PHY 393S: Seminar in Relativity, Fall 1996

• Friday, August 30th: (10:00am, RLM 6.120): Ms. Premana W Premadi
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``The Study of Light Propagation in Inhomogeneous Universes Using Gravitational Lensing Method'' (final defense)
  Note special date, time and location
  
  
• Thursday, September 5th: Dr. Eric Hirschmann
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``The 2+1+1 Formalism: Kaluza-Klein Meets ADM''
  
  
• Thursday, September 12th: Mr. Steve Liebling
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Novel Solutions in General Relativity''
  
  
• Thursday, September 19th: Dr. Hugo Martel
  Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin
  ``Why are we here? --- The Anthropic Constraint on the Cosmological Constant''
  
  
• Tuesday, September 24th: Mr. Juan F. Lara
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Neutrino Heating in Standard Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis''
  
  
• Friday, October 4th: (2:30pm, RLM 7.118): Ms. Xiaorong W. Morrow
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Topological Invariants and Green's Functions in a Lattice'' (final defense)
  Note special date, time and location
  
  
• Thursday, October 31st: Dr. Carmen Molina-Paris
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  ``Casimir Energy in Dielectrics for Beginners''
  
  
• Friday, November 1st: (3:30pm, RLM 7.120): Dr. Tony Rothman
  Princeton University
  ``A Phase Space Approach to Gravitational Entropy''
  Note special date and location
  
  
• Thursday, November 7th: Mr. David Collins
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Functional Integral Solutions for Two State Systems: Moving Beyond Gaussian Integrators''
  
  
• Thursday, November 14th: Mr. David Neilsen
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Perfect Fluid Collapse in General Relativity'' (qualifier)
  
  
• Wednesday, November 20th: (2:00pm, RLM 5.124): Mr. Chun Yen Wang
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``On the Close-Time-Loop Formalism'' (qualifier)
  Note special date, time and location
  
  
• Thursday, November 21st: Prof. Ethan Vishniac
  Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin
  ``Energy Generation in Accretion Disks''
  
  
• Thursday, December 5th: Dr. Andrew Abrahams
  NCSA, UIUC
  ``Treating black holes in hyperbolic general relativity''
  
  
• Thursday, December 12th: Dr. Tatsushito Koike
  Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
  ``Renormalization Group and Critical Behaviour in Gravitational Collapse''