High Energy Physics/Relativity Seminars
Spring 2002

The Physics Department's High Energy Physics/Relativity Seminar
is normally held at 2:30pm on Monday and
at 2:00pm on Friday in Rm 204.
Monday
January 14
Masayasu Harada (Nagoya U.) 
Title: Vector Manifestation of Chiral Symmetry
Host: Schechter
Friday
January 18
Levon Pogosian (Imperial College) 
Title: Signatures of kinetic and magnetic helicity in the CMBR
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Host: Trodden
Monday
January 21
Martin Luther King Day
Friday
January 25
Akikazu Hashimoto (Princeton, IAS) 
Title: TBA
Host: Marolf
Monday
January 28
HEP
Friday
February 1
Journal Club
Monday
February 4
Samir Mathur (Ohio State U.) 
Title: AdS/CFT and the black hole information paradox
Host: Marolf
Friday
February 8
Jim Hartle (Santa Barbara, ITP) 
Title: Spacetime Quantum Mechanics
Host: Marolf
Monday
Februay 11
HEP
Friday
February 15
Herbert Weigel (Tuebingen U.) 
Title: Soliton stabilization by quantum effects
Host: Schechter
Monday
February 18
Journal Club
Friday
February 22
Dan Kabat (Columbia) 
Title: De Sitter Entropy from Conformal Field Theory
Host: Marolf
Monday
February 25
Relativity
Friday
March 1
Journal Club
Monday
March 4
Mirjam Cvetic (U Penn) 
Title: Standard and GUT models from Orientifolds and M-theory on G_2 holonomy spaces
Host: Rozowsky
Friday
March 8
HEP
Monday
March 11
Spring Break
Friday
March 15
Spring Break
Monday
March 18
Rafael Sorkin (Syracuse) 
Title: A cyclically expanding universe in a toy quantum gravity model
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Friday
March 22
Journal Club
Monday
March 25
Csaba Csaki (Cornell) 
Title: Dimming Supernovae without Cosmic Acceleration
Host: Trodden
Friday
March 29
Henry Tye (Cornell) 
Title: Brane Inflation: Cosmology in the Brane World
Host: Rozowsky
Monday
April 1
Jan Pieter van der Schaar (Michigan) 
Title: De Sitter Holography and the Cosmic Microwave Background
Host: Trodden
Friday
April 5
Journal Club
Monday
April 8
Sumit Das (Kentucky & Tata Inst.) 
Title: Holography in Plane Wave Backgrounds
Host: Rozowsky
Friday
April 12
Journal Club
Joe Henson (Queen Mary College) 
Title: What are the ``observables'' of quantum gravity? 
Reference: gr-qc/0202097
Monday
April 15
Arthur Komar (Syracuse) 
Title: The Principle of Equivalence and the Quantization of the Relativistic Scalar Field in an Einstein Elevator
Friday
April 19
Journal Club
Monday
April 22
V.P. Nair (CCNY) 
Title: Gravitational fields on a noncommutative space
Host: Alexanian
Friday
April 26
Prakash Panangaden (McGill)
CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS
Title: Discrete Quantum Causal Dynamics
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Host: Sorkin
Monday
April 29
Elisabetta Barberio (EP division, CERN) 
Title: Mass and width of the W boson at e+ e- colliders
Host: Artuso
Friday
May 3
HEP

Contact Ellen Robb to schedule a new seminar.

Last modified: February 28, 2002