Room 1201
Charles W. Misner, Univeristy of Maryland
``John Wheeler and General Relativity''
Slides (pdf) Audio (wma) transcript
Tues. Oct.  10
2:00pm
Room 1201
Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University
``New Results for the Problem of Motion of Gravitating, Spinning Bodies''
Tues. Oct.  17
4:00pm 
(PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM)
Room 1410
Kev Abazajian, University of Maryland
``The New Cosmology''
Wed. Oct.  18
4:00pm 
(ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM)
Room CSS 2400 (Astronomy)
Chuck Keeton, Rutgers University
``Lensing by Black Holes and Prospects for Testing Theories of Gravity"

Tues. Oct. 24
2:00pm
Room 1201
Shih-Yuin Lin, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan
``New Insights into Uniformly Accelerated Detector in a Quantum Field''
Wed. Nov. 8 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!)
2:30pm (NOTE SPECIAL TIME!)

Room 1201
Lee Lindblom, Caltech
``Generalized Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes''
Tues. Nov. 14
2:00pm
Room 1201
Leonid Vitushkin, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
``Measurement of the Gravitational Constant Using the Attraction Between Two Freely Falling Disks''
Tues. Nov. 21
2:00pm
Room 1201
Latham Boyle, CITA, Canada
``Probing the Early Universe with Inflationary Gravitational Waves''
Tues. Nov. 21
4:00pm
(PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM)
Room 1410
Nergis Mavalvala, MIT
``Gravitational Wave Detection: What's New? What's Next?'' 
Tues. Nov. 28
2:00pm
Room 1201
Raman Sundrum, Johns Hopkins University
``Energy-Parity and the Cosmological Constant''
Tues. Dec. 5
2:00pm
Room 1201
David Spergel, Princeton University
``Probing the dark energy: rulers and candles''
Tues. Dec. 5
4:00pm
(PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM)
Room 1410
David Spergel, Princeton University
``Cosmology After WMAP''


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Last updated: February 2, 2006
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