PHY 393S: Seminar in Relativity, FALL 1998

• Thursday,  September 10th:

Dr. Luis Lehner
University of Texas at Austin
``Characteristic formulation of GR: past, present and future?''
 
• Thursday, September 17th:

Dr. Luis Lehner
University of Texas at Austin
``Intrinsic geometry of  black (white) hole colascence (fission)''
 
• Thursday, September 24th:

David Neilsen
University of Texas at Austin
``Relativistic fluids''
 
• Tuesday, September 29th:

Prof. David Garfinkle
Oakland University at Rochester MI
``Approach to the singularity in Gowdy spacetimes''  (Abstract)
 
• Thursday, October 1st:

 Marcus Berg
University of Texas at Austin
``Exact solutions with cosmological shock waves''
 
• Thursday, October 8th:

 Scott Hawley
University of Texas at Austin
``New Compact Objects in Einstein-Klein-Gordon Systems''
 
• Thursday, October 15th:

 Prof. Simonetta Frittelli
Duquesne University
``Einstein equations with asymptotically stable constraint propagation''  (Abstract)
 
• Thursday, October 22nd:

 Juan Lara
University of Texas at Austin
``Methods of Calculating the Neutrino Heating
  Effect in Big Bang  Nucleosynthesis''
 
•  Tuesday, October 27th (at 3:00 pm):

Jason Ventrella
University of Texas at Austin
``Investigating continuous self-similarity for the critical collapse
of the massless Dirac field''
 
•  Thursday, October 30th: (RLM 5.120 at 2:00pm)

Deirdre Shoemaker
University of Texas at Austin
``Tracking apparent horizons: Level set method''
 
•  Tuesday, November 3rd:

Prof. Nigel T. Bishop
University of South Africa
``A review of the characteristic formulation
  to numerical relativity''
 
•  Thursday, November 4th to 6th:

 Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Meeting
 
•  Tuesday, November 24th:

 Prof.  Cecile DeWitt-Morette and students
University of Texas at Austin
``Scaling as an independent variable: Prof. Brydges work''
 
•  Monday, November 30th. (Note: to be held on RLM 7.104):

 Prof.  Werner Israel
University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada)
``Black Holes, Brick Walls and Entropy"
 
• Tuesday, December 1st:

 Dr. Mark Miller
Washinton University at Saint Louis MO
`Towards Simulating the Binary Neutron Star Coalescence
 in 3D General Relativistic Hydrodynamics''
 
• Wednesday, December 2nd:

 Mr. Dae-Il Choi
University of Texas at Austin
``Numerical studies of nonlinear Schroedinger and
Klein-Gordon systems: Techniques and applications''