Astrophysics/Relativity Seminars | Physics and Astronomy

2021

Fall Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
11/16/21	Dr. Bekir Baytas Faithful realizations of semiclassical truncations in quantum gravity
11/9/21	Dr. Ed Elson (University of Western Cape) Tracing HI across cosmic time using the MeerKAT telescope
11/2/21	Dr. Slava G. Turyshev (JPL/Caltech) Direct High-Resolution Imaging of Exoplanets with the Solar Gravitational Lens
10/19/21	Jimmy (Chenxiaoji) Ling Revisit the Role of (U)LIRGs in Global Star Formation Rate Density
10/12/21	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin Pulsar Timing and its Applications for Testing General Relativity and Gravitational Wave Detection
10/5/21	Dr. John Forbes (Flatiron Institute) Turbulent driving: literal and figurative connections between the cosmic web and star formation
9/28/21	Prof. Haojing Yan Some Updates on the Dark Matter Measurement Experiments
9/14/21	Dr. Fangzhou Jiang (Caltech) Galaxy-halo connection and near-field cosmology with numerical and semi-analytic methods
9/7/21	Prof. Adam Helfer Energy-momentum and angular momentum of gravitational radiation (II)
8/31/21	Prof. Adam Helfer Energy-momentum and angular momentum of gravitational radiation (I)

Spring Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
4/27/21	Jimmy Ling Probing the Cosmic Dawn: Candidate Galaxies at Extremely High Redshift
4/20/21	Prof. Haojing Yan Is the mystery of fast radio burst solved?
3/23/21	Dr. John Pharo Give Peas A Chance: Using Green Pea Galaxies to Study Lyman-alpha Escape and Cosmic Reionization
3/16/21	Dr. Sandro Tacchella (CfA, Harvard) The diversity of building up the quiescent sequence at redshift z~1
3/2/21	Dr. Adam Jermyn (Flatiron Institute) Stellar evolution in AGN disks