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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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Last updated: April 27, 2005
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