Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
The Physics Department Astrophysics Seminar is normally held at
4:00pm on Friday in Room 2165 of the New Physics Building.
Students may receive credit for attending this seminar by
registering for PHY 6391.
The Spring 2004
Astronomy Department Colloquium may be held at 4:00pm in FLG 270
or 280,
with refreshements served before the colloquium at 3:30pm in the
BRT 2nd floor conference room
Physics Department Seminars
Schedule Fall 2003
- September 5
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Aaron Steinhauer (University of Florida)
Title: "Formation and Evolution of the Open Cluster Lithium Gap"
- September 26, 12:40pm (note special time)
Speaker:
Tamnay Vachaspati
(Case Western Reserve University)
Title: "In search of a smoking gun for inflation"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
- October 10
Speaker:
Paul Anderson
(Wake Forest University)
Title: "Quantum and Classical Effects in Static
Black Hole Spacetimes via the Euclidean Green's Function"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
October 10
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Jian Ge (Penn State University)
Title: "From Extrasolar Planets to High Redshift Gamma Ray Bursts"
- October 17
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Chris Clemens (University of North Carolina)
Title: "Astronomical Instrumentation in the Goodman
Laboratory: A Morphological Perspective"
- October 24
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Rupali Chandar (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Title: "Star Cluster Systems in Nearby Spiral Galaxies"
- Postponed until Spring (was October 31)
Speaker:
Pat Brady
(UWM)
Title: TBA
Host: Bernard Whiting
October 31
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Mike Pahre (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Univ)
Title: "The Luminosity, Velocity,
and Mass Functions of Local Galaxies"
- Thursday, November 6
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Wolfgang Brander (MPIA)
Title: "Binary Properties of Nearby Ultra-cool
Dwarfs and Brown Dwarfs"
- November 7 No seminar (Homecoming)
- November 14
Speaker:
Brian O'Reilly
(LIGO Livingston Observatory)
Title: "Recent Progress at LIGO"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
November 14
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Richard Ellis (CalTech)
Title: "Gravitational Lensing Studies with Keck and HST"
- November 21
Speaker:
Wolfgang Tichy
(Penn State)
Title: "Binary black hole initial data sequences
derived from helical Killing vector conditions"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
November 21
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Keivan Stassan (Vanderbilt University)
Title: TBA
- November 28 No seminar (Thanksgiving)
- December 5
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Sydney Barnes (Florida Institute of Technology)
Title: "Rotational evolution of solar- and late-type stars"
- Monday, December 8, 4:05pm
Special CMT Seminar
Speaker: Katia Matcheva (Cornell)
Title: "Gravity waves in the atmospheres of Solar System planets"
Abstract
- December 12
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Terry Jones (University of Minnesota)
Title: "Magnetic Fields in Galaxies"
Schedule Spring 2004
- January 23
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:00 pm, FLG 280
Speaker: Ari Maller (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Title: "Large Scale Structure and the Two Micron All Sky Survey"
- Monday, January 26
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 1:30pm, Bryant Hall 7
Cancelled
Speaker: Kris Davidson, University of Minnesota
Title: "Eta Carinae: Prototype Supernova Imposter"
Monday, January 26, 2:30pm
Speaker:
Soumya Mohanty
(UTB)
Title: "Data conditioning techniques for
Gravitational wave Burst searches"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
- February 6
Speaker: Beverly Berger (NSF)
Title: "Exploring Mathematical Cosmology with
Numerical Simulation"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
- February 13
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
Speaker: Mark Swain, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Title: "The Antarctic Planet Interferometer"
- Monday, February 16, 2:00pm, 2205*
Speaker:
Tom Shutt
(Princeton)
Title: "Xenon: the elixir for WIMPs?"
