PHY 393S: Seminar in Relativity, Spring 1997

• Thursday, January 30th: Prof. Daniel Finley
  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  `` Infinite-Dimensional Non-Local Prolongations for PDE's in the Search for Exact Solutions of the General Relativistic Field Equations''
  
  
• Thursday, February 6th: Prof. Pablo Laguna
  Penn State University, State College, PA
  ``Density of kinks after a quench: When symmetry breaks, how big are the pieces?''
  
  
• Thursday, February 13th: Mr. Marcus Berg
  Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
  ``The Inverse Scattering Technique in General Relativity: A Real Pole Limit ''
  
  
• Thursday, February 27th: Mr. Dae-Il Choi
  Center for Relativity, University of Texas at Austin
  ``Newtonian Boson Stars''
  
  
• Thursday, March 6th: Prof. Don Salisbury
  Dept. of Physics, Austin College
  "Gauge transformations in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of generally covariant theories"
  gr-qc/9612037
  
  
• Thursday, March 18th: Mr. Juan Lara
  Center for Relativity, University of Texas at Austin
  ``The Crisis in Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: an Overview''
  
  
• Thursday, March 20th: Dr. Hugo Martel
  Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin
  ``Light Propagation in Inhomogenous Universes''
  
  
• Thursday, April 10th: Dr. Emil Mottola
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  ``Conformal Factor Quantum Gravity''
  Joint Statistical Mechanics/Relativity Seminar
  
  
• Tuesday, April 15th: Professor Ludwig Fadeev
  Russian Academy of Sciences,
  V.A. Steklov Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  ``What did we learn from the Bethe Ansatz until now?''
  
  
• Thursday April 17th: Prof. Gregory Shields
  Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin
  ``Polarization of Thermal Emission from Disks Around Black Holes in Quasars''
  Joint Extragalactic/Relativity Seminar
  
  
• Thursday, April 24th: Dr. Carsten Gundlach
  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik
  (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Potsdam, Germany
  ``Recent results in citical collapse.''
  
  
• Wednesday, April 30th: Prof. Pierre Cartier (RLM 12.166)
  Ecole Normale Superieure
  ``Analysis for Quantum Fields, I: Revisiting the Maliavin calculus''
  
  
• Thursday, May 1st: Dr. See Kit Foong
  Department of Natural Sciences, College of Education, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
  ``Path integral solution of the telegrapher(a hyperbolic wave) equation''
  
  
• Monday, May 5th: Pierre Cartier (RLM 12.166)
  Ecole Normale Superieure
  ``Analysis for Quantum Fields, II: Nonlinear changes of variables in functional integrals''