Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars

Autumn 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.


October 4
Uros Seljak (Princeton) - High Precision Cosmology: Galaxies vs. Weak Lensing

Lunch Seminar
Robert Caldwell (Princeton) - (1) A New Approach to Non-Linear Clustering (2) A Phantom Menace?


October 11
Matthias Steinmetz (Arizona) - The Cosmological Origin of Disk Galaxy Scaling Laws


October 18
Sean Carroll (UChicago) - Cosmological Magnetic Fields from Primordial Helicity

Lunch Seminar
Ola Tornkvist (Cambridge) - Non-Abelian Bubble Collisions and Cosmic Magnetic Fields


October 25
Gia Dvali (NYU) - Physics and Cosmology of Large Extra Dimensions

Lunch Seminar
Rocky Kolb (Fermilab) - Bumps in the Primordial Power Spectrum: MAP and SDSS probe the Planck scale


November 1
Phil Fischer (UMichigan) - Weak Lensing Measurements of Galaxy Halos with the SDSS

Lunch Seminar
Pasquale Blasi (Fermilab) - Non-thermal Processes in Clusters of Galaxies


November 8
Mike Hudson (Waterloo) - Beyond the Great Attractor: Probing Dark Matter with Cosmic Flows

Lunch Seminar
Ravi Sheth (Fermilab) - Seeing Red with Dark Matter Halos


November 15
Larry Ramsey (Penn State) - The Hobby-Eberly telescope: a new model for ground based optical-IR observing


November 22
Roman Scoccimarro (IAS) - The Bispectrum of IRAS Galaxies

Lunch Seminar
Carlo Contaldi (Imperial College) - Bayesian Estimates of Non-Gaussianity in the CMB


November 29
Anupam Mazumdar (Imperial College) - Nonperturbative Production of Gravitinos


December 6
Larry Widrow (Queen's University) - The First Magnetic Fields


December 13
No seminar


December 20
Laura Mersini (UW Milwaukee) - Brane Dynamics and a Decaying Cosmological Constant


For questions, contact Idit Zehavi, who's organizing the seminars right now.


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