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GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS FALL 2010


The seminars take place every Wednesday at 3:15 pm in Room 4102 unless otherwise stated below. For more information about GRT group seminars contact Manuel Tiglio (Physics 4205E and CSIC 4129). 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, spring 2009 and fall 2009.

 

DATE, TIME, PLACE

SPEAKER, AFFILIATION, TITLE

Astronomy Colloquium
Wednesday, Sep. 8
4:00 pm
Computer and Space Sciences Building 2400

Philip Hopkins, University of California, Berkely
"How do Massive Black Holes Get their Gas (and Get Rid of It)?"

MCFP Colloquium
Thursday, Sep. 9
4:00 pm
Room 1201

Gordon Kane, University of Michigan
"String Theory and the Real World"

Joint EPT-GRT seminar
Friday, Sep. 10
3:00 pm
Room 4102

Gordon Kane, University of Michigan
"String Moduli Phenomenology and Cosmological History"

Wednesday, Sep. 15
3:15 pm
Room 4102

 

Wednesday, Sep. 22
3:15 pm
Room 4102

Shimon Rubin, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
"Non-closed Universe and Zero Cosmological Constant from Normalized General Relativity"

Astronomy Colloquium
Wednesday, Sep. 29
4:00 pm
Computer and Space Sciences Building 2400

Joan Centrella, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
TBA



Astronomy Colloquium
Wednesday, Oct. 6
4:00 pm
Computer and Space Sciences Building 2400

Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India
TBA



Thursday, Oct. 14
3:15 pm
Room 4102

Eva Sagi, Racah Institute, Hebrew University
TBA

Wednesday, Oct. 20
3:15 pm
Room 4102

Fotini Markopoulou (to be confirmed), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
TBA

Wednesday, Oct. 27
3:15 pm
Room 4102

 

Wednesday, Nov. 3
3:15 pm
Room 4102

 

Wednesday, Nov. 10
3:15 pm
Room 4102

 

Joint Space Institute Conference
Nov. 15-17
Lowes Annapolis Hotel. Annapolis, MD

"The Ins and Outs of Black Holes"


Wednesday, Nov. 24
3:15 pm
Room 4102

(Thanksgiving week)

 

Wednesday, Dec. 1
3:15 pm
Room 4102

 

Wednesday, Dec. 8
3:15 pm
Room 4102

 

 


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