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Date and Time
|
Speaker (Affiliation) |
Title |
Organizer |
January 9
|
Cole Miller (Univ. of Maryland) |
The
spins and eccentricities of comparable-mass black hole binaries |
Scheel |
THURSDAY |
Subhanjoy Mohanty (CfA/Harvard) |
Disk Accretion in Young Stars
with Multipole Stellar Fields: Theory and Observations NOTE UNUSUAL DAY and VENUE - 351 W. Bridge (time is still 2pm) |
Ando |
January 16
|
Rodrigo
Fernandez (CITA) |
Numerical
Experiments in Core-Collapse Supernova Hydrodynamics NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 2:15pm |
Ott |
January
30 |
Manuela Campanelli (RIT) and |
Some Progress on Binary
Hole Mergers and
Astrophysical Applications NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 3pm |
Ott |
February 13 |
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February
27 |
Patrick Brady (UWM) |
Studying the transient Universe
with gravitational-waves: |
Thorne |
TUESDAY |
Yuk Tung Liu (University
of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign) |
General
Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers:
Gravitational Radiation and Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts NOTE SPECIAL DAY |
Scheel |
TUESDAY March 10 |
Christian D. Ott (Caltech) |
The Death of Massive Stars |
Ott |
March 13 |
DATE
BLOCKED DUE TO CONFLICTING CaJAGWR SEMINAR |
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MONDAY March 16 |
Yoram Lithwick (CITA) |
Dynamics Of Protoplanetary
Disks (and of Cosmological Haloes) |
Phinney |
TUESDAY March 17 |
Frans Pretorius (Princeton) |
When Black Holes Collide |
Thorne |
WEDNESDAY March 18 |
Jonathan McKinney (Stanford) |
Relativistic
Compact Objects and their Environs Special TAPIR Seminar NOTE SPECIAL DAY: Wednesday |
Phinney |
THURSDAY March 19 |
Ben Owen (PSU) |
Probing
neutron stars with continuous gravitational waves Special TAPIR Seminar NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME: Thursday, 1:30pm |
Lindblom |
March 20 |
Andrew Wetzel (UC Berkeley) |
Galaxy
Mergers at High Redshift |
Ando |
Date and Time
|
Speaker (Affiliation) |
Title |
Organizer |
April
3 |
Mike Kesden, Caltech |
Ott |
|
TUESDAY
April 7 |
Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton |
The
Physics and Astrophysics of Collisionless Shocks NOTE SPECIAL DAY |
Phinney |
April 10
|
Duncan
Brown, Syracuse Univ. |
Towards
Gravitational Wave Astronomy with LIGO Joint LIGO/TAPIR Seminar |
Thorne |
April 17
|
Laura Cadonati, UMass |
Gravitational wave un-modeled
searches and astrophysical signatures |
Weinstein |
April 24 |
Kin-Wang Ng, |
Ando |
|
May
1 |
Guilhem
Lavaux, UIUC |
Ando |
|
May 15
|
Jorge
Moreno, Haverford College |
Ando |
|
May
29 |
Amjad Ashoorioon, University of Michigan |
Ando |
|
TUESDAY June 9 |
Lila Warszawski, University of Melbourne |
Gravitational wave bursts from vortex avalanches
in pulsar glitches |
Ott |
June 12
|
NO SEMINAR
- CALTECH COMMENCEMENT |
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Date and Time
|
Speaker (Affiliation) |
Title |
Organizer |
July 28 |
Maurice Van Putten, MIT |
Stirred,
not shaken: The nonthermal Transient Universe from rotating
black
holes Joint LIGO/TAPIR Seminar NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND VENUE: 351 W. Bridge - 1:00pm |
Weinstein |
July 28 |
Curt Cutler, Jet Propulsion Lab |
Cosmology with 300,000
Standard Sirens NOTE UNUSUAL VENUE AND TIME: Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill - 4:00pm |
Vallisneri |
August 28 |
CANCELED
DUE TO ILLNESS |
Ando |
|
THURSDAY September 3 |
Rob Owen, Cornell University | Algebraic Classification of Numerical Black Hole
Spacetimes |
Scheel |
September 4 |
K G Arun, Washington University of St. Louis |
Parameswaran |
|
September 18 |
Laura Sales, |
Ando |
|
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