Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

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

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