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KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Astrophysics Seminars

from 1999 to present

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Time Speaker Title
11/1/99, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Jeremy Heyl
Caltech		 Shedding New Light on Neutron Stars[Slides][Aud]
5/3/00, 4:00 p.m. Dr. John Ruhl
UCSB		 Cosmic Microwave Background Results from Boomerang
5/17/00, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Maurice H.P.M. van Putten
MIT		 Electron-Positron Outflow From Black Holes[Slides]
11/30/00, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Chun-Pei Ma
Univ Pennsylvania		 A New Perspective on Cosmological Structure Formation[Aud]
6/14/01, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ray Sawyer
KITP		 of Some Astrophysical Plasmas: Is the Infrastructrure in as Good Condition as We All (Well, not I) Like to Believe?[Aud]
11/2, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Ray Sawyer
UCSB Physics		 Neutrinos in Astrophysics--in Conditions Where they can do Stuff other than Simply get Produced[Video]
12/18, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Rashid Sunyaev
MPA-Munich and Caltech		 Resonant X-Ray Line Scattering in the Clusters of Galaxies: Surface Brightness and Polarization[Video]
1/24, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Steven Beckwith
STScI & Johns Hopkins Univ		 Using Space Observatories to Understand the Physics of the Universe[Video]
2/07, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Todd Thompson
U. Arizona		 Protoneutron Star Winds: Implications for r-Process Nucleosynthesis[Video]
3/07, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Andrei Beloborodov
CITA		 Accretion Onto Black Holes[Video]
3/14, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Neal Dalal
UCSD		 Detecting Dark Halo Substructure with Gravitational Lensing[Video]
3/20, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Joyce Guzik
KITP & LANL		 Nonradial Oscillations on Lower Main Sequence Stars[Video]
5/02, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Aristotle Socrates
UCSB		 Accretion Disk Turbulence, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rotation[Slides][Video]
5/09, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Mikhail Medvedev
CITA		 Gamma-Ray Burst Explosions: Puzzles and Solutions[Video]
5/16, 4:30 p.m. Dr. Ira Wasserman
KITP & Cornell University		 Cosmological Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Degeneracies and Tachyons[Video]
5/23, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ellen Zweibel
KITP & U Colorado Boulder		 How Fast is Magnetic Reconnection?[Slides][Video]
5/30, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Chris Deloye
UC Santa Barbara		 22Ne in White Dwarf Interiors[Video]
6/06, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Rosemary Mardling
Monash		 Tidal and Dynamical Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems[Video]
12/11, 9:00 a.m. Dr. Joseph Barranco
University of California, Berkeley		 Planet Embryos in Vortex Wombs[Video]
01/03, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Wynn Ho
Cornell Univ		 Atmospheres of Magnetized Neutron Stars[Aud]
01/09, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Neal Turner
University of California, Santa Barbara		 Light from Black Holes[Video]
1/16, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Milos Milosavljevic
Caltech		 Long Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries[Video]
1/23, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Phil Chang
UCSB		 TBA[Video]
2/20, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Peter Hoeflich
UT-Austin		 Physics of Type la Supernovae[Video]
2/27, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew MacFadyen
Caltech		 Relativistic Force-Free Plasma Simulations[Video]
3/13, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Deepto Chakrabarty
MIT		 The Spin Periods of Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars and the Possible Role of Gravitational Radiation[Video]
3/20, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ira Wasserman
Cornell		 Neutron Star Precession, Magnetic Fields, and Type II Superconductivity[Video]
4/03, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Dirk Pandel
UCSB		 XMM-Newton Observations of the Dwarf Nova VW Hyi[Video]
4/10, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Dean Townsley
UCSB		 The Thermal State of Accreting White Dwarfs Undergoing Classical Novae[Video]
4/17, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Steve Howell
UC Riverside		 TOADs and WARTs: Interesting Members of the Astrophysical Swamp[Video]
4/24, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Akimi Fujitas
UCSB		 Cosmological Feedback from Dwarf Starburst Galaxies[Video]
5/01, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Charles Gammie
UIUC		 Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Flows[Video]
5/08, 4:00 p.m. Anthony Piro
UCSB		 Nonradial Oscillations on Accreting Neutron Stars[Video]
5/15, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Man Hoi Lee
UCSB		 Origin of the Laplace Resonance Among the Galilean Satellites[Video]
6/05, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Edward Brown
University of Chicago		 Probing the Internal Structure of an Accreting Neutron Star[Video]
6/12, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Eric Agol
