Thursday, Sept 4: Carlos Lousto, University of Utah
Understanding initial data for black hole collisions.
Monday, Sept 8: Hans-Peter Nollert, Universitat Tuebingen
How arbitrary are excitations of quasinormal modes?
Thursday, Sept 11: Chris Beetle, Penn State
Midi-superspace quantization of gravity with toroidal isometry.
Monday, Sept 15: Jorge Pullin, Penn State
The constraint algebra in spin network quantum gravity.
Thursday, Sept 18: Bruce Allen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The 40-meter prototype and the GRASP data-analysis package.
Monday, Sept 22: Shyamoli Chaudhuri, PSU
An introduction to D-branes and string duality
Thursday, Sept 25: Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
Semiclassical decay of near-extremal black holes
Monday, Sept 29: Kirill Krasnov, Penn State
Quantum Geometry and Black Holes
Thursday, October 2: Johannes Ruoff, Universitat Tuebingen & PSU Astro
Oscillations of neutron stars (POSTPONED
Monday, October 6:
Thursday, October 9: Johannes Ruoff, Universitat Tuebingen & PSU Astro
Oscillations of neutron stars
Monday, October 13:Anthony Rizzi, Princeton University
The first satisfactory definition of angular momentum in general relativity
Thursday, October 16:
Monday, October 20: Neil Cornish, Cambridge
Chaos in general relativity
Tuesday, October 21: Amihay Hanany, IAS Princeton, Joint EPF/CGPG talk
Supersymmetric brane dynamics
Thursday, October 23: Karen Camarda, PSU,
Three dimensional
numerical simulations of distorted black holes
Monday, October 27: Special Departamental Colloquium: Sam Finn,
Northwestern
Cosmology by the Numbers
Thursday, October 30: Othmar Brodbeck, Zurich and PSU,
Rotating solitons and
non-rotating non-static black holes
Monday, November 3: David Adams, School of Math, Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland
Discretisation Techniques for Antisymmetric Tensor Field Theories
Thursday, November 6: Lee Smolin,
Membranes and String Theory
Monday, November 10: Octavio Obregon, University of Guanajuato, Mexico
Thursday, November 13: Saurya Das, Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, Chennai, India
The Effective String Description of Hawking Radiation
Monday, November 17: Rodolfo Gambini, Universidad de la Republica,
Uruguay
Thursday, November 20: John Whelan, University of Utah
Skeletonizations of phase-space paths
Monday, November 24: Lionel Mason, University of Oxford
On The Rarita-Schwinger and the Einstein Equations
Thursday, November 27: HOLIDAY
Monday, December 1: Finn Larsen, U Penn
Black hole horizons and the thermodynamics of strings
Thursday, December 4: Marco Zagermann, PSU
Metric versus Ashtekar variables in the two Killing vector reduction
Monday, December 8:
TBA
Thursday, December 10: Laurent Freidel, PSU & Lyon
TBA