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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS,
Fall
2006
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Tuesday
at
2:00pm in Room 1201 (unless otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Jeremy Schnittman
(Physics 4205D).
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, fall 2005, and
spring 2006.
Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
Tues.
Sept. 19 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Brendan
Foster, University of Maryland ``Aetherial Gravity'' |
Fri.
Sept. 29 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!) 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Greg
Cook, Wake Forest University ``Circular Orbits and Spin in Black-Hole Initial Data'' |
Tues.
Oct. 3 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Charles W.
Misner, Univeristy of Maryland ``John Wheeler and General Relativity'' Slides (pdf) Audio (wma) transcript |
Tues.
Oct. 10 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Ira
Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University ``New Results for the Problem of Motion of Gravitating, Spinning Bodies'' |
Tues.
Oct. 17 4:00pm (PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM) Room 1410 |
Kev
Abazajian, University of Maryland ``The New Cosmology'' |
Wed.
Oct. 18 4:00pm (ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM) Room CSS 2400 (Astronomy) |
Chuck
Keeton, Rutgers University ``Lensing by Black Holes and Prospects for Testing Theories of Gravity" |
Tues.
Oct. 24 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Shih-Yuin
Lin, National Center for Theoretical
Sciences, Taiwan ``New Insights into Uniformly Accelerated Detector in a Quantum Field'' |
Wed.
Nov. 8 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!) 2:30pm (NOTE SPECIAL TIME!) Room 1201 |
Lee
Lindblom, Caltech ``Generalized Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes'' |
Tues.
Nov. 14 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Leonid
Vitushkin, Bureau International des
Poids et Mesures ``Measurement of the Gravitational Constant Using the Attraction Between Two Freely Falling Disks'' |
Tues.
Nov. 21 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Latham
Boyle, CITA, Canada ``Probing the Early Universe with Inflationary Gravitational Waves'' |
Tues.
Nov. 21 4:00pm (PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM) Room 1410 |
Nergis
Mavalvala, MIT ``Gravitational Wave Detection: What's New? What's Next?'' |
Tues.
Nov. 28 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Raman
Sundrum, Johns Hopkins University ``Energy-Parity and the Cosmological Constant'' |
Tues.
Dec. 5 2:00pm Room 1201 |
David
Spergel, Princeton University ``Probing the dark energy: rulers and candles'' |
Tues.
Dec. 5 4:00pm (PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM) Room 1410 |
David
Spergel, Princeton University ``Cosmology After WMAP'' |
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