Seminars take place in Semester 1 on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Building 2, Room 5033 and in Semester 2 in Building 54, Room 7033 (7C), unless otherwise noted.
1 October 2015: Cornelius Rampf (ICG-Portsmouth)
Cosmological large-scale flows in the light of Newtonian theory and General Relativity
8 October 2015: Gavin Hartnett (Southampton)
Spinning out of control: Black hole instabilities in higher dimensions
15 October 2015: Davide Gerosa (Cambridge)
Core collapse and relativistic stars in scalar-tensor theories of gravity
22 October 2015: Dominic Dold (Cambridge)
The Klein-Gordon equation and superradiance in Kerr-AdS spacetimes
29 October 2015: Gustav Holzegel (Imperial)
Linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution under gravitational perturbations
5 November 2015: Luc Blanchet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France)
The wonders of the post-Newtonian
12 November 2015: Ryuichi Fujita (CENTRA-Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Calculation of radiation reaction effect on orbital parameters in Kerr spacetime
19 November 2015: Nathalie Degenaar (Cambridge)
Probing fundamental physics with cooling of accretion-heated neutron stars
26 November 2015: Arick Shao (Imperial)
Correspondence properties for waves on asymptotically AdS backgrounds
3 December 2015: Soichiro Isoyama (Guelph, Canada)
Hamiltonian formulation of the self-force theory
10 December 2015: Caroline D'Angelo and Alessandro Patruno (Leiden, Netherlands)
Understanding magnetically-channelled accretion using faint accreting neutron stars and The anomalous orbital evolution of compact objects in binary systems
Christmas Break
7 January 2016: Vitor Cardoso (CENTRA-Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Black holes as laboratories of fundamental physics
Exam Period
28 January 2016: Malcolm Perry (Cambridge)
The information paradox revisited: Soft quantum hair
4 February 2016: No seminar
11 February 2016: Alberto Sesana (Birmingham)
Supermassive black hole astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays
18 February 2016: Claudio Corianò (Salento, Italy and Southampton)
Neutrino and photon lensing by black holes and radiative lens equations
25 February 2016: Jérôme Pétri (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France)
Pulsars as probe of strong magnetic and gravitational fields
3 March 2016: Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana, USA)
Exploring the radiation-reaction self-force: "wiggles" and Kerr quasi-normal modes
4 March 2016: Charles Gammie (Illinois, USA) [DAY/TIME/LOCATION CHANGE: Fri 1pm in 54/Ketley (4th floor)]
An extended MHD model for relativistic weakly collisional plasmas
10 March 2016: Aaron Zimmerman (CITA, Canada)
17 March 2016: Jérôme Guilet (MPA-Garching, Germany)
Magnetic field amplification in proto-neutron stars
Easter Break
21 April 2016: Henning Samtleben (ENS-Lyon, France)
Consistent truncations of supergravity via exceptional field theory
28 April 2016: Helvi Witek (Nottingham)
Collapse in Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity
5 May 2016: Antoine Van Proeyen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Superconformal construction of de Sitter cosmologies
12 May 2016: Debarati Chatterjee (LPC-Caen, France)
Modeling the structure of strongly magnetised compact objects: a self-consistent formalism
2 June 2016: Emanuele Berti (Mississippi, USA) [LOCATION CHANGE: 54/4011]
Strong gravity and astrophysics with compact binaries at the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy
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