CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity

Schedule for Spring 2004

Every Wednesday, 12:00 noon at Loomis Lab Room #358.

Date Speaker Title Affiliation
Jan 28

Yuk Tung Liu

Double-Pulsar System J0737-3039: A Rare Laboratory for Relativistic Gravity and Plasma Physics UIUC
Feb 04

Matt Duez

The Internal Structure of Black Holes UIUC
Feb 11

Bryan Johnson

Magnetar Spindown, Hyper-Energetic Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts UIUC
Feb 18 James Cook Gravitational Waves from Oscillating Neutron Stars and Stellar Core Collapse UIUC
Feb 25 Scott Noble State of the Art MHD Methods for Astrophysical Applications UIUC
Mar 3 Hwei-Jang Yo Black Hole Thermodynamics UIUC
Mar 10 Masaru Shibata Criteria of Black Hole Formation In Rotating Stellar Collapses University of Tokyo
Mar 17 Jon McKinney Evidence for the black hole event horizon UIUC
Mar 24 Spring Break No Talk No Talk
Mar 31 Jonathan Dursi The Instabilities of Astrophysical Flames University of Chicago
Apr 7 Po Kin Leung Tidal dissipation in rotating giant planets UIUC
Apr 14 Ruben Krasnopolsky Sun's Corona and Wind UIUC
Apr 21 Greg Huey Interacting Quintessence: Cosmic Acceleration and the Coincidence Problem UIUC
Apr 28 Martin Pessah Local Stability of Magnetized Rotating Plasmas with Superthermal Fields University of Arizona
 May 5 Branson Stephens Numerical Models of Neutrino Transport in Supernovae UIUC

Schedules from previous terms:
Spring 00 | Fall 00 | Spring 01 | Fall 01 | Spring 02 | Fall 02 | Spring 03 | Fall 03


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