Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars

Autumn 1998


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


September 21
Arjun Berera (Vanderbilt) - A First Principles Warm Inflation Model


September 28
Ewan Stewart (Fermilab) - Building Natural Models of Inflation


October 5
John Carlstrom (Chicago) - The Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect: observations and implications

Lunch Seminar
Kristen Menou (CfA & DARC) - Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows (ADAFs) around Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Transient X-ray Binaries


October 12
George Fuller (San Diego) - Do Big Bang and Supernova Nucleosynthesis and New Experiments Suggest the Existence of a New Particle: the Light Sterile Neutrino?

Lunch Seminar
Kim Coble (Chicago) - Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background at Degree Angular Scales: Python V Results


October 19
Igor Tkatchev (Purdue) - Matter Creation in the Early Universe

Lunch Seminar
Zoltan Haiman (Fermilab)


October 26
Fay Dowker (Imperial) - Good and Bad Topology Change

Lunch Seminar
Dallas Kennedy (Florida) - Cosmic Ray Antiprotons


November 2
Adrian Melott (Kansas) - Cluster Winds Blow Along Supercluster Axes

Lunch Seminar
Marcelo Gleiser (Dartmouth) - Gravitational Waves from Collapsing Vacuum Domains


November 9
Yun Wang (Princeton) - Supernova Pencil Beam Survey


November 16
Rupert Croft (Harvard) - Studying Cosmology without Galaxy Formation: The Lyman-Alpha Forest

Lunch Seminar
Idit Zehavi (Fermilab) - Mass Power Spectrum from Peculiar Velocities


November 23
Willy Fischler (Texas) - Holography and Cosmology


December 7
Daniel Eisenstein (IAS) - Precision Cosmology with CMB Experiments and Large Redshift Surveys


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