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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS,
Fall
2007
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Thursday
at 2:00pm in Room 4102 (unless otherwise stated below).
For information about grt group seminars contact Yi Pan
(Physics 4205C), or Ted
Jacobson
(Physics 4117)
For information about
Elementary Particle Theory group seminars, look at the EPT seminar page.
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
2002,
fall
2002,
spring
2003,
fall 2003,
spring
2004, fall
2004, spring
2005, fall
2005,
spring
2006,
fall 2006,
and
spring
2007.
Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
Friday
Sep. 14 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!) 2:00pm Room 4102 |
David Garfinkle ,
Oakland University ``Numerical Simulations of General Gravitational Singularities'' |
Wednesday Sep. 19 (CFP Colloquium) 4:00pm Room 1201 |
Dam Son ,
University of Washington "Viscosity, Black Holes, and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions" |
Thursday
Sep. 27 2:30pm (NOTE SPECIAL TIME) Room 4102 |
Jonah
Kanner, University of Maryland ``LOOC, UP in the Sky! Searching for Optical Counterparts of Gravitational-wave Burst Candidates'' |
Thursday
Oct. 4 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Niall O'Murchadha ,
National University of Ireland ``Excision Without Excision: Why the Binary Black Hole Codes Work'' |
Wednesday Oct. 17 (CFP Colloquium) 4:00pm Room 1201 |
Dragan Huterer ,
University of Michigan ``Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy'' |
Thursday
Oct. 25 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Jeremy Schnittman ,
Johns Hopkins University ``Gravitational Recoil from Binary Black Holes: Computational Methods and Astrophysical Applications'' |
Thursday
Nov. 1 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Lawrence Kidder ,
Cornell University ``High-accuracy Comparison of Numerical Relativity Simulations with post-Newtonian Expansions'' |
Friday Nov. 9 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY) 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Eanna Flanagan ,
Cornell University ``Inspirals of Point Particles into Black Holes via Two-timescale Expansions'' |
Thursday
Nov. 15 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Laurent Freidel ,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ``Spin Foam Models of 4D Gravity '' |
Friday
Nov. 16 1:00pm Room 4102 |
Jim Isenberg ,
University of Oregon ``Black Hole Rigidity '' |
Monday Dec. 3 (Joint EPT/grt seminar) 3:00pm Room 4102 |
Sean Carroll ,
California Institute of Technology ``Preferred Directions in Inflation'' |
Wednesday Dec. 12 (CFP Colloquium) 4:00pm Room 1201 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed ,
Harvard University ``Possible and Impossible in Quantum Gravity'' |
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