Abstract
Host: Pierre Sikivie
- February 20
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Isabelle Baraffe (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
Title: "Compact Binaries:
Low Mass Secondaries in Cataclysmic Variable Systems"
- Monday, February 23, 2:00pm, 2205*
Speaker:
Joe Formaggio
(U Washington)
Title: "The Year of the Neutrino"
Abstract
Host:
Guenakh Mitselmakher
February 23
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 270
Speaker: Daniel Proga (U Colorado)
Title: "How Outflows Reveal and Assist Accretion Onto Black Holes"
- Thursday, February 26, 2:00pm, 2205*
Speaker:
Tarek Saab
(GSFC)
Title: "From milliKelvin to MegaKelvin
How superconductivity can help elucidate cosmology"
Abstract
Host: John Yelton/Laura Baudis
- February 27
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 270
Speaker: Anthony Gonzalez (UF)
Title: "The FLAMINGOS Extragalactic Survey:
A Bird's Eye View of the Universe"
- Monday, March 1, 2:00pm, 2205*
Speaker:
Mark Boulay
(LANL)
Title: "Past, Present, and Future of Solar Neutrino and
Dark Matter Experiments"
Abstract
Host: Jim Fry
March 1
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 270
Speaker: Jonathan Tan (Princeton)
Title: "Massive Star Birth, from the Dark Ages to Orion"
- Thursday, March 4, 2:00pm, 2205*
Speaker:
Leslie Rosenberg
(LLNL)
Title: "The Axion Dark-Matter Experiment:
Recent Results and the High-Sensitivity Upgrade"
Abstract
Host: David Tanner
- March 5
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 270
Speaker: Aigen Li (Steward Observatory, U Arizona)
Title: "Modeling the Infrared Emission from
(Proto)Planetary Dust Disks"
- March 812 Spring Break
- Monday, March 15, 2:00pm, 2205*
Speaker:
David Ottaway
(MIT LIGO)
Title: "Gravitational Wave Detection: Now and in the future"
Abstract
Host: Guido Mueller
March 15
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 270
Speaker: Shardha Jogee (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Title: "Evolution of Disk Galaxies: Internal and External Triggers"
- March 18
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Bryant Hall 7
Speaker: Tom Maccarone (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Title: "The Disk-Jet Connection in X-ray Binaries and Progress
towards a Unified Picture of Jet Production from Accreting Black Holes"
- March 19 Gatornationals
- March 22
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 270
Speaker: Volker Bromm (CfA)
Title: "Cosmic Renaissance: The First Sources of Light"
- March 24
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, Turlington L011
Speaker: Elena Pierpaoli (Princeton)
Title: "Cosmology with galaxy clusters"
- March 26
Speaker:
Greg Galloway
(U Miami)
Title: "Cosmological Spacetimes of de Sitter type"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
- Monday, March 29, 2:30pm
Speaker:
James York
(Cornell)
Title: "Einstein constraints in the Lagrangian
and in the Hamiltonian pictures"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
- April 2
Speaker:
Massimo Tinto
(JPL)
Title: "LISA: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna"
Abstract
Host: Guido Mueller
- April 14
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
Speaker: Eduardo Martin
(Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
Title: "Multiplicity of Brown Dwarfs"
- April 16
Speaker:
Matt Choptuik
(UBC)
Title: "Recent Developments in Black Hole Critical Phenomena"
Abstract
Host: Bernard Whiting
- Thursday, April 22, 2:00pm
Speaker:
Ed Bertschinger
(MIT)
Title: "Brownian Motion in Galaxy Halos:
The Mechanics of Dark Matter"
Host: Jim Fry
- April 23
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
Speaker: Matthias Dietrich (GSU)
Title: "Quasar Activity and Early Galaxy Formation"
- Monday, April 26, 2:30pm
Speaker:
Dan Shaddock
(JPL)
Title: "Interferometry for LISA"
Abstract
Host: Guido Mueller
- May 7
Speaker:
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
(IAP)
Title: "Microlensing: a status report 11 years after
the first detections"
Host: Robert Buchler
- Monday, May 24, 2:30pm
Speaker:
Leopold Halpern
(FSU)
Title: "Simple Groups and Gravitational Theory"
Host: Bernard Whiting
May 24
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 2?0
Speaker: Doug Geisler (Universidad de Concepcion)
Title: "Sculptor'ing the Galaxy?"
*EPA Search
Background: First Light Image,
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
1998-1999,
1999-2000,
2000-2001,
2001-2002,
2002-2003
Questions, comments, suggestions:
bernard@phys.ufl.edu,
fry@phys.ufl.edu.