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 2001
- September 14
Speaker:
Jim Fry (UF)
Title: "The Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"
- September 28
Speaker:
Steve Detweiler (UF)
Title: "Gravitational Waves and Close Binary Systems"
- October 5 (Experimental Astrophysics)
Speaker:
Andri Gretarsson (SYR)
Title: "Thermal noise from multilayer coatings
as a limit to gravitational wave interferometer sensitivity"
Host: Reitze
- October 12
Philosophy Department Colloquium
303 Griffin-Floyd Hall, 4:00pm
Speaker: Jeremy Butterfield (Oxford)
Title: "The End of Time?"
- Monday, October 22, 2:45pm (Experimental Astrophysics)
Speaker:
Gabriela Gonzalez (LSU)
Title: "Thermal Noise of Suspensions in Gravitational Wave Detectors"
Host: Whiting
- Tuesday, October 23, 12:00pm
Speaker:
Jorge Pullin (LSU)
Title: ""The Charm of Being Discrete in General Relativity
Host: Whiting
- October 26
Speaker:
Zoltan Kollath (Konkoly Observatory, Hungary)
Title: "Application of Time-Frequency Distributions
to Variable Star Data and Solar Activity"
Host: Buchler
- November 2
No seminar (Homecoming)
- November 23
No seminar (Thanksgiving)
- November 30, 2:00pm
Speaker:
Darin Kinion (UC, LLNL)
Title: "dc SQUID Amplifier Development for the
Dark Matter Axion Search"
Schedule Spring 2002
- February 1
Speaker:
Ed Spiegel (Columbia)
Title: "Heating the Universe"
Host: Buchler
- March 1
Speaker:
Ali Nayeri (MIT)
Title: "Braneworlds Revisited"
Host: Fry
- March 11, 2:30pm
Speaker:
Sandip Chakrabarti (Bose Centre for Basic Science)
Title: "Identification of Black Holes"
Host: Ipser
- March 15
Speaker:
Neil Cornish (Montana)
Title: "The two body problem in general relativity",
or "Are spinning compact binaries chaotic"
Host: Whiting
- March 25, 2:30pm
Speaker:
David Blair (UWA)
Title: "The Sound of the Astrophysical
Gravitational Wave Background"
Host: Reitze
- April 5
Speaker:
Jorma Louko (Nottingham U)
Title: "A Frankenbrane universe"
Host: Whiting
- April 19
Speaker:
Sean Carroll (Chicago)
Title: "Constants and variables of Nature"
Host: Whiting
- April 29 Postponed from April 12
Speaker:
Alessandra Buonanno (Caltech)
Title: "Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Binary Black Holes"
Host: Whiting
- May 17
Speaker:
Roman Juszkiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
Title: "A new dynamical estimator for the cosmological
density parameter"
Host: Fry
Background:
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
First Light Image
1998-1999,
1999-2000,
2000-2001,
2001-2002
Questions, comments, suggestions:
bernard@phys.ufl.edu,
fry@phys.ufl.edu.