Seminars take place on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Building 54, Room 5025 (5B) in Mathematical Sciences.
October 7 2010: Silke Weinfurtner (Trieste / UBC)
Measurement of stimulated Hawking emission in an analogue system
October 14 2010: Thomas Backdahl (Queen Mary, London)
How to measure deviation from the Kerr spacetime on a slice
October 21 2010: Alessandro Nagar (IHÉS, France)
Interfacing analytical and numerical modelizations of coalescing binaries: a status report
October 28 2010: David Bacon (Portsmouth)
Gravitational Lensing and Modified Gravities
November 4 2010: Abraham Harte (AEI, Germany)
General results on the self-interaction of extended objects in curved spacetimes
November 11 2010: Priscilla Canizares (Barcelona)
Pseudospectral methods to model Extreme-Mass Ratio Inspirals
November 18 2010: Peter Taylor (UCD, Dublin)
Vacuum Polarization on the Schwarzschild Black Hole Threaded by a Cosmic String
November 18 2010: Cormac Breen (UCD, Dublin)
Extended Green-Liouville asymptotics and vacuum polarization for lukewarm black holes
November 25 2010: Ian Harry (Cardiff)
Searching for compact binary coalescences in gravitational wave data from the LIGO and Virgo interferometers
December 2 2010: Ulrich Sperhake (Caltech / Barcelona)
POSTPONED due to bad weather: see Mar 31
December 9 2010: Philippe LeFloch (UPMC, Paris)
Matter spacetimes with weak regularity
December 16 2010: Jonathan Braithwaite (AIA, Bonn University)
Magnetohydrodynamic relaxation in stars and elsewhere
Christmas Break
January 13 2011: Christian Luebbe (Lhwsester)
Non-linear stability for radiative spacetimes: Vacuum and Einstein-Maxwell
January 20 2011: James Clark (Cardiff)
Multi-messenger Astronomy: A Bright, Loud Future In Gravitational Waves
January 27 2011: Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College, London)
Dark matter and stars
February 3 2011: Brien Nolan (DCU, Dublin)
A Kirchoff integral approach to the calculation of Green's functions beyond the normal neighbourhood
February 3 2011: Emily Duffy (DCU, Dublin)
Analytic study of even parity perturbations in self-similar LTB spacetime: instability of the Cauchy horizon
February 10 2011: No seminar
February 17 2011: No seminar
February 24 2011: Will Percival (ICG, Portsmouth)
Testing Cosmological Structure Growth using Galaxy Surveys
March 3 2011: Chris Nixon (Lhwsester)
How to Make Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Merge
March 10 2011: Anthony Challinor (IoA, Cambridge)
Planck: early science and future programme
March 17 2011: Rose Lerner (Helsinki)
Higgs inflation: detectability and issues of unitarity
March 24 2011: Andreas Schmitt (Vienna)
Color superconductivity in the QCD phase diagram and in compact stars
March 31 2011: Uli Sperhake (Caltech / Barcelona)
Black-hole simulations in the context of experiment and observations
Easter Break
May 5 2011: No seminar
May 12 2011: JMM Senovilla (U. del Pais Vasco)
Black Holes' Cores and Boundaries
May 19 2011: No seminar
May 26 2011: Adam Pound (Guelph, Canada)
Motion of small bodies in curved spacetime
June 2 2011: Christian Luebbe (Lhwsester)
Non-linear stability for radiative spacetimes: Vacuum and Einstein-Maxwell
June 9 2011: No seminar
June 16 2011: David Bruschi (Nottingham)
Entanglement, the Unruh effect and cavities