Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars
Spring 1998
Unless otherwise specified, all regular Seminars take place at 2:30 pm 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 noon on the same day at the 3E - Theory
Conference Room.
January 5
Limin Wang (U Penn) - Quintessence
January 22
Zoltan Haiman (Harvard) - Formation and Signatures of the First Stars and
Quasars
Note: This is a special Lunch Seminar at the 3E Conference Room
January 26
Scott Burles (U Chicago) - Measurements of the deuterium abundance in QSO
absorption systems
February 2
Keith Olive (U Minnesota) - Recent LEP constraints and the State of SUSY Dark
Matter
February 4
Special Lunch Seminar: Michael Gross (NASA/Goddard)
- Clusters in Various Cosmological Models: Abundance and Evolution
February 5
Special Lunch Seminar: Anne Green (U Sussex) - Primordial Black
Holes and Early Cosmology
February 9
Bob Scherrer (Ohio State) - Constraints on the Effects of Locally Bias Galaxy
Formation
Lunch Seminar: Ian Grivell (U. Sussex)
February 16
Bhuvnesh Jain (Johns Hopkins) - Weak Lensing and Cosmology
Lunch Seminar: Josh Frieman
February 23
Gary Hinshaw (NASA) - Cosmology and MAP
March 2
Adrian Melott (U Kansas) - Postponed
March 9
No Seminars
March 16
Leszek Roszkowski (CERN)
Cosmological Squeeze on the Supersymmetric FCNC and CP Problem
Lunch Seminar: Enrique Gaztanaga (Barcelona)
March 18
Special Lunch Seminar: Edward Wright (UCLA) - Cosmic Background
Observations: COBE Results and Future MAPS
March 26
Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex)
Special Lunch Seminar (Thursday): Cosmic strings - dead again?
March 30
Alexander Kusenko (CERN)
Star Wreck: the Q-ball invasion
April 6
Nelson Pinto Neto: The Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Applied to
Quantum Cosmology
April 9
Special Lunch Seminar: Ruth Daly (Princeton)
April 13
Mark Metzger (Caltech): Gamma-ray Bursts: Not so Fast
April 20
Mark Trodden (Case Western): Dirichlet Defects
Lunch Seminar: Ben Bromley (CFA) - Spectral Classification of LCRS
Galaxies
April 27
Kim Griest (UC San Diego): Microlensing and Machos
May 4
James Bullock (UC Santa Cruz): Probing Galaxy Formation with TeV gamma-ray
Lunch Seminar: Andrew Liddle (Sussex) - Some Cosmology for the MTV generation
May 11
Jordi Miralda-Escude (U Penn): Probes of the Reionization Epoch
Lunch Seminar: Carlo Baccigalupi (Universita' di Ferrara) - Phase Coherence in
the CMB anisotropies
May 18
Michael Strauss (Princeton): The Measurement of Omega_0 from Redshift and
Peculiar Velocity Surveys
Lunch Seminar: Michael Strauss - Taking the Temperature of the Galaxy Velocity
Field
May 26
Jun'ichi Yokoyama (Stanford): Chaotic new inflation and formation of primordial
black holes
Lunch Seminar: Jens Niemeyer (U. Chicago) - Hydrodynamical simulations
of primordial black hole formation
June 1
Adrian Melott (U Kansas): Postponed
For questions, contact Will Kinney
or Lam
Hui, who're organizing
the seminars right now.