Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Brown Bag Lunch

Schedule for Fall 2002

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

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Sep. 4 Serguei Komissarov Univ. of Leeds Time-dependent degenerate electrodynamics and extraction of rotational energy of black holes
Sep. 11 Pedro Marronetti UIUC GRBs for Dummies (TM)
Sep. 18 Matt Duez UIUC Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars with Large Toroidal B-Fields
Sep. 25 Yuk Tung Liu UIUC Dynamical stability of nascent neutron stars
Oct. 2 Branson Stephens UIUC Black Hole Mass and Spin Coevolution by Mergers
Oct. 9 Bryan Johnson UIUC Selfgravity and QSO Disks
Oct. 16 Jon McKinney UIUC High energy gamma rays from AGN, GRBs, and plerions
Oct. 23 Ruben Krasnopolsky UIUC Self-similar Collapse of Rotating Magnetic Molecular Cloud Cores
Oct. 30 James Cook UIUC A star in a 15.2-year orbit around the Supermassive Black Hole at the Milky Way Center
Nov. 6 Paul Ricker Univ. of Illinois The Formation of Globular Clusters
Nov. 13 Hwei-Jang Yo UIUC Gravitational Waves probe the coalescence rate of Massive Black Hole Binaries
Nov. 20 Yun Chen UIUC On the stability of thick accretion disks around black holes
Nov. 27 Thanksgiving Break No Talk No Talk
Dec. 4 Anzhong Wang Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Critical Phenomena in General Relativity
Dec. 11 Bernd Bruegmann Pennsylvania State University Gauge Conditions for Numerical Black Hole Evolutions

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

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Last modified on August 2002