Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars

Organizers
Astrophysics	Cosmology	Particle Astrophysics	Relativity
Ernazar Abdikamalov abdik{at}tapir.caltech.edu	Roland de Putter Roland.De.Putter{at}jpl.nasa.gov	Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins jsg{at}tapir.caltech.edu	Roland Haas rhaas{at}tapir.caltech.edu

All seminars will be held in 370 Cahill on Fridays at 2:00pm, unless otherwise noted in red.

Fall Term Winter Term Spring Term Summer

Fall Term 2012-2013
Date and Time	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
September 21	Jeandrew Brink (Nat'l Inst of Theor Phys, South Africa)	An A* test of GR	Haas
October 5	Anastasia Fialkov (Tel Aviv University)	Velocity and feedback enhance 21-cm signal from first stars at z ~ 20	Raccanelli
October 12	Tim Linden (UC Santa Cruz)	TBA	Siegal-Gaskins
October 19	Stirling Colgate (LANL)	An Experiment to Demonstrate an alpha-omega Dynamo in the Accretion Disk leading to Galaxy and MBH formation	Phinney
October 26	William East (Princeton)	Dynamical Capture Compact Binary Mergers	Haas
November 9	Luke Roberts (TAPIR)	Nucleosynthetic Signatures of Supernova Neutrinos	Abdikamalov
November 30	Bence Kocsis (Harvard)	Zooming in on Galactic Nuclei at the Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy	Nissanke
December 7	Miguel Rocha (UC Irvine)	Astrophysical Constraints on the Dark Matter Self-Interaction Cross Section	Siegal-Gaskins
WEDNESDAY December 19	Vladimir N. Lukash (Lebedev Physics Inst)	SPECIAL SEMINAR General Relativity Singularities and Cosmogenesis NOTE Day and Time: Wednesday, 1:00p	Abdikamalov
WINTER BREAK: Dec 15 - Jan 6

Winter Term 2012-2013
Date and Time	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 4	Richard O'Shaughnessy (Univ of Wisconsin)	TBA	Abdikamalov
January 11	Mike Kesden (NYU)	Tidal disruption by spinning supermassive black holes	Nissanke
January 25	Nicolas Yunes (Montana State University)	Strong-Field Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity	Haas
February 1
February 8	Eric Linder (Berkeley/LBNL/IEU)	Cosmology 2017: Testing Gravity, Dark Energy, and Neutrinos	de Putter
February 15	Francesca Valsecchi (Northwestern)	Tidal Effects in Double White Dwarf Binaries	Abdikamalov
February 22	Fabio Governato (Univ of Washington)	Shining Light on the Properties of Dark Matter: Coupling Baryon and Dark Matter Physics in Galaxy Formation Models	Siegal-Gaskins
March 1
March 8
March 15	Grigor Aslanyan (Univ of Auckland, NZ)	Probing the Large Scale Anisotropies of the Universe from the CMB Temperature and Polarization Data	de Putter
March 22	Sara Seager (MIT)	Exoplanet Habitability NOTE Special Venue: Hameetman	Nissanke
March 29	Kaitlin Kratter (JILA, UCol Boulder)	Looking Forward: Binaries and their Planets	Ott
SPRING BREAK: March 21 - 31

Spring Term 2012-2013
Date and Time	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 5	Mike Boylan-Kolchin (UC Irvine)	Near-Field Cosmology: Big Science From Small Galaxies	Siegal-Gaskins
April 12	Sheldon Campbell (CCAPP, Ohio State Univ.)	Uncovering Properties of Cosmic Dark Matter through Indirect Detection	Siegal-Gaskins
April 19	Lorenzo Sironi (Harvard)	Non-Thermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Flows NOTE Unusual Venue: 114 E. Bridge	Abdikamalov
April 26
May 3	Sean Couch (Univ ofChicago)	Three-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae	Abdikamalov
May 10	Pedro Ferreira (Oxford)	Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?	de Putter
May 17	Scott Field (Univ of Maryland)	Fast evaluation of asymptotic waveforms from gravitational perturbations	Haas
May 24	Leslie Rogers (Caltech)	Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets	Abdikamalov
May 31	Ken Shen (UC Berkeley)	TBA	Abdikamalov
June 7	Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde (KIPAC/SLAC, Stanford)	TBA	Siegal-Gaskins
June 14		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement

Summer Term 2012-2013 SPECIAL SEMINARS
Date and Time	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
June 28	Manuel Tiglio (UMD/Caltech)	Reduced Order Modeling in General Relativity	Haas
Wednesday July 3	Boaz Katz (IAS, Princeton)	TBA NOTE Special Venue: Hameetman	Abdikamalov
July 5		NO SEMINAR -- Independence Day Holiday
July 12
July 19
July 26
August2
August 9
August 16
August 23
August 30
September 6
September 13