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


Date, Time, Place Speaker, Affiliation, Title 
(sometimes linked to an abstract)
Thur. Jan.  26
11:00am
Room 4316
Ted Baltz, KIPAC, Stanford University
``Solving the Dark Matter Problem''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Thur. Feb.  2
4:00pm
Room 1201
Kev Abazajian, Los Alamos National Laboratory
``Dark Matter in the Neutrino Sector''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Mon. Feb.  6
2:00pm
Room 1201
Luis Anchordoqui, Northeastern University
``Exploring the Universe Beyond the Photon Window''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Thur. Feb.  9
11:00am
Room 1219
Tim Tait, Argonne National Laboratory
``Dark Matter from Hidden Dimensions''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Mon. Feb.  13
2:30pm
Room 1201
Dan Hooper, Fermilab
``In Search of Particle Dark Matter''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Thur. Feb.  16
11:00am
Room 4220
Liantao Wang, Harvard University
``New Physics and the LHC Inverse Problem"
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Mon. Feb.  20
2:30pm
Room 1201
David Rainwater, University of Rochester
``What is the LHC for?"
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Tue. Feb.  21
11:00am
Room 4220
Brian Lantz, Stanford University
``Advanced LIGO: Building the Foundation for the Next Gravitational Wave Observatory"
(JOINT seminar with the Gravitation Experiment Group)
Thur. Feb.  23
11:00am
Room 1219
Vuk Mandic, California Institute of Technology
``Searching for Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO"
(JOINT seminar with the Gravitation Experiment Group)
Fri. Feb.  24
2:00pm
Room 1201
Vuk Mandic, California Institute of Technology
``Cryogenic Dark Matter Search: Status and Results''
(JOINT seminar with the Gravitation Experiment Group)
Mon. Feb.  27
10:00am
Room 4220
Peter Shawhan, California Institute of Technology
``LIGO Perks Up Its Ears''
(JOINT seminar with the Gravitation Experiment Group)
Mon. Feb.  27
2:30pm
Room 1201
Jay Wacker, Stanford University
``Long-Lived Gluinos in Split Supersymmetry''
(JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group)
Wed. Mar.  1
10:00am
Room 4220
Rana Adhikari, California Institute of Technology
"LIGO's Gravitational Wave Sensitivity: Past, Present, and Future"
(JOINT seminar with the Gravitation Experiment Group)
Mon. Mar.  6
10:00am
Room 4220
Joshua Long, Indiana University
"TBD"
(JOINT seminar with the Gravitation Experiment Group)
Wed. Mar.  8
10:00am
Room 4220
Laura Cadonati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"LIGO's Eyes-Wide-Open Search for Gravitational Waves"
(JOINT seminar with the Gravitation Experiment Group)
Fri. Mar.  10
2:00pm
Room 1201
Dale Choi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Numerical Relativity Simulations of Black Hole Mergers"
CANCELED
Fri. May.  19
2:00pm
Room 1201
Guenter Sigl, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
"High Energy Cosmic Radiation: A Multi-Messenger Approach"


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Last updated: February 2, 2006
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