Seminars take place on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Building 54, Room 5027 (5A) in Mathematical Sciences.
3 October 2013: Fay Dowker (Imperial College London)
The causal set approach to quantum gravity
10 October 2013: Sam Dolan (Sheffield)
Self force and spin precession on Kerr spacetime
17 October 2013: Adam Levi (Technion, Israel)
Hawking radiation in CGHS black holes
24 October 2013: Thomas Maedler (Observatoire de Paris, France)
Initial models for numerical relativity in a Bondi-Sachs formulation
30 October 2013: Peter Millington (Manchester) [DATE/TIME CHANGE: Wed 30 Oct at 3pm in 54/5A]
Perturbative non-equilibrium thermal field theory
7 November 2013: Seth Hopper (AEI Potsdam-Golm, Germany)
14 November 2013: Anthony van Eysden (Nordita, Sweden)
Coupled post-glitch response of the crust and interior of neutron stars
21 November 2013: Bennett Link (Montana State, USA)
Constraining the origin of magnetar flares
28 November 2013: Larus Thorlacius (Nordita, Sweden)
Pure states and black hole complementarity
5 December 2013: Andrew Levan (Warwick)
Unveiling the progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts
12 December 2013: Norihiro Tanahashi (Kavli IPMU, Japan)
Horizon instability of an extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black hole
Christmas Break
9 January 2014: Kazuya Koyama (ICG-Portsmouth)
Cosmological solutions in non-linear massive gravity
Exam Period
30 January 2014: Mari Kolehmainen (Oxford)
The black hole spin controversy
6 February 2014: Ioannis Contopoulos (Academy of Athens, Greece)
Are gamma-ray bursts standard candles in cosmology?
13 February 2014: Chris Messenger (Glasgow)
Gravitational wave detection: Prospects and future possibilities
20 February 2014: Daniel Waldram (Imperial College London)
Consistent truncations and generalised geometry
27 February 2014: Chris Fewster (York)
Locally covariant QFT and the problem of formulating the same physics in all spacetimes
6 March 2014: Clare Burrage (Nottingham)
Can you detect dark energy in the laboratory?
13 March 2014: Claude Warnick (Warwick)
Dynamics in anti-de Sitter spacetimes
20 March 2014: Ian Vega (SISSA, Italy)
Rotating black holes in Lorentz-violating gravity
27 March 2014: Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Gravitational duality and holographic fluids
Easter Break
1 May 2014: Oscar Dias (Southampton)
Holographic thermalization, quasinormal modes and superradiance in Kerr-AdS
8 May 2014: Norbert Wex (MPIfR-Bonn, Germany)
Probing strong-field aspects of gravity with radio pulsars
15 May 2014: Cristina Manuel (ICE, Spain)
Transport coefficients in superfluid neutron stars