CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity

Schedule for Fall 2007

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

Date
Speaker
Title
Affiliation
*Aug 29
Joshua Faber
Black hole merger kicks and their implications
UIUC
Sep 5
Yuk Tung Liu
Primordial Gravitational Waves and Their Detection
UIUC
Sep 12
Brian Farris
Theory of Star Formation
UIUC
Sep 19
Zach Etienne
Stellar Dynamics near the Galactic Black Hole
UIUC
Sep 26
Tsz Ka Li
The Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
UIUC
Oct 3
Paul Ricker
Binary Star Evolution within Common Envelopes
UIUC
Oct 10
No Talk
Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the BCS theory
No Talk
Oct 17
Keisuke Taniguchi
Cold Dark Matter and the LHC
UIUC
Oct 24
Po Kin Leung
Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
UIUC
Oct 31
Xiaoyue Guan Recent results from shearing box simulations for the MRI-driven turbulence
UIUC
Nov 7
Geoffrey Lovelace Improving binary-black-hole initial data
Cornell
Nov 14
Shane Davis Probing Black Holes and Accretion Flows in X-ray Binaries with Spectral Models
Institute for Advanced Study
Nov 21
Thanksgiving Break
No talk
No talk
Nov 28
Brian Fields GLAST Menagerie: The History of the High-Energy Universe as Written on the Gamma-Ray Sky
UIUC
Dec 5
Stratos Boutloukos Crustal oscillations and global modes during magnetar flares
UIUC
* Special location: 251 Loomis

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 | Fall 06 | Spring 07


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