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.