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 on Monday is also available for Speaker's convenience. Students may receive credit for attending this seminar by registering for PHY 6391. Schedule - Spring 1998 Each speaker's local host is listed for your added convenience. February 2nd (Monday) Speaker: Matt Choptuik (UT, Austin) - Cancelled due to illness Title: "Making Small Black Holes---Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse" Host: Whiting February 6th Speaker: Jennifer Logan (Caltech) Title: "LIGO: The Search for Gravitational Waves" Host: Whiting February 13th Speaker: Beverly Berger (Oakland University) Title: "On the Nature of the Generic Cosmological Singularity" Host: Whiting February 20th Speaker: Neil Ashby (University of Colorado) Title: "Relativistic Effects in the Global Positioning System" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT February 23rd (Monday) Speaker: Chris Essex (West Ontario) Title: "Radiation: Timeless Irreversiblity" Host: Kennedy ABSTRACT February 27th Speaker: Larry Ford (Tufts University) Title: "Cosmological and Black Hole Horizon Fluctuations" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT March 6th Speaker: Gabriela Gonzalez (Pennsylvania State University) Title: "The Phase Noise Interferometer: A LIGO prototype" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT March 9th (Monday) Speaker: Jorge Pullin (Pennsylvania State University) Title: "Colliding Black Holes: How Far with the Close Approximation?" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT March 13th No Seminar (Spring Break) March 20th Speaker: Bill Hamilton (Louisiana State University) Title: "Gravitational Wave Detection - Past, Present and Future" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT March 27nd Speaker: Shashi Kanbur (University of Glasgow) Title: "The use of variable stars in distance estimation in cosmology" Host: Buchler April 3rd Speaker: Peter Saulson (Syracuse University) Title: "How is it possible to detect gravitational waves?" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT April 10th (Good Friday) - No Seminar Speaker: Title: "" Host: April 13th (Monday) Speaker: Ted Newman (University of Pittsburgh) Title: "Null Surface Dynamics in General Relativity" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT April 17th Speaker: Matt Choptuik (UT, Austin) Title: "Making Small Black Holes---Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse" Host: Whiting ABSTRACT April 20th (Monday) Cancelled; rescheduled for May 15th Speaker: Greg Mendell (UF) Title: "Inner-most Stable Orbit for a Schwarzschild Black Hole" Host: Local ABSTRACT April 24th (Classes have ended) Speaker: Title: "" Host: May 1st 3:00pm Rescheduled for May 11th Speaker: Dallas Kennedy (UF) Title: "Homology and Analytic Forms for Solar Structure" Host: Local ABSTRACT May 8th Speaker: MarieJo Goupil (Observatoire de Paris - Meudon) Title: "Asteroseismology in Space with COROT" Host: May 11th Monday 2:30pm Speaker: Dallas Kennedy (UF) Title: "Homology and Analytic Forms for Solar Structure" Host: Local ABSTRACT May 15th Speaker: Greg Mendell (UF) Title: "Inner-most Stable Orbit for a Schwarzschild Black Hole" Host: Local ABSTRACT Bernard Whiting Last modified: Apr 30th, 1998.