Seminars take place on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Building 54, Room 5025 (5B) in Mathematical Sciences.
8 September 2014: Konstantinos Gourgouliatos (McGill, Canada) [DAY/TIME/LOCATION CHANGE: Mon 1pm in 58/1065]
Magnetic field evolution in neutron star crusts
2 October 2014: Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht, Netherlands) [TIME/LOCATION CHANGE: 11am in 02/1089 (L/T D)]
The cellular automaton interpretation of quantum mechanics
6 October 2014: Ilya Mandel (Birmingham) [SPECIAL: with Astronomy Lunch Talk, 1pm in 46/seminar room (5th floor)]
9 October 2014: Maarten van de Meent (Southampton)
Resonant recoil from black hole binaries
16 October 2014: David Sloan (Oxford)
23 October 2014: Oliver Porth (Leeds)
Modeling the Crab nebula and the solution to the sigma problem
30 October 2014: Caroline D'Angelo (Leiden, Netherlands)
6 November 2014: Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham)
Parity-asymmetric theories of gravity
13 November 2014: Roberto Emparan (Barcelona, Spain)
Black holes in the 1/D expansion
20 November 2014: Carl Kent (Sheffield)
Hadamard renormalised scalar field theory on anti-de Sitter space-time
27 November 2014: Bridget Falck (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation-Portsmouth)
Voids and gravity in the cosmic web
4 December 2014: Patrick Nolan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Extracting physics from the self force: New gauge invariant quantities
8 December 2014: Kenta Kiuchi (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics-Kyoto, Japan) [DAY/LOCATION CHANGE: Mon 12pm in 54/Ketley room (4th floor)]
Magnetized binary neutron star merger simulations in numerical relativity
11 December 2014: George Pappas (Nottingham)
18 December 2014: Nathan Johnson-McDaniel (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences-Bangalore, India) [LOCATION CHANGE: 54/Ketley room (4th floor)]
Christmas Break
8 January 2015: No seminar
Exam Period
29 January 2015: David Berenstein (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA)
Extremal chiral ring states in AdS/CFT are described by free fermions
5 February 2015: Thomas Sotiriou (Nottingham)
Causality in theories with a preferred foliation
12 February 2015: Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Chaos around black hole candidates
19 February 2015: Roland Haas (Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam-Golm, Germany)
Core collapse and binary neutron star inspiral simulation using multipatch grids
26 February 2015: Deborah Aguilera (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Inferring neutron stars crust properties from quiescent thermal emission
5 March 2015: Tanja Hinderer (Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam-Golm, Germany)
Effective one-body modeling of the gravitational waves from neutron star - black hole binaries
12 March 2015: Bert Vercnocke (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
de Sitter space in supergravity and string theory
19 March 2015: Toby Wood (Newcastle)
A 3D MHD model of a neutron star crust
Easter Break
23 April 2015: Francesco Pannarale (Cardiff)
Searching for coalescing neutron star binaries in the advanced gravitational wave detector era
30 April 2015: Eugene Lim (King's College London)
How to run through walls: An analytic approach to ultra-relativistic collisions of solitons
7 May 2015: Hiranya Peiris (University College London)
Cosmological inflation: From observations to fundamental physics
12 May 2015: Roman Gold (University of Maryland-College Park, USA) [DAY/TIME CHANGE: Tue 1pm in 54/5025 (5B)]
Hot accretion flows onto binary and single black holes
14 May 2015: Manjari Bagchi (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India, and Institut de Ciencies de L'Espai, Spain)
Use of binary radio pulsars with ultra-compact companions to understand basic physics