PHY 393S: Seminar in Relativity, Spring 1996

• Thursday, January 18th: Prof. Arvind Borde
  Southampton College and Tufts Institute of Cosmology
  ``Did the Inflationary Universe Have a Beginnning?''
  
  
• Thursday, January 25th: Maj. Randall Correll
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Numerical Evolution of Black Hole Spacetimes''
  
  
• Tuesday, February 6th: Dr. Alexei Khokhlov
  Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin
  ``Powerful Ejection of Matter from Tidally Disrupted Stars near Massive Black Holes and a Possible Application to Sgr A East''
  Note new date
  
  
• Thursday, February 8th: Mr. Eric Hirschmann
  Dept. of Physics, UC Santa Barbara
  ``Critical Behavior and Continuous Self-Similarity in Gravitational Collapse''
  
  
• Tuesday, February 13th: Dr. Raymond Laflamme
  Theoeretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  ``Classical Instability of Kaluza-Klein Black Holes''
  
  
• Thursday, February 22nd: Mr. Ullar Kask
  Tartu University, Estonia & Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Is the Passage of the Schwarzschild Sphere Locally Detectable?''
  
  
• Wednesday, February 28th (3:30 pm, RLM 4.102): Prof. Cheney Crow
  UT Austin
  ``New Degrees and Emerging Opportunitites in France for Physics and Engineering Students''
  Note special date and location
  
  
• Thursday, March 7th: Prof. Craig Wheeler
  Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin
  ``Black Hole X-ray Transients''
  
  
• Thursday, March 28th: Mr. Gregory Daues
  Dept. of Physics, Washington University
  ``Numerical Evolution of 3D Black Holes with Apparent Horizon Boundary Conditions''
  
  
• Friday, March 29th: (3:30 pm, RLM 5.122): Prof. Ivor Robinson
  Dept. of Physics, UT Dallas
  ``Gravitational Energy Gradients''
  Note special date and location
  
  
• Tuesday, April 9th (1:30 pm, RLM 14.318): Prof. Andrei Barvinsky
  Theory Dept., Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow
  ``Quantum Cosmology of the Early Inflationary Universe''
  Note special time and location
  
  
• Tuesday, April 9th: Ms Carmen Molina-Paris
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Gauge Field Theory Without Ghosts'' (Final Defense)
  
  
• Friday, April 12th: (3:30 pm, RLM 5.122): Prof. Peter Saulson
  Physics Dept, Syracuse University
  ``Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection''
  Note special date and location
  
  
• Wednesday, April 24th: (11:00am, RLM 12.166): Prof. Pierre Cartier
  Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris & Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Non-commutative Geometry: What is it Good For? ''
  Note special date, time and location
  
  
• Thursday, May 2nd: Dr. Caroline Lewis
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Physics and the Living Cell''

• Monday, May 20th: (3:00pm, RLM 12.166): Prof. George Ellis
  Dept. of Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  ``Progress in the Covariant Approach to Cosmology''
  Note special date, time and location
  
  
• Wednesday, August 14th: (3:00pm, RLM 12.166): Mr. Mijan Huq
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Apparent Horizon Location in Numerical Spacetimes (final defense)''
  Note special date, time and location