Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars

Spring 1999

Unless otherwise specified, all regular Seminars take place at 2:30pm on Monday in Curia II, on the second floor / south-west corner of Wilson Hall, directly below the library, while all Lunch Seminars take place at 1:00pm on the same day in the 3 East - Theory Conference Room.


January 4
Eric Gawiser (Berkeley) - An Empirical Approach to Cosmological Structure Formation


Special Joint Astrophysics/Research Techniques Seminar
January 6, 1:30-3:30pm, Curia II
Elliot Bloom (SLAC) & Steve Ritz (GSFC) - GLAST: The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope


January 11
Michael Blanton (Princeton) - Effects of Bias on Large-Scale Structure

Lunch Seminar
Yuri Levin (Caltech) - Gravitational Waves from Strongly Accreting Neutron Stars in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries


January 18
Ken Olum (Tufts) - Radiation from Cosmic String Cusps


January 25
Ram Brustein (Ben-Gurion) - Electroweak Baryogenesis Induced by a Scalar Field


February 8
Ed Cheng (Nasa/Goddard) - The Hubble Space Telescope - Innovation in Space and How It Works

Lunch Seminar
Raphael Bousso (Stanford) - Global Structure of the Inflationary Universe


Special Lunch Seminar
February 10, 12:30-1:30pm, 3 East - Theory Conference Room
Tarun Souradeep (Kansas State) - Probing Beyond the Cosmic Horizon


February 15, 2:30-3:30pm, 1 West
Roger Malina (Berkeley & LAS, Marseille) - EUVE and GALEX All-Sky Surveys


February 22
Keith Taylor (Anglo-Australian Observatory) - Evolution of 3-D Spectroscopy at the AAO


March 1
Andrew Sornborger (Fermilab) - Higher-Order Methods for Quantum Simulations


March 8
Joanne Cohn (Urbana-Champaign) - Theories for an Open Universe

Lunch Seminar
Chris Metzler (Urbana-Champaign) - Cluster Mass Estimators and Filamentary Structure


March 15
Glenn Starkman (CWRU) - The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite - Planet Detection with a Large Occulting Satellite


March 22
Richard Gott (Princeton) - Can the Universe Create Itself?


March 29
Ludovic van Waerbeke (CITA) - Constraining Cosmology with Weak Lensing by Large Scale Structure: From a Dream to Reality?


April 5
Vernon Barger (Wisconsin) - The Pattern of Neutrino Masses and Mixings


April 12
Bruce Bassett (Oxford) - Preheating and the post-inflationary universe


April 19
Patrick Greene (CITA) - Preheating after Inflation


April 26
Priya Natarajan (CITA) - Do Cluster Galaxies have Extended Dark Halos?


May 3
Joe Mohr (Chicago) - A New Look at Galaxy Clusters: Observations and Cosmological Constraints


May 10
Nemanja Kaloper (Stanford) - Cosmology in Theories with Sub-Millimeter Dimensions


Special Seminar
May 11
A. Logunov (IHEP, Moscow) - The Evolution of the Universe and the Graviton Mass


May 17
Greg Bryan (MIT) - Galaxy Formation and the First Stars


May 24
Andrew Jaffe (Berkeley) - Modern Measurements of Omega and Lambda


For questions, contact Andrew Sornborger or Ewan Stewart, who're organizing the seminars right now.