| Fall 2008 Schedule | ||
| Date | Speaker and Title | Host |
| August 2008 |
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| 26 | CGWP Faculty Meeting | |
| September 2008 |
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| 02 | All hands meeting / jam session | |
| 09 | Andrew Melatos (U. Melbourne) "Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Neutron Stars" [Abstract] |
Eracleous |
| 16 | Science Jamboree [Details] [PDF Schedule] | Eracleous |
| 23 | Alessandra Corsi (U. Rome, "Sapienza") "Search for Gravitational Waves Associated With GRB 050915a Using the Virgo Detector" [Abstract] |
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| 30 | Ravi Kopparapu (PSU) "Neutron Star-White Dwarf Binaries as Gravitational-Wave Sources for LISA" |
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| October 2008 |
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| 06 (Monday) | IGC Colloquium: Demetrios Psaltis (U. Arizona)
"New Tests of Strong-Field General Relativity with Black Holes and Neutron Stars" [Abstract] |
Eracleous |
| 07 | Jam session | |
| 14 | Journal Club: The Spin Distribution of Millisecond X-ray Pulsars by D. Chakrabarty [arXiv:0809.4031] [abstract and further info] | Owen Eracleous |
| 21 | Alberto Sesana (PSU) "White Dwarfs Inspiralling onto Massive Black holes: Gravitational Waves and Electromagnetic Signatures" [Abstract] |
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| 28 | Suvi Gezari (Johns Hopkins) "Flares and Bursts from Starving Beasts: The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes" [Abstract] |
Eracleous |
| November 2008 |
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| 04 | Mihai Bondarescu (U. Mississipi)) "Beams of the Future - Seeing Further With LIGO" [Abstract] |
Ruxandra Bondarescu |
| 11 | Journal Club | |
| 18 | Tamara Bogdanović (U. Maryland) "From Supermassive Black Hole Binaries to Recoiling Black Holes" [Abstract] |
Eracleous |
| 25 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 2008 |
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| 02 | Ruxandra Bondarescu (CGWP) R-Modes in Rotating Neutron Stars: Nonlinear Effects. [Abstract] |
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| 09 | Semester Wrap-Up: Bring Your Ideas | Owen |
| Spring 2009 Schedule | ||
| Date | Speaker and Title | Host |
| January 2009 |
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| 13 | Christian Ott (CalTech). "Core-Collapse Supernova Mechanisms and their Signatures in Gravitational Waves" [Abstract] |
O'Shaughnessy |
| 20 | Cancelled | |
| 26 (Monday) | IGC Colloquium: Badri Krishnan (A.E.I., Potsdam)
"Listening to Black Hole Collisions" [Abstract] |
Ashtekar |
| 27 | Jam session | Owen |
| February 2009 |
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| 03 | Ben Owen (CGWP)
"When is Numerical Relativity good Enough? Geometric Tricks With LIGO data" |
Eracleous |
| 10 | Richard O'Shaughnessy (CGWP)
"Astrophysics With Gravitational-Wave Measurements of Binary Compact Object Mass Distributions" [Abstract] |
Eracleous |
| 17 | Jam Session | Owen |
| 24 | Duncan Brown (Syracuse U.)
"Searches for Gravitational Waves from the Inspiral of Binary Neutron Stars and Black Holes." [Abstract] |
Owen |
| March 2009 |
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| 03 | Andrea Lommen (Franklin & Marshall)
"Gravitational Wave Detection Using Pulsars" [Abstract] |
Finn |
| 10 | Spring Break | |
| 17 | Cancelled | Eracleous |
| 24 | Jam Session | Owen |
| 31 | Derek Fox (CGWP)
"Hunting Neutron Stars for Sport & (Scientific) Profit" |
Eracleous |
| April 2009 |
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| 07 | Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia U.),
"Searching High and Low for New Pulsars with Green Bank and Arecibo" [Abstract] |
Finn |
| 14 | George Pavlov (Penn State),
"Radiative Transitions and Spectral Features in the Strong Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars" [Abstract] |
Eracleous |
| 21 | Tanja Hinderer (CalTech), Title T.B.D.
"Prospects for Constraining Neutron Star Tidal Love Numbers With Gravitational Wave Detectors" [Abstract] |
O'Shaughnessy |
| 28 | Samaya Nissanke (CITA, Toronto), Title T.B.D. | Finn |