GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS SPRING 2010

The seminars take place every Thursday at 2:30 pm in Room 4102 unless otherwise stated below. For more information about GRT group seminars contact Manuel Tiglio (Physics 4205E and CSIC 4129) or Peter Shawhan (Physics 4205B). 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
Thursday, Jan. 28 2:30 pm Room 4102	Nico Yunes, Princeton University "General Relativity on trial: Gravitational waves and the parameterized post-Einsteinian framework"
Friday, Feb. 12 1:30 pm Room TBD	Michele Levi, Racah Institute, Hebrew University "Gravitational spin couplings from effective field theory"
Friday, Feb. 12 3:30 pm Room 4102	Larry Ford, Tufts University "The probability distribution for quantum stress tensor fluctuations"
Thursday, Feb. 18 2:30 pm Room 4102	Benjamin Owen, Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Pennsylvania State University "Why LIGO results are already interesting"
MCFP Colloquium Thursday, March 4 3:30 pm Room 1201	Thomas Appelquist, Yale University "TeV physics and conformality"
Thursday, March 11 2:30 pm Room 4102	Andreas Ross, Yale University "Radiative effects from effective field theory"
Thursday, March 25 2:30 pm Room 4102	Jared Speck, Cambridge University "The stability of the Euler-Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant"
MCFP Colloquium Thursday, April 1 3:30 pm Room 1201	Stefano Profumo, University of California, Santa Cruz "Cosmic rays and the quest for new physics"
Friday, April 16 1:00 pm Room 4102	Luciano Rezzolla, Albert Einstein Institute "Modeling the inspiral and merger of binary neutron stars"
Special mini-course April 19 - 23 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Room 4102	Benjamin Stamm, Brown University "An introduction to the reduced basis method"
Thursday, April 22 2:30 pm Room 4102	Scott Field, Brown University "High-order accurate modeling of extreme mass ratio binaries"
Wednesday, April 28 4:00 pm Room 1201	Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota "'No success like failure...': Einstein's quest for general relativity"
MCFP Colloquium Thursday, April 29 3:30 pm Room 1201	Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota "Jordan and the wave-particle duality of light"
Physics Colloquium Tuesday, May 4 4:00 pm Room 1410	Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State University "Quantum nature of the Big Bang in simple models"
Thursday, May 6 2:30 pm Room 4102	Patrick Peter, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris "Bouncing alternatives to inflation"