CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity

Schedule for Fall 2006

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

Date
Speaker
Title
Affiliation
Aug 30
Yuk Tung Liu
Shadow Of Darkness: Testing General Relativity with High-Resolution Imaging of Sgr A*
UIUC
Sep 6
Joshua Faber
Gravitational Wave Cosmology
UIUC
Sep 13
Branson Stephens
Illuminating the oldest quasars: the Millennium Simulation of structure formation
UIUC
Sep 20
Brian Farris
Gamma-Ray Bursts and Core Collapse Supernovae
UIUC
Sep 27
Keisuke Taniguchi
Hydrodynamic Simulations of Tilted Disk Accretion Onto A Rotating Black Hole
UIUC
Oct 4
Tsz Ka Li
Stellar Processes Near the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center
UIUC
Oct 11
Chad Fendt
Speeding Up Cosmology with Pico
UIUC
Oct 18
Charmaine Armitage
Probing the early universe with CMB polarization maps
UIUC
Oct 25
Laura Grego
Debris and the Sustainability of Space
UCS, Cambridge, MA
Nov 1
Zach Etienne Simulations of Population III Star Formation in LCDM Cosmology
UIUC
Nov 8
Xiaoyue Guan Gamma-ray Binaries
UIUC
Nov 15
Esfandiar Alizadeh
Brane-world Gravity
UIUC
Nov 22
Thankgiving Break No Talk
No Talk
Nov 29
Stratos Boutloukos Neutron star oscillations as sources of gravitational radiation
UIUC
Dec 6
Rahul Biswas Characterizing the Late Time Acceleration of the Universe
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 |

Fall 04 | Spring 05 | Fall 05 | Spring 06


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