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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Fall 2001
(Includes also other seminars of interest to the gravity group.)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Friday
at 1:30pm in Room 4208
(if not otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Stefano
Liberati (301-405-6032).
For information about scheduled seminars in the UMD Physics Department
look at the
Department
Seminar Pages. To see a list of last Spring seminars click here.
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) |
| Sept. 7 | Enric Verdaguer, Barcelona
University
"Stochastic gravity and structure formation" |
| Sept. 14 | Bei-Lok Hu, UMD
"From Stochastic to Quantum Gravity: Applications and Issues" |
| Sept. 21 | Mike Ryan,
National University of Mexico
"T for R and other cheap ways to make cosmologies" |
| Sept. 28 | Erik Schnetter, Univerisity
of Tuebingen
"The Maya Project: Colliding Black Holes" |
| Oct. 5 | Ted Jacobson, Univerisity
of Maryland
"Return of the Aether?" |
| Oct. 12 | Larry Ford, Tufts
University
"Fluctuations of Spacetime Geometry and of the Electromagnetic Field" |
| Oct. 19 | Hanno Sahlmann, AEI
Potsdam
"Classical behaviour in canonical quantum gravity: Coherent states, random graphs, classical fields" |
| Oct. 26 | Stefano Liberati, Univerisity
of Maryland
"Constraining Lorentz breaking dispersion relations with cosmological observations" |
| Nov. 2 | John Baker, NASA/Goddard
The Lazarus Project: Calculating Binary Black Hole Coalescence Waveforms |
| Nov. 9
Joint seminar with the Elementary Particle Theory group |
Marco Cavaglia', MIT
M-theory cosmology in a nutshell |
| Nov. 16
Joint seminar with the Particle Astrophysics group |
F.W. Stecker, NASA/GSFC
(Lab. for High Energy Astrophysics)
"The propagation of extragalactic high energy gamma-rays and constraints on the breaking of Lorentz invariance" |
| Nov. 23 | Thanksgiving Pause |
| Nov. 30 | Jim Stone, Chris Reynolds, Cole Miller, UMD
"Astrophysical Black Holes: three mini-talks" |
| Dec. 7 | Mike Ryan,
National University of Mexico
"The geometrical formulation of quantum mechanics" |
| Dec. 14 | TBD |
| Dec. 21 | TBD |
