Astrophysics/Relativity

Fall 2019
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
08/27/2019	Prof. Adam Helfer More on “magnetic” effects in general relativity
09/03/2019	Prof. Adam Helfer More on “magnetic” effects in general relativity (II)
09/10/2019	Bandon Decker (UMKC) The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS): Stellar mass fractions of infrared-selected galaxy clusters at z~1
09/17/2019	Dr. Timothy Carleton Environmental Influences on Ultra Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies
09/24/2019	Kentaro Mogushi (MUS&T) Jet Geometry and Rate Estimate of Coincident short Gamma-Ray Burst and Gravitational-Wave Observations
10/01/2019	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin PEXO: a package for precise exoplanetology
10/08/2019	Dr. Kristen Jones (U. Kansas) The Connection Between Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Environments
10/15/2019	TBD TBD
10/22/2019	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin The Lagrangian mechanics of N-body system with arbitrary multipole moments
10/29/2019	TBD TBD
11/05/2019	Dr. Kevin Cooke (U. Kansas) Magnificent Constructions: The Role of Environment on the Stellar Mass Growth of Massive Galaxies
11/12/2019	Lisa Shepard A Look at Small Solar System Bodies
11/19/2019	Prof. Haojing Yan Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs): transients that you ought to know something about
12/03/2019	Jimmy Lin Recent discoveries and their implications of the past, present, and future of the Local Group

Spring 2019
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
01/29/2019	Prof. Adam Helfer `Magnetic' effects in general relativity (I)
02/05/2019	Prof. Adam Helfer `Magnetic' effects in general relativity (II)
02/12/2019	Prof. Marco Cavaglia (Missouri S&T) One wave, Two neutron stars, Three Nobel laureates...Ten black hole pairs: The birth of multi-messenger astrophysics
02/19/2019	TBD TBD
02/26/2019	TBD TBD
03/05/2019	Dr. Timothy Carleton Tidal Disruption Events and Their Host Galaxies

Physics and Astronomy