CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity

Schedule for Spring 2008

Every Wednesday, 12:00 noon at Loomis Room #464.

Date
Speaker
Title
Affiliation
Jan 16
Vasileios Paschalidis
Suppressing the constraint growth in numerical relativity
University of Chicago
Jan 23
Seminar canceled
Seminar canceled
Seminar canceled
Jan 30
Kris Beckwith
Disks, Fields and Jets: The Role of Magnetic Field Geometry in Black Hole Accretion Flows
Virginia Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Feb 6
Yuk Tung Liu
The Frontier of Reionization: Theory and Forthcoming Observations
UIUC
Feb 13
Keisuke Taniguchi
Comparison between numerical relativity and post-Newtonian waveforms from binary black holes
UIUC
Feb 20
Claudio Ugalde
Neutron sources and the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in the universe
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Feb 27
Zach Etienne
Milkomeda: When Galaxies Collide
UIUC
Mar 5
Brian Farris
Neutrino Transport in Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations
UIUC
Mar 12
Tsz Ka Li
Photon bubbles and super-Eddington fluxes from accretion disks
UIUC
Mar 19
No Talk Spring break
No Talk
Mar 26
Amit Yadav What can Primordial non-Gaussianity tell us about the Early Universe?
UIUC
Apr 2
Shep Doeleman Getting to the Event Horizon: 230GHz VLBI of the Galactic Center
MIT Haystack Observatory
Apr 9
Xiaoyue Guan
Evolution of warped accretion disks
UIUC
Apr 16
Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins Revealing the nature of dark matter with gamma-rays
University of Chicago
Apr 23
Dimitrios Psaltis Constraints on Braneworld Gravity Models from Observations of Astrophysical Black Holes
University of Arizona

Schedules from previous terms:
Fall 98 | Spring 99 | Fall 99 | Spring 00 | Fall 00 | Spring 01 | Fall 01 | Spring 02 | Fall 02 | Spring 03 | Fall 03 | Spring 04 |

Fall 04 | Spring 05 | Fall 05 | Spring 06 | Fall 06 | Spring 07 | Fall 07


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