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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS,
Spring
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 4102 (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
and fall 2004.
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title (sometimes linked to an abstract) | 
| Fri. Jan. 
28 Room 4316 | Robert
Brout, Université Libre de Bruxelles ``What is time?'' | 
| Mon. Feb. 
21 Room 1201 | Leonardo
Rastelli, Princeton
University ``Minimal strings and open / closed duality'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Wed.
Feb. 
23 Room 1201 | Martin
Kruczenski, Brandeis
University ``String / gauge-theory duality and ferromagnetic spin chains'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Mon. Feb. 
28 Room 1201 | Marcus
Spradlin, KITP ``Adventures in String Theory: From Black Holes to QCD'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Tue. Mar.  1 1:30pm Room 4316 | Anastasia
Volovich, KITP ``QCD amplitudes and string theory'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Thu. Mar.  3 4:00pm Room 1201 | Matthew
Kleban, IAS ``Finite Temperature Field Theory and Black Holes'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Mon. Mar.  7 4:00pm Room 3301 | Nemanja
Kaloper, UC
Davies ``Shock Therapy'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Wed.
Mar.  9 Room 1201 | Abhay
Ashtekar, IGPG
at Penn
State University ``Black hole evaporation: A paradigm'' | 
| Wed.
Mar.  16 | No seminar because of the 8th Eastern Gravity Meeting | 
| Wed.
Mar.  23 | No seminar: Spring Break | 
| Thu. Apr.  14 4:00pm | Ira
Rothstein, Carnegie
Mellon University ``The Problem of Motion in General Relativity as a Theory of Scales'' | 
| Wed. Apr. 27 | Fred
Cooper, LANL
/ NSF ``Exact solitary wave solutions for discrete λ φ4 field theory in 1+1 dimensions'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Thu. Apr.  28 12:30pm | John
Stachel, Boston
University ``Generalizing General Covariance'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) | 
| Wed.
May  4 | No seminar because of the
      2005
Annual Meeting Symposium -- The World Year of Physics: Einstein in the
21st Century
at the National Academy of Sciences | 
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