CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity

Schedule for Fall 2004

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

Date
Speaker
Title
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

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


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