Dublin Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Salmon Lecture Theatre
School of Mathematics, Hamilton Building
Trinity College Dublin
Time: 4.15 pm


September 11    Elisabetta Barberio (CERN/SMU)
Experimental tests of the standard of electro weak interactions at LEP.

September 22    Kumar S. Gupta  (Saha INP, Calcutta, India, visiting Dublin IAS)
Degeneracy of quantum states in the near-horizon region of black holes.

September 29    T. L. Trueman (BNL, NY, USA, visiting TCD)
RHIC and spin dependence at high energies.

October 6       Christoper Fuchs (CNRI, Dublin IT and Bell Labs)
Representing quantum mechanics on a probability simplex.

October 13      Chris Ford (School of Mathemaics, TCD)
Doubly periodic instantons

October 20      Jonivar Skullerud (School of Mathematics, TCD)
Quarks and gluons from lattice QCD

October 27      Bank holiday, no seminar.

October 29      Nikita Nekrasov (IHES, visiting HMI)
Gauge instantons and quantum geometry
This talk is at 5pm on a Wednesday

November 3      Nikita Nekrasov (IHES, visiting HMI)
Quantum geometry and gauge instantons     

November 10     Andrew Liddle (University of Sussex, England)
Observing the early Universe.

November 13     N. Mukunda (CTS IIS Bangalore India, visiting TCD)
A new approach to the theory of the geometric phase 
4pm in the TCD Maths Department seminar room, room 2.6, second floor

November 17     Anton Gerasimov (HMI visitor)
On universality and background independence in string/field theories.

November 24     Tony Dorlas (Dublin IAS) 
Grassmann variables and the Ising model.

December 1	Georg Weiglein (IP3, Durham, England)
Higgs physics and supersymmetry at present and future colliders.

December 8      Jan Pawlowski (U. Erlangen, Germany, visiting Dublin IAS)
Signatures of confinement in Landau gauge QCD

Other TP and related announcements:

Chair hire in Galway: http://www.nuigalway.ie/news/vacancies.php?v_id=464 deadline 9 Jan 2004

Basis Research Grant: http://www.sfi.ie deadline 9 Jan 2004

Two jobs at TCD: www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/official/Advertisements/ad2004a.html deadline 15 Jan 2004

Fundamental problems and challenges, a course of lectures for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates, March 25-27. Maxwell Theatre TCD, details soon.

CAMS seminar: 2pm Wednesdays, seminar room 2.6, School of Maths, TCD
See also CAMS

October 24    Wolfgang Bietenholz  (Humboldt U. Berlin)
Light fermions from dimensional reduction.
October 29    Quentin Mason (DAMTP, Cambridge)
High-Precision QCD: Perturbations in a non-perturbative world.
November 12   Kieran Holland (UC San Diego) POSTPONED 
How light can the Higgs be?
November 26   Stuart  Smith (Psychology, TCD)
Measurement of three dimensional eye movement responses.
December 3    Jimmy Juge (School of Maths, TCD) 
I=2 pion scattering with fixed-point fermions.

Other interesting local seminar series:

Dublin IAS Theoretical Partical Physics group. Thursdays.
The CNRI at DIT related to communications networks and quantum information.
The NUI Maynooth Hamilton Institutue related to systems level dynamics.
TCD CS Dept Computer science. Fridays.

Previous announcements:

17 November deadline for the Basic Research Grant expressions of interest, see www.sfi.ie.

SPACE - different perspectives, a conversation between architect Sean O Laoire of Murray and O Laoire www.murrayolaoire.com and Werner Nahm of the Dublin IAS, chaired by Samson Shatashvili (Maths, TCD) and moderated by Anngret Simms, a geographical historian from UCD. 7.30pm Wednesday 12 November Walton Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. Organized by the HMI. There is a poster www.maths.tcd.ie/~houghton/hmiSPACE.html

Tara Shears of Liverpool University is giving a seminar in the TCD Physics department on Top physics, the search for and investigation of the heavy quark on Friday October 31st at 12 noon in the Schroedinger LT. See http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/seminars.php.

On Sunday 26 October the Armagh observatory is having a public event on the theme Time including a talk by John Barrows, see http://star.arm.ac.uk/publicevents/time.html

Andrew Wiles will give the 2nd Hamilton Lecture on 16 October 2003. Tickets were advertized in the Irish Times and, sadly, are very hard to get.

The Dublin IAS School of Theoretical Physics statutory public lecture will be given by P.L. Knight on Quantum information: an emerging technology in the Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College on Friday 17th October at 7:30 p.m. Here is the poster in pdf.

A Meeting Mathematical Analysis of Quantum Systems will be held in the Dublin IAS from 2 - 4 October 2003.

The 14th Irish Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2003) conference will be held in Trinity College Dublin from Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th of September 2003.

The second McCrea lecture Measuring the expansion of the universe will be delivered by Wendy Freedman, Director of the Carnegie Observatories, on Monday 15 September, 2003, at 6.30 pm at the Royal Irish Academy.


The Salmon Lecture Theatre is on the ground floor of the Hamilton building, opposite the Maths Department. The Hamilton building is at the east end of college, the side furthest removed from the main gate. A map can be found here.

The previous seminar list.
The future seminar list.

Enquiries: Conor Houghton, email: houghton@maths.tcd.ie, tel: 608-3542 or Nigel Buttimore, email: nhb@maths.tcd.ie, tel: 608-1474.