GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, Spring 2008
(Includes also other occasional seminars of interest to the gravity group)
The Seminars are supposed to take place every Thursday at 2:00pm in Room 4102 (unless otherwise stated below).
For information about GRT group seminars contact Yi Pan (Physics 4205), or Ted Jacobson (Physics 4115)
For information about Elementary Particle Theory group seminars, look at the EPT seminar page.  For information about Theoretical Quarks, Hadrons, Nuclei group seminars, look at the TQHN seminar page.<> 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, spring 2006, fall 2006, spring 2007, and fall 2007.

Date, Time, Place	Speaker, Affiliation, Title  (sometimes linked to an abstract)
Thursday Feb. 14 4:00pm (CFP Colloquium) Room 1201	Juan Maldacena , Institute for Advanced Study ``AdS/CFT duality: recent developments''
Thursday Feb. 28 2:00pm Room 4102	Sam Waldman , LIGO-Caltech ``Enhancing and Advancing LIGO: 4 years of detector upgrades''
Thursday Mar. 6 2:00pm Room 4102	Etienne Racine , University of Maryland ``Gaussianity of LISA's confusion background''
Thursday Mar. 13 4:00pm (CFP Colloquium) Room 1201	Alex Maloney , McGill University ``Phases of Quantum Gravity in Three Dimensions''
Friday Mar. 14 3:30pm Room 4102	Alex Maloney , McGill University ``The Sum Over Geometries in Three Dimensions''
Thursday Mar. 27 2:00pm Room 4102	Dierdre Shoemaker , Pennsylvania State University ``Binary Black Hole Encounters, Bursts and Maximal Spin''
Thursday Apr. 3 4:00pm (CFP Colloquium) Room 1201	Richard Easther , Yale University ``The Observational Fingerprints of Inflation''
Thursday Apr. 10 2:00pm (Joint seminar with Particle Theory) Room 4102	Thomas Sotiriou , University of Maryland ``f(R) Gravity''
Thursday Apr. 17 2:00pm (Joint seminar with Particle Theory) Room 4102	Sergei Dubovsky , Harvard University ``Superluminal travel in two dimensions''
Tuesday Apr. 22 2:00pm (Joint seminar with Statistical Physics) Room 1201	Joseph Samuel , Raman Research Institute ``Surface tension and the cosmological constant''
Thursday Apr. 24 4:00pm (CFP Colloquium) Room 1201	W.G. Unruh , University of British Columbia ``Where do the particles come from?''
Thursday May 8 2:00pm Room 4102	Eric Poisson , University of Guelph ``The gravitational self-force''
Monday May 19 2:00pm Room 4102	James Overduin , University of Waterloo / Stanford University ``From Gravity Probe B to STEP: Testing Einstein in Space''