GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS SPRING 2009

The seminars take place every Thursday at 2:00 pm in Room 4102 unless otherwise stated below. For more information about GRT group seminars contact Bei-Lok Hu (Physics 4209) or Chad Galley (Physics 4214 and CSCAMM 4119). For information concerning the Elementary Particle Theory group seminars see the EPT seminar page, the Theoretical Quarks, Hadrons, Nuclei group seminars see the TQHN seminar page, and scheduled seminars in the UMD Physics Department see the Department seminar pages.

Seminars from previous semesters can be found here: spring 2002, fall 2002, spring 2003, fall 2003, spring 2004, fall 2004, spring 2005, fall 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, spring 2007, fall 2007, spring 2008, and fall 2008.

DATE, TIME, PLACE	SPEAKER, AFFILIATION, TITLE
Thursday, Jan. 29 2:00 pm Room 4102	Albert Roura, LANL "Quantum fluctuations of an evaporating black hole and de Sitter spacetime"
Thursday, Feb. 12 2:00 pm Room 4102	Evan Ochsner, University of Maryland "Spin effects in gravitational waveforms from inspiralling black hole binaries"
Friday, Feb. 13 MCFP Colloquium 1:30 pm Room 1201	Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute "Rheology and the quark-gluon plasma"
Wednesday, Feb. 18 Joint with CSCAMM 2:00 pm Room 4122 CSIC Bldg	Harald Pfeiffer, CalTech "Binary black hole simulations and implicit time-stepping"
Thursday, Feb. 19 2:00 pm Room 4102	Nico Yunes, Princeton University "Was Einstein right-handed"
Thursday, Feb. 26 2:00 pm Room 4102	Eugene Lim, Columbia University "Primordial non-Gaussianities from inflation: Current bounds and future prospects"
Friday, Feb. 27 Joint with CSCAMM 12:00 pm Room 4122 CSIC Bldg	Nicholas Taylor, Cornell University "Second-order spectral evolutions"
Friday, Feb. 27 Joint with JQI 4:00 pm Room 4102	Albert Roura, LANL "Atom interferometers for gravitational-wave detection and other gravitational measurements. Report on the Florence conference"
Monday, Mar. 9 CSCAMM Seminar 12:15 pm Room 4122 CSIC Bldg	Werner Benger, Louisiana State University "Fiberbundle-based visualization of a stir tank fluid"
Friday, Mar. 13 MCFP Colloquium 1:00 pm Room 1201	Christian Bauer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "NLO calculations and parton showers"
Thursday, Mar. 19 No seminar	No seminar -- Spring Break
Thursday, Mar. 26 12:00 pm Room 4122 CSIC Bldg	Ian Hinder, Albert Einstein Institute "Eccentric binary black hole systems in numerical relativity and post-Newtonian theory"
Friday, Mar. 27 MCFP Colloquium 1:30 pm Room 1201	Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University "Endless universe"
Thursday, Apr. 2 -- Saturday, Apr. 4 Conference @ UMD Room 4122 CSIC Bldg	Shedding Light on Dark Matter Organizers -- K. Abazajian, X. Ji, M. Ricotti and M. Tiglio
Monday, Apr. 6 JQI seminar joint with QCI 12:30 pm Room 1201	Shih-Yuin Lin, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan "The spatial dependence of entanglement and quantum nonlocality in EPR"
Friday, Apr. 10 MCFP Colloquium 1:30 pm Room 1201	Edward Shuryak, SUNY, Stony Brook "Strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma"
Monday, Apr. 13 Joint with JQI 12:30 pm Room 1201	Yanbei Chen, CalTech "Mirror cooling through quantum entanglement and LIGO noise reduction
Thursday, Apr. 16 2:00 pm Room 4102	Pranesh Sundararajan, MIT "Using black hole perturbation theory to understand extreme mass ratio inspirals"
Wednesday, Apr. 22 Joint with CSCAMM 2:00 pm Room 4122 CSIC Bldg	David Luebke, NVIDIA Research "Graphics hardware and GPU computing: Past, present and future"
Thursday, Apr. 23 2:00 pm Room 4102	Latham Boyle, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics "Inflationary bootstrap relations, blinking black holes"
Thursday, Apr. 30 2:00 pm Room 4102	Rafael Sorkin, Perimeter Institute "Nonlocality from Planck-scale discreteness: problem and opportunity for quantum gravity"
Friday, May 1 1:00 pm Room 2400 CSS Bldg	Goddard/Maryland Interaction Day, Click here for program information
Thursday, May 7 2:00 pm Room 4102	Bence Kocsis, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University "Black hole mergers and electromagnetic counterparts"
Tuesday, May 26 3:00 pm Room 4102	Don Page, University of Alberta "The Born rule dies"
Thursday, June 11 2:00 pm Room 4102	David Brown, North Carolina State University "Probing the puncture for black hole simulations"
Friday, June 12 2:00 pm Room 4102	Alexandre Le Tiec, GReCO, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris "Post-Newtonian calculation of the gravitational self-force for black hole binaries"
Wednesday, June 17 2:00 pm Room 4102	Lila Warszawski, University of Melbourne "Gravitational wave bursts from vortex avalanches in pulsar glitches"