Caltech		 Occultation and Microlensing by White Dwarfs and Planets[Video]
6/19, 4:00 p.m. Dr. David Ballantyne
KITP & CITA		 X-Ray Reflection around Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Bursts[Video]
6/26, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Merav Opher
NASA JPL		 Probing the Edge of the Solar System: Formation of an Unstable Jet-Sheet[Video]
10/02, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Tapas Kumar Das
UCLA		 Shock Formation in Black Hole Accretion Disc and Related Outflows[Video]
11/06, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Daniel Proga
University of Colorado		 Mass Outflows from Accretion Disks: Old and New Challenges[Video]
11/13, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Neal Turner
UCSB		 Topics in Black Hole Electromagnetics[Video]
11/20, 4:00 p.m. Dr. David L. Meier
JPL		 Topics in Black Hole Electromagnetics[Video]
12/11, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Niayesh Afshordi
Princeton		 Cross-Correlating the CMB with Large-Scale Structure[Aud]
1/22, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Anthony Piro
UCSB		 Spreading of Accreted Material on White Dwarfs[Slides][Video]
2/05, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew Lange
Caltech		 Future Directions in Cosmic Microwave Background Observations[Video]
2/19, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Joe Barranco
KITP		 Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks[Video]
3/11, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Evan Scannapieco
KITP		 Quasar Feedback and Structure Formation[Video]
4/08, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Boris Gaensicke
University of Warwick		 The Galactic Population of Cataclysmic Variables[Video]
4/29, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Lars Bildsten
KITP		 Ultracompact Binaries as Bright X-Ray Sources in Elliptical Galaxies
5/06, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Jerome Orosz
SDSU		 Black Holes in the Milky Way[Video]
5/11, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Avishai Dekel
Hebrew University, Jerusalem		 Phase-Space Structure of Dark Halos[Aud]
5/13, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Adam Burgasser
UCLA		 Radio Emission from Brown Dwarfs: Magnetic Fields and Coronae at the Hydrogen Burning Limit[Aud]
5/20, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ben Owen
PSU		 Bulk Viscosity and Gravitational Waves from LMXBs[Video]
5/27, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Zoë M. Leinhardt
University of Maryland		 Growing Earth: N-Body Simulations of Terrestrial Planet Formation[Slides][Vid][Video]
6/03, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew MacFadyen
Caltech		 Neutrino Cooled Accretion Flows[Video]
6/10, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ian Dobbs-Dixon
UCSC		 Semiconvection in Massive Stars[Aud]
10/21, 3:30 p.m. Dr. Tom Prince
Caltech & KITP		 The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: Mission Concept and Capabilities for Gravitational Wave Detection[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12/09, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Eric Pfahl
University of Virginia		 Dynamics of Black Holes and Binaries Near Sgr A*[Slides][Video]
01/19, 4:00 p.m. Mr. Shane Davis
UCSB		 Spectral Models of Accretion Disks in Black Hole Binaries[Slides][Video]
1/27, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Fritz Röpke
MPA		 Modeling Type la Supernova Explosions[Slides][Video]
2/03, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ilian Iliev
CITA		 Small-Scale Structure at High-z: Formation, Observability, and Effects on the Progress and Duration of Reionization[Slides][Video]
2/10, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Adam Burrows
Arizona		 Multi-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae: The Road to the Mechanism of Explosion[Slides][Vid][Video]
2/17, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Nevin Weinberg
Caltech		 Exposure of the Ashes of Nuclear Burning During Radius-Expansion X-Ray Bursts[Slides][Video]
2/24, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Matt Hansen
UCSB		 Lyman Alpha Transfer Through Clumpy Gas: Escape from High Redshift Galaxies[Video]
3/03, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Tony Piro
UCSB		 Burst Oscillations, Nonradial Modes, and Neutron Star Crusts[Slides][Video]
3/10, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti
Berkeley		 Far-Infrared SEDs of Protostars and Dusty Galaxies[Video]
3/17, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Wynn Ho
KIPAC		 Understanding the Thermal Spectrum of Magnetic Neutron Stars[Video]
11/29, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Dimitrios Giannios
MPA-Garching		 The Role of Kink Instability in Poynting-Flux Dominated Jets[Slides][Podcast][Video]
6/29, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Univ Aarhus		 Asteroseismology: the SONG of the Stars[Podcast][Video]
2/26, 2:15 p.m. Michael Wood-Vasey
Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics		 Determining the Nature of Dark Energy: The Latest Results from ESSENCE and the Future of Observational Cosmology[Slides][Podcast][Video]
3/13, 4:00 p.m. Andy Howell
University of Toronto		 Dark Energy, Super-Chandra, Evolution, and Other Oddities from the Supernova Legacy Survey[Podcast][Video]
4/03, 4:00 p.m. Rachel Street
LCOGT/UCSB		 Finding Other Worlds with SuperWASP & LCOGT[Slides][Podcast][Video]

last modified 04/03/08 dme