Seminars take place online Thursdays 12:00-13:00, unless otherwise noted.
7 October 2021: Thomas van Riet (Leuven)
Do Coleman's Euclidean wormholes really "exist"?
14 October 2021:
Lu Heng Sunny Yu
(Southampton)
Cosmological Implications of Quantum Gravity
21 October 2021: Michael Kenna-Allison (Southampton) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 13:00]
Cosmological Implications of Extended Massive Gravity Theories
28 October 2021: Student talks
PhD students present their work in 1-slide mini talks
4 November 2021: Enrico Speranza (Illinois University)
Manifestation of quantum effects in relativistic hydrodynamics
11 November 2021: Massimo Bianchi (Rome)
Quasi-Normal Modes of Black-Holes and Branes from Quantum Seiberg-Witten Curves
18 November 2021: Ruth Gregory (King's College London)
25 November 2021: Elias Most (Princeton)
Neutron star mergers: Fast ejecta, magnetic fields and dense matter
2 December 2021: Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter Institute)
Einstein vs Einstein: The Great War
9 December 2021: Leonhard Kehrberger (Cambridge)
On the Relation Between Late-time Tails, Conserved Charges and the Failure of Peeling
16 December 2021: Cecilia Chirenti (UFABC and University of Maryland) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 13:00]
Crashing black holes and poking at their merger remnants
Christmas Break
13 January 2022: No seminar
Exam Period
3 February 2022: Rafael Porto (DESY)
Precision Gravity: From the LHC to LISA and ET
10 February 2022: Rita Teixeira da Costa (Cambridge) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 13:00]
The Teukolsky Equation on Kerr Black Hole Spacetimes
17 February 2022: Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia U.)
Angular momentum in general relativity
24 February 2022: Maxime Van De Moortel (Princeton) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 13:00]
Violent nonlinear collapse inside hairy black holes
3 March 2022: Eric Poisson (Guelph)
Tidal deformation of black holes
10 March 2022: Michele Levi (Queen Mary)
Modern QFT Advances & Real-World Gravity
17 March 2022: Piotr Chrusciel (Vienna)
Maskit gluing and hyperbolic mass
24 March 2022: Niko Jokela (Helsinki)
Holography probing neutron star interior
Easter Break
28 April 2022: Evan Hall (MIT) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 13:00]
The future of ground-based gravitational-wave astronomy
5 May 2022: Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman (Princeton) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 14:00]
Self-Similarity and Naked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations
12 May 2022: Sanjay Reddy (Seattle) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 16:00]
Neutron stars in the multi-messenger era
19 May 2022: Tim Dietrich (AEI Potsdam)
Exam Period