Seminars take place on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Building 54, Room 7033 (7C) in Mathematical Sciences.
11 October 2012: Adam Pound (Southampton)
The motion of small bodies in curved spacetime: An introduction to gravitational self-force
18 October 2012: Marika Taylor (Southampton)
A holographic view of the Universe
25 October 2012: Alexandre Le Tiec (Maryland-College Park, USA)
The first law of binary black hole mechanics
1 November 2012: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue, USA)
Black hole hair and electromagnetic signatures of merging and collapsing compact objects
8 November 2012: Barry Wardell (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Green function approach to self-force calculations
15 November 2012: Jonathan Gair (Cambridge)
Some current obstacles to extreme-mass-ratio inspiral detection
22 November 2012: David Wands (Portsmouth)
Primordial structure from cosmic inflation
29 November 2012: Qian Wang (Oxford)
Breakdown criteria of Einstein equations in CMC gauge
6 December 2012: Kyriaki Dionysopoulou (Potsdam, Germany) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]
General relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with Whisky
13 December 2012: Paul McFadden (Perimeter, Canada)
Holographic slow-roll inflation
Christmas Break
10 January 2013: Pau Figueras (Cambridge)
Stationary holographic plasma quenches and numerical methods for non-Killing horizons
Exam Period
24 January 2013: Ian Vega (SISSA, Italy) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]
31 January 2013: Soichiro Isoyama (Kyoto, Japan)
Cosmic censorship in overcharging a static charged black hole via charged particle absorption
7 February 2013: Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia, USA)
Evidence for nonlinear and chaotic behaviour in pulsar spin-down rates
14 February 2013: Kyriaki Dionysopoulou (Potsdam, Germany)
General relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with Whisky
21 February 2013: Daniel Grumiller (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Holographic applications of logarithmic conformal field theories
28 February 2013: Reinhard Prix (AEI-Hannover, Germany)
Searching for periodic gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars
7 March 2013: Lionel Mason (Oxford)
Gravity amplitudes in twistor space
14 March 2013: Enrico Barausse (Institut Astrophysique de Paris, France)
Neutron-star mergers in scalar-tensor theories of gravity
Easter Break
18 April 2013: No seminar
25 April 2013: Thomas Maedler (Meudon, France) [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]
2 May 2013: Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia, USA)
A galactic scale gravitational wave observatory
9 May 2013: Jacques Smulevici (Paris-Sud, France)
Sharp decay estimates for the Klein-Gordon equation on Kerr-AdS
16 May 2013: Uli Sperhake (Cambridge)
The impact of spin-orbit resonances on astrophysical black-hole populations
30 May 2013: Jeong-Hyuck Park (Sogang, Korea)
How many is different? Ideal bose gas revisited