Past Seminars


Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Sept 5	Peng Qiu-he	Nanjing University, China	Discovery of strong radial magnetic field at the center of the Galaxy Significance: possible evidence of magnetic monopole from astronomical observation	pdf
Sept 12	Matthew Benacquista	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Tidal perturbations to the gravitational inspiral of J0651+2844	abstract
Sept 22	Michele Zanolin	Embry Riddle Aeronautical University	Probing Core Collapse Supernova Physics with Laser Interferometers	abstract
Nov 7	Knicole Colon	Lehigh University	Characterizing the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters with Large Ground-Based Telescopes	abstract
Nov 14	Chris Ruf	University of Michigan	The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System	abstract
Nov 21	Andreas Hanke	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Multiscale Modeling of Macromolecular Systems in Biology	abstract
Nov 24	Yan Wang	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Detecting very low frequency gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays	abstract
Dec 5	Manfred Cuntz	University of Texas at Arlington	Habitability in the Environments of Main-Sequence Stars	abstract
June 20	Volker Quetschke	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Overview of Advanced LIGO
June 27	Camas Key	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	The Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth Telluride
July 3	Grant Meadors	University of Michigan	Star-songs in spacetime: Launching into gravitational wave astrophysics	abstract
July 18	Joe Romano	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Mathematics and the prints of M.C. Escher
July 25	Matt Benacquista	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	The mysterious case of PSRJ1145-6545
Jan 17	Anthony Ford	Arecibo Observatory	Working at the Arecibo Observatory	abstract
Jan 24	Volker Quetschke	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	The Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector	abstract
Jan 31	Oliver Puncken	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	LIGO Lasers	abstract
Feb 21	Matt Abernathy	LIGO Caltech Lab	X-ray measurements of the structure of tantala coatings	abstract
Mar 21	Fronfeld Crawford	Franklin and Marshall	A New Search for Radio Pulsars in M33, the Triangulum Galaxy	abstract
Mar 27	Laura Sampson	Montana State University	Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Wave Observations	abstract
Mar 28	Warren Anderson	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Data Analysts Without Borders: A Case Study	abstract
Apr 4	Joan Centrella	NASA Astrophysics Science Division	Science at NASA: From the Earth to the Universe, Keynote Address for the UTB Research Symposium	abstract
Apr 18	Kathryn Williamson	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	Measuring Student Understanding of Gravity	abstract pdf
Apr 25	Daryl Haggard	Northwestern University/CIERA	Observing G2 As It Plummets Toward the Milky Way's Central Black Hole	abstract
May 2	Phil Mauskopf	Arizona State University	The Cosmic Microwave Background and Fundamental Properties of the Universe	abstract

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 14	Matt Abernathy		Measurement of Coating Material Properties for the Improvement of Gravitational Wave Detectors	abstract
Mar 1	Herbert L. Berk	Dept. of Physics and Institute of Fusion Studies University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas	The Yearn to Burn and Plasma; Research in Controlled Fusion	abstract
Apr 5	Namir Kassim	Naval Research Laboratory	A Radio LSST: Duplicating the VLA for Continuous, sub-GHz Observations with LOBO	abstract
Apr 19	Scott Ransom	NRAO-Charlottesville and University of Virginia	Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars	abstract
Apr 26	Camas Key	Montana State University	Reactive Vaporization of Materials Used in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems	abstract
May 10	Gregorio Tellez	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Characterization and Implementation of Hardware for aLIGO Photon Calibration	abstract
Oct 18	Nairwita Mazumder	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Thiruvananthpuram	A new search approach for the detection of gravitational-wave s from low-mass inspiraling compact binaries with spin	abstract
Oct 29	Tania Peñuela	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universiat (LMU) Munich and Institute for Astronomy of the Swiss Institute of Technology	Galaxy Evolution, early stages of galaxy formation in Lyman Alp ha emitters	abstract
Nov 12	Samanta Fuentes-Tapia	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Image analysis pipeline for circumpolar observations	abstract
Nov 14	Carlos Jeziel Gonzalez Banuelos	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Design and Configuration of Laser Tweezers Microscopy for Force Measurements on Single DNA Molecules
Nov 19	Matt Wood	Texas A&M Commerce	Cataclysmic Variables in the Kepler Field	abstract
Dec 10	Pablo Daveloza	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Topics in the Calibration of Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Jan 27	Cristina Torres	Research assistant professor with the CGWA	Critical Coupling Likelihood: Motivating CCL development and some early results of CCL applied to the GEO observatory data	abstract
Feb 3	Mariano de Leon Dominguez	Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba	Measuring the dark matter equation of state and its cosmological consequences	abstract
Feb 17	Guanghua Xu	Physical Science Department of South Texas College	Searching for Additional Sources of Time-reversal Violation Through Polarized Particle Collisions	abstract
Feb 23	Benjamin Cooley	Dr. Vernita Gordon's group at UT Austin	Roles of Pel and Psl in very early biofilm development	abstract
Mar 2	Ruslan Vaulin	LIGO Scientific Collaboration	Searching for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence	abstract
Mar 9	Juan Guevara	UTB/TSC Physics Department	The search for indicators of prostatic cancer during the early stage biotechnology	abstract
Mar 30	Andrzej Krolak	Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw	Searching for periodic gravitational wave signals	abstract
Apr 13	Duncan Lorimer	Department of Physics at West Virginia University	Radio pulsar populations in the Galaxy and beyond	abstract
Apr 27	Richard Willson	University of Houston The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	Nano- and Micro-Scale Labels for Medical Diagnostics: Retroreflectors, Nanoparticles, and Engineered Viruses	abstract
May 10	Michal Dominik	University of Warsaw	The formation and evolution of double compact objects	abstract
May 11	Oliver Puncken	Laser Zentrum Hannover	Pump head design for the Advanced LIGO 200-W laser	abstract
Oct 12	Soumya Mohanty	UTB/TSC Physics Department	Transient narrowband gravitational wave signals: detection and estimation using Particle Swarm Optimization	abstract
Nov 16	Joe Lazio	JPL	The Dark Ages Radio Explorer	abstract
Nov 29	Cristiane Loesch de Souza Costa	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)	Space Weather Events Global 3D MHD Simulations in the Interplanetary Medium	abstract
Nov 30	Marica Branchesitd>	University of Urbino	Transient Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Electromagnetic Follow-Up of Gravitational Wave Candidates	abstract
Dec 7	Gilberto Casillas	UT-San Antonio	Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscopy as a Tool for Nanotechnology	abstract

