Astrophysics/Relativity

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
03/12/2019	TBD TBD
03/19/2019	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin Atomic clocks as detectors of gravitational waves
04/02/2019	Sarah Parker Sizes of galaxies
04/09/2019	Prof. Shun Saito (Missouri S&T) Towards precision cosmology with forthcoming galaxy redshift surveys
04/16/2019	Prof. Peng Yu (Westminster College) Linearization stability of Einstein-gauge-field systems
04/23/2019	Ripon Saha (UMKC) Dusty Star-forming Galaxies and AGNs as Tracers of Galaxy Clusters and Protoclusters at z > 1.5
04/30/2019	Jennifer Cooper (University of Kansas) Nature vs. Nurture in EDiSCS Cluster Galaxies: an HST Grism Study
05/07/2019	Jimmy Lin The First Image of a Supermassive Black Hole in M87

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

Physics and Astronomy