The Physics Department Astrophysics Seminar is normally held at 4:00pm on Friday in Room 2165 of the New Physics Building.
Students may receive credit for attending this seminar by registering for PHY 6391.

Physics Department Seminars
Astronomy Department Colloquium

• August 20 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:00pm, BSSC 3
  Speaker: Xiaoke Wan (Quantronix Corp., New York)
  Title: "Fiber interferometer and fiber Bragg grating and its applications"

  September 4   Football   (Middle Tennessee) (rescheduled October 16 for Hurricane Frances)

• September 10
  Speaker: John Whelan (Loyola University New Orleans)
  Title: "Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Searches with Interferometers and Bars"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  September 10 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Tomas Zwitter (University of Ljubljana)
  Title: "Learning basic stellar physics: from the Hipparcos mission to the current RAdial Velocity Experiment and the forthcoming GAIA mission"

  September 11   Football   (E. Michigan)

• September 17
  Speaker: Sergei Klimenko (UF)
  Title: "Search for gravitational wave bursts with LIGO detectors"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

• September 24
  Speaker: Yasushi Mino (Caltech)
  Title: " Self-Force in a Radiation Reaction Formula"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  September 24 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Daniel Nestor (University of Ljubljana)
  Title: "The Nature and Evolution of Galaxies Selected via Gas Cross Section"

  September 25   Football   (Kentucky)

• October 1
  Speaker: Pablo Laguna (Penn State Physics/Astronomy&Astrophysics)
  Title: "Low-Carb Numerical Relativity Problems"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  October 2   Football   (Arkansas)

• October 8
  Speaker: Pat Brady (UWM)
  Title: "Searching for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries: progress and prospects"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  October 8 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Victor J.S. Bejar (GTC)
  Title: "Gran Telescopio De Canarias: Current Status and Future Capabilities"

  October 9   Football   (LSU)

• October 15
  Speaker: Wolfgang Rindler (UTD)
  Title: "Cosmology Today"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  October 15 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Knut Olsen (Cerro Tololo International Observatory)
  Title: "Globular Clusters and the Disks of Nearby Galaxies"

  October 16   Football   (Middle Tennessee – hurricane Frances reschedule)

• October 21 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
  Speaker: Marc Kuchner (Princeton University)
  Title: "Reading the Resonant Signatures of Planets in Debris Disks"

• October 22 Postponed
  Speaker: Bei-Lok Hu (U Md)
  Title: "Stochastic Gravitational Radiation Reaction Equations from Quantum Field Theory"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  October 22 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Marc Kuchner (Princeton University)
  Title: "Finding Extrasolar Planets with a Coronograph"

• October 29
  Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (Fermilab)
  Title: "Astrophysical bounds on dark matter particles and physics beyond the standard mode"   Abstract
  Host: Laura Baudis

  October 30   Football   (Georgia) [@Jax?]

• November 1, 2:30pm
  Speaker: Éanna Flanagan (Cornell Physics/Astronomy)
  Title: "Gravitational waves as probes of cosmology"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

• November 3 Astronomy Department Colloquium 4:00pm, BSSC 7
  Speaker: David Ciardi (MSS/Caltech)
  Title: "Dust Extinction Within 1.5 kpc of the Sun"

• November 4–6
  Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Physics

• November 8 Astronomy Department Colloquium 9:35am BSSC 217
  Speaker: George Contopoulos (The Academy of Athens)
  Title: "Galactic Vortices and Order in Chaos"

  November 12   Football (Homecoming)   (South Carolina)

• November 19
  Speaker: Manuela Campanelli (UTB)
  Title: "Understanding the fate of merging supermassive black holes"   Abstract
  Rescheduled to Spring 2005 (or not)

  November 19
  Speaker: Ethan Siegel (UF)
  Title: "Starburst Galaxies at High Redshift: A New Method for Precision Cosmology"   Abstract

  November 19 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Kim Vy-Tran (Institute for Astronomy, Zurich)
  Title: "Infall, the Butcher Oemler Effect, and the Descendants of Blue Cluster Galaxies at z~0.6"

• November 24 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 1:00pm, BSSC 217
  Speaker: Virginia G. Ford (JPL)
  Title: "Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph Status and Enabling Technologies"

• November 25   Thanksgiving

• December 1 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 12:30pm, BSSC 217
  Speaker: Eduardo Martin (University of Central Florida; IAC, Spain)
  Title: "A High-Resolution Near-Infrared Echelle Spectrograph for GTC 10.4 Meter Telescope"

• December 3
  Speaker: Katie Freese (Michigan)
  Title: "Cardassian Expansion: Dark Energy from Modified Friedmann Equations"   Abstract
  Host: Laura Baudis