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Mar 4	Alex Ignatiev	University of Houston	Mechanisms and Materials Challenges for Its Application	abstract
Mar 7	Nick Fotopoulos	California Institute of Technology	The search for compact binary coalescence in association with short GRBs with the first-generation LIGO and Virgo detectors	abstract
Mar 11	Richard Wilkins	Prairie View A&M	Space Radiation Research at Prairie View A&M University	abstract
Apr 8	Andreas Hanke	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Normal Mode Analysis and Entropy Estimates for Multiscale Models of DNA	abstract
Apr 22	Alexander Stroeer	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Comparison of Signals from Gravitational Wave Detectors with Instantaneous Time-Frequency Maps	abstract
Sept 2	Matthew Benacquista	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Stellar mass compact Object Binaries and the New LISA	abstract
Sept 23	Krzysztof Belczynski	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College and University of Warsaw	Two Stories on Galactic Black Holes	abstract
Oct 7	Jose McKinnon	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Mapping the Galaxy with LISA	abstract
Oct 14	Richard Price	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Understanding black hole plunges	abstract
Oct 21	Liliana Ruiz-Diaz	Summer Physics Internships (Part 1: UTB Students at MIT)	Characterization of nano-scaled strained Si/Ge heterostructures	abstracts
Oct 21	Sergio H. Cantu	Summer Physics Internships (Part 1: UTB Students at MIT)	Development of an Ionic Liquid Ion Source for Space Propulsion Applications	abstracts
Oct 28	Steven Shoen	Summer Physics Internship (Part 2: UTB Students at Caltech)	Development of electronics platforms for in situ thermal infrared imaging	abstracts
Oct 28	Gregorio Tellez	Summer Physics Internship (Part 2: UTB Students at Caltech)	Long-Term Stability Tests of First-Article Advanced LIGO Optical Levers	abstracts
Nov 4	Mario Diaz	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	UTB at the top of the world or are gravitational waves visible?	abstract
Nov 11	Joe Romano	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Some random remarks about fractals and chaos	abstract
Dec 2	Kevin Stovall	Ph.D. Student at UTB/TSC/UTSA	Pulsar Search Results from the Arecibo Remote Command Center	abstract

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 5	Soumya Mohanty	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Particle Swarm Optimization	abstract
Feb 10	Carlos Kozameh	University of Cordoba, Argentina	Gravitomagnetism	abstract
Feb 19	Jorge Lopez	University of Texas at El Paso	The New Nuclear Physics and Isoscaling	abstract
Feb 26	Krzysztof Belczynski	Los Alamos
Mar 5	Drew Keppel	Albert Einstein Institute	Searching for Compact Binary Coalescence Signals in Gravitational-Wave Data
Mar 10	Mustapha Ishak	University of Texas at Dallas	Cosmology Group	abstract
Mar 26	Niescja Turner	Florida Institute of Technology	Energetics of Magnetic Storms
Mar 29	Gianpietro Cagnoli	INFN Perugia, Italy	Challenges in Gravitational Waves Detectors	abstract
Apr 9	Jonathan Downing	University of Heidelberg	Black Hole Binaries in Star Clusters	abstract
Apr 13	Karen Martirosyan	University of Houston	Emerging Opportunities of Nanoscience for Energy, Environmental and Biomedical Applications	abstract
Apr 16	Davood Askari	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Fabrication and Testing of Three Dimensionally Reinforced Laminated Multifunctional Nanocomposites	abstract
Apr 19	Mircea Chipara	University of Texas-Pan American	Polymer-Based Nanocomposites	abstract
April 23	Malik Rakhmanov	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Optics, Interferometry, and Differential Geometry of LIGO	abstract
Apr 30	Fabio Urbani	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Double-Negative Behavior of Two-Dimensional Periodic Passive Arrays	abstract
June 4	Ranjan Gupta	Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics	Artificial Neural Networks: A Robust Classification Tool for Astronomy	abstract
July 12	Tarun Souradeep	Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics	Standard Cosmology & beyond with CMB	abstract slides 1, 2, 3
Aug 11	Philip Graff	University of Cambridge Queens’ College	Bayesian Nested Sampling and Gravitational Wave Dat Analysis	abstract
Aug 27	Juan Guevara	University of Texas at Brownsville	Molecular Master Key for Cell Entry	abstract
Oct 1	Pablo Daveloza	University of Texas at Brownsville	Elastic deformation of initial LIGO test masses induced by