Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Brown Bag Lunch

Tentative schedule for Fall 2001

Every Wednesday, 12:00 noon at Loomis Lab Room #358.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Sept 05 Matt Duez UIUC Tidal Interaction Between Black Holes
Sept 12 Draza Markovic UIUC Matter Power Spectrum from the 2dF Galaxy Survey
Sept 19 Pedro Marronetti UIUC New Developments on Initial Data for Black-Hole Binaries
Sept 25 Keith Lockitch UIUC Recent Work on the r-mode Instability of Neutron Stars
Oct 03 Eric Engelhard UIUC Linear Analysis of the Hall Effect in Protostellar Disks
Oct 10 Grant J. Mathews U of Notre Dame Cosmic Quintessence and Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Oct 17 Ruben Krasnopolsky U of Chicago Magnetocentrifugal Launching of Jets
Oct 24 Branson Stephens UIUC Vela X-1 and the Neutron-Star Equation of State
Oct 31 Motoyuki Saijo UIUC Chaos in Compact Binary Systems
Nov 07 Jon McKinney UIUC Bar-Driven Dark Matter Halo Evolution: A Resolution of the Cusp-Core Controversy
Nov 14 Stephan Rosswog U of Leicester High resolution calculations of merging neutron stars
Nov 21 Thanksgiving No Talk No Talk
Nov 28 Koji Uryu U of Wisconsin Thermodynamics of binary system and determination of ISCO
Dec 05 Canceled No Talk No Talk

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

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Last modified on October 2001