Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Affiliation |
Jan 24
|
Joshua Faber
|
COSMOS: Using many eyes to see the unseeable
|
UIUC
|
Jan 31
|
Nathan Hearn
|
Refining Models of Type Ia Supernovae at the Flash Center
|
University of Chicago
|
Feb 7
|
Yuk Tung Liu
|
Recoils and spin flips from binary black hole mergers
|
UIUC
|
Feb 14
|
No Talk
|
Talk rescheduled because of severe weather conditions
|
No Talk
|
Feb 21
|
Branson Stephens
|
Numerical relativity and gravitational wave data analysis: A confrontation
|
UIUC
|
Feb 28
|
Brian Farris
|
Testing the Geometry of Massive Black Holes using
Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
|
UIUC
|
Mar 7
|
Richard O'Shaughnessy
|
Astrophysical constraints on BH-NS and NS-NS mergers and the short GRB redshift distribution
|
Northwestern University
|
Mar 14
|
Po Kin Leung
|
Simulation of the Magnetothermal Instability
|
UIUC
|
Mar 21
|
Spring break
|
No Talk
|
No Talk
|
Mar 28
|
James van Meter |
Getting a Kick out of Numerical Relativity: Overview and Results on the Radiative Recoil of Merging Black Holes
|
NASA/Goddard
|
Apr 4
|
Zach Etienne |
Distribution of white dwarf binaries and its implications to LISA
|
UIUC
|
Apr 11
|
Tsz Ka Li
|
Short-hard gamma ray bursts: Prompt emission and afterglow
|
UIUC
|
Apr 18
|
Keisuke Taniguchi |
Comparison of recent studies on magnetorotational core collapse simulations
|
UIUC
|
Apr 25
|
Stratos Boutloukos |
The physics of X-ray oscillations during thermonuclear bursts in accreting
neutron stars
|
UIUC
|