Relativistic Astrophysics Seminars, University of Florida

 
The Physics Department's Astrophysics Seminar is normally held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday 
in Room 2165 of the New Physics Building.  An alternative timeslot at 2:30 p.m. on Monday 
is also available for Speaker's convenience.

Students may receive credit for attending this seminar by registering for PHY 6391.
 

Schedule - Fall 2000

Each speaker's local host is listed for your added convenience. 



August 25
Speaker:  Steve Detweiler (UF)
Title:  "Radiation Reaction in General Relativity"
Host:  
ABSTRACT

September 1 
Speaker:  Jim Fry (UF)
Title:  "Large Scale Structure:  Status of Observations"
Host:  
ABSTRACT

September 8  No Astrophysics seminar.  Please note the following Astronomy Colloquium:
Speaker:  Raja Guhathakurta (UCSC)
Title:  "Dissecting M31's Stellar Halo With the Keck Telescope"
Host:  
ABSTRACT

September 15  No Astrophysics seminar, but note the following Astronomy
Colloquium, at 4:15pm in the Bryant Space Science Center, Room 5.
Speaker:  Jim Fry (UF)

Title:  "The Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies:  
	Context, Recent Measurements and Implications"

Host:  
ABSTRACT

September 22  Postponed until December 1st for family reasons
Speaker:  Ted Jacobson (Maryland)
Title:  "Gravity with a Dynamical Preferred Frame"
Host:  Whiting
ABSTRACT

September 29
Speaker:  Pablo Laguna (Penn State)
Title:  "Black Hole Collisions"
Host:  Detweiler/Whiting
ABSTRACT

October 6
Speaker:  Thomas Roman (Central Connecticut State)
Title:  "Violating the Second Law with Classical Scalar Fields"
Host:  Whiting
ABSTRACT

October 13  No Astrophysics seminar.  Please note the following Astronomy Colloquium:
Speaker:  Michael Eracleous (Penn State)
Title:  "The Quest for the Dynamical Signature of AGN Accretion Disks"
Host:  
ABSTRACT

October 20  No Astrophysics seminar.  Please note the following Astronomy Colloquium:
Speaker:  Loris Magnani (U. Georgia)
Title:  "High Latitude Molecular Clouds"
Host:  
ABSTRACT

October 27  No Astrophysics seminar.  Please note the following Astronomy Colloquium:
Speaker:  Mark Dickinson (STScI)
Title:  "High redshift studies of galaxies/galaxy evolution"
Host:  
ABSTRACT

November 3 
Speaker:  James Faller (JILA/NIST)
Title:  "New Measurements of the Newtonian Gravitational Constant"
Host:  Whiting
ABSTRACT

November 10 
Homecoming weekend;  No seminar

November 17 
Speaker:  John Friedman (Milwaukee)
Title:  "R-mode instability of neutron stars: surprise and speculation"
Host:  Ipser/Whiting
ABSTRACT

November 24 
Thanksgiving weekend;  No seminar

December 1  3:00pm  Note special time.
Speaker:  Ted Jacobson (Maryland)
Title:  "Gravity with a Dynamical Preferred Frame:  
	Effective field theory of spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance"
Host:  Whiting
ABSTRACT

December 5, 2:30pm  Note special day and time.
Speaker:  Manuela Campanelli (AEI, Potsdam)
Title:  "The Lazarus project: plunge waveforms from binary black holes"
Host:  Whiting
ABSTRACT

December 8  3:00pm  Note special time.
Speaker:  Simonetta Frittelli (Duquesne)
Title:  "Issues in Exact gravitational Lensing"
Host:  Whiting
ABSTRACT

December 14, 2:00pm  Note special day and time.
Speaker:  Lee Lindblom (Caltech)
Title:  "Nonlinear R-Modes of Rotating Stellar Models"
Host:  Ipser
ABSTRACT

December 15
Speaker:  Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (IAP, Paris)
Title:  "The Search for Planets via Microlensing"
Host:  Buchler
ABSTRACT

December 18, 2:30pm  Note special day and time.
Speaker:  Soumya Mohanty (AEI, Potsdam)
Title:  "Detecting transients in noise without threshold anxiety"
Host:  Malik
ABSTRACT


Comments and questions to Bernard Whiting.

Last modified: November 30th, 2000.