Seminars take place on Thursdays or Fridays 12:00-13:00 in Building 54, Room 5027 (5A) in Mathematical Sciences.
October 09 2009: Alexandre Le Tiec (Paris)
Post-Newtonian calculation of the gravitational self-force for black hole binaries
October 16 2009: Andrei Starinets (Oxford)
Quasinormal modes and gauge/gravity duality
October 23 2009: Sarp Akcay (Southampton)
Kerr-de Sitter Universe
October 30 2009: Marc Casals (Dublin)
Self-force and Green function of spacetime perturbations
November 06 2009: Marika Taylor (Amsterdam)
Holographic reconstruction of black hole microstates
November 13 2009: Alexander Polnarev (Queen Mary)
Gravitational waves generated by solar oscillations
November 20 2009: Gregor Leiler (Cardiff)
The Boltzmann collision equation in expanding Universes
November 27 2009: Ruth Gregory (Durham)
Dark energy / light gravity?
December 04 2009: Jocelyn Read (AEI, Berlin)
Tidal deformation in binary neutron star inspiral
December 11 2009: Oliver Robertshaw (Southampton)
POSTPONED to Feb 11th
January 08 2010: Matthew Pitkin (Glasgow)
Searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars
February 4 2010: Ben Stappers (Jodrell Bank, Manchester)
Pulsar Timing: Neutron Star Interiors, Magnetospheres and Gravitational Waves
February 11 2010: Oliver Robertshaw (Southampton)
Investigating the equilibria and oscillations of neutron stars with a semi-spectral MHD code
February 18 2010: Nikolaos Proukakis (Newcastle)
Non-Equilibrium Ultracold Bose Gases
February 25 2010: Joao Rosa (Oxford)
The extremal black hole bomb
March 4 2010: Jean-Louis Cornou (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon)
(M)HD using spectral methods
March 11 2010: Pablo Cerda Duran (MPA Garching, Germany)
Alfven QPOs in Magnetars
March 18 2010: Greg Comer (St Louis, US)
Two-stream instability and cosmological models
March 23 2010: Nigel Bishop (Rhodes University, South Africa)
Binary black hole mergers, quasi-normal modes, and characteristic numerical relativity
April 22 2010: Andrew Martin (Southampton)
Non-equilibrium dynamics of dark solitons in ultra-cold atomic Bose gases
April 29 2010: Chris Done (Durham)
Current and future observational constraints on Einstein gravity
May 6 2010: Brien Nolan (Dublin City University)
Wave equations and perturbations in self-similar collapse
May 13 2010: Stanislav Babak (AEI, Berlin)
Observing inspiralling binaries with LISA
May 20 2010: Ian Huston (Queen Mary, London)
Cosmological Perturbations and Non-Gaussianity