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Southampton Gravity seminars: 2016-2017

Seminars take place on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in 54/7033(7C), unless otherwise noted.


26 September 2016: Michael Kavic (LIU Brooklyn, USA) [DAY/TIME/LOCATION CHANGE: Mon 1230-130pm in 54/7035(7B)]

Shining light on quantum gravity with pulsar-black hole binaries


6 October 2016: Andreas Schmitt (Southampton)

Dense nuclear and quark matter in holographic QCD


13 October 2016: Enrico Pajer (Utrecht, Netherlands) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]


20 October 2016: Shahar Hadar (Cambridge)

Gravitational waves via Kerr/CFT


27 October 2016: Bill Unruh (British Columbia, Canada) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]


3 November 2016: Constança Providência (Coimbra, Portugal)

How large is the crust of neutron stars?


10 November 2016: Christos Charmousis (LPT Orsay, France)

Black holes in scalar tensor theories


17 November 2016: David Nichols (Radboud, Netherlands)

Gravitational-wave memory observables and charges of the extended BMS algebra


24 November 2016: Justin Vines (Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam-Golm, Germany) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]


1 December 2016: Glenn Barnich (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Finite BMS transformations


8 December 2016: Norihiro Tanahashi (Osaka, Japan)

Black hole horizon is a nest of chaos


15 December 2016: Armen Sedrakian (Frankfurt, Germany)

Cold and dense QCD and compact stars: EOS, cooling and axions



Christmas Break



12 January 2017: Matthew Browning (Exeter) [DAY/LOCATION CHANGE: Fri in 54/Ketley room (4th floor)]

Magnetism, buoyancy, and dissipation in convective stars and planets



Exam Period

26 January 2017: Kei Yamada (Kyoto, Japan) [LOCATION CHANGE: 54/4011(4A)]

Near-horizon expansion of second-order black hole perturbations



2 February 2017: No seminar


9 February 2017: Anne Franzen (Tecnico Lisboa, Portugal)

Strong Cosmic Censorship as seen from scalar waves in black hole interiors


16 February 2017: Carlos Herdeiro (Aveiro, Portugal) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]


23 February 2017: Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Topological twists of space-time in black holes


2 March 2017: Steffen Aksteiner (Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam-Golm, Germany)

Black hole perturbations and symbolic computer algebra


9 March 2017: No seminar


16 March 2017: Kinwah Wu (University College London)

Dynamics of fast spinning neutron stars around a massive black hole


23 March 2017: Georgios Moschidis (Princeton, USA and Cambridge)

Superradiant instabilities for the scalar wave equation



Easter Break



27 April 2017: Georgi Dvali (NYU, USA and LMU and Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]


4 May 2017: Nanda Rea (Amsterdam, Netherlands and IEEC-CSIC, Spain)

The explosive behaviour of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields


11 May 2017: Andrzej Rostworowski (Jagiellonian, Poland)

Towards a theory of nonlinear gravitational waves: a systematic approach to nonlinear gravitational perturbations in vacuum


18 May 2017: Abraham Harte (Dublin City, Ireland)

Metric-independence of electromagnetic fields


Organisers

Gavin Hartnett <g.s.hartnett@soton.ac.uk>, Sam Lander <s.k.lander@soton.ac.uk>, Abhay Shah <a.g.shah@soton.ac.uk>

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