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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS,
Spring
2004
(Includes also other seminars
of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Friday
at 2:00pm in Room 4208 (unless otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Albert Roura (301-405-6032).
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
and fall 2003.
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
| Wed. Jan. 28 12:15pm Room 1305 |
Emil
Mottola, LANL ``Vacuum Energy and Condensate Stars: A Quantum Alternative to Black Holes'' (special LUNCH seminar) |
| Thu. Jan. 29 2:00pm Room 1305 |
Emil Mottola, LANL ``Dark Energy, Conformal Invariance, and the CMBR'' |
| Fri. Jan.
30 CANCELED! |
Gerald
Milburn, University of Queensland,
Australia ``Entanglement between two accelerated observers'' (JOINT seminar with the Quantum Coherence and Information Theory group) |
| Mon. Feb. 2 4:00pm Room 4102 |
Herman
Verlinde, Princeton University ``Giant inflatons'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Mon. Feb. 9 2:30pm Room 1201 |
Victor
Flambaum, University of South Wales,
Australia, and IAS ``Effects of variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks'' (JOINT seminar with the Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics group) |
| Thu. Feb. 19 12:30pm Room 1126 |
Dieter
Brill, University of Maryland ``Lattice Universes in 2+1-dimensional Gravity'' (special LUNCH seminar) |
| Thu. Feb. 26 12:30pm Room 1126 |
Bei-Lok Hu, University of Maryland ``Can spacetime be a condensate?'' (informal discussion) |
| Mon. Mar. 1 1:30pm Room 4102 CANCELED! |
Nima
Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Thu. Mar. 11 12:30pm Room 1126 |
Albert
Roura, University of Maryland ``Can spacetime be a condensate? (II) Some ideas on the cosmological constant problem'' (informal discussion) |
| Thu. Mar. 18 12:30pm Room 1126 |
Ho Jung
Paik, University of Maryland ``Gravitational wave experiments on the Moon'' (informal discussion) |
| Fri. Mar.
26 |
No seminar: Spring Break |
| Mon. Mar. 29 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Laura
Mersini, University of North Carolina ``The Dark Side of the Universe'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Thu. Apr. 1 12:30pm Room 1126 |
Cole
Miller, University of Maryland ``Astrophysical sources of gravitational radiation'' (guest lecture of PHYS 776) |
| Mon. Apr. 5 2:00pm Room 4102 CANCELED! |
Mark
Trodden, Syracuse University ``Two Faces of Speculation about Cosmic Acceleration'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Fri. Apr. 9 |
Igor
Klebanov, Princeton University ``A New Hat for the c=1 Matrix Model'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
| Fri. Apr.
16 |
Éanna
Flanagan, Cornell University ``The accelerating Universe and gravitation theories obtained from the Palatini variational principle'' |
| Fri. Apr.
23 |
Cole
Miller, University of Maryland ``Constructing Templates for the Detection of Gravitational Waves from Binaries'' |
| Thu. Apr. 29 12:30pm Room 1126 |
Albert
Roura, University of Maryland ``Non-relativistic particles propagating on linearized gravitational waves and atom interferometry'' (informal discussion) |
| Fri. Apr.
30 |
No seminar because of the 3rd annual conference on ``New Directions in the foundations of Physics'' |
| Thu. May 6 12:30pm Room 1126 |
Richard
Woodard, University of Florida ``Origin of Infrared Logarithms in Inflationary QFT'' (special LUNCH seminar) |
| Fri. May 7 |
Richard
Woodard, University of Florida ``Stochastic Inflation'' |
| Tue. May 11 11:00am-12:30pm |
Advanced Gravitation Theory (PHYS
776) Research Projects Final Presentation I |
| Tue. May 11 1:00pm-7:00pm Room 1304 |
Advanced Gravitation Theory (PHYS
776) Research Projects Final Presentation II |
| Fri. May 14 |
Ho Jung
Paik, University of Maryland ``Gravitational Wave Detection on the Moon'' |
| Mon. May 24 2:00pm Room 4102 |
Markus
Luty, University of Maryland ``A Higgs Phase for Gravity'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
