Southampton Relativity Seminars: 2011/12

Seminars take place on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Lecture Room 5B, School of Mathematics.

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Information for Speakers


October 6th 2011: Nico Giulini (Hannover)

Some basic issues concerning quantum mechanics and gravity  


October 13th 2011:

 


October 20th 2011: Mukund Rangamani (Durham)

CFT dual of the Dirichlet problem in AdS  


October 27th 2011:

 


November 3rd 2011: Ben Shepherd (Sheffield)

Holographic Superconductivity  


November 10th 2011: Julian Barbour (Oxfordshire)

Gravity as Shape Dynamics  


November 17th 2011: Timothy Clifton (Oxford)

Cosmology without averaging  


November 24th 2011:

 


December 1st 2011: Cesar Merlin (Southampton)

Alternative cosmological models and cosmology on Scalar-Tensor Theories  


December 8th 2011: Prof. Clive Speake (Birmingham)

Testing the inverse square law of gravity at short ranges  


Christmas Break

January 19th 2012:

 


January 26th 2012:

 


February 2nd 2012: Prof. Mihalis Dafermos (Cambridge)

Black holes without spacelike singularities  


February 9th 2012:

 


February 16th 2012: Cesar Lopez-Monsalvo (UNAM, Mexico)

Geometrothermodynamics  


February 23rd 2012: Thomas Dent (Cardiff)

Searching for GW from compact binary coalescences with laser interferometers  


March 1st 2012: Matt Ferguson (York)

An overview of local covariance and dynamical locality  


March 8th 2012: Kazuya Koyama (ICG, Portsmouth)

Non-linear structure formation in modified gravity models  


March 15th 2012: Prof. John Miller (Oxford)

Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter?  


Easter Break

April 19th 2012:

 


April 26th 2012: Maarten van de Meent (ITF Utrecht)

Piecewise Flat Gravity in 3+1 dimensions  


May 3rd 2012: Michael Jasiulek (AEI, Berlin)

Hyperboloidal slices for the wave equation of Kerr-Schild metrics and numerical applications  


May 10th 2012: Tessa Baker (Oxford)

A Parameterised Approach to Testing Gravity  


May 17th 2012: Mark Hannam (Cardiff)

Can we measure how fast black holes spin?  


May 24th 2012: