Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2024-2025

Organizers
High Energy Astrophysics	Compact Objects and Plasma Astrophysics	Galaxy Formation and Evolution	Stellar Physics and Transients
Xiaoshan Huang xshuang{at}caltech.edu	Yici Zhong yczhong{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 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	Title to be announced	Panithanpaisal
March 7	Alex Chernoglazov IAS, Princeton	Title to be announced	Zhong
March 14
SPRING RECESS: March 20 - March 30

Spring Term 2025
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 4
April 11
April 18
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23
May 30
June 6
June 13		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement