Astrophysics/Relativity

Fall 2018
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
08/28/2018	Prof. Adam Helfer What happens during quantum measurement (question mark?) or maybe When happens during quantum measurement (period)
09/04/2018	Prof. Adam Helfer What happens during quantum measurement (question mark?) or maybe When happens during quantum measurement (period) (II)
09/11/2018	Dr. Timothy Carleton The Origins of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies
09/18/2018	Prof. Angela Speck The Twinkle Space Mission
09/25/2018	James Jones Comprehensive Exam: Insights into debris disk composition via scattered-light colors
10/02/2018	Prof. Yicheng Guo CANDELS: Past, Present, and Future
10/09/2018	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin Gravitational waves and equations of motion of extended bodies
10/16/2018	TBD TBD
10/23/2018	Prof. Peng Yu (Westminster College) Invariant gauge fields in Bianchi cosmologies
10/30/2018	Madalyn Weston (UMKC) Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis of WISE-Selected Obscured AGNs in Major Mergers from the SDSS
11/06/2018	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin Covariant equations of motion of arbitrary-structured extended bodies
11/13/2018	Jimmy Lin Studying morphology properties of Far-IR/Sub-mm galaxies in the COSMOS-DASH field
11/27/2018	Lisa Shepard Investigating Circumstellar Dust around Mira Variables
12/04/2018	Prof. Benne Holwerda (University of Louisville) Looking At the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array LADUMA

Spring 2018
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
01/23/2018	Prof. Adam Helfer Fuzzy dark matter and quantum measurement (I)
01/30/2018	Prof. Adam Helfer Fuzzy dark matter and quantum measurement (II)
02/06/2018	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin Twin Paradox for Layman
02/13/2018	Dr. Raina Olsen (Oak Ridge National Lab) A Lorentz Violation in a Novel Quantum Phase
02/20/2018	Prof. Peng Yu (Westminster College) Can one hear the shape of data? -- How spectral geometry helps dispel the curse of dimensionality
02/27/2018	Prof. Angela Speck Lessons Learned from the 2017 Great American Eclipse

Physics and Astronomy