High Energy Physics/Relativity Seminars
Winter/Spring 2003
Fall 2003 Seminars

The Physics Department's High Energy Physics/Relativity Seminar
is normally held at 2:30pm on Monday and
at 2:15pm on Friday in Rm 204.
Monday
January 13
Melanie Becker (U. of Maryland) 
Title: From the Ground State of String Theory to the Standard Model of Elementary Particles
Host: Marolf
CANCELLED
Wednesday
January 15
2:30pm
special day
David Rideout (AEI, Golm) 
Title: Cactus: What is it and what can it do for me?
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Host: Sorkin
Friday
January 17
Paul Frampton (University of North Carolina) 
Title: Neutrinos: the Earth, the Sun and the Early Universe
Host: Schechter
Monday
January 20
MLK Day
Friday
January 24
Sumati Surya (University of Alberta) 
Title: A new ground state for gravity.
Click for Abstract
Host: Sorkin
Monday
January 27
Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) 
Title: Discrete Quantum Causal Dynamics
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Host: Sorkin
Friday
January 31
Relativity/HET
Monday
February 3
Relativity/HET
Friday
February 7
Michael Turner (Chicago & Fermilab) 
Title: Mid-term report card for inflation
Host: Trodden
Monday
February 10
Relativity/HET
Friday
February 14
Simon Catterall (Syracuse) 
Title: Lattice Supersymmetry and Topological Field Theory.
Monday
February 17
Eric Gregory (U. of Arizona) 
Title: Exotic hybrid mesons from lattice QCD
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Host: Catterall
Friday
February 21
Shiraz Minwalla (Harvard) 
Title: TBA
Host: Marolf
Monday
February 24
Emil Mottola (Los Alamos) 
Title: Gravitational Condensate Stars: An Alternative to Black Holes
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Host: Catterall
Friday
February 28
Relativity/HET
Monday
March 3
Relativity/HET
Friday
March 7
Relativity/HET
Monday
March 10
Spring Break
Friday
March 14
Spring Break
Monday
March 17
Tanmay Vachaspati (Case Western Reserve University) 
Title: TBA
Host: Trodden
Friday
March 21
Relativity/HET
Monday
March 24
Mark Miller (JPL) 
Title: Towards a Realistic Neutron Star Binary Inspiral: Initial Data and Long Timescale Evolution
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Host: Sorkin
Friday
March 28
TBA
Title: TBA
Host: Trodden
Monday
March 31
Relativity/HET
Friday
April 4
10:00am
special time
Hitoshi Murayama (Berkeley) 
Title: Some Thoughts on Dark Energy
Host: Rozowsky
Monday
April 7
Csaba Csaki (Cornell) 
Title: Little Higgs
Host: Mersini
Friday
April 11
Charles Thorn (Florida) 
Title: Summing the Planar Diagrams of Field Theory Using the Light-cone Worldsheet Formalism
Host: Rozowsky
Monday
April 14
Rafael Sorkin (Syracuse) 
Title: Black Hole Entropy as Causal Links
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Friday
April 18
Jogesh Pati (Maryland) 
Title: Neutrinos, Unification And Our Origin
Host: Wali
Monday
April 21
Madhavan Varadarajan (Raman Research Inst, Bangalore) 
Title: Fock representations from U(1) holonomy algebras
Host: Balachandran
Friday
April 25
Ira Wasserman (Cornell) 
Title: Brane Inflation
Host: Mersini
Monday
April 28
Pawel Mazur (South Carolina) 
Title: On the Microscopic Theory of Gravitation and the Gravitational Collapse of Matter
Host: Balachandran
Friday
May 2
Rohana Wijewardhana (University of Cincinnati) 
Title: NUTEV anomaly and Neutrino Mixing
Host: Bowick
Monday
May 5
David Lowe (Brown) 
Title: Alpha-vacua and Inflation
Host: Marolf
Friday
May 9
Makoto Natsuume (Pennsylvania) 
Title: The no-ghost theorem for string theory without light-cone directions
Host: Marolf

Contact Joel Rozowsky to schedule a new seminar.

Last modified: November 24, 2003