Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars (2008-2009)

Organizers:

Cosmology    Shin'ichiro Ando    (626) 395-8753    ando{at}caltech.edu

Astrophysics    David Tsang    (626) 395-8413    dtsang{at}tapir.caltech.edu

Relativity    Mark Scheel    (626) 395-8418    scheel{at}tapir.caltech.edu

All seminars will be held in 370 Cahill on Fridays at 2:00pm, unless otherwise noted.

Fall Term             Winter Term             Spring Term             Summer

Fall Term 2009-2010
Date and Time	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
October 2	Jaiyul Yoo (CfA, Harvard)	A New Perspective on Galaxy Clustering as a Cosmological Probe: General Relativistic Effects NOTE UNUSUAL VENUE:  312 Cahill	Ando
October 9	Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (Ohio State)	Using anisotropy to identify a dark matter signal in diffuse gamma-ray emission with Fermi	Ando
October 16	Elena D'Onghia (CfA, Harvard)	Resonant Stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies	Benson/Ando
WEDNESDAY October 21	Dusan Keres (CfA, Harvard)	How do galaxies get their gas? NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND VENUE: 312 Cahill	Benson
THURSDAY October 22	Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley)	Nonlinear Tides in Close Binary Systems NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME and VENUE: Thursday, 1:30p, 312 Cahill	Tsang
THURSDAY October 29	Vahe Gurzadyan (Yerevan Physics Institute)	The Kolmogorov CMB Sky NOTE UNUSUAL DAY	Ando
October 30	Neal Dalal (CITA)	The handwaver's guide to dark matter halos	Ando
November 13	Ali Vanderveld (Caltech/JPL)	Testing General Relativity on Cosmological Scales with Weak Gravitational Lensing	Ando
THURSDAY November 19	Simon Scheidegger (University of Basel)	Special Computational Astrophysics Seminar 3D MHD core-collapse simulations & possible gravitational wave signatures NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND VENUE: 319 Cahill	Tsang
November 20	Tony Piro (UC Berkeley)	Simmering, Exploding, and Imploding	Ott
November 27		No seminar due to Thanksgiving holiday
December 4	Pablo Cerda-Duran (Max-Planck Inst, Munich)	General relativistic simulations of the magneto-rotational collapse of stellar cores	Tsang
December 11	Carlos Frenk (Durham University)	The cold dark matter model on galactic scales: does it work?	Benson/Ando
December 25		No seminar due to Christmas holiday

Winter Term 2009-2010
Date and Time	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 8
January 22	Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton)	Cosmology with a Bounce	Schmidt
February 5	Dave Tsang (Caltech)	Diskoseismic Modes and the Effect of the Corotation Resonance	Ott
February 19	Shigehiro Nagataki (Kyoto Univ.)	Numerical High-Energy Astrophysics	Tsang
March 5	Yuval Birnboim (CfA, Harvard)	TBA	Ando
March 19	Nico Yunes (Princeton)	TBA	Schmidt
March 26	Avishai Dekel (Hebrew Univ.)	TBA	Ando

Spring Term 2009-2010
Date and Time	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 2	Carsten Rott (Ohio State)	TBA	Schmidt
April 16	Dong Lai (Cornell)	TBA	Tsang
April 30	Richard Easther (Yale)	TBA	Schmidt
May 14	Phil Hopkins (UC Berkeley)	TBA	Schmidt
May 28
June
May 29
June 11		NO SEMINAR - CALTECH COMMENCEMENT

 

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