Gravity Theory Seminars, Fall 2000

GRAVITY THEORY SEMINARS, FALL 2000
(Includes other seminars of interest to the gravity group.)
For information contact Ted Jacobson (301-405-6020).

Date, Time, Place Speaker, Affiliation, Title
(sometimes linked to an abstract) Notes

Sept. 7, Thurs.
12pm, Room 1304 Stacy McGaugh, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Maryland
"Gravity or Dark Matter?" .

Sept. 13, Wed.
2pm, Room 4102 O. Obregon, Univ. of Guanajuato, Mexico
"Pursuing Gravitational S-Duality" .

Sept. 20, Wed.
3:00pm, Room 4205 Greg Stephens, Univ. of Maryland & LANL
"Black Hole Phase Transitions" -bl: 9/22

Oct. 2, Mon.
1:30pm, Room 4102
Joint with EP Herman Verlinde, Princeton
"Warped Compactification and the Renormalization Group" -bl

Oct. 5, Thurs.
12:30pm, Room 1304 Oliver Winkler, AEI Potsdam
"Coherent States for Cotangent Bundles
over Compact Gauge Groups'' .

Oct. 5, Thurs.
2:30pm, Room 4102 Hanno Sahlmann, AEI Potsdam
``Recent Progress in QFT on Curved Spacetimes'' .

Oct. 6, Fri.
1:30pm, Room 4220 Thomas Thiemann, AEI Potsdam
``Infinite Tensor Product Techniques for Quantum General Relativity'' .

Oct. 12, Thurs.
2:00pm, Rm. PLS1130
Joint with Cond. Mat. Richard Ferrell, Univ. Maryland
"Sonic Pulses from Crossed Vortices in Liquid 4He: A Simulation of High-Energy Radiation from Crossed Cosmic Strings" .

Oct. 13, Fri.
1:30pm, Room 4220 Tanmay Vachaspati, Case Western Reserve
"Structure of Inflationary Cosmologies" .

Oct. 19, Thurs.
3:30 pm, Math Colloquium Room
special seminar Ed Seidel, AEI Potsdam
Title TBA (on numerical computation of
gravity wave emission from black hole mergers) -bl&tj

Nov. 2, Thurs.
12:30pm, Room 1304 Julian Barbour, South Newington, England
"Relativity without relativity" .

Nov. 6, Mon.
1:30pm, Room 1219
Joint with EP Sean Carroll, Univ. Chicago
"What do we really know about the expansion of the universe?" .

Nov. 7, Tues.
4pm, Physics Colloquium Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
"The Accelerating Universe" -bl: 10-18

Nov. 13, Mon.
1:30pm, Room 4102
Joint with EP Veronika Hubeny, U.C. Santa Barbara
"CFT description of small objects in AdS" .

Nov. 20, Mon.
2:30pm, Room 1304 Suneeta Vardarajan, The Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, Madras
"Horizon states and quasi-normal modes of anti-deSitter black holes" .

Nov. 27, Mon.
1:30pm, Room 4102
Joint with EP Raman Sundrum, Johns Hopkins
"Quantum Gravity for the Masses" -tj: 12/1

Dec. 4, Mon.
1:30pm, Room 4102
EP Seminar Michael Douglas, Rutgers .

Dec. 5, Tues.
4pm, Physics Colloquium Kip Thorne, Caltech
"Mature Interferometers in LIGO: Experimental and Theoretical Challenges in Gravitational-Wave Detection" .

Dec. 6, Wed.
4pm, University Distinguished Lecture Kip Thorne, Caltech
"Gravitational Waves:
A New Window onto the Universe" .

Dec. 8, Friday
1:30pm, Room 4220 Antonio Campos
Title TBA .

Dec. 11, Mon.
1:30pm, Room 4102
Joint with EP Vijay Balasubramanian, Penn
"Do Giant Gravitons Explain the Entropy of De Sitter Space?" .

*Date, Time, Place*	*Speaker, Affiliation, Title* (sometimes linked to an abstract)	*Notes*
Sept. 7, Thurs. 12pm, Room 1304	Stacy McGaugh, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Maryland "Gravity or Dark Matter?"	.
Sept. 13, Wed. 2pm, Room 4102	O. Obregon, Univ. of Guanajuato, Mexico "Pursuing Gravitational S-Duality"	.
Sept. 20, Wed. 3:00pm, Room 4205	Greg Stephens, Univ. of Maryland & LANL "Black Hole Phase Transitions"	-bl: 9/22
Oct. 2, Mon. 1:30pm, Room 4102 Joint with EP	Herman Verlinde, Princeton "Warped Compactification and the Renormalization Group"	-bl
Oct. 5, Thurs. 12:30pm, Room 1304	Oliver Winkler, AEI Potsdam "Coherent States for Cotangent Bundles over Compact Gauge Groups''	.
Oct. 5, Thurs. 2:30pm, Room 4102	Hanno Sahlmann, AEI Potsdam ``Recent Progress in QFT on Curved Spacetimes''	.
Oct. 6, Fri. 1:30pm, Room 4220	Thomas Thiemann, AEI Potsdam ``Infinite Tensor Product Techniques for Quantum General Relativity''	.
Oct. 12, Thurs. 2:00pm, Rm. PLS1130 Joint with Cond. Mat.	Richard Ferrell, Univ. Maryland "Sonic Pulses from Crossed Vortices in Liquid 4He: A Simulation of High-Energy Radiation from Crossed Cosmic Strings"	.
Oct. 13, Fri. 1:30pm, Room 4220	Tanmay Vachaspati, Case Western Reserve "Structure of Inflationary Cosmologies"	.
Oct. 19, Thurs. 3:30 pm, Math Colloquium Room special seminar	Ed Seidel, AEI Potsdam Title TBA (on numerical computation of gravity wave emission from black hole mergers)	-bl&tj
Nov. 2, Thurs. 12:30pm, Room 1304	Julian Barbour, South Newington, England "Relativity without relativity"	.
Nov. 6, Mon. 1:30pm, Room 1219 Joint with EP	Sean Carroll, Univ. Chicago "What do we really know about the expansion of the universe?"	.
Nov. 7, Tues. 4pm, Physics Colloquium	Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley Lab. "The Accelerating Universe"	-bl: 10-18
Nov. 13, Mon. 1:30pm, Room 4102 Joint with EP	Veronika Hubeny, U.C. Santa Barbara "CFT description of small objects in AdS"	.
Nov. 20, Mon. 2:30pm, Room 1304	Suneeta Vardarajan, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras "Horizon states and quasi-normal modes of anti-deSitter black holes"	.
Nov. 27, Mon. 1:30pm, Room 4102 Joint with EP	Raman Sundrum, Johns Hopkins "Quantum Gravity for the Masses"	-tj: 12/1
Dec. 4, Mon. 1:30pm, Room 4102 EP Seminar	Michael Douglas, Rutgers	.
Dec. 5, Tues. 4pm, Physics Colloquium	Kip Thorne, Caltech "Mature Interferometers in LIGO: Experimental and Theoretical Challenges in Gravitational-Wave Detection"	.
Dec. 6, Wed. 4pm, University Distinguished Lecture	Kip Thorne, Caltech "Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe"	.
Dec. 8, Friday 1:30pm, Room 4220	Antonio Campos Title TBA	.
Dec. 11, Mon. 1:30pm, Room 4102 Joint with EP	Vijay Balasubramanian, Penn "Do Giant Gravitons Explain the Entropy of De Sitter Space?"	.