Talk by Jorge Pullin

Title: Spherical quantum vacua for quantum black holes in loop quantum gravity
Time: Wednesday November 19th 11:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson

Talk by Yifu Cai (McGill)

Title: Perturbation theory of bounce cosmology
Time: Monday November 11th 11:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson
Abstract:

I will focus on the understanding of big bang singularity and briefly review how we may avoid it from the approaches of effective field theory. This can be viewed as an important phenomenological step towards quantum gravity. I will talk about the corresponding perturbation theory of primordial cosmological perturbations within this frame and the predictions we could make for observations. Part of them have already been able to be constrained by the present CMB data, while more are expected in forthcoming data, namely the CMB polarization.

Talk by Emanuele Berti (OleMiss)

Title: Physics and astrophysics with gravitational-wave observations: opportunities and challenges
Time: Friday November 8th 10:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson
Abstract:
Future detections of compact binary mergers with Earth- and space-based gravitational-wave detectors may give us an opportunity to
test strong-field gravity in previously unexplored regimes, and to constrain the formation history of compact binaries. Building on the introduction from my departmental colloquium, I will give an informal (and more technical) discussion of the opportunities and challenges that await us. Can we really constrain alternative theories of gravity? Can we actually pin down the physical mechanism responsible for compact binary formation? What are the challenges that await gravitational-wave astronomy, given the current funding climate in the US and Europe?

Talk by Jorge Pullin

Title: Complete quantization of vacuum spherically symmetric gravity
Time: Wednesday October 23rd 11:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson

Talk by Anton Joe

Title: Kantowski-Sachs space-time in loop quantum cosmology
Time: Wednesday September 18th 11:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson

Talk by Katie Leonard, University of Florida

Title: Quantum Gravitational Correction to Vacuum Polarization during Inflation
Time: Friday September 6th 11:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson

Talk by Jacobo Díaz-Polo

Title: Semiclassical states in quantum gravity: curvature associated to a Voronoi graph
Time: Tuesday August 27th 10:30am
Place: 241 Nicholson

Talk by Brajesh Gupt

Title: Non-singular AdS-dS transitions in a landscape scenario
Time: Friday August 23rd 11:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson

Seminar by Barun Majumder

Title: Hysteresis in loop quantum cosmology
Speaker: Barun Majumder
Date and Time: Friday July 19th at 10am
Place: 241 Nicholson.

Barun has been visiting our group from IIT Gandhinagar.

Two Seminars on Wednesday

Speaker: Brajesh Gupt
Title: Chimera: a hybrid numerical scheme for isotropic loop quantum cosmology
Wednesday, July 3rd, 11am,  241 Nicholson.

Speaker: Edward Wilson-Ewing
Title: Ekpyrotic loop quantum cosmology
Wednesday, July 3rd, 11:30am,  241 Nicholson.

Seminar by Miguel Megevand

Speaker: Miguel Megevand, LSU
Date: Friday, June 28th 2013
Time: 11:15am
Place: 241 Nicholson
Title: Scalar field dark matter halos and supermassive black holes.

Seminar by David Craig

Speaker: David Craig, Lemoyne College, Syracuse, NY
Title: Consistent histories and dynamical eigenfunctions in loop quantum cosmology
Time, Place: Thursday June 3rd, 10am, 241 Nicholson

Seminar by Alexander Dymnikov

Speaker: Alexander Dymnikov, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Title: The pure mathematical matrix field theory in n-dimensional metric space with applications to 4-dimensional electromagnetic-gravitational field matrix.

Date: Tuesday, May 14th 2013

Place: 241 Nicholson
Time: 11:30am

Talk by Brajesh Gupt

Title: Effective dynamics of Bianchi-I spacetime in LQC: Kasner transitions and inflationary scenario.
Time: Friday March 15th 10:00am
Place: 241 Nicholson