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21. PhD Defenses 2025
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Christos Papageorgakis - July 28, 2025 Christos Papageorgakis - July 28, 2025 Dissertation Title:  Search for Soft Unclustered Energy Patterns at the Large Hadron Collider and studies of ...
22. PhD Defenses 2019
(PhD Defenses)
... in various possible extensions of General Relativity, constructing analytic models of their orbital motion and gravitational-wave production during their inspiral. Particular attention is devoted to alternative ...
23. PhD Defenses 2022
(PhD Defenses)
... of compact binaries in general relativity and modified gravity theories Date and Time: Monday, August 1, 10:00 am Location: Zoom Dissertation Committee Chair:  Prof. Alessandra Buonanno Committee:  ...
24. Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction
(Research News)
... of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. So far, all tests find the signal to be consistent with this theory. “It is overwhelming to see how exactly Einstein’s theory of relativity describes reality,” ...
25. Physics 399G: Special Problems in Physics
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Prerequisites: PHYS273 or permission of instructor. The purpose of this course is to acquaint undergraduate students with the concepts and mathematical apparatus underlying the theory of general relativity. ...
26. Homing In on Gravitational Waves
(Physics Colloquia Fall 2011)
Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland September 13, 2011 The direct detection of gravitational waves has been anticipated for decades. A remarkable prediction of general relativity, these traveling ...
27. Twist and Shout! W.K. Clifford's Attempt to 'Solve the Univers
(Physics Colloquia Fall 2010)
... look like modern day unifications rather than just an earlier version of general relativity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
28. Dark Energy at NASA
(Physics Colloquia Spring 2010)
... by the failure of general relativity in a cosmological context? This talk describes the how NASA missions have and will address these fundamental questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
29. Quantum Nature of the Big Bang in Simple Models
(Physics Colloquia Spring 2010)
Abhay Ashketar, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Penn State May 04, 2010 According to general relativity, space-time ends at singularities and classical physics just stops. In particular, the ...
30. Modeling the Dynamics and Gravitational-Wave Emission of Coalescing Binary Black Holes
(Physics Colloquia Fall 2009)
Alessandra Buonanno, University of Maryland November 03, 2009 In general relativity, spacetime is a dynamic and elastic entity both influencing and influenced by the distribution of mass and energy that ...
31. ADM Conference Celebrating Arnowitt, Deser and Charles Misner’s Fundamental Contribution to the Field
(Department News)
... developed by Richard Arnowitt, Stanley Deser and Maryland’s Charles Misner, restructured the dynamics of general relativity. The conference will be held November 7 – 8 and will celebrate the contribution ...
32. Gravitational Theory
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The Maryland Gravitation Group has participated since the 1960s in the exciting development of the subject of General Relativity Theory. The discovery of this theory by Einstein in 1915 involved far reaching ...
33. Courses
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... Introduction to String Theory & M-Theory Physics 879: Special Topics in General Relativity: Gravitational Wave Physics Physics 889: Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Physics Foundations & Frontiers ...
34. Buonanno, Alessandra
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... for Advanced Study in 2011-2012. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the ...
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