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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Spring 2004
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Friday at 2:00pm in Room 4208 (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 and fall 2003.


Date, Time, Place Speaker, Affiliation, Title 
(sometimes linked to an abstract)
Wed. Jan. 28
12:15pm
Room 1305
Emil Mottola, LANL
``Vacuum Energy and Condensate Stars: A Quantum Alternative to Black Holes''
(special LUNCH seminar)
Thu. Jan. 29
2:00pm
Room 1305
Emil Mottola, LANL
``Dark Energy, Conformal Invariance, and the CMBR''
Fri. Jan. 30
CANCELED!
Gerald Milburn, University of Queensland, Australia
``Entanglement between two accelerated observers''
(JOINT seminar with the Quantum Coherence and Information Theory group)
Mon. Feb. 2
4:00pm
Room 4102
Herman Verlinde, Princeton University
``Giant inflatons''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Mon. Feb. 9
2:30pm
Room 1201
Victor Flambaum,  University of South Wales, Australia, and IAS
``Effects of variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks''
(JOINT seminar with the Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics group)
Thu. Feb. 19
12:30pm
Room 1126
Dieter Brill, University of Maryland
``Lattice Universes in 2+1-dimensional Gravity''
(special LUNCH seminar)
Thu. Feb. 26
12:30pm
Room 1126
Bei-Lok Hu, University of Maryland
``Can spacetime be a condensate?''
(informal discussion)
Mon. Mar. 1
1:30pm
Room 4102
CANCELED!
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Thu. Mar. 11
12:30pm
Room 1126
Albert Roura, University of Maryland
``Can spacetime be a condensate? (II) Some ideas on the cosmological constant problem''
(informal discussion)
Thu. Mar. 18
12:30pm
Room 1126
Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland
``Gravitational wave experiments on the Moon''
(informal discussion)
Fri. Mar. 26
No seminar: Spring Break
Mon. Mar. 29
2:00pm
Room 4102
Laura Mersini, University of North Carolina
``The Dark Side of the Universe''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Thu. Apr. 1
12:30pm
Room 1126
Cole Miller, University of Maryland
``Astrophysical sources of gravitational radiation''
(guest lecture of PHYS 776)
Mon. Apr. 5
2:00pm
Room 4102
CANCELED!
Mark Trodden, Syracuse University
``Two Faces of Speculation about Cosmic Acceleration''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Fri. Apr. 9
Igor Klebanov, Princeton University
``A New Hat for the c=1 Matrix Model''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Fri. Apr. 16
Éanna Flanagan, Cornell University
``The accelerating Universe and gravitation theories obtained from the Palatini variational principle''
Fri. Apr. 23
Cole Miller, University of Maryland
``Constructing Templates for the Detection of Gravitational Waves from Binaries''
Thu. Apr. 29
12:30pm
Room 1126
Albert Roura, University of Maryland
``Non-relativistic particles propagating on linearized gravitational waves and atom interferometry''
(informal discussion)
Fri. Apr. 30
No seminar because of the 3rd annual conference on ``New Directions in the foundations of Physics''
Thu. May 6
12:30pm
Room 1126
Richard Woodard, University of Florida
``Origin of Infrared Logarithms in Inflationary QFT''
(special LUNCH seminar)
Fri. May 7
Richard Woodard, University of Florida
``Stochastic Inflation''
Tue. May 11
11:00am-12:30pm
Advanced Gravitation Theory (PHYS 776)
Research Projects Final Presentation I
Tue. May 11
1:00pm-7:00pm
Room 1304
Advanced Gravitation Theory (PHYS 776)
Research Projects Final Presentation II
Fri. May 14
Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland
``Gravitational Wave Detection on the Moon''
Mon. May 24
2:00pm
Room 4102
Markus Luty, University of Maryland
``A Higgs Phase for Gravity''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)


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Last updated: March 12, 2004
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