New results at 3PN via an effective field theory of gravity

NRGR, an Effective Field Theory approach to gravity, has emerged as a powerful tool to systematically compute higher order corrections in the Post-Newtonian expansion. Here we discuss in somehow more detail the recently reported new results for the spin-spin gravitational potential at third Post-Newtonian order.Comment: 4 pages, talk at the 11th Marcel Grossmann meeting, Berlin, july 200

Reasoning by analogy: attempts to solve the cosmological constant paradox

Talk given by one of us (A. Zee) at Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday Celebration held in Singapore, February 2010. Based on R. A. Porto and A. Zee, Class. Quant. Grav. 27, 065006 (2010) [arXiv:0910.3716 [hep-th]]Comment: 4 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday, World Scientifi

Analytic approximations, perturbation theory, effective field theory methods and their applications

We summarize the parallel session B4: 'Analytic approximations, perturbation theory effective field theory methods and their applications' and the joint session B2/B4: 'Approximate solutions to Einstein equations: Methods and Applications', of the GR20 & Amaldi10 conference in Warsaw, July 2013. The contributed talks reported significant advances on various areas of research in gravity.Comment: 15 pages. Contribution to the Proceedings of GR20 - Amaldi1