University of California, Berkeley
Astronomy/Physics C285 - Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
Spring 2001 - 4-5:30 PM Wednesdays - 643 Campbell Hall
Gravity Wave Astrophysics - Accomplishments, Problems and Prospects
January 17 - Organization
January 24 - Andrew Jaffe, Background Radiation
January 26 (Friday) - Stefano Vitale, LISA: The European perspective
(Joint with CfPA; 375 Le Conte, 12 noon)
January 31 - Sara Seagar, IAS: The Recombination Epoch: How Exactly Did the
Universe Become Neutral?
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February 7 - Yuri Levin, UC Berkeley: Overview of Gravity Wave
Astronomy
February 14 - Stan Whitcomb, Caltech: LIGO I & LIGO II
February 21 - Kip Thorne, Caltech: The Future of Ground Based
Gravity Wave Observatories
February 28 - Don Backer, UCB - Pulsars as Gravity Wave Detectors
March 7 - William Folkner, JPL: LISA as an Experiment
March 14 - Sterl Phinney, Caltech: LISA Science
March 21 - Lee Lindblom, Caltech: Gravity Waves from Spinning
Neutron Stars
March 26 - Spring holiday - no seminar
April 4 - Scott Hughes, ITP: Mapping black hole geometry with LISA
April 11 - Alessandra Buonnano, Caltech: Advanced laser-
interferometric gravitational-wave detectors: beating the
standard quantum limit.
April 18 - Janna Levin, Cambridge: Chaotic Gravity Wave Emission from
Merging Black Hole Binaries
April 25 - Primordial Gravity Waves/Student Reports
May 2 - Student Reports