PHY 393S: Seminar in Relativity, SPRING 1999

• Tuesday,  January 26th:

Dr. Nurit Krausz
University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Mathematics
``Quantum dynamics on non-compact group manifolds''
 
• Tuesday, February 9th (RLM 6.116 2:00 to 3:30 pm):

Dr. Pedro Marronetti
University of Notre Dame
``Irrotational Binary Neutron-Star Systems''
 
• Thursday, February 11th:

Dr. Carmen Molina-Paris
Los Alamos National Lab.
``Energy-Momentum Tensor in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmology: test field and back-reaction problems''
 
• Monday, February 22nd (RLM 5.116 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm):

Prof. Pablo Laguna
Penn State University
``Astrophysics in the vicinity of black holes''
 
 
• Tuesday, March 2nd (RLM 6.104 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm):

Dr. Joe Kovalik
Italy
``The VIRGO project sensitivity curve'' (Abstract)
 
• Thursday, April 8th:

Dr. Carsten Gundlach
University of Chicago
``Apparent horizon finding, causal differencing and black hole excision''
 
• Wednesday, April 21tst: (RLM 4.102, 4:00pm)

Prof. David Shoemaker
MIT
``Gravitational Wave Detection''
 
•  Thursday, April 29th:

Mr. Ethan Honda
The University of Texas at Austin
``Resonance Structure of the Spherically Symmetric \phi^4
  Klein-Gordon Model: A new numerical approach to an  old problem'' (Part I)
 
•  Tuesday, May 4th: (RLM 6.116, 3:30pm)

Dr. Bruce Basset
Oxford University
``Preheating after inflation and its impact on the CMB''

 

•  Thursday, May 6th:

Mr. Ethan Honda
The University of Texas at Austin
``Resonance Structure of the Spherically Symmetric \phi^4
  Klein-Gordon Model: A new numerical approach to an  old problem''  (Part II)
 
 
•  Thursday, May 13th:

Dr. Luis Lehner
The University of Texas at Austin
``So, can one be confident in a numerical simulation?:
  some remarks from a recent  paper by J. Stewart"