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STAG Research Centre Seminars

Southampton Gravity seminars: 2011-2012

Seminars take place on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Building 54, Room 5025 (5B) in Mathematical Sciences.


October 6 2011: Nico Giulini (Hannover)

Some basic issues concerning quantum mechanics and gravity


October 13 2011: No seminar


October 20 2011: Mukund Rangamani (Durham)

CFT dual of the Dirichlet problem in AdS


October 27 2011: No seminar


November 3 2011: Ben Shepherd (Sheffield)

Holographic Superconductivity


November 10 2011: Julian Barbour (Oxfordshire)

Gravity as Shape Dynamics


November 17 2011: Timothy Clifton (Oxford)

Cosmology without averaging


November 24 2011: No seminar


December 1 2011: Cesar Merlin (Southampton)

Alternative cosmological models and cosmology on Scalar-Tensor Theories


December 8 2011: Clive Speake (Birmingham)

Testing the inverse square law of gravity at short ranges



Christmas Break



January 19 2012: No seminar


January 26 2012: No seminar


February 2 2012: Mihalis Dafermos (Cambridge)

Black holes without spacelike singularities


February 9 2012: No seminar


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

Geometrothermodynamics


February 23 2012: Thomas Dent (Cardiff)

Searching for GW from compact binary coalescences with laser interferometers


March 1 2012: Matt Ferguson (York)

An overview of local covariance and dynamical locality


March 8 2012: Kazuya Koyama (ICG, Portsmouth)

Non-linear structure formation in modified gravity models


March 15 2012: John Miller (Oxford)

Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter?



Easter Break



April 19 2012: No seminar


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

Piecewise Flat Gravity in 3+1 dimensions


May 3 2012: Michael Jasiulek (AEI, Berlin)

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


May 10 2012: Tessa Baker (Oxford)

A Parameterised Approach to Testing Gravity


May 17 2012: Mark Hannam (Cardiff)

Can we measure how fast black holes spin?


May 24 2012: No seminar


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