DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TITLE |
Sept. 10 |
Alejandro Satz |
UMD |
Renormalization
group flow of black hole entropy |
Sept.
20 (Thurs, 4pm) MCFP Colloquium |
Alberto Nicolis |
Columbia U |
Effective
field theories for fluids and superfluids |
Sept. 24 (Joint w/ EPT, 2:15pm) |
Gia Dvali |
NYU, CERN, LMU, MPI Munich |
Geometry as
Bose-Einstein Condensate |
Oct. 1 |
Jeandrew Brink |
NITheP, Stellenbosch University |
Thoughts on
an A* test of GR |
Oct. 9 (Tue, 2pm,
1201) MCFP Colloquium |
James Hartle |
UCSB |
The Quantum
State of the Universe |
Oct. 15 |
Charles Misner | UMD |
Evanescent Laws: Gravity evades energy conservation and eats entropy on the cosmological scale |
Oct.
22-25: JSI Workshop, Annapolis, MD |
Workshop
webpage |
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Oct. 29 |
Jonathan McKinney | UMD |
Black
Hole Event Horizon Phenomena: Observations Confront Theory |
Nov. 8
(Thurs, 4pm, 1201) MCFP Colloquium |
Marc Kamionkowski | Johns Hopkins |
Covering the bases |
Nov. 12 |
Shahar Hadar |
Racah Institute |
Ringdown
amplitudes in extreme mass ratio inspiral |
Nov. 19 |
Tanja
Hinderer |
UMD |
Tidal effects in the gravitational waveform from neutron star inspirals |
Nov. 26 |
Anil Zenginoglu |
Cal Tech |
Green
functions, caustic echoes, and self-force |
Dec. 3 |
Laura Blecha |
UMD Astronomy |
Gravitational-wave recoil: Consequences and signatures in the pre-LISA era |
Dec. 10 |
John Friedman |
University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
Binary inspiral with extreme mass ratios |