MIT/CTP Particle/Nuclear Theory Seminars

Spring 2004

All seminars take place in the CTP seminar room Mondays at 2:00 pm .  In special cases some seminars may also be held on Tuesdays at 2:30pm .

Organizing group:  Tamar Friedmann, Roman Jackiw, York Schroder, Iain Stewart, Frank Wilczek
Date Speaker   Contact Person email 
Mon Feb 9
  Harvey Meyer (Oxford)
  Iain
  meyer@thphys.ox.ac.uk  
Mon Feb 16
   -- President's Day (no seminar)   
Tues Feb 17
  Barak Bringoltz (Tel Aviv)
  Iain/York  barak@viki.tau.ac.il
Mon Feb 23
  K.Melnikov (Hawaii/KITP)
  York  kirill@phys.hawaii.edu
Mon Mar 1
  Rabindra Mohapatra (U. Maryland)
  Tamar  rmohapat@wam.umd.edu
Mon Mar 8
  Gabriella Sciolla (MIT/LNS)
  Tamar  sciolla@slac.stanford.edu
Tue Mar 9
  Markus Diehl (DESY)  York  markus.diehl@desy.de
Mon Mar 15 G.Amelino-Camelia (Rome)  Roman
Mon Mar 22
Tues Mar 23
  -- Spring vacation (no seminar)
  
Mon Mar 29
  Ted Jacobson (U. Maryland)
 (to be confirmed)
  Tamar  tajac@physics.umd.edu
Mon Apr 5
  Maxim Pospelov (U. Victoria ?)
  Tamar
  pospelov@uvic.ca
Mon Apr 12
  Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State)
  Tamar  babu@okstate.edu
Mon Apr 19
Tues Apr 20
  -- Patriot's Day (no seminar)
  
Mon Apr 26
  Jogesh Pati (U. Maryland)
  Tamar  pati@physics.umd.edu
Mon May 3
  Krishna Rajagopal (CTP)
  Iain/York
  
Tue May 4
  Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)
  Roman
  gabriele.veneziano@cern.ch
Mon May 10
  Rob Myers (Perimeter Inst)
  Tamar
  rmyers@perimeterinstitute.ca
Mon May 17
Tues May 18
  -- Finals week (no seminar)
  
Mon May 24
  Peter Horvathy (U. Tours)
  Roman
  peter.horvathy@univ-tours.fr


Others Contacted:  

P.F.Bedaque (Iain -- will combine with Maryland travel; projected stay 3-4 days)
R.F.Lebed (Dan Pirjol -- travel plans do not match)
O.Baer (York -- schedule does not match)

Others: 

H.Neuberger (John Negele)
A.Zhitnitsky (BC) - visits here on Mar 15 (Krishna)
Y.Hatta (RIKEN) - back from Niels Bohr in April, good speaker (Dima); talk on possible relation between chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement (work w/ Kenji)?
S.Gupta - visits the US mid-April (Krishna). initial proposal Apr19 declined due to Patriot's day

In discussion: 

R.Myers - move to Wed seminar? (Wati); can be accomodated in Wed May 5 slot (David); needs to be contacted and asked about shift (->Tamar)
T.Jacobson - move to Wed seminar? (Wati)


Visitor Dates (maintained by Joyce)


Topics, Titles and Abstracts

Horvathy: Noncommuting coordinates in the  Hall effect and in vortex dynamics
Abstract: Quantization, of the simple first-order "Chern-Simons Mechanics" considered by Dunne, Jackiw and Trugenberger in 1991 yields Laughlin's wave functions in the fractional Quantum Hall effect (1983). The same model has actually been used  in 1949 by Onsager to describe the dynamics of superfluid vortices and ... in 1883 by Kirchoff for an incompressible planar fluid.


Bob's mail on new seminar schedule


Past Nuclear Seminars:  Fall 2002,  Spring 2003,  Fall 2003

Past Particle Seminars (links are wrong):  Fall 2002,  Spring 2003,  Fall 2003


Notes for fall term 2004

Dam Son (Krishna), on viscosity in N=4 SUSY
                                                                               
Edward Shuryak (Krishna), on, among other things, model understandings of the above, and on why it is relevant to RHIC data
                                                                               
Misha Stephanov (Krishna), on dynamical critical phenomena


This page is maintained by Iain Stewart, York Schroder  (iains@mit.edu, yorks@lns.mit.edu)
last updated on Apr 8, 2004