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 3:00 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 - Spring 2001 Each speaker's local host is listed for your added convenience. January 12th Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT January 19th Note: High Energy Physics Seminar, held in NPB 2205 at 4:00pm Speaker: S. Kovesi-Domokos (Johns Hopkins) Title: "The Puzzle of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays" Host: ABSTRACT January 26th Speaker: Peter Williams (UF) Title: "Non-normality and Hydrodynamic Stability of Accretion Disks" Host: ABSTRACT February 5th at 2:30pm Note special date and time Speaker: Peter Williams (UF) Title: "Stochastic Pumping of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds" Host: ABSTRACT February 9th Speaker: Stuart Wick (UF) Title: "Horizontal Air Showers: Neutrino Physics at AUGER" Host: ABSTRACT February 15th-17th Florida Workshop on Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics Title: "Nonlinear Dynamics in Galaxies and Exo-Solar Planetary Systems" Hosts: Kandrup, Dermott & Buchler DETAILS and PROGRAMME February 23rd Postponed until April 20th. Speaker: Will Kinney (Columbia) Title: "What do we know about inflation?" Host: Fry ABSTRACT March 2nd Speaker: James R. Webb (FIU) Title: "Microvariability of Blazars" Host: Ipser ABSTRACT March 9th No Seminar (Spring Break) March 16th Speaker: Ed Groth (Princeton) Title: "Detection of Weak Lensing in the HST Survey Strip" Host: Fry ABSTRACT March 23th Speaker: Robert Buchler (UF) Title: "'Strange' Modes in the Classical Variable Stars" Host: ABSTRACT March 30th at 2:30pm in NPB 2205 Note special time and place Speaker: Steve Dracso (Cornell) Title: "Detecting a non-Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational radiation" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT April 6th Speaker: Ruth Williams (Cambridge) Title: "Progress in discrete gravity" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT April 9th at 3:00pm Note special date and time Speaker: Jorma Louko (Nottingham) Title: "Einstein-Kepler problem in 2+1 dimensions" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT April 13th (Good Friday) - No Seminar Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT April 20th Speaker: Will Kinney (Columbia) Title: "What do we know about inflation?" Host: Fry ABSTRACT April 27th (Classes have ended) Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT May 4th Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT May 11th Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT May 18th Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT May 25th Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT June 1st Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT June 8th Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT June 15th Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT June 22nd Speaker: Title: "" Host: ABSTRACT June 29th at 3:00pm Note special time Speaker: Michael Hannawald (Mainz) Title: "Cosmochronometry and New Constraints on R-Process Nucleosynthesis" Host: Mueller ABSTRACT Comments and questions to Bernard Whiting. Last modified: June 26th, 2001.