CPT

Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna

Conformal gravity in three dimensions
Speaker:Hamid Afshar (University of Groningen)
Abstract:Using the Chern-Simons formulation of gravity in three dimensions we study the asymptotic analysis of 3D pure/conformal gravity with Minkowskian (flat) and AdS boundary conditions.
Date: Tue, 19.11.2013
Time: 12:30
Duration: 60 min
Location:Univ. of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor, Erwin Schrödinger Lecture Hall
Contact:Albert Georg Passegger, Peter Poier - www.univie.ac.at/lunch-seminar

On the construction of relativistic quantum theories
Speaker:Christian Jäckel (Univ. of Cardiff)
Abstract:im Rahmen des Seminars für Mathematische Physik
Date: Tue, 19.11.2013
Time: 14:15
Duration: 60 min
Location:Fakultät für Physik, Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock
Contact:J. Yngvason

Some top-quark physics issues at the LHC
Speaker:Werner Bernreuther (RWTH Aachen)
Abstract:im Rahmen des Teilchenphysikseminars
Date: Thu, 21.11.2013
Time: 14:15
Duration: 60 min
Location:Fakultät für Physik, Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock
Contact:H. Neufeld

Bulk and boundary unitarity in 3D massive gravity
Speaker:Wout Merbis (Groningen University)
Abstract:In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, generally-covariant three dimensional massive gravity theories suffer from a clash between bulk and boundary unitarity. After explaining the origin of this clash, we will extend the class of 3D massive gravity models to a theory with two dynamical dreibeins, or "Zwei-Dreibein Gravity". It unifies previous theories of massive gravity and extends them to allow for positive central charge consistent with bulk unitarity.
Date: Thu, 21.11.2013
Time: 16:00
Duration: 60 min
Location:SEM 136 (Freihaus, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10), Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology
Contact:Daniel Grumiller

Quantum to classical transitions: application to continuous time Markov processes
Speaker:James Whitfield (Univ. Wien)
Abstract:im Rahmen der gemeinsam veranstalteten Seminare "Komplexe Stochastische Systeme" (Univ. Wien) und Analyse Komplexer Systeme" (Med. Univ. Wien)
Date: Fri, 22.11.2013
Time: 14:15
Duration: 90 min
Location:Fakultät für Physik, Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock
Contact:H. Hüffel, Stefan Thurner