GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS FALL 2009

The seminars take place every Thursday at 3:30 pm in Room 4102 unless otherwise stated below. For more information about GRT group seminars contact Manuel Tiglio (Physics 4205E and CSIC 4129) or Peter Shawhan (Physics 4205B). 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, fall 2008, and spring 2009.

DATE, TIME, PLACE	SPEAKER, AFFILIATION, TITLE
Wednesday, Sept. 2 3:00 pm Room 4102	Emil Mottola, LANL "The trace anomaly and cosmological horizon fluctuations"
Thursday, Sept. 10 3:30 pm Room 4102	David Brizuela, CSIC, Madrid Spain "The quantum Big Bounce for an inhomogeneous cosmological model"
MCFP Colloquium Thursday, Oct. 1 3:30 pm Room 1201	Michael Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Electroweak baryogenesis: Theoretical progress and experimental tests"
Joint with CSCAMM Wednesday, Oct. 7 2:00 pm Room 4122 CSIC Bldg	Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University "HPC Phase VI - The final convergence"
Friday, Oct. 9 11:00 am Room 4102	Chris Reynolds, University of Maryland "Modeling black hole accretion"
Monday, Oct. 19 11:00 am Room 4102	Bruno Giacomazzo, Univeristy of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center "General relativisitic simulations of binary neutron stars: Gravitational waves and matter dynamics"
Joint with EPT Monday, Oct. 26 3:00 pm Room 4102	Maulik Parikh, IUCAA, India "Topological effects in classical and quantum gravity"
Thursday, Oct. 29 1:00 pm Room 4316	Steven Detweiler, Institute for Fundamental Theory, University of Florida "Gravitational radiation reaction and the inspiral of an extreme mass ratio black hole binary system"
MCFP Colloquium Thursday, Nov. 5 3:30 pm Room 1201	Thomas Cohen, University of Maryland "Baryons and holography"
Monday, Nov. 9 3:30 pm Room 3258 AV Williams	Manuel Tiglio, University of Maryland "High performance computing challenges in black hole simulations" As part of the "UM-Sun Microsystems mini-workshop on data, scalable charge and HPC with GPUs."
Monday, Nov. 16 11:00 am Room 4102	Enrico Barausse, University of Maryland "Hamiltonian of a spinning test-particle in curved spacetime"
Monday, Nov. 23 11:00 am Room 4102	Manuel Tiglio, University of Maryland "Modeling non-linearities in the ringdown of colliding black holes"
MCFP Colloquium Thursday, Dec. 3 3:30 pm Room 1201	Mikhail Shifman, University of Minnesota "Making strings in non-Abelian gauge theories"
Monday, Dec. 7 11:00 am Room 4102	Leonardo Senatore, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University "Non-Gaussianity of the primordial density perturbations"
Wednesday, Dec. 16 11:00 am Room 4102	Steven Johnston, Imperial College "The Feynman propagator on a causal set"