Theory Lunch

Where: CSS1224, The 'Theory Interaction Room' (the old conference room)

When: Monday 12:30-1:30 (unless otherwise noted)

TL host: Tamara Bogdanović (email: tamarab ++ astro.umd.edu)

Guidelines and format

Schedule for Spring 2009

DateSpeakerTopic
02/02/09 Sean O'Neill and Tamara Bogdanovic Reaction of Accretion Disks to Abrupt Mass Loss During Binary Black Hole Merger (click here for an abstract)
02/09/09 Stratos Boutloukos Near alignment in accretion powered millisecond pulsars (click here for an abstract)
02/16/09 Teddy Cheung (GSFC) Observational Constraints on Gravitational Wave Recoil Kick Velocities in Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from Radio Galaxies (click here for an abstract)
02/23/09 Cole Miller Dynamics and Fundamental Physics in Dense Stellar Systems
03/02/09 Kwang-Ho Park Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion of Black Holes Regulated by Radiative Feedback
03/09/09 Arti Garg (LLNL, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics) Astrophysics in the Time-Domain: Results and lessons-learned from The SuperMACHO Project (click here for an abstract)
03/16/09 Mia Bovill The distribution of ultra-faint dwarfs in the voids (click here for an abstract)
03/23/09 Stacy McGaugh The Mass Profile of the Milky Way
03/30/09
04/06/09
04/13/09 Massimo Dotti (University of Michigan) Dual black holes in merger remnants: linking accretion to dynamics (click here for an abstract)
04/20/09
04/27/09 Dimitri Veras (UFL) Secular Orbital Dynamics of Hierarchical Two Planet Systems (click here for an abstract)
05/04/09
05/11/09

Previous Schedules

fall 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005