2nd Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California (TASC) Meeting

Program

Friday, October 18, 2002


The time available for each talk is 6 minutes, followed by 2 minutes of questions.


First Session

Chair: Lars Bildsten
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
9:30
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  Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:45
Xuelei Chen
KITP
CMB constraint on dark matter-baryon interaction
9:53
Asantha Cooray
CIT
Atmospheric Signatures in Transit Light Curves
10:01
Shane Davis*
UC Santa Barbara
Effects of Density Inhomogeneity on Accretion Disk Spectra
10:09
Christopher Deloye*
UC Santa Barbara
The Impact of Neon-22 on White Dwarf Cooling[Slides]
10:17
Daniel Holz
KITP
Corrective lenses for high-redshift supernovae[Slides]
10:25
Aristotle Socrates*
UC Santa Barbara
General Linear Analysis of Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics: Applications and Consequences[Slides]
10:33
Nevin Weinberg*
CIT
Constraining dark energy from the abundance of weak gravitational lenses[Slides]
10:41
Rob Caldwell
Dartmouth
Dark Energy Equation-of-State w < -1[Slides]
10:49
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COFFEE BREAK
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*student

Second Session

Chair: Michael Norman
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
11:30
Wen-Ching Lin*
UC San Diego
Probing Cosmological Constant Through the Alcock-Paczynski Test Based on The Lyman-Alpha Forest[Slides]
11:38
Marc Favata*
KITP
Are Neutron Stars Crushed? Gravitomagnetic Tidal Forces as a Mechanism for Binary-Induced Collapse
11:46
Brad Hansen
UC Los Angeles
White Dwarf Cooling in the Globular Cluster Messier 4
11:54
Kris Sigurdson*
CIT
Small Scale CMB Anisotropies and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
12:02
Matt Lewis*
Univ. Michigan
Probing dark halo substructure with WIMP direct detection experiments
12:10
Philip Chang*
UC Santa Barbara
Diffusive Nuclear Burning in Neutron Star Envelopes[Slides]
12:18
Alez Razoumov
UC San Diego
Resolving the ionization structure of DLAs[Slides]
12:26
Anthony Piro*
UC Santa Barbara
Stability of G-modes on Accreting Neutron Stars
12:34
Brian O'Shea*
UC San Diego
A comparison of AMR and SPH for galaxy formation simulations[Slides]
12:42
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LUNCH BREAK
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*student

Third Session

Chair: Omer Blaes
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
2:00
Alexei Kritsuk
UC San Diego
Interstellar Phase Transitions Stimulated by Time-Dependent Heating[Slides][Vid]
2:08
Dean Townsley*
UC Santa Barbara
Spectral Evolution of Old Cataclysmic Variables
2:16
Dmitri Uzdensky
KITP
Petschek-Like Reconnection with Anomalous Resistivity and Solar Flares[Slides]
2:24
Nathan Currier*
UC Santa Barbara / LANL
Collapse of Lyman Alpha Clouds to Galaxies with Flat Rotation Curves
2:32
Michael Santos*
CIT
The High-Redshift Formation of Metal-Poor Globular Cluster Systems
2:40
Tridivesh Jena*
UC San Diego
Precise Measurement of the Power Spectrum and the Photoionization Rates
2:48
Neal Turner
UC Santa Barbara
Black Hole Accretion Disks
2:56
Michael Kesden*
CIT
Cumulants of the CMB Probability Distribution Function
3:04
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COFFEE BREAK
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*student

Fourth Session

Chair: Marc Kamionkowski
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
3:45
Milos Milosavljevic
CIT
The Last Parsec Problem
3:53
Pascal Paschos
UC San Diego
Evolution of the metallicity in the intermediate and low redshift Universe
4:01
Masanori Nakamura
JPL
Formation of Wiggled Structure in AGN Jets
4:09
Ray Sawyer
UC Santa Barbara
Neutrino transport in a very hot accretion disk
4:17
Andrew Benson
CIT
Galaxy Formation[Slides]
4:25
Man-Hoi Lee
UC Santa Barbara
A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites
4:33
Phil Arras
KITP
What sets the rotation rate of neutron stars?
4:41
Siang-Peng Oh
CIT
?
4:49
Steven Furlanetto
Harvard
Finding Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants in the Milky Way
4:57
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BREAK
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Dinner

6:10
Leave KITP to drive to Madam Lu's
6:30
Dinner at Madam Lu's, 3524 State St, Santa Barbara, 805/898-9289


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