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 1999
- September 17 - Cancelled -
Speaker:
Steve Detweiler (UF)
Title: "Radiation reaction in general relativity"
- October 1 - Cancelled -
Speaker:
Zoltan Kollath (Konkoly Observatory, Hungary)
Title: "Finally, Double Mode Cephides!"
Host: Buchler
- October 8
Speaker:
Leon Cohen (Hunter College and Graduate Center of CUNY)
Title: "What do we learn from a ring? -
Modern time-series analysis"
Host: Buchler
- October 22
Speaker:
Josh Frieman (Fermilab/Chicago)
Title: "Weak Gravitational Lensing:
Probing the Nearby Universe"
Host: Fry
- November 12
Speaker:
Jim Fry (UF)
Title: "Galaxy correlations and halo profiles"
- November 19
Speaker:
Luz Maria Diaz-Rivera (UF)
Title: "Cosmological models with dynamical Lambda in
scalar-tensor theories"
- December 3
Speaker:
Chung-Pei Ma (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: "Weighing Superclusters of Galaxies"
Host: Fry
Schedule - Spring 2000
- February 17-19
No seminar; instead
15th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Physics and Astronomy:
The Onset of Nonlinearity
- February 25
Speaker:
Roman Juszkiewicz
(Princeton University; Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw;
Université de Genève; Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris;
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge)
Title: "Relative velocities of galaxies suggest
a low-Omega Universe"
Host: Fry
- March 3
Speaker:
Natalia Zotov (Louisiana Tech.)
Title: "Do we observe the real rate of expansion of the universe?"
Host: Whiting
- March 31
Speaker:
Zoltan Kollath (Konkoly Observarory, Hungary)
Title: "The Music of Pulsating Stars"
Host: Buchler
- April 7
Speaker:
Lee Lindblom (Caltech)
Title: "Recent Developments in the R-Mode Problem"
Host: Ipser
Background:
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
First Light Image
Questions, comments, suggestions:
bernard@phys.ufl.edu,
fry@phys.ufl.edu.