CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity

Schedule for Fall 2003

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

Date Speaker Title Affiliation
Sep 3 Pedro Marronetti Have Black Hole, Will Travel UIUC
Sep 10 Matt Duez Tracking Black Holes in Numerical Relativity UIUC
Sep 17 Ruben Krasnopolsky Hole and Stars at the Galactic Center UIUC
Sep 24  Yuk Tung Liu Black Hole Spectroscopy: Studying Black Holes through Gravitational Wave Observations UIUC
Oct 1 Hwei-Jang Yo Is the Acceleration of the Universe due to New Gravitational Physics? UIUC
Oct 8 Branson Stephens Models for Polarization in Gamma-Ray Bursts UIUC
Oct 15 M. Coleman Miller Challenges for Models of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes University of Maryland
Oct 22 Scott Noble Critical Phenomena and Driven Neutron Star Collapse UIUC
Oct 29  Andrew MacFadyen Gamma-Ray Bursts from Stellar Death Caltech
Nov 5 James Cook Binary Neutron Stars as candidates for Short Gamma-Ray Burst Engines UIUC
Nov 12 Paul Ricker All you always wanted to know about Clusters of Galaxies but were afraid to ask UIUC
Nov 19 Don Lamb Scientific Highlights of the HETE-2 Mission University of Chicago
Nov 26 Thanksgiving Break No Talk No Talk
Dec 3 Greg Huey Cosmological Parameters Estimation Strategy UIUC
* Dec 5 Deepto Chakrabarty Ultracompact X-Ray Binaries: Exotic Life Below the Orbital-Period Minimum MIT
Dec 10 Alessandro Gardini Simulations of Hot Bubbles in the ICM UIUC
* Special Date: Friday 12/05/03, 12:00PM

Schedules from previous terms:
Spring 00 | Fall 00 | Spring 01 | Fall 01 | Spring 02 | Fall 02


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