2009
20 November 2009
Title: Searching for Intermediate-Duration Gravitational-Wave Transients with LIGO
Speaker: Eric Thrane ,
University of Minnesotta
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
13 November 2009
Title: Primordial Gravitational Waves and the CMB
Speaker: Scott Dodelson,
University of Chicago
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
6 November 2009
Title: Role of PN approximations in EMRI calculations
Speaker: Bernard Whiting,
University of Florida
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
30 October 2009
Title: Black-hole binary coalescence: phenomenological models for non-precessing systems and astrophysics of intermediate-mass binaries
Speaker: Lucia Santamaria,
AEI, Potsdam
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
23 October 2009
Title: Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Sources
Speaker: Xavier Siemens,
UWM
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
16 October 2009
Title: A Cross-Correlation Technique to Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves
Speaker: John Whelan ,
RIT
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
2 October 2009
Title: Mother Guth: Investigating the progeny of false-vacuum bubbles
Speaker: Tom Linz,
UWM
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
11 September 2009
Title: Reexamining the predictions of inflation for the CMB anisotropies
Speaker: Ivan Agullo,
UWM
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
14 August 2009
Title: Short Gamma Ray Bursts and Gravitational Wave Events
Speaker: Luigi Stella,
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
6 August 2009
Title: Bubbles in Eternal Inflation: A Classic(al) Effect
Speaker: John T. Giblin,
Perimeter Institute
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
19 June 2009
Title: The Search for Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescences in LIGO's S5 and Virgo's VSR1 Data
Speaker: Ruslan Vaulin,
UWM
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
5 June 2009
Title: Binary neutron star inspiral and the equation of state
Speaker: Jocelyn Read,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Postdam
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
15 May 2009
Title: Constraining neutron star tidal Love numbers with gravitational wave detectors
Speaker: Tanja Hinderer,
California Institute of Technology
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
14 May 2009
Title: Exploring non-vacuum binaries: magnetic effects and neutrino emission
Speaker: Matt Anderson,
Louisiana State University
Time: 2:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
17 Apr 2009
Title: Groping for a new renormalization scheme: scalar self-force in Schwarzschild spacetime
Speaker: Alan Wiseman,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
10 Apr 2009
Title: Generalized symmetries and self-force.
Speaker: Abraham Harte,
University of Chicago
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
27 Mar 2009
Title: Gravity Waves from Electroweak Phase Transition without Collider Traces
Speaker: Amjad Ashoorioon,
University of Michigan
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
13 Mar 2009
Title: Physical derivation of the gravitational self-force and some applications
Speaker: Steve Detweiler,
University of Florida
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
27 Feb 2009
Title: Iteration stability for simple stellar systems
Speaker: Charalampos Markakis,
UWM
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
6 Feb 2009
Title: Phase-space structure of the Milky Way's dark halo
Speaker: Leanne D. Duffy,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12.30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
2 Jan 2009
Title: Pulsar timing near supermassive black holes: Schwarzschild holes and eclipsing orbits
Speaker: Teviet Creighton,
University of Texas at Brownsville
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
2008
12 Dec 2008
Title: Rigorous Derivation of Gravitational Self-force: Method and Implications
Speaker: Sam Gralla,
University of Chicago
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
14 Nov 2008
Title: Direct transmission of light along casual links
Speaker: Rafael Sorkin,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Syracuse University
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
7 Nov 2008
Title: Physics of the Neutrino Factory and Related Long Baseline Designs
Speaker: Jordi Burguet-Castell,
UWM
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
7 Oct 2008
Title: TBA
Speaker: Melissa Anholm,
UWM
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
9 May 2008
Title: TBA
Speaker: Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado,
Tufts University
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
2 May 2008
Title: TBA
Speaker: Ellen Zweibel,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
18 April 2008
Title: X-ray Pulsars and the Search for the Supra-nuclear Equation of State
Speaker: Sharon Morsink,
University of Alberta
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
4 April 2008
Title: Beyond binary black holes, neutron stars and them some
Speaker: Luis Lehner,
Louisiana State University
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
28 March 2008
Title: Numerical Simulations of Binary Neutrons Stars: How realistic is the initial data?
Speaker: Randy Wolfmeyer,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
7 March 2008
Title: Controlling the constraint growth in numerical relativity
Speaker: Vasileios Paschalidis,
University of Chicago
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
29 February 2008
Title: Ground-based detection of gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals
Speaker: Ilya Mandel,
Northwestern University
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
22 February 2008
Title: Searches for gravitational-wave inspirals from short GRBs
Speaker: Nick Fotopoulos,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
15 February 2008
Title: Characterization of the Polarization and Frequency Selective Bolometric (PFSB) Detector Architecture
Speaker: John Leong,
Case Western Reserve University
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
25 January 2008
Title: Hypervelocity stars in the halo of the Milky Way
Speaker: Benjamin Bromley,
University of Utah
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
2007
2 December 2007
Title: Search for a Diffuse Flux of Muon Neutrinos with AMANDA-II
Speaker: Jessica Clayton,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
30 November 2007
Title: Strong lensing and microlensing by cosmic strings
Speaker: Xavier Siemens,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
16 November 2007
Title: Developments in Black Hole Perturbation Theory
Speaker: Larry Price,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
9 November 2007
Title: Observer dependence of the quasi-local energy and momentum in Schwarzschild space-time
Speaker: Peng Peng Yu,
Dartmouth College
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
26 October 2007
Title: Blackboard, White Chalk, and Unparticles
Speaker: Antonio Delgado,
University of Notre Dame
Time: 1:00 PM (Meet for lunch at 12:30 PM)
Location: Physics 481
