DATE | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE |
September 4 | Zachariah Etienne | UMD/GSFC | Can Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers Produce Gamma-Ray Bursts? |
September 11 | Alejandro Satz | UPenn | Mechanics and thermodynamics of the Rindler horizon |
September 18 | No seminar | | |
September 25 | No seminar | | |
October 2 | Leo Stein | Cornell University | Parametrizing scalar corrections to general relativity |
October 9 | No seminar | | |
October 16 | No seminar | | |
October 22 (2pm, Rm. 1201) MCFP Colloquium | Jesse Thaler | MIT | |
October 23 | Sylvain Marsat | UMD | Post-Newtonian approach to spin-orbit effects in inspiralling compact binaries |
Tues. October 29 10am | Roger Blandford | Stanford | Pulsars, Quasars and Tensors |
Fri. Nov. 1, 3pm, Astronomy Library | Leo Singer | Caltech | The Needle in the Hundred-Square-Degree Haystack: from Fermi GRBs to LIGO Discoveries |
November 4-6 | | | JSI Workshop: Putting Accretion Theory to the Test |
November 6 | Eric Poisson | University of Guelph | Cosmic censorship and self-force |
November 13 | Smadar Naoz | CFA | Three Body Mechanics and The Origin of Retrograde Hot Jupiters |
November 20 | Paolo Pani | CFA | David Defeats Goliath: How Ultralight Fields Affect The Dynamics of Massive Black Holes |
December 4 | Paul Chesler | Harvard | Dynamics near a holographic phase transition |
December 11 | Evangelos Sfakianakis | MIT | Density perturbations in Hybrid Inflation |