Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
The Physics Department Astrophysics Seminar is normally held at
4:00 p.m. on Friday in Room 2165 of the New Physics Building.
Students may receive credit for attending this seminar by
registering for PHY 6391.
Schedule - Fall 2000
- August 25
Speaker:
Steve Detweiler (UF)
Title: "Radiation Reaction in General Relativity"
- September 1
Speaker:
Jim Fry (UF)
Title: "Large Scale Structure: Status of Observations"
- September 29
Speaker:
Pablo Laguna (Penn State)
Title: "Black Hole Collisions"
Host: Detweiler/Whiting
- October 6
Speaker:
Thomas Roman (Central Connecticut State)
Title: "Violating the Second Law with Classical Scalar Fields"
Host: Whiting
- November 3
Speaker:
James Faller (JILA/NIST)
Title: "New Measurements of the Newtonian Gravitational Constant"
Host: Whiting
- November 10
No seminar (Homecoming)
- November 17
Speaker:
John Friedman (Milwaukee)
Title: "r-mode Instability of Neutron Stars:
Surprise and Speculation"
Host: Ipser/Whiting
- November 24
No seminar (Thanksgiving)
- December 1, 3:00 pm (note special time)
Speaker:
Ted Jacobson (Maryland)
Title: "Gravity with a Dynamical Preferred Frame"
Host: Whiting
- Tuesday December 5, 2:30 pm (note special day and time)
Speaker:
Manuela Campanelli (AEI, Potsdam)
Title: "The Lazarus project: plunge waveforms from
binary black holes"
Host: Whiting
- December 8, 3:00 pm (note special time)
Speaker:
Simonetta Frittelli (Duquesne)
Title: "Issues in Exact gravitational Lensing"
Host: Whiting
- Thursday December 14, 2:00 pm (note special day and time)
Speaker:
Lee Lindblom (Caltech)
Title: "Nonlinear r-Modes of Rotating Stellar Models"
Host: Ipser
- December 15
Speaker:
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (IAP, Paris)
Title: "The Search for Planets via Microlensing"
Host: Buchler
- Monday December 18, 2:30 pm (note special day and time)
Speaker:
Soumya Mohanty (AEI, Potsdam)
Title: "Detecting transients in noise without threshold anxiety"
Host: Malik
Schedule - Spring 2001
- January 26
Speaker:
Peter Williams (UF)
Title: "Non-normality and Hydrodynamic Stability of Accretion Disks"
- Monday February 5, 2:30 pm (note special day and time)
Speaker:
Peter Williams (UF)
Title: "Stochastic Pumping of Supersonic Turbulence
in Molecular Clouds"
- February 9
Speaker:
Stuart Wick (UF)
Title: "Horizontal Air Showers: Neutrino Physics at AUGER"
- February 15-17
16th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics:
Nonlinear Dynamics in Galaxies and Exo-Solar Planetary Systems
- March 2
Speaker:
James R. Webb (FIU)
Title: "Microvariability of Blazars"
Host: Ipser
- March 16
Speaker:
Ed Groth (Princeton)
Title: "Detection of Weak Lensing in the HST Survey Strip"
Host: Fry
- March 23
Speaker:
Robert Buchler (UF)
Title: "'Strange' Modes in the Classical Variable Stars"
- March 30
Speaker:
Steve Dracso (Cornell)
Title: "Detecting a non-Gaussian stochastic background
of gravitational radiation"
Host: Whiting
- April 6
Speaker:
Ruth Williams (Cambridge)
Title: "Progress in Discrete Gravity"
Host: Whiting
- Monday April 9, 2:30 pm (note special day and time)
Speaker:
Jorma Louko (Nottingham)
Title: "TBA"
Host: Whiting
- April 20
Speaker:
Will Kinney (Columbia)
Title: "What do we know about inflation?"
Host: Fry
Background:
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
First Light Image
Questions, comments, suggestions:
bernard@phys.ufl.edu,
fry@phys.ufl.edu.