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STAG Research Centre Seminars

Southampton Gravity seminars: 2015-2016

Seminars take place in Semester 1 on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 in Building 2, Room 5033 and in Semester 2 in Building 54, Room 7033 (7C), unless otherwise noted.


1 October 2015: Cornelius Rampf (ICG-Portsmouth)

Cosmological large-scale flows in the light of Newtonian theory and General Relativity


8 October 2015: Gavin Hartnett (Southampton)

Spinning out of control: Black hole instabilities in higher dimensions


15 October 2015: Davide Gerosa (Cambridge)

Core collapse and relativistic stars in scalar-tensor theories of gravity


22 October 2015: Dominic Dold (Cambridge)

The Klein-Gordon equation and superradiance in Kerr-AdS spacetimes


29 October 2015: Gustav Holzegel (Imperial)

Linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution under gravitational perturbations


5 November 2015: Luc Blanchet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France)

The wonders of the post-Newtonian


12 November 2015: Ryuichi Fujita (CENTRA-Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

Calculation of radiation reaction effect on orbital parameters in Kerr spacetime


19 November 2015: Nathalie Degenaar (Cambridge)

Probing fundamental physics with cooling of accretion-heated neutron stars


26 November 2015: Arick Shao (Imperial)

Correspondence properties for waves on asymptotically AdS backgrounds


3 December 2015: Soichiro Isoyama (Guelph, Canada)

Hamiltonian formulation of the self-force theory


10 December 2015: Caroline D'Angelo and Alessandro Patruno (Leiden, Netherlands)

Understanding magnetically-channelled accretion using faint accreting neutron stars and The anomalous orbital evolution of compact objects in binary systems



Christmas Break



7 January 2016: Vitor Cardoso (CENTRA-Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

Black holes as laboratories of fundamental physics



Exam Period



28 January 2016: Malcolm Perry (Cambridge)

The information paradox revisited: Soft quantum hair


4 February 2016: No seminar


11 February 2016: Alberto Sesana (Birmingham)

Supermassive black hole astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays


18 February 2016: Claudio Corianò (Salento, Italy and Southampton)

Neutrino and photon lensing by black holes and radiative lens equations


25 February 2016: Jérôme Pétri (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France)

Pulsars as probe of strong magnetic and gravitational fields


3 March 2016: Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana, USA)

Exploring the radiation-reaction self-force: "wiggles" and Kerr quasi-normal modes


4 March 2016: Charles Gammie (Illinois, USA) [DAY/TIME/LOCATION CHANGE: Fri 1pm in 54/Ketley (4th floor)]

An extended MHD model for relativistic weakly collisional plasmas


10 March 2016: Aaron Zimmerman (CITA, Canada)

Quasinormal modes beyond Kerr


17 March 2016: Jérôme Guilet (MPA-Garching, Germany)

Magnetic field amplification in proto-neutron stars



Easter Break



21 April 2016: Henning Samtleben (ENS-Lyon, France)

Consistent truncations of supergravity via exceptional field theory


28 April 2016: Helvi Witek (Nottingham)

Collapse in Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity


5 May 2016: Antoine Van Proeyen (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Superconformal construction of de Sitter cosmologies


12 May 2016: Debarati Chatterjee (LPC-Caen, France)

Modeling the structure of strongly magnetised compact objects: a self-consistent formalism


2 June 2016: Emanuele Berti (Mississippi, USA) [LOCATION CHANGE: 54/4011]

Strong gravity and astrophysics with compact binaries at the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy


Organisers

Marco Caldarelli < [email protected] >, Sam Lander < [email protected] >, Maarten van de Meent < [email protected] >

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