Past Seminars

(beginning Sept. 98)          



Seminarios de Física Teórica 
Theoretical Physics Seminar 
Fisika Teorikoa: Hitzaldiak
          



Topics in Pre-Big-Bang Cosmology

Miguel Angel Vázquez Mozo

Dept. Física Teórica, UPV-EHU (Próximamente: Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Día: 9 de Septiembre de 1998

Energetics Characterization of Black Hole

Naresh Dadhich

IUCCA (Pune, India) and Universitat de Barcelona

Día:11 de Septiembre de 1998

``'Tis a far better thing that I do now..." or Probing the dynamics of symmetry-breaking phase transitions with topological defects (An Overview for the Non-specialist)

A.J. Gill

Université de Genève

Date: 17 September 1998

Abstract: What sort of questions do we address in this research? Summary of theoretical background to defect formation. Overview of the significant experiments in this area in superfluid 3He and 4He. Description of what we've learnt from these and possible interpretations. Description of experiments in progress. Outline of current open problems and directions for research.  


Gravitational Collapse: the story so far.

Pankaj Joshi

Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India)

Date: 16 October 1998  


Tiempo, relojes,y evolución cuántica

José M. Raya

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)

Fecha: 30 de Octubre de 1998  


La teoría del funcional de densidad y el premio Nobel de química 1998.

Alberto García Arribas

Dpto. de Física Aplicada II, UPV-EHU

Fecha: 6 de Noviembre de 1998  


Tiempos característicos en mecánica cuántica

Gonzalo Muga

Universidad de la Laguna

Fecha: Viernes, 27 de Noviembre 


What can we do to understand singularities in gravitational collapse?

Bernard Whiting

University of Florida at Gainesville and Australian National University, Canberra

Abstract: The possibility of singularities in general relativity has been clear, if unpalatable, almost from its inception. But the unavoidability of collapse in a classical theory took more than 50 years to be clearly established, and was based on very specific, but conceptually broad, physical principles. Within a further decade, Hawking had completely inverted our perspective by showing that, semiclassically, collapse would lead to a quantum state with outgoing radiation at infinity. The same calculations, when extended to a black hole environment, showed that the physical principles, upon which singularity formation had rested, no longer held outside classical physics. This turnaround has left us in a state of perplexity ever since, and has added, besides, the unresolved entropy and remnant problems for an evaporating black hole. We will take look at where things stand today, and refer to possible hints at a way forward from here.

Date: 11 December 1998 


QCD at high and low temperatures and hard thermal loops

Cristina Manuel

CERN

Fecha: 17 de Diciembre de 1998 


From gauge theories to gravity and back: an introduction to Maldacena's conjecture.

Miguel Ángel Vázquez Mozo

Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Spinoza Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht.

Fecha: 21 de Diciembre de 1998 


Testing the Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking Sector at the Tevatron

Jorge Fernández de Trocóniz

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Fecha: 22 de Diciembre de 1998 


Classical strings and semiclassical string-quantization in 2+1 AdS

Arne L. Larsen

Odense Universitet - Syddansk Universitet (Dinamarca)

Fecha: 15 de Enero de 1999. 


Does a Dynamical System Lose Energy by Emitting Gravitational Waves?

Fred Cooperstock

University of Victoria (Canada)

Fecha: 22 de Enero de 1999. 


Una derivación microscópica de la radiación de Hawking sin teoría de cuerdas

Roberto A. Emparan García de Salazar

Dpto. de Física Teórica, UPV-EHU; y Center for Particle Theory, University of Durham.

Fecha: 19 de Febrero de 1999 


Irreversibilidad en el Grupo de Renormalización

José Ignacio Latorre

Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona

Fecha:12 de Marzo de 1999. 


Cosmologías G1 con ondas gravitacionales y escalares

Ruth Lazkoz

School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Fecha: Viernes, 16 de Abril de 1999. 


The Cosmological Constant: what is it and what does it do?

R. H. Sanders

Kapteyn Institute, Universidad de Groninga (Holanda)

Fecha: Lunes, 21 de Abril de 1999. 


Non-Newtonian dynamics at low accelerations

R. H. Sanders

Kapteyn Institute, Universidad de Groninga (Holanda)

Fecha: Martes, 22 de Abril de 1999. 



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