Relativistic Astrophysics Seminars, University of Florida

 
The Physics Department's Astrophysics Seminar is normally held at 4 p.m. on Friday in 265 Williamson Hall. 

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

Schedule - Fall 1997

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

August 29 
No seminar

September 5 
Speaker:  Greg Mendell (UF)
Title:  "MHD Theory in Superconducting-Superfluid Neutron Stars,
with Application to Pulsar Glitches" 


September 12
Speaker:  Carlos O. Lousto (University of Utah)
Title:  "Understanding initial data for black hole collisions"
Host: Bernard Whiting


September 17 (Wednesday) in WM 210 at 4:00pm
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND PLACE
Speaker:  Dipak Munshi (QMW, London) 
Title:  "Evolution of Correlation functions in Gravitational Clustering"
Host: James Fry
 

Sept. 26 
Speaker:  Steve Detweiler (UF)
Title:  "Black Hole Binary Systems"


Oct. 3 
Speaker:  Jim Fry (UF)
Title:  "The Galaxy Bispectrum: What's New?"


Oct. 10  Joint with Astronomy Colloquium
Place:  Bryant (SSRC) 407
Time:  3:15pm (Refreshments at 3:00pm)
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE
Speaker:  J. Robert Buchler (UF)
Title:  "Strange Modes in Classical Variable Stars; Are They Observable?"


Oct. 17 
Speaker:
Title:  ""


Oct. 24 
Speaker:
Title:  ""

Oct. 31 
Speaker:
Title:  ""


Nov. 7 
Homecoming weekend;  No seminar


Nov. 14 
Speaker:  Henry Kandrup (UF Astronomy)
Title:  "A geometric interpretation of chaos"


Nov. 21 
Speaker:  Adrian Melott
Title:  "Using the Bull's Eye Effect to Measure the Mass Density of the Universe"
Host:  Jim Fry

Nov. 28 
Thanksgiving weekend;  No seminar

Dec. 5 
Speaker:  Philip A. Yecko
Title:  "Is turbulence necessary?
 -- an update on modeling convection in pulsating stars"
 

Bernard Whiting / bernard@phys.ufl.edu / Last modified: Nov. 21, 1997.