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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS,
Spring
2007
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Tuesday
at
2:00pm in Room 1201 (unless otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Jeremy Schnittman
(Physics 4205D).
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 2002,
fall 2002,
spring 2003,
fall 2003, spring 2004, fall 2004, spring 2005, fall 2005, and
spring 2006,
fall 2006.
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
| Thurs.
Jan. 18 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!) 3:00pm (NOTE SPECIAL TIME!) Room 1201 |
Steve
Liebling, Long Island University ``Modeling Gravitational Attraction: Boson Stars, Accretion, and Critical Collapse'' |
| Tues.
Feb. 6 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Bernard
Kelley, NASA Goddard ``Progress in Post-Newtonian Initial Data for Numerical Relativity'' |
| Tues.
Feb. 20 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Luc
Blanchet, IAP, Paris ``Gravitational polarization and the phenomenology of MOND'' |
| Thurs.
Feb. 22 (part of PHYS 798G lecture series) 11:00am Room 1201 |
Stephen
Merkowitz, NASA Goddard ``Lunar laser ranging'' |
| Tues.
Feb. 27 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Ariel
Edery, Bishop's University ``Spontaneous symmetry breaking via gravitation'' |
| Thurs.
March 8 (part of PHYS 798G lecture series) 11:00am Room 1201 |
Stephen
Merkowitz, NASA Goddard ``Why is it so hard to measure the strength of gravity?'' |
| Tues.
March 13 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Alan
Kogut, NASA Goddard ``Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Are These Guys Serious?'' |
| Mon.
April 2 (Elementary Particle Physics Seminar) 3:00pm Room 4102 |
Rocky
Kolb, University of Chicago ``On Cosmic Acceleration Without Dark Energy'' |
| Mon. April 9 (CSCAMM Seminar) 2:00pm Room 1204 (Toll Room) |
Harald
Pfeiffer, California Institute of Technology ``Simulating Binary Black Holes'' |
| Tues.
April 10 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Kenji
Numata, NASA Goddard ``Thermal noise and drift in precise interferometry'' |
| Tues.
April 10 (Physics Colloquium) 4:00pm Room 1410 |
Matias Zaldarriaga, Harvard University ``Constraining Inflation with the CMB'' |
| Wed.
April 11 (CSCAMM Seminar) 2:00pm 4122 CSIC Bldg |
Saul
Teukolsky, Cornell University ``Simulations of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves'' |
| Tues.
April 17 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Maulik
Parikh, Columbia University and IUCAA ``Mach's Holographic Principle'' |
| Tues.
April 24 (part of PHYS 798G lecture series) 11:00am Room 1201 |
Tod Strohmayer, NASA Goddard ``X-rays from Compact Stars: Probing Fundamental Physics'' |
| Mon.
April 30 (CSCAMM Seminar) 2:00pm 4122 CSIC Bldg |
Manuel
Tiglio, Louisiana State University ``TBD'' |
| Tues.
May 1 (part of PHYS 798G lecture series) 11:00am Room 1201 |
Tuck Stebbins, NASA Goddard ``LISA: The Science and the Instrument'' |
| Tues.
May 1 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Tuck Stebbins, NASA Goddard ``LISA Science Out to z~10'' |
| Tues.
May 8 (part of PHYS 798G lecture series) 11:00am Room 1201 |
Steven Ritz, NASA Goddard ``The next great step in space-based gamma-ray astrophysics: the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)'' |
| Tues.
May 8 (Physics Colloquium) 4:00pm Room 1410 |
Frans
Pretorius, University of Alberta ``Simulations of Binary Black Hole Coalescence'' |
| Tues.
May 15 2:00pm Room 1201 |
Deirdre
Shoemaker, Penn State ``Black Holes and Their Echoes in the Universe'' |
|
Tues. May 15 4:00pm (NOTE SPECIAL TIME!!) Room 4220 (NOTE SPECIAL PLACE!!) |
Richard Isaacson, NSF ``Development of LIGO: A View From Washington'' |
