Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2019-2020

Organizers
High-energy Astrophysics	Supermassive Black Holes (AGNs) and Cosmology	Gravitational Waves & Relativity	Galaxies and Large-scale Structure
Clément Bonnerot bonnerot{at}caltech.edu	Maria Charisi mcharisi{at}tapir.caltech.edu	Jordan Moxon moxon{at}caltech.edu	Suoqing Ji suoqing{at}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 2019
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
THURSDAY September 12	Samuel Swihart Michigan State University	Discovering the Origins of "Typical" Millisecond Pulsar Binaries	Charisi
September 27	Adam Smercina University of Michigan	The Satellites and Stellar Halos of Nearby MW-mass Galaxies	Ji
October 4	José Zorrilla Columbia University	Extracting information from small scales in weak lensing	Charisi
WEDNESDAY October 9	Karan Jani Vanderbilt University	Demographics of intermediate-mass black holes from LIGO to LISA	Charisi
October 11	Xiaolong Du Carnegie Observatories	Modeling the Nonlinear Evolution of Dark Matter Substructure	Ji
October 18	Ore Gottlieb Tel Aviv University	Relativistic outflows in neutron star mergers	Bonnerot
October 25	Miguel Holgado UIUC	Field Formation of Compact Binaries: Common Envelope, Natal Kicks, and Gravitational Waves	Charisi
November 1	Andrew Chael Princeton University	The Black Hole and Jet in M87: Linking Simulations to VLBI images	Bonnerot
November 8	Itai Linial Hebrew University	Early light from Aspherical explosions	Charisi
November 15	Mike Zevin Northwestern University	Deciphering the Landscape of Compact Binary Formation Channels	Moxon
MONDAY November 18	Nils Fischer Max Planck Inst, Potsdam	Solving nonlinear elliptic equations in numerical relativity with the SpECTRE code	Moxon
November 22	Matthew Digman Ohio State University	LISA Galactic Binaries in the WFIRST Microlensing Survey	To Be Rescheduled
November 29		NO SEMINAR -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY November 28-29
~~December 6~~	Béatrice Bonga Perimeter Institute	~~Tidal resonance in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals~~	To be rescheduled
December 13	Darryl Seligman Yale University	Evidence that 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) was composed of molecular hydrogen ice	Moxon
WINTER BREAK: Dec 14 - Jan 5

Winter Term 2020
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 10	Chiara Mingarelli Flatiron Institute	Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe	Charisi
January 17	Ilaria Caiazzo Caltech	X-ray polarization of neutron stars and black holes	Charisi
January 24	Nils Deppe Cornell University	SpECTRE: Rethinking simulations of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics	Moxon
January 31	Michał Michałowski Adam Mickiewicz Univ	The fate of the interstellar medium in early-type galaxies	Ji
February 7
February 14	Mohammad Safarzadeh UC Santa Cruz	Title to be announced	Ji
February 21	Chris Hayward Flatiron Institute	Title to be announced	Ji
February 28
March 6	Dong Lai Cornell University	Title to be announced	Bonnerot
March 13	Robert Fisher UMass Dartmouth	Title to be announced	Bonnerot
March 20	Jessie Runnoe Vanderbilt University	Title to be announced	Charisi
SPRING BREAK: March 19 - March 29

Spring Term 2020
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 3	Alexander Grant Cornell University	Title to be announced	Moxon
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29
June 5
June 12		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement

Summer Term 2020 SPECIAL TAPIR SEMINARS
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer