High Energy Physics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminars
Fall 2005

The Physics Department's High Energy Physics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminars
  are generally held at 2:30pm on Monday and
at 2:30pm on Friday in Rm 204.
Friday
September 2
Sean Carroll (U. Chicago)
Title: Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
September 5
LABOR DAY
NO CLASSES
Friday
September 9


Monday
September 12
A. P. Balachandran (Syracuse U.)
Title: Pauli Pairs, Quantised Time (abstract)
Thursday
September 15
1:00pm
special day and time
Stuart Raby (Ohio State University)
Title: Predictions of a Complete SO(10) SUSY Model (abstract)
Host: Wali
Monday
September 19

Nicolas Chatillon (Syracuse U.)
Title:  (SUSY) Warped Brane World Effective Actions (
abstract )

Friday
September 23

Monday
September 26

Levon Pogosian (Syracuse U.)
Title:  Probing Dark Energy with the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (
abstract )

Friday
September 30

Monday
October 3

Friday
October 7
Daniel Chung (U. Wisconsin, Madison)
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
October 10
Kaustubh Agashe (Syracuse U.)
Title: Top Compositeness and Precision Unification (abstract)
Friday
October 14

Monday
October 17

Friday
October 21

Monday
October 24

Friday
October 28

Monday
October 31

Friday
November 4
Justin Vazquez-Poritz (IAS)
Title: New Gravity Dual Backgrounds in M-theory (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Wednesday
November 9
special day
Lee Smolin (Perimeter)
Title: TBA (abstract) POSTPONED TILL SPRING 2006!!!
Host: Balachandran
Friday
November 11
Kate Land (Imperial College)
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Trodden
Monday
November 14
Mithat Unsal (Boston University)
Title: Can large Nc equivalence between supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and its orbifold projections be valid? (abstract)
Host: Catterall
Friday
November 18

Monday
November 21
Toby Wiseman (Harvard University)
Title: Black holes and phases of large N gauge theory on tori (abstract)
Host: Catterall
Friday
November 25
THANKSGIVING BREAK
NO CLASSES
Monday
November 28

Friday
December 2
Antony Valentini  (Perimeter)
Title: Inflationary Cosmology as a Probe of Primordial Quantum Mechanics (abstract) POSTPONED TILL SPRING 2006!!!
Host: Balachandran
Monday
December 5
COSY MEETING (Cornell-Syracuse Theory Meeting) AT SYRACUSE
Friday
December 9
JoAnne Hewett  (SLAC, Stanford University)
Title: TBA (abstract)
Host: Trodden


Winter/Spring 2003 Seminars; Fall 2003 Seminars; Spring 2004 Seminars

Contact Aleksandr Pinzul to schedule a new seminar.