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.