Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2022-2023

Organizers
Gravitational Waves and Compact Objects	Transients and Supernovae	High-Energy and Radio Astronomy	Galaxies and Cosmology
Kyle Kremer kkremer{at}caltech.edu	Daichi Tsuna tsuna{at}caltech.edu	Dongzi Li dongzili{at}caltech.edu	Nicole Sanchez nnsanche{at}caltech.edu

Seminars will be Virtual [V] or Hybrid [H]: 370 Cahill & ZOOM
on Fridays at 2:00pm, unless otherwise noted in red
Attendees joining in person must have a valid Caltech UID

Fall Term Winter Term Spring Term Summer

Fall Term 2022
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
September 30 [H]	Andrea Derdzinski University of Zurich	The role of AGN accretion disks in the formation of characteristic, low-frequency GW sources	Polin
October 5 [H] Wednesday	Pratik Wagle UIUC	One ring to rule them all Special TAPIR Seminar - Note Unusual Day: Wedneday	Y Chen
October 7 [H]	Lieke van Son CfA/Harvard	No peaks without valleys: (what) can we learn from features in the mass distribution of merging binary black holes?	Kremer
October 14 [H]	Sylvia Biscoveanu MIT	Astrophysics of compact object binaries with gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts	Kremer
October 21 [H]	Casey Lam UC Berkeley	Uncovering the Galactic Black Hole Population with Gravitational Microlensing	Kremer
October 28 [H]	Evan Anders Northwestern University	The mystery of convective boundary mixing in the cores of massive stars	Jiang
November 4 [H]	Lizhong Zhang UC Santa Barbara	Exploring the dynamics of neutron star accretion columns by radiative relativistic MHD simulations	Polin
November 11 [VIRTUAL]	Dylan Jow University of Toronto	Cusps of cusps: a universal model for extreme scattering events in the ISM	Jiang
November 18
November 25		NO SEMINAR -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY November 24-25
December 2 [H]	Odelia Teboul The Hebrew University	A new era for TDEs	Jiang
December 9 [H]	Christopher O'Connor Cornell University	Planetary migration and engulfment on the post-main-sequence	Fuller
WINTER RECESS: Dec 10 - Jan 3

Winter Term 2023
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 6 [H]	Dhruv Desai Columbia University	GRMHD Simulations of Neutrino-Driven Winds From Proto Neutron Stars	Kremer
January 13		No Seminar -- AAS Meeting
January 20 [H]	Sanaea Rose UCLA	POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 10	Kremer
January 27 [H]	Steven Gough-Kelly Univ of Central Lancashire	The Next Generation of Barred-Galaxies	Sanchez
February 3 [H]	David Vartanyan Carnegie Observatories	Core-Collapse Supernovae: From the Last Decade to the Next	Tsuna
February 10 [H]	Sanaea Rose UCLA	Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Stars, Binaries, and Black Holes	Kremer
February 17 [H]	Zachary Hafen UC Irvine	Zoom-ins and zooming out	Sanchez
February 24 [H]	Naritaka Oshita Riken iTHEMS	On the modeling of black hole ringdown: quasi-normal modes and graybody factors	Tsuna
March 17 [H]	Martin Rey University of Oxford	Physical insights from the smallest galaxies in our Universe	Sanchez
SPRING RECESS: March 18 - April 2

Spring Term 2023
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 7
April 14 [H]	Cosimo Bambi Fudan University	Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data	Kremer
April 21 [H]	Nikolas Wittek MPI, AEI	Worldtube excision method for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: scalar-field model in 3+1 dimensions	Li
April 28 [H]	Tatsuya Matsumoto Columbia University	New approaches to analyze optical transients	Tsuna
May 5 [H]	Giacomo Fragione Northwestern University	Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers: A Multi-Band Opportunity for Gravitational Waves	Kremer
May 12 [H]	Sihao Cheng IAS Princeton	New populations of white dwarfs revealed by Gaia	Tsuna
May 19 [H]	Michael Zevin KICP, UChicago	Deciphering the Biography of Massive Stars: Compact Object Mergers as a Rosetta Stone	Kremer
May 26 [H]	J.J. Zanazzi UC Berkeley	Inclined Planetary Systems due to Secular Resonances in Dispersing Protoplanetary Disks	Tsuna
June 16		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement

Summer 2023 SPECIAL TAPIR SEMINARS
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
June 23 [H]	Eliot Finch University of Birmingham	Title to be announced	Legred
August 4 [H]	Lucy McNeill Kyoto University	Title to be announced	Kremer
August 25 [H]	Pavan Vynatheya MPA, Garching	Title to be announced	Kremer