Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2023-2024

Organizers
High Energy Astrophysics	Gravitational Waves and Compact Objects	Galaxy Formation and Evolution	Stellar Physics and Transients
Xiaoshan Huang xshuang{at}caltech.edu	Kyle Kremer kkremer{at}caltech.edu	Nondh Panithanpaisal nondh{at}caltech.edu	Daichi Tsuna tsuna{at}caltech.edu

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 2023
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
September 29	Monica Gallegos-Garcia Northwestern Univ	Gaining Physical Insights into the Formation of Black-Hole Mergers	Kremer
October 6	Mor Rozner Technion Univ	A tale of two objects: binary formation, evolution and distribution	Fuller
October 13	Anna Haynie USC & Carnegie Obs	Estimating Ejecta Masses of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae Using Late Time Light Curves	Tsuna
October 18	Ka Wai (Adrian) Chung UIUC	Spectral Method for the Gravitational Perturbations of Black Holes Note: Special Day & Time [Weds, 3:00p]	Chen/Li
October 20	Amy Secunda Princeton Univ	Probing Accretion Disk Structure Beyond the Standard Thin Disk Model	Kremer
October 27	Amir Sharon Weizmann Inst	Constraining supernovae models using gamma-ray deposition histories	Tsuna
November 3	Mukul Bhattacharya Penn State Univ	Heavy element nucleosynthesis & energetic neutrinos from highly magnetized outflows	Tsuna
November 10	Alisa Galishnikova Princeton Univ	Collisionless Black Hole Accretion	Kremer
November 17	Rachel Patton Ohio State Univ	Binary Interaction and the Explodability of Massive Stars	Kremer
November 24		NO SEMINAR -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY November 24-25
December 1
December 8	Lorenzo Speri AEI MPG	With great precision comes great challenges: Gravitational Wave Observations of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals	Kremer
WINTER RECESS: Dec 9 - Jan 2

Winter Term 2024
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 5	Soham Mandal Purdue Univ	Numerical studies of high velocity outflows using an expanding mesh	Tsuna
January 12		No Seminar - AAS Meeting
January 19	Thomas Osburn SUNY Geneseo	Kerr perturbations for EMRI modeling via elliptic PDEs	J Thompson
January 26	Francisco Mercado Pomona College	Nature vs. Nurture: How internal and external processes shape galactic interiors	Kremer
February 2	Ethan Nadler Carnegie Obs/USC	Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-Scale Structure	Hummels
February 9		No Seminar
February 16	Boryana Hadzhiyska UC Berkeley/LBNL	Detecting large baryonic feedback around DESI photometric galaxies	Panithanpaisal
February 23	Andrea Antoni UC Berkeley	Delayed Explosions of Red Supergiants Following "Failed" Supernovae	Tsuna
March 1	Nick Choksi UC Berkeley	Planet formation close-in and far-out	Tsuna
March 8	Wenbin Lu UC Berkeley	Signatures from late-time disk accretion in neutron star mergers	Kremer
March 15	Jared Goldberg CCA, Flatiron Inst	Explosive Implications of Large-scale Convection in Massive Star Envelopes	Tsuna
SPRING RECESS: March 17 - March 31

Spring Term 2024
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 5		No seminar due to APS Meeting, April 3-6
April 12	Hila Glanz Technion Univ	Stellar transient from triple interactions	Tsuna
April 19	Bhimsen Shivamoggi Univ of Central Florida	Stellar Rotation and Polytropic Gas Effects on the Stellar Wind	Tsuna
April 26	Duncan Neill Univ of Bath	Resonant shattering flares as probes of neutron star structure and nuclear symmetry	Kremer
May 3	Alex Vañó-Viñuales Univ of Lisbon	Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolutions	Thompson
May 10	Chris Carr Columbia Univ	Title to be announced	Panithanpaisal
May 17	Rodrigo Macedo Niels Bohr Institute	Title to be announced	Kremer
May 24	Sunny Wong UCSB	Title to be announced	Huang
May 31	Ygal Klein Weizmann Institute	Title to be announced	Panithanpaisal
June 7	Goni Halevi Northwestern Univ	Title to be announced	Huang
June 14		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement
		THERE ARE NO SEMINARS DURING SUMMER