Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Affiliation |
Aug 31
|
Joshua Faber
|
Shining Swiftly in the Sky: The Short Gamma-Ray Burst Story
|
UIUC
|
Sep 7
|
Yuk Tung Liu
|
Pulsars as Tools for Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics
|
UIUC
|
Sep 14
|
Branson Stephens
|
The Radiation Rocket: A Kick for Merging Binary Black Holes
|
UIUC
|
Sep 21
|
Scott Noble
|
Bulletin on the Biggest, Baddest Black Hole on the Block
|
UIUC
|
Sep 28
|
Keisuke Taniguchi
|
Effect of Inhomogeneities on the Expansion Rate of the Universe
|
UIUC
|
Oct 5
|
Gregory Cook
|
Black-Hole Binary Initial Data: Getting the Spin Right
|
Wake Forest University
|
Oct 12
|
Po Kin Leung
|
What can we learn from the jet of M87?
|
UIUC
|
Oct 19
|
Xiaoyue Guan
|
Spectral States of Black Hole Binaries
|
UIUC
|
* Oct 26
|
Amber Miller
|
Bumps, Wiggles, and Holes in the Sky; Observing the Early Universe
|
Columbia University
|
Nov 2
|
Wenfei Yu |
Microquasar, Microblazar and Nature of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies
|
UIUC
|
Nov 9
|
Roman Petryk |
An Update on the Evolution of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes
|
UIUC
|
Nov 16
|
Pranab Ghosh
|
Cosmic Star Formation History and Deep Field X-ray Studies
|
Tata Institute
|
Nov 23
|
Thankgiving Break |
No Talk
|
No Talk
|
† Nov 30
|
Licia Verde |
Considerations in Using CMB Polarization Experiments To Constrain Inflationary Physics
|
University of Pennsylvania
|
Dec 7
|
Re'em Sari |
Planetary Pinballs
|
Caltech
|