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Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2024-2025

Organizers
Emails end @caltech.edu    
High Energy Astrophysics
Compact Objects and
Plasma Astrophysics
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Stellar Physics and Transients
Xiaoshan Huang
xshuang
Yici Zhong
yczhong
Nondh Panithanpaisal
nondh
Daichi Tsuna
tsuna

Seminars will be Hybrid: 370 Cahill & ZOOM
on Fridays at 2:00pm, unless otherwise noted in red

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Fall Term             Winter Term             Spring Term             Summer

Fall Term 2024
Date
Speaker (Affiliation)
Title
Organizer
September 13
Joel Ong
Univ of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Asteroseismic Rotational Diagnostics of Engulfment and Misalignment Tsuna
October 4
Gilad Sadeh
Weizmann Institute
Non-Thermal Emission Following Compact Objects Mergers Tsuna
 October 11
Nick Kaaz
Northwestern University
How strong warps and strong magnetic fields upend the standard accretion disk paradigm Tsuna
October 18
Tsz Lok (Alan) Lam
AEI Potsdam
Binary neutron star mergers in massive scalar-tensor theory Tsuna
October 25
  NO SEMINAR
November 1
  NO SEMINAR  
November 8
Fulya Kiroglu
Northwestern University
The Impact of Stellar Interactions on Black Hole Spin Evolution Huang
November 15
Cecilia Chirenti
University of Maryland
Extracting information on the Neutron Star Equation of State from Gamma-ray Bursts Huang
November 22
Tatsuya Akiba
UCol, Boulder/JILA
On the Hunt for Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events Huang
November 29
NO SEMINAR -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY November 28-29  
December 6
Xiaowei Ou
MIT
The "visible" and "invisible": stars as tracers for the Milky Way formation Panithanpaisal
WINTER RECESS: Dec 13 - Jan 5


Winter Term 2025
Date
Speaker (Affiliation)
Title
Organizer
January 10
Claire Ye
Univ of Toronto
TO BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO FIRES Huang
January 17
  NO SEMINAR - AAS Mtg  
January 31
Kristen Schumacher
UIUC
Better early than never: A new test for superluminal gravitational wave polarizations Tsuna
February 7
     
February 14
Jacob Nibauer
Princeton Univ
Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams Panithanpaisal
February 21
     
February 28 
Gabriel Piovano
Univ Libre de Bruxelles
Templates for all seasons?!? Gravitational waveforms from perturbation theory for LISA (and LIGO/Virgo/Kagra?!?) Panithanpaisal
March 7
Alex Chernoglazov
IAS, Princeton
Radiative plasmas in pulsar magnetospheres Zhong
March 12
Aditya Vijaykumar
CITA
Probing the host environments of compact binaries S. Miller
March 14
Giulia Fumagalli
Univ of Milano-Bicocca
The dynamics of spin-precessing and eccentric black hole binaries Tsuna
SPRING RECESS: March 20 - March 30


Spring Term 2025

Date
Speaker (Affiliation)
Title
Organizer
April 4
Claire Ye
University of Toronto
Connecting Compact Object Dynamics with Multi-Messenger Observations in Dense Star Clusters Huang
April 11
Tianshu Wang
N3AS, UC Berkeley
Three-Dimensional Long-Term CCSN Simulations: New Insights and Challenges Zhong
April 18
 Start time - 2:15
Hengrui Zhu
Princeton University
Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK and Applications Y. Kim
April 25
Frederick K. Lamb
UIUC
Strategic Ballistic Missile Defense: Challenges to Defending the United States Panithanpaisal
May 2
Logan Prust
KITP, UC Santa Barbara
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs Huang
May 9
Start time - 2:15
Hang Yu
Montana State Univ
Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars: effects of spin, tidal spin, and nonlinear hydrodynamics Tsuna
May 16
Lizhong Zhang
CCA, Flatiron Institute
Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations Huang
May 23
M. Sten Delos
Carnegie Observatories
Influence of the dark first structures Panithanpaisal
May 30
     
June 6
Philipp Kempski
Princeton University
Title to be announced Zhong
June 13
NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement