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Jan 18 |
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No talk scheduled: Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday: University Closed
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Jan 25
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J. Craig Wheeler
University of Texas at Austin
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Organizational Meeting
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Feb 1 |
J. Craig Wheeler
University of Texas at Austin |
"The Brightest Supernova Ever"
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Coral Wheeler
University of California, Irvine |
"Sweating the Small Stuff: Simulating Dwarf Galaxies, Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies, and their own Tiny Satellites"
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Feb 8 |
Milos Milosavljevic
University of Texas at Austin |
"Can we Reverse-Engineer Nucleosynthesis?"
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Aaron Smith
University of Texas at Austin |
"Probing the Primordial Universe with the Lyman Alpha Emitter CR7"
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Feb 15 |
Benny Tsang
University of Texas at Austin |
"Radiation Hydrodynamics of Super Star Cluster Formation"
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Volker Bromm
University of Texas at Austin |
"The Mystery of CR7"
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Feb 22 |
Alexander Tchekhovskoy
University of California, Berkeley |
"New Frontiers in Simulating Black Hole Accretion and Jets"
Black holes are responsible for a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena.
They devour stars, eject relativistic jets, affect star formation and
galaxy evolution, and enrich the Universe with heavy elements. In the next
several years, the Event Horizon Telescope will produce resolved images of
infalling gas and jets on the event horizon scale that promise to
revolutionize our understanding of black hole physics. However, until
recently, no first-principles models to quantitatively interpret these
observations existed. I will present the first such models, the simulated
spectra and images, and the constraints on the near event horizon physics
coming from the comparison to the observations of the supermassive black
hole at the center of our galaxy. I will then use simulations to constrain
black hole physics in several other astrophysical contexts. I will finish
by making connections to my future research plans.
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Feb 29
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Brandon Bozek
University of Texas at Austin |
"Dark Matter Models in the Local and High-z Universe"
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Manos Chatzopoulos
University of Chicago |
"Emission from Pair Instability Supernovae with Rotation"
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Mar 7 |
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No talk scheduled.
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Mar 14 |
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No talk scheduled: Spring Break.
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Mar 21 |
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No talk scheduled
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Mar 28 |
Richard Matzner
UT Austin, Dept. of Physics |
"LIGO" followed by an Open Discussion of LIGO Results and Implications
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Apr 4 |
Michael Boylan-Kolchin
University of Texas at Austin |
"High-redshift Science in the Local Group"
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Wenbin Lu
University of Texas at Austin |
"Tidal disruption events and the black hole event horizon"
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Apr 11 |
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No talk scheduled
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Apr 18 |
J. Craig Wheeler
University of Texas at Austin |
"Moderated open discussion of LIGO and the beginning of gravitational-wave astrophysics. (Come with questions, perspectives and plans)"
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Apr 25 |
Bohua Li
University of Texas at Austin
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"Complex scalar field dark matter and stochastic gravitational wave background from inflation"
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Alex Fitts
University of Texas at Austin |
"FIRE in the Field: Simulating the Threshold of Galaxy Formation"
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May 2 |
Yi-Kuan Chiang
University of Texas at Austin |
PhD Defense Presentation
"Galaxy Proto-Clusters as an Interface between Structure, Cluster, and
Galaxy Formation"
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