Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group

Spring 2000 Seminars

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 5 Note: it is a wednesday!!!
John Beacom (Caltech) - New tests of neutrino properties with solar and supernova neutrinos


January 10
David M. Goldberg (Princeton) - Using Perturbative Least Action to Run Observations "Backwards in Time"


January 17
Jochen Weller (Un. of Calif., Davis) - Dark Energy from Planck Scale Physics

Lunch Seminar
Kin-Wang Ng (CITA) - Non-equilibrium photon production from scalar condensates in expanding space-time


January 24
Mariangela Bernardi (ESO) - The Nearby Early-Type Galaxies Survey (ENEAR)


January 31
James Annis (Fermilab) - Clusters, Photometric redshifts, and Cosmography to z=0.5

Lunch Seminar
Asantha Cooray (Chicago) - Cosmic Microwave Background Bispectrum


February 7
Daniel Chung (U. of Michigan) - Aspects of Brane Cosmology


February 14
Paolo Gondolo (MPI) - WIMP dark matter or cuspy halos?


February 21
Mike Blanton (Fermilab) - How Stochastic is the Bias between Galaxy Types?


February 28
Vijay Narayanan (Princeton) - Reconstruction Analysis of Galaxy Redshift Surveys


March 6
Leonard Parker and Alpan Raval (Wisc.) - Nonperturbative vacuum energy and the recent acceleration of the universe

Lunch Seminar
Jaan Einasto (Tartu Observatory) - The 130 Mpc scale puzzle


March 13
Craig Sarazin (U. of Virginia) - Thermal and Nonthermal Effects of Merger Shocks in Clusters of Galaxies

Lunch Seminar
Saleem Zaroubi (MPA) - Power Spectrum Analysis from Cosmic Flows


Lunch Seminar (MARCH 14: It is a TUESDAY!!!)
David Blaschke - Deconfinement and Color Superconductivity in Compact Stars


March 20
Antonio Riotto (Pisa) - A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON MANY TOPICS IN COSMOLOGY


Lunch Seminar (MARCH 21: It is a TUESDAY!!!)
Antonio Riotto (Pisa) - Non-Thermal prodution of dangerous relics in the early Universe


March 27

Lunch Seminar
Shmulik Balberg (UIUC) - Finding Black Holes in Supernovae


April 3
Chung-Pei Ma (Penn) - An Analytic Model for the Nonlinear Cosmological Power Spectrum and Bispectrum

Lunch Seminar
Scott Dodelson (Fermilab) - The Story of Python


April 10
Laura Baudis (MPI) - Direct detection of WIMP dark matter

Lunch Seminar
Jens Niemeyer (Chicago) - Inflation with a Planck scale cutoff


April 17
TBA - TBA


April 24
Todor Stanev (Bartol) - ASTROPHYSICAL ACCELERATION MODELS FOR THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC RAYS

Lunch ... discussion
Hosts: j. Einasto and I. Zehavi - An Informal discussion of cosmological parameters and functions


May 1
Toby Falk (Wisc.) - SUSY Dark Matter Confronts LEP and the Tevatron


May 8
Adam Burrows (Arizona) - Theory of the Atmospheres and Spectra of Substellar Mass Objects


May 22
Alessandra Buonanno (Caltech)- Dangerous relics and reheating in pre-big bang string cosmology

Lunch Talk
Fabio Finelli (Purdue) - Parametric amplification of gravitational fluctutations during preheating


June 5
Andreas Albrecht(University of California, Davis)- Cosmic Acceleration Today from Planck Scale Physics: How it could happen and how we might notice

Lunch Talk
Alexander Zhuk (University of Odessa) - Gravitational Excitons and their Cosmological and Astrophysical Implications fluctutations during preheating


For questions, contact Pasquale Blasi, who's organizing the seminars right now.


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