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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS FALL 2010

The seminars take place every Wednesday at 3:15 pm in Room 4102 unless otherwise stated below. For more information about GRT group seminars contact Manuel Tiglio (Physics 4205E and CSIC 4129). For information concerning the Elementary Particle Theory group seminars see the EPT seminar page, the Theoretical Quarks, Hadrons, Nuclei group seminars see the TQHN seminar page, and scheduled seminars in the UMD Physics Department see the Department seminar pages.

Seminars from previous semesters can be found here: spring 2002, fall 2002, spring 2003, fall 2003, spring 2004, fall 2004, spring 2005, fall 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, spring 2007, fall 2007, spring 2008, fall 2008, spring 2009 and fall 2009.

DATE, TIME, PLACE	SPEAKER, AFFILIATION, TITLE
Astronomy Colloquium Wednesday, Sep. 8 4:00 pm Computer and Space Sciences Building 2400	Philip Hopkins, University of California, Berkely "How do Massive Black Holes Get their Gas (and Get Rid of It)?"
MCFP Colloquium Thursday, Sep. 9 4:00 pm Room 1201	Gordon Kane, University of Michigan "String Theory and the Real World"
Joint EPT-GRT seminar Friday, Sep. 10 3:00 pm Room 4102	Gordon Kane, University of Michigan "String Moduli Phenomenology and Cosmological History"
Wednesday, Sep. 15 3:15 pm Room 4102	Aron Wall, University of Maryland "Why is the generalized second law of horizon thermodynamics true?"
Wednesday, Sep. 22 3:15 pm Room 4102	Shimon Rubin, Ben-Gurion University, Israel "Non-closed Universe and Zero Cosmological Constant from Normalized General Relativity"
Lecture Friday, Sep. 24 1:00 pm, Room 1412. Followed by reception and book signing (2pm-3pm) in room 1303.	Yau Shing-Tung, Harvard University "The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions"
Lecture Saturday, Sep. 25 9:30 am. Mathematics Building, room 3206	Yau Shing-Tung, Harvard University “Geometry of the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and algebraic varieties” Part of the “Geometry and Analysis of Riemann Surfaces and Their Moduli” conference to celebrate Scott Wolpert’s 60^th birthday
Astronomy Colloquium Wednesday, Sep. 29 4:00 pm Computer and Space Sciences Building 2400	Joan Centrella, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center “Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and Multi-Messenger Astronomy”
Wednesday, Oct. 6 3:00 pm Room 4102	Diego Blas, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL “Non Relativistic Quantum Gravity”
Astronomy Colloquium Wednesday, Oct. 6 4:00 pm Computer and Space Sciences Building 2400	Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India TBA
Thursday, Oct 7 1:30 pm Room 4102	Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India “The IUCAA Story”
Friday, Oct 8 3:00 pm Room 4102	Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India “Some Conceptual Problems in General Relativity and Cosmology”
Thursday, Oct. 14 3:15 pm Room 4102	Eva Sagi, Racah Institute, Hebrew University “Observational Signatures of TeVeS”
Wednesday, Oct. 20 3:15 pm Room 4102	Fotini Markopoulou, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) “Background Independent Spin Systems as Toy Models for Emergent Gravity”
Wednesday, Oct. 27 3:15 pm Room 4102
Wednesday, Nov. 3 3:15 pm Room 4102	Tyson Littenberg (UMD) “Model Selection and Gravitational Wave Data Analysis”
Wednesday, Nov. 10 3:15 pm Room 4102	Stephan Schlamminger (University of Washington) “Tabletop Tests of Gravitation”
Joint Space Institute Conference Nov. 15-17 Lowes Annapolis Hotel. Annapolis, MD	"The Ins and Outs of Black Holes"
Wednesday, Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving week)
Thursday, Dec. 2 11:00 am JSI Seminar Room 4102	Jean-Pierre Lasota (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) “Outbursts in accreting black-hole systems”
Wednesday, Dec. 8 3:15 pm Room 4102	Andrea Taracchini (UMD) “Spin-spin effects in binary black-hole dynamics and initial conditions in numerical-relativity simulations”
Wednesday, Dec. 15 3:00 pm Room 4102	Raman Sundrum (UMD) “Metaphor for dark energy”

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