GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Spring 2002
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group.)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Friday at 1:30pm in Room 4208
(if not otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Stefano Liberati (301-405-6032 ).
For information about scheduled seminars in the UMD Physics Department look at the
Department Seminar Pages.

Date, Time, Place	Speaker, Affiliation, Title  (sometimes linked to an abstract)
Feb. 8	David Mattingly, UMD ``Astrophysical Constraints on Lorentz Breaking Dispersion Relations''
Feb. 22 Joint seminar with Goddard Gravitational Waves group Time: 2:00pm	Jim van Meter, UC Davis ``Post Minkowskian approach to binary black hole dynamics''
Mar. 4 Joint Seminar with the EP group Location: Room 4102 Time: 1:00pm	Akikazu Hashimoto, IAS Princeton ``Observables of String Field Theory''
Mar. 22	Bei-Lok Hu, UMD ``A Kinetic Theory Approach to Quantum Gravity''
Mar. 29	Spring Break Pause
Apr. 5	Stefano Liberati, UMD ``Towards the observation of Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates''
Apr. 9 Time: 12:30pm	Niall O'Murchadha, University Collge, Cork, Ireland ``Relativity without relativity: emergent time and the classical fields''
Apr. 26	Matt Visser, Washington University, St. Louis ``The quantum physics of chronology protection''
May. 10	Esteban Calzetta, Buenos Aires University ``Thermalization in Large-N quantum field theory''
Jun. 21	Amit Ghosh, Penn State University ``Black hole entropy from semiclassical methods and  2nd law''