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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Affiliation
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Jan 29
|
Pedro Marronetti
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Alternative Theories of Gravity:
Beyond General Relativity
|
UIUC
|
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Feb 5
|
Luis Lehner
|
Spherical Cows & Beyond:
Simulating new, old and borrowed Strongly
Gravitating Systems
|
Louisiana State University
|
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Feb 12
|
Matt Duez
|
Zooming in to the Supermassive Black Hole
at the Galactic Center
|
UIUC
|
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Feb 19
|
Benjamin Wandelt
|
Explanation of the New Cosmic Background
Measurements by WMAP
|
UIUC
|
|
Feb 26
|
Yuk Tung Liu
|
Coalescense of Black Hole Binaries in
Globular Clusters: Eccentricities
and Kozai Mechanism
|
UIUC
|
|
Mar 5
|
Greg Huey
|
Cosmological Mechanisms for Stabilizing Moduli
|
UIUC
|
|
Mar 12
|
James L. Higdon
|
The Peculiar Optical Jets in NGC 1097
|
Cornell University
|
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Mar 19
|
Jon McKinney
|
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes:
Formation Theories &
Observational Constraints
|
UIUC
|
|
Mar 26
|
Spring Break
|
No Talk
|
No Talk
|
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Apr 2
|
Bryan Johnson
|
A Frozen Disk in the Galactic Center
|
UIUC
|
|
Apr 9
|
Konstantinos Tassis
|
High Redshift Star Formation
in Dwarf Galaxies
|
UIUC
|
|
Apr 16
|
Chris Fryer
|
Asymmetric Explosions from Stellar Collapse
|
Los Alamos National Lab.
|
|
Apr 23
|
James Cook
|
What Shapes the Luminosity of Galaxies
|
UIUC
|
|
Apr 30
|
Sudip Bhattacharyya
|
Surface Spectral Line Profiles:
A new diagnostic tool for compact star
parameters
|
University of Maryland
|
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May 7
|
Ruben Krasnopolsky
|
The Wind from the Crab
|
UIUC
|