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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS,
Spring
2005
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Wednesday
at
2:00pm in Room 4102 (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,
fall 2003, spring 2004
and fall 2004.
Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
Fri. Jan.
28 Room 4316 |
Robert
Brout, Université Libre de Bruxelles ``What is time?'' |
Mon. Feb.
21 Room 1201 |
Leonardo
Rastelli, Princeton
University ``Minimal strings and open / closed duality'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Wed.
Feb.
23 Room 1201 |
Martin
Kruczenski, Brandeis
University ``String / gauge-theory duality and ferromagnetic spin chains'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Mon. Feb.
28 Room 1201 |
Marcus
Spradlin, KITP ``Adventures in String Theory: From Black Holes to QCD'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Tue. Mar. 1 1:30pm Room 4316 |
Anastasia
Volovich, KITP ``QCD amplitudes and string theory'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Thu. Mar. 3 4:00pm Room 1201 |
Matthew
Kleban, IAS ``Finite Temperature Field Theory and Black Holes'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Mon. Mar. 7 4:00pm Room 3301 |
Nemanja
Kaloper, UC
Davies ``Shock Therapy'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Wed.
Mar. 9 Room 1201 |
Abhay
Ashtekar, IGPG
at Penn
State University ``Black hole evaporation: A paradigm'' |
Wed.
Mar. 16 |
No seminar because of the 8th Eastern Gravity Meeting |
Wed.
Mar. 23 |
No seminar: Spring Break |
Thu. Apr. 14 4:00pm |
Ira
Rothstein, Carnegie
Mellon University ``The Problem of Motion in General Relativity as a Theory of Scales'' |
Wed. Apr. 27 | Fred
Cooper, LANL
/ NSF ``Exact solitary wave solutions for discrete λ φ4 field theory in 1+1 dimensions'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Thu. Apr. 28 12:30pm |
John
Stachel, Boston
University ``Generalizing General Covariance'' (JOINT seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group) |
Wed.
May 4 |
No seminar because of the
2005
Annual Meeting Symposium -- The World Year of Physics: Einstein in the
21st Century
at the National Academy of Sciences |
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