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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS FALL 2008
The seminars take place every Friday at 1:30 pm in Room 4102 unless otherwise stated below. For more information about GRT group seminars contact Chad Galley (Physics 4214) or Bei-Lok Hu (Physics 4209). 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, and spring 2008.
| DATE, TIME, PLACE | SPEAKER, AFFILIATION, TITLE
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| Friday, Sept.
5 Joint with EPT 1:30 pm Room 4102 |
Raman Sundrum,
Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland
(Host: Bei-Lok Hu) ``Lorentz violation and superluminality via AdS/CFT duality'' |
| Thursday,
Sept. 11 4:00 pm Room 4102 |
Christoph Schmid,
ETH Zurich
(Host: Dieter Brill) "Mach's Principle: Exact frame-dragging by energy currents in perturbed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes" |
| Friday, Sept.
12 CFP Colloquium 1:30 pm Room 1201 |
Aneesh Manohar,
UC San Diego
(Host: Paulo Bedaque) "Electroweak corrections at LHC energies" |
| Friday, Sept.
19 Joint with EPT 1:30 pm Room 4102 |
Sergey Ketov,
Tokyo Metropolitan University and CPST/EP, University of Maryland
(Host: Jim Gates) "Superstring-induced quartic curvature gravity and geometrical inflation" |
| Friday, Sept.
26 CFP Colloquium 1:30 pm Room 1201 |
Christopher Herzog,
Princeton University "Holographic superfliuidity and superconductivity" |
| Friday, Oct. 3 1:30 pm Room 4102 |
Peter Shawhan,
University of Maryland "Recent results from LIGO" |
| Friday, Oct.
10 CFP Colloquium 1:30 pm Room 1201 |
Avi Loeb,
Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), Harvard University
"Exploring new physics in the early universe and around black holes" |
| Friday, Oct. 17 2:00 pm Room 4102 |
Frank Herrmann, University
of Maryland
"Numerical simulations of black holes" |
| Friday, Oct.
24 CFP Colloquium 2:00 pm Room 1201 |
Mithat Unsal, SLAC
and Stanford University
"Topological symmetry and (de)confinement in gauge theories and spin systems" |
|
Wednesday, Nov. 5 CSCAMM Seminar 2:00 pm CSIC Room 4122 |
Burkhard Zink,
Louisiana State Univeristy
"Numerical techniques for accretion flows around black holes" |
|
Thursday, Nov. 6 CSCAMM Seminar 12:00 pm CSIC Room 4122 |
Matthew Duez ,
Cornell University
"Black hole-neutron star binaries in numerical relativity" |
| Thursday, Nov. 6 4:00 pm Room 4102 |
Aron Wall,
University of Maryland
"Towards a proof of the Generalized Second Law?" |
| Friday, Nov. 7 CFP Colloquium 2:00 pm Room 1201 |
Maxim Pospelov, University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute "Catalysis of Primordial Nucleosynthesis" |
| Friday, Nov. 14 2:00 pm Room 4102 |
Ho-Jung Paik, University of Maryland
"A short-range inverse-square law test: Progress report" |
| Friday, Nov. 21 2:00 pm Room 4102 |
Anil Zenginoglu, University of Maryland
"Null infinity on a gridshell" |
| Friday, Dec. 5 2:00 pm Room 4102 |
Enrique Pazos, University of Maryland
"Recent work in numerical relativity" |
| Friday, Dec. 12 NO SEMINAR |
NO SEMINAR |
