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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Fall 2007
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Thursday at 2:00pm in Room 4102 (unless otherwise stated below).
For information about grt group seminars contact Yi Pan (Physics 4205C), or Ted Jacobson (Physics 4117)
For information about Elementary Particle Theory group seminars, look at the EPT seminar page.
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 2002, fall 2002, spring 2003, fall 2003, spring 2004, fall 2004, spring 2005, fall 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, and spring 2007.


Date, Time, Place Speaker, Affiliation, Title 
(sometimes linked to an abstract)
Friday Sep. 14
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY!)
2:00pm
Room 4102
David Garfinkle , Oakland University
``Numerical Simulations of General Gravitational Singularities''
Wednesday Sep. 19
(CFP Colloquium)

4:00pm
Room 1201
Dam Son , University of Washington
"Viscosity, Black Holes, and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions"
Thursday Sep. 27
2:30pm
(NOTE SPECIAL TIME)

Room 4102
Jonah Kanner, University of Maryland
``LOOC, UP in the Sky! Searching for Optical Counterparts of Gravitational-wave Burst Candidates''
Thursday Oct. 4
2:00pm
Room 4102
Niall O'Murchadha , National University of Ireland
``Excision Without Excision: Why the Binary Black Hole Codes Work''
Wednesday Oct. 17
(CFP Colloquium)

4:00pm
Room 1201
Dragan Huterer , University of Michigan
``Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy''
Thursday Oct. 25
2:00pm
Room 4102
Jeremy Schnittman , Johns Hopkins University
``Gravitational Recoil from Binary Black Holes: Computational Methods and Astrophysical Applications''
Thursday Nov. 1
2:00pm
Room 4102
Lawrence Kidder , Cornell University
``High-accuracy Comparison of Numerical Relativity Simulations with post-Newtonian Expansions''
Friday Nov. 9
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY)

2:00pm
Room 4102
Eanna Flanagan , Cornell University
``Inspirals of Point Particles into Black Holes via Two-timescale Expansions''
Thursday Nov. 15
2:00pm
Room 4102
Laurent Freidel , Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
``Spin Foam Models of 4D Gravity ''
Friday Nov. 16
1:00pm
Room 4102
Jim Isenberg , University of Oregon
``Black Hole Rigidity ''
Monday Dec. 3
(Joint EPT/grt seminar)

3:00pm
Room 4102
Sean Carroll , California Institute of Technology
``Preferred Directions in Inflation''
Wednesday Dec. 12
(CFP Colloquium)

4:00pm
Room 1201
Nima Arkani-Hamed , Harvard University
``Possible and Impossible in Quantum Gravity''


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Last updated: December 1, 2007
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