Fall 97, Spring 98, Fall 98, Spring 99 seminar list.
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Friday, 14 January: 2:20 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Mr. Olaf Dreyer, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State,
"Isolated Horizons in 2+1 Dimensions"
Friday, 21 January: 10:45 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Mr. Daniel Cartin, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State,
"Formation of Spiral Structure in Galaxies"
Friday, 28 January: 10:45 a.m., 318, Osmond Laboratory, Dr. V.P. Nair, CUNY and Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
"Yang-Mills Theory in (2+1) Dimensions: Vacuum State, String Tensions, etc."
Monday, 31 January: 2:20 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Dr. Peter Huebner, AEI, Potsdam, Germany,
"3D Numerical Relativity Without Artificial Boundaries--The Conformal Approach - I"
Friday, 04 February: 10:45 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Dr. Peter Huebner, AEI, Potsdam, Germany
"3D Numerical relativity Without Artificial Boundaries--The Conformal Approach - II"
Monday, 07 February: 2:20 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Dr. Peter Huebner, AEI, Potsdam, Germany
"Numerical Relativity Without Artificial Boundaries--The Conformal Approach - III"
Friday, 11 February: 10:45 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Mr. Martin Bojowald, ITP - Aachen, Germany
"Symmetric States in Loop Quantum Gravity"
Monday, 14 February: 2:20 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Dr. Abhay Ashtekar, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State,
"Classical Theory of General Isolated Horizons"
Friday, 18 February:
Talk cancelled due to bad weather - postponed until March 3.
Monday, 21 February:
No seminar
Friday, 25 February: 10:45 a.m., Dr. Mark Beilby, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State.
"Suspension Systems for Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors"
Monday, 28 February:
No seminar
Friday, 03 March: 10:45 a.m., Mr. Ramon Lopez-Aleman, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"Evolving the Orbital Decay of Particles around Kerr Black Holes by Radiation Reaction"
Monday, 06 March:
SPRING BREAK - no seminar
Friday, 10 March:
SPRING BREAK - no seminar
Monday, 13 March: 2:20 p.m., Dr. Beverly Berger, Oakland University
"On the nature of the singularity in generic gravitational collapse"
Friday, 17 March: 10:45 a.m., Mr. Jacek Wisniewski, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"Degenerate sectors of classical GR in connection variables"
Monday, 20 March: 2:20 p.m., Dr. Robert Mann, University of Waterloo
"Black Holes, Misner Strings and the AdS/CFT Correspondence"
Friday, 24 March: 10:45 a.m., Mr. Steve Fairhurst, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"Distorted Black Holes"
Monday, 27 March: 2:20 p.m., Dr. Hisaaki Shinkai, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"Hyperbolic formulations vs. Numerical relativity: Experiments using the connection variables"
Friday, 31 March:
No seminar
Monday, 03 April:
No seminar
Friday, 07 April:
Talk cancelled due to Eastern
Gravity Meeting.
Monday, 10 April: 2:20 p.m., Dr. Joseph Giaime, Louisiana State University
"Advanced seismic isolation for LIGO-II"
Friday, 14 April: 10:45 a.m., Dr. Soumya Mohanty, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"Detecting transients in noisy data"
Monday, 17 April: 2:20 p.m., Dr. Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
"Gravitational wave astronomy: new challenges for theorists"
Friday, 21 April: 10:45 a.m., Mr. Chris Beetle, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"The Mechanics of General Isolated Horizons"
Monday, 24 April: 2:20 p.m. Calabrese, Dreyer, Fairhurst, Garrison, Kelly, Krishnan, Lopez, Willis and Wisniewski, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"Testing general relativity with gravitational wave detection: two perspectives"
Friday, 28 April: 10:45 a.m., Mr. Yi Ling, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State
"Supersymmetric Spin Networks"
Monday, 1 May: 2:20 p.m., Mr. Sameer Gupta, CGPG and Physics Department, Penn State and Santa Fe Institute
"An extension of loop quantum gravity to non-compact spaces"
Friday, 5 May: 10:45 a.m., Dr. Carlos Lousto, AEI, Golm, Germany
"Gravitational waves from black hole collisions via an eclectic approach"
Monday, 8 May: 2:20 p.m., Dr. Oscar Reula, University of Cordoba, Argentina
"Stability of expanding cosmologies"