• December 10
  Speaker: Neal Dalal (IAS)
  Title: "Gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter"   Abstract
  Host: Laura Baudis

  December 10 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Harry Ferguson (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  Title: "Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)"

• Wednesday, January 5, 4:00pm
  Speaker: Phil Willems (Caltech)
  Title: "Technology developments in LIGO and Advanced LIGO"  
  Host: Guido Mueller

• Monday, January 10 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 280
  Speaker: Geoffrey A. Landis (NASA John Glenn Research Center)
  Title: "What's New on Mars: The Mars Exploration Rover Mission"

• January 21 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 260
  Speaker: Vladimir Strelnitski (Maria Mitchell Observatory)
  Title: "Masers and Lasers in the Universe"

• Wednesday, January 26 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 260
  Speaker: Ramon Garcia (La Laguna University / IAC)
  Title: "Looking for Cosmic Ray Sources and its Relation to Galactic Chemical Evolution"

• Tuesday, February 1, 2:30pm, 207 Leigh Hall
  Speaker: Dan Britt (UCF)
  Title: "Mars Water and Dust: Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Express, and Mars Odyssey Missions"

• February 4 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 260
  Speaker: Laurence W. Fredrick (Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia)
  Title: "The Great Impactor"

• Thursday, February 10, 2:00pm, 2205^*
  Speaker: Yun Wang (U Oklahoma)
  Title: "The Dark Side of the Universe"   Abstract
  Host: Richard Woodard

• Thursday, February 17, 2:00pm, 2205^*
  Speaker: Ben Metcalf (Santa Cruz)
  Title: "Cosmology, Gravitational Lensing and Missing Galaxies"   Abstract
  Host: Guenakh Mitselmakher

• February 28–March 4   Spring Break

• Thursday, March 10, 2:00pm, 2205^*
  Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (Fermilab)
  Title: "Dark Matter Particles: MeV, TeV, or Heavier?"   Abstract
  Host: Steve Detweiler

  March 10 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
  Speaker: Eric Gawiser (Yale)
  Title: "The MUSYC Census of Protogalaxies at z=3"

• March 11
  Speaker: Eric Gawiser (Yale)
  Title: "A Rejuvenated Universe Without Initial Singularity"   Abstract
  Host: Laura Baudis

• March 17–20   Gatornationals

• March 23 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
  Speaker: Marsha Wolf (Texas)
  Title: "Estimating the Ages of Galaxies to Understand Their Stellar Mass Assembly"

• March 25
  Speaker: Jorma Louko (Nottingham)
  Title: "Geons with spin and charge"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

• April 1
  Speaker: Lee Lindblom (Caltech)
  Title: "Constraint Preservation in Numerical Relativity"   Abstract
  Host: Jim Ipser

  April 1 Astronomy Department Colloquium
  Speaker: Chip Kobulnicky (Wyoming)
  Title: "A GLIMPSE of the Milky Way" (was: "Early Discoveries from the Spitzer Legacy GLIMPSE Survey"

• April 4 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
  Speaker: Sheperd Doeleman (MIT)
  Title: "The Massive Black Hole in the Center of Our Galaxy"

• April 8
  Speaker: Chris Beetle (FAU)
  Title: "Approximate symmetries in general relativity: Theory and practice"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  April 8 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 260
  Speaker: Tim Brown (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
  Title: "One Man's Noise ..."

• April 11 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
  Speaker: Steve Strom (NOAO)
  Title: "Next Generation O/IR Telescopes"

• April 22
  Speaker: Bei-Lok Hu (U Md)
  Title: "Stochastic Gravitational Radiation Reaction Equations from Quantum Field Theory"   Abstract
  Host: Bernard Whiting

  April 22 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 260?
  Speaker: Chris Conselice (Caltech)
  Title: "Constraining the Formation of Galaxy Stellar and Dark Mass "

• April 25 Postponed to Fall
  Speaker: Teresa Montaruli (Bari/Wisconsin)
  Title: "TBA"   Abstract
  Host: Laura Baudis

• April 29 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
  Speaker: Anton Koekmeor (STScI)
  Title: "Extreme X-ray/Optical Sources (EXO's): A Population of High-z Obscured AGN"

• May 2 Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, FLG 260
  Speaker: Reba Bandyopadhyay (Oxford)
  Title: "Exploring the Nature of Weak Chandra Sources near the Galactic Centre"

  ^*TAP Search

Background: First Light Image, Sloan Digital Sky Survey

1998–1999, 1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2001–2002, 2002–2003, 2003–2004

Questions, comments, suggestions: bernard@phys.ufl.edu, fry@phys.ufl.edu.