High Energy Physics /Relativity Seminars
Fall 2001
Seminars for Spring 2002
The Physics Department's High Energy Physics/Relativity Seminar
is normally held at 2:30pm on Monday and occasionally
at 2:00pm on Friday in Rm 204.
NEW SEMINAR TIME ON FRIDAYS
Monday
September 3
No Seminar - Labor Day Holiday
Friday
September 7
Ray Volkas (U. of Melbourne) 
Title: Clash of Symmetries on the Brane
Host: Wali
Monday
September 10
Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U.) 
Title: Quantum Geometry and Quantum Spacetime
Host: Marolf
Monday
September 17
Postponed to Nov 5  
Friday
September 21
Bob Mawhinney (Columbia) 
Title: Kaon Matrix Elements and CP-violation from Quenched Lattice QCD
Host: Catterall
Friday
September 28
Relativity
Monday
October 1
Simeon Hellerman (Stanford) 
Title: Matrix theory on Projective Space
Host: Marolf
Friday
October 5
G.P. Lepage (Cornell) 
Title: Improved Staggered Quarks and High-Precision Lattice QCD
Click for Abstract
Host: Catterall
Monday
October 8
Marco Cavaglia (MIT) 
Title: M-Theory Cosmology
Host: Marolf
Wednesday
October 10
R.F. Sawyer (UC Santa Barbara) 
Title: From Neutrinos to Quantum Computers - an inevitable Journey (Based losely on the odyssey)
Time: 2:30pm (room 204)
Host: Wali
Friday
October 12
Reserved
Monday
October 15
Gary Shiu (Pennsylvania) 
Title: Supersymmetric Standard-like and GUT models from M Theory
Host: Rozowsky
Friday
October 19
Will Kinney (Columbia) 
Title: Can we see Quantum Gravity in the Sky?
Host: Rozowsky
Monday
October 22
Katie Freese (Michigan) 
Title: Two New Solutions to the Cosmological Horizon Problem in Braneworlds
Host: Trodden
Friday
October 26
Apoorva Patel (Bangalore, Indian Inst. Sci.) 
Title: Why Genetic Information Processing could have a Quantum Basis
Click for Abstract
Host: Balachandran
Monday
October 29
Cliff Burgess (McGill) 
Title: String Inflation
Host: Trodden
Friday
November 2
Ajit Srivastava (Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys.) 
Title: Measuring Cosmic Defect Correlations in Liquid Crystals
Click for Abstract
Host: Balachandran
Monday
November 5
Motoi Tachibana (MIT) 
Title: On the Relation between Two Models of Gauge Field Localization on a Brane
Ref: hep-th/0108164
Host: Bowick
Wednesday
November 7
Subrata Bal (Matscience, Chennai) 
Title: Interaction between Two Fuzzy Spheres
Click for Abstract
Time: 1:30pm (room 204)
Host: Balachandran
Friday
November 9
Marcelo Gleiser (Dartmouth) 
Title: Matching Numerical Simulations to Continuum Field Theories: A Lattice Renormalization Study
Host: Trodden
Monday
November 12
Anupam Mazumdar (ICTP, Trieste) 
Title: Baryogenesis in Large Extra Dimensions
Host: Trodden
Friday
November 16
Don Salisbury (Austin Coll.) 
Title: Komar-Bergmann Gauge Fixing and Observables in General Relativity
Host: Balachandran
Friday
November 23
No Seminar - Thanksgiving
Monday
November 26
HEP
Friday
November 30
HEP
Monday
December 3
Pankaj Jain (Kansas U. & IIT Kanpur) 
Title: Signatures of extra dimensions in ultra high energy cosmic rays
Click for Abstract
Host: Schechter
Friday
December 7
Relativity

Contact Ellen Robb to schedule a new seminar.

Last modified: June 29, 2001