Weekly astro luncheons

Schedule for the Fall of 2004:

Fridays in the small lunch room at 12



Between 6 Sep and 16 Dec Axel Brandenburg will be in Cambridge. However, Professor Marek Abramowicz (Göteborg) will be at Nordita. He will take care of organizing the Friday luncheons. Pls, email him at marek@fy.chalmers.se if you have any suggestions or if you like to give a talk.
6 Aug Souriraja Ramadurai

Balloon Experiment to detect Microorganisms in the Outer Space
13 Aug no meeting 2nd Astrobiology meeting
20 Aug Maarit Korpi

About the magneto-rotational instability in galactic disks
27 Aug Sami Dib
(Heidelberg)
The HI morphology in dwarf elliptical galaxies
3 Sep no meeting Cosmic Ray meeting
10 Sep Marek Abramowicz
(Göteborg)
Super-Eddington accretion. Part I.
(part II on Nov 26 by Toshihiro Kawaguchi)
17 Sep no meeting  
24 Sep William Lee
(Mexico City)
QPOs from oscillating torus
1 Oct Paola Rebusco
(Munich)
Jirka Horak
(Prague)
Non-linear resonances in accretion flows
8 Oct Chris Pethick Neutron star cooling and stellar collapse:
properties of neutrinos in dense matter
I shall give a brief review of the status of work on neutron star cooling, and if there is time I shall describe current work with Emma Olsson and Gennadi Lykasov on neutrino properties of matter in stellar collapse.
Reference: D. G. Yakovlev and C. J. Pethick, ARAA 42, 169 (2004)
15 Oct Paolo di Vecchia Why do we need strings?
22 Oct Sebastiano Sonego
(Udine)
Black hole information paradox
 29 Oct Asko Jokinen Seed perturbations for primordial magnetic fields
from MSSM flat directions
5 Nov Gulli Bjornsson
(Reykjavik)
Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts
12 Nov ??? ???
19 Nov George Chapline
(Livermore)
An alternative to a black hole
26 Nov Toshihiro Kawaguchi
(Osawa)
Super-Eddington accretion. Part II.
(a multimedia presentation)
3 Dec Jean-Pierre Lasota
(Paris)
How strong is the evidence for astrophysical black holes?
10 Dec Henrik Madsen
(Technical University
of Denmark,
Kgs. Lyngby)
Modelling time series using stochastic differential equations
17 Dec Marek Abramowicz
(Göteborg)
Virtual astrophysics on internet
(a multimedia Chanuka & Christmas hutzpa)
14 Jan no meeting 3rd Astrobiology meeting

(Associate) Professor position in Trondheim (deadline 16 August)
Associate Professor position in Aarhus (deadline 23 August)

Visitors this term

 
Before Christmas the following visitors are expected:
  
  Prof. Sebastiano Sonego (Udine, Italy)
  Prof. George Chapline (Livermore, California)
    Dr. Toshihiro Kawaguchi (Osawa, Japan)   
  Prof. Jean-Pierre Lasota (Paris, France)


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