Date

Speaker

Title

Aug 31

Rodolfo Barniol Duran

University of Texas at Austin

"High energy photons from Fermi GRBs: Who would have thought that they were produced in the external shock?" abstract

Aug 31

Milos Milosavljevic

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting (scheduled for the first, or perhaps the second half of the class-time.)

Sep 07

No talk scheduled.

Labor Day Holiday - no talk scheduled.

Sep 14

Sean Couch

University of Texas at Austin

"Aspherical Supernova Shock Breakout and the Observations of SN 2008D"

Sep 14

Chris Lindner

University of Texas at Austin

"Collapsar Accretion and Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Light Curve"

Sep 21

Jaiyul Yoo

Harvard University

"A New Perspective on Galaxy Clustering as a Cosmological Probe: General Relativistic Effects" abstract

Sep 28

Donghui Jeong

University of Texas at Austin

"Cosmology with high (z>1) redshift galaxy surveys" abstract

Oct 05

Manos Chazopoulos

University of Texas at Austin

Journal Club: "Shock Breakout from TYPE Ia Supernova" by Piro et al., arXiv:0909.2643

Oct 05

Rongfeng Shen

University of Texas at Austin

"Magnetic Jet Formation in the Compact Merger Model for Short GRBs"

Oct 12

Athena Stacy

University of Texas at Austin

"The first stars: formation of binaries and small multiple systems"

Oct 12

Jacob Hummel

University of Texas at Austin

Journal Club: "Detectability of Pair-Production Supernovae at z < 6" by Evan Scannapieco et al., astro-ph/0507182, and

"The First Stellar Explosions: Theoretical Light Curves and Spectra of Pair-Instability Supernovae" by Daniel Kasan et al., 2008AIPC..990..263K

Oct 19

No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with the Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009 (October 18-20).

Oct 26

Paul Shapiro

University of Texas at Austin

"Is Cold Dark Matter a Bose-Einstein Condensate?" abstract

Oct 26

Tanja Rindler-Daller

University of Cologne (Koln)

"Vortices (and the Angular Momentum Problem) in Bose-Einstein-Condensed
Cold Dark Matter Halos" abstract

Nov 02

Eliot Quataert

University of California, Berkeley
Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor

"Nonlinear Tides in Close Binary Systems"
abstract

Nov 09

Daniel Kagan

affiliation: tba

"Magnetar-powered Core Collapse Supernovae"

Nov 09

Masatoshi Shoji

affiliation: tba

"Validity of the Fluid Approximation for the Massive Neutrino"

Nov 16

Daniel Grin

California Institute of Technology

"Cosmological hydrogen recombination: the effect of high-n states and forbidden transitions" abstract

Nov 23

Rodolfo Santana

University of Texas at Austin

"High Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts"

Nov 23

Anwar Al-Muhammad

University of Texas at Austin & Qatif Astronomy Society (QAS), Saudi Arabia

"The Kerr-Newman Blackholic energy as a source of Gamma-Ray Burst GRB"

Nov 30

Chi-Ting Chiang

University of Texas at Austin

"E and B Modes of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization"

Nov 30

Myoungwon Jeon

University of Texas at Austin

"The Formation and Maintenance of the Galactic Warps in the Triaxial Halos"