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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| The biggest Eye on the Sky - Extreme Physics and Life beyond the Solar System with the European Extremely Large Telescope |
| Speaker: | Markus Kissler-Patig (ESO, Garching bei München) |
| Abstract: | On behalf of its 15 member states (incl. Austria), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is planing the largest optical Telescope ever built: the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT). This new research infrastructure for astronomy starts to compete in size and cost with the large particle physics infrastructures. We will briefly present ESO's current Very Large Telescope, precursor of the E-ELT, as an example of the most modern astronomical observatory. The E-ELT project will then be detailed before presenting the expected scientific breakthroughs: from the search for life beyond the Solar system to extreme physics ranging from exploring the strong field limit of GR in the vicinity of black holes, to measurements of the cosmic expansion driven by dark energy and the variability of fundamental constants throughout the age of the universe. |
| Date: | Mon, 28.03.2011 |
| Time: | 15:00 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Hörsaal des Institut für Astronomie, Türkenschanzstraße 17, 1180 Wien |
| Contact: | Univ. Prof. J. Alves, Univ. Prof. B. Ziegler, Doz. C. Wulz |
| Three dimensional gravity and logarithmic conformal field theories |
| Speaker: | Thomas Zojer (TU Wien) |
| Abstract: | Three-dimensional massive gravity has been extensively studied in the last years as a toy model for quantum gravity. It is simple enough to find 'solutions', e.g. propagating degrees of freedom, gravitons, or other interesting ingredients like black holes. An important tool is the gauge gravity duality, or AdS/CFT correspondence, which in the context of three-dimensional quantum gravity is easily tractable since a lot is known about two dimensional CFTs. I am going to address special deformations of gravity theories and discuss the respective changes on the CFT side that lead to the conjecture of AdS/LCFT, i.e. some gravity theories are dual to so-called logarithmic conformal field theories. |
| Date: | Tue, 29.03.2011 |
| Time: | 12:30 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Uni Wien ( Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor, Schrödinger HS / large seminar room ) |
| Contact: | Sabine Ertl |
| Thermische Eigenschaften von deformierten Quantenfeldtheorien |
| Speaker: | Albert Huber (Univ. Wien) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Seminars für Mathematische Physik |
| Date: | Tue, 29.03.2011 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Fakultät für Physik, Erwin Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock |
| Contact: | J. Yngvason |
| Isospin violation in leptonic pion and kaon decays |
| Speaker: | Helmut Neufeld (Univ. Wien) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Teilchenphysikseminars |
| Date: | Thu, 31.03.2011 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Fakultät für Physik, Erwin Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock, 1090 Wien |
| Contact: | G. Ecker |
| Reducing orbital eccentricity for moving puncture simulations of binary black holes |
| Speaker: | Michael Pürrer (Univ. Wien) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Literaturseminars |
| Date: | Thu, 31.03.2011 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Arbeitsgruppe: Gravitation, Währinger Strasse 17, Seminarraum A, 2. Stock |
| Contact: | R. Beig |
| Thermal States on a Quantum Computer |
| Speaker: | Kristan Temme (Univ. Wien) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen der gemeinsam veranstalteten Seminare "Komplexe Stochastische Systeme" (Univ.Wien) und "Analyse Komplexer Systeme" (Med. Univ.Wien) |
| Date: | Fri, 01.04.2011 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Duration: | 90 min |
| Location: | Medizinische Univ., Bauteil 88, Informatikbibliothek, Ebene 3 (Zugang über Spitalgasse 23) |
| Contact: | H. Hüffel, Stefan Thurner |
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