Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Affiliation |
Sep 1
|
Yuk Tung Liu
|
The Physics of 'Now', Consciousness, and the Arrows of Time
|
UIUC
|
Sep 8
|
Matthew Duez
|
Magnetic Fields in the Solar Convection Zone
|
UIUC
|
Sep 15
|
Frederick Lamb
|
New Results on the Formation of Millisecond X-ray and Radio Pulsars
|
UIUC
|
Sep 22
|
Tomasz Plewa
|
Computer Modelling of Thermonuclear Supernovae
|
University of Chicago
|
Sep 29
|
Bryan Johnson
|
The Fate of the Great Red Spot and Other Jovian Vortices
|
UIUC
|
Oct 6
|
Wenfei Yu
|
State Transitions in Accreting Neutron Stars and Black Holes:
Observation Confronts Theory
|
UIUC
|
Oct 13
|
Ruben Krasnopolsky
|
Planetary Collisions and Planet Formation
|
UIUC
|
Oct 20
|
Joshua Faber
|
Building the Perfect Beast: Current Questions About Merging Supermassive
Black Holes
|
UIUC
|
Oct 27
|
Chuck Keeton
|
Studying Galactic Substructure with Gravitational Lensing
|
Rutgers University
|
Nov 3
|
Scott Noble |
The Origins, Applications and Mysteries of the Flourescent Iron Line
|
UIUC
|
Nov 10
|
Branson Stephens |
The Radiation Rocket--How Black Holes Get Their Kicks
|
UIUC
|
Nov 17
|
Xiaoyue Guan |
Studying pulsar winds from PSRJ0737-3039A&B
|
UIUC
|
Nov 24
|
Thanksgiving
Break
|
No Talk
|
No Talk
|
Dec 1
|
Zach Etienne |
Relativistic Tori in Kerr Spacetime: Recent Hydrodynamical & Perturbative Simulations
|
UIUC
|
Dec 8
|
Po Kin Leung |
The Scintillation Velocity of Double Pulsar Binary J0737-3039
|
UIUC
|