CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity

Schedule for Fall 2009

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

Date
Speaker
Title
Affiliation
Sep 2
Yuk Tung Liu
Constraining the neutron star equation of state with gravitational wave observations UIUC
Sep 9
Vasileios Paschalidis
Activation of the Blandford-Znajek mechanism in collapsing stars
UIUC
Sep 16
Brian Farris
Using Gravitational Waves For Cosmology UIUC
Sep 23
Zach Etienne
OJ 287: A Supermassive Black Hole Binary? Model and Observations UIUC
Sep 30
Po Kin Leung
Flares from the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Black Holes UIUC
Oct 7
Milos Milosavljevic
Could Massive Black Holes Have Started as Stellar-Mass Seeds? University of Texas at Austin
Oct 14
Monika Moscibrodzka
Measurements of black hole spins in black hole binaries UIUC
Oct 21
Joshua Dolence
Turbulent Cascades in Magnetized Weakly Collisional Plasmas
UIUC
Oct 28
Hotaka Shiokawa
On corotation torques, horseshoe drag and the possibility of sustained stalled or outward protoplanetary migration
UIUC
Nov 4
Min Long
Matter Flow, Hot Spots and Phase Shifts of Accretion onto Stars with Octupole Magnetic Fields UIUC
Nov 11
Amit Yadav
Probing the Physics of the Beginning: Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Gravitational Waves IAS, Princeton
Nov 18
Alexander Tchekhovskoy
Simulations and Analytic Models of Relativistic Magnetized Jets CFA, Harvard
Nov 25
No Talk
Thanksgiving break No Talk
Dec 2
Suman Bhattacharya
Los Alamos
Dec 9
Paul Sutter
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 | Fall 06 | Spring 07 | Fall 07 | Spring 08 | Fall 08 | Spring 09


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