Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2021-2022

Organizers
Galaxies and Dark Matter	Gravitational Waves, Relativity and Compact Objects	Galaxy Evolution, Star Formation	High-Energy Astrophysics
Fangzhou Jiang fzjiang{at}caltech.edu	Kyle Kremer kkremer{at}caltech.edu	Sinan Deger sdeger{at}caltech.edu	Abigail Polin abigail{at}caltech.edu

Seminars will be Virtual [V] or Hybrid [H]: 370 Cahill & ZOOM
on Fridays at 2:00pm, unless otherwise noted in red

Fall Term Winter Term Spring Term Summer

Fall Term 2021
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
September 24 [V]	Isobel Romero-Shaw Monash Univ	Eccentricity in Gravitational-Wave Transients	Kremer
October 1 [V]	Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury Yale Univ	Constraining Dark Matter through Gravitational Heating and Cooling Processes	Jiang
October 8 [H]	Michael Pajkos Michigan State Univ	Interpreting Gravitational Waves from Core-collapse Events Using Supernova Simulations	Panopoulou
October 15 [H]	Jose Maria Ezquiaga Univ of Chicago	The next frontier in gravitational wave cosmology NOTE: Unusual venue -- 304 Cahill	Kremer
October 22 [H]	Itai Linial Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem	Shocking Transients: Early light from stellar explosions	Panopoulou
October 29 [H]	Perry Hatchfield Univ of Connecticut	Dynamics and Star Formation in the Milky Way's Galactic Center	Jiang
November 5 [H]	Mike Shull UColorado, Boulder	What's Happening in Halos	Panopoulou
November 12 [H]	Claire Ye Northwestern Univ	Neutron Star Dynamics and Radio Pulsars in Globular Clusters	Kremer
November 19 [H]	Marc Williamson New York Univ	Reconstructing Exploded Stars: Constraining Helium Mass in Stripped Supernovae	Polin
November 26		NO SEMINAR -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY November 25-26
December 3 [H]	Brenna Mockler UC Santa Cruz	Exploring galactic nuclei with tidal disruption events	Polin
December 10 [H]	Drummond Fielding Flatiron Institute	Unlocking Multiphase Galactic Gas Flows	Polin
WINTER RECESS: Dec 11 - Jan 2

Winter Term 2022
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 7 [V]	Geert Raaimakers Univ of Amsterdam	Unraveling neutron star interiors with multimessenger observables	Polin
January 14		No Seminar -- AAS Meeting
January 21
January 28 [V]	Benjamin Keller Heidelberg Univ	Stellar feedback in galaxies: from the dense interstellar medium to circumgalactic gas	Deger
February 4 [V]	Minghao Yue Univ of Arizona	Models and Observations of High-Redshift Gravitationally Lensed Quasars	Kremer
February 11 [V]	Katelyn Breivik Flatiron Institute	Binary Evolution: a Multi-messenger, Multi-band Puzzle	Kremer
February 18 [V]	Kedron Silsbee Max Planck Institute	Cosmic rays in the context of star formation: propagation and effects	Jiang
February 25 [V]	Mattia Sormani Heidelberg Univ	Gas dynamics, inflow and star formation in centre of the Milky Way	Deger
March 4 [V]	Santi Roca-Fabrega Univ Complutense de Madrid	The CGM properties' dependence on the halo mass, redshift, and numerics	Jiang
March 11 [H]	Jennifer Barnes KITP, UCSB	Hunting for alternative sources of r-process elements	Polin
March 18 [H]	Bhupal Dev Washington Univ St. Louis	Probing Neutrino Mass Models at Neutrino Telescopes	Kunal Mooley
SPRING RECESS: March 17 - March 25

Spring Term 2022
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 1 [H]	Stuart Bartlett GPS, Caltech	Agnostic Planetary Assessment using Epsilon Machines	Deger
April 15 [H]	Josh Mathews University College Dublin	Self-Force Waveforms with a Spinning Secondary	Kremer
April 22 [H]	Mor Rozner Technion Institute	Binary evolution, gravitational-wave mergers and explosive transients in multiple-populations gas-enriched globular-clusters	Polin
April 29 [V]	Jonathan Freundlich Université de Strasbourg	Dark matter core formation, ultra-diffuse galaxies, and MOND	Jiang
May 6 [H]	Marcus DuPont New York University	Death Stars: Ring explosions from flattened stars	Polin
May 13 [H]	Paul Duffell Purdue University	Beyond Simulations	Polin
May 20 [H]	Chase Kimball Northwestern University	What compact-object mergers (and re-mergers) can tell us about astrophysics	Kremer
May 27 [H]	Newlin Weatherford Northwestern University	Black Hole Populations in Globular Clusters: Observational Validation, Modeling Uncertainties, and Massive Mergers	Kremer
June 3 [V]	Yingjie Peng Peking University	Confronting simulations with observations of cold gas	Jiang
June 10		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement

Summer 2022 SPECIAL TAPIR SEMINARS
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer