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STAG Research CentreSeminars

Gravity Seminars 2023-2024

Seminars take place Thursdays 14:00-15:00 in room 34/4005 unless otherwise noted.


5 October 2023: Ray d'Inverno and James Vickers (University of Southampton)

Teaching Relativity and Writing a book - Random thoughts from two Emeritus Professors


12 October 2023: Jamboree

Gravity researchers present their work in 1-slide talks


19 October 2023: No seminar


26 October 2023: Lionel London (King's College)

Learning more from Teukolsky’s radial equation for quasi-normal modes


27 October 2023: Zach Nasipak (NASA) [UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE: FRIDAY 14:00, KETLEY ROOM]

BHPWAVE: A perturbative waveform model for binaries with spinning massive black holes


1 November 2023: Rachel Gray (University of Glasgow) [UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE: WEDNESDAY, 58/1039]

Using gravitational waves to solve the Hubble tension


9 November 2023: Stephen Fairhurst (Cardiff University) [COLLOQUIUM, 13:00 in 46/2005]

The future of gravitational-wave astronomy


10 November 2023: Riccardo Gonzo  (University of Edinburgh) [UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE: FRIDAY, KETLEY ROOM]

Spinning waveforms from classical amplitudes


16 November 2023: Kostas Glampedakis (University of Murcia) [ONLINE SEMINAR]

Rethinking the MHD equilibrium of relativistic stars


23 November 2023: Matt Middleton (University of Southampton) [POSTPONED DUE TO SPINS-UK]

Ultraluminous X-ray sources: where extremes meet


30 November 2023: Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth) [CANCELED]

Simulating the Universe with Numerical Relativity


7 December 2023: Violetta Sagun (University of Coimbra)

Probes of dark matter with neutron stars and their mergers


14 December 2023: Silvia Trabucco (Gran Sasso) [UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]

Glitches in Rotating Supersolids



Christmas Break



11 January 2024: Andrew Baggaley (Newcastle University)

The approach and separation of bundles of quantised vorticity



Exam Period



1 February 2024: No Seminar


8 February 2024: Alejandra Gonzalez (Jena)

Gravitational Waveform Accuracy from Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Neutron Stars


15 February 2024: David Trestini (Czech Academy of Sciences)

The gravitational wave phase for compact binaries on circular orbits at the fourth-and-a-half post-Newtonian order


22 February 2024: Athanasios Giannakopolous (Nottingham)

Hyperbolicity of general relativity in Bondi-like coordinates


29 February 2024: No seminar


7 March 2024: Ian Hawke (Southampton)

Turbulence modelling in neutron star merger simulations


14 March 2024: Daniela Cors (Cambridge)

Critical collapse beyond spherical symmetry


21 March 2024: Liina Chung-Jukko (King’s College)

Multimessenger signals from axion star mergers



Easter Break



25 April 2024: Daniel Arean (Madrid)

Pseudospectra of AdS


2 May 2024: Jan Plefka (Berlin) [COLLOQUIUM, in 06/1077]

Classical Black Hole Scattering from a World-Line Quantum Field Theory


9 May 2024: Matthew Middleton (Southampton)

Ultraluminous X-ray sources: where extremes meet


16 May 2024: Yves Kini (Amsterdam)

TBA


23 May 2024: Marco Bruni (Portsmouth)

TBA


Organisers

Fabian Gittins F.W.R.Gittins@soton.ac.uk 

Michael Kenna-Allison m.kenna-allison@soton.ac.uk

Nils Andersson N.A.Andersson@southampton.ac.uk

 

 

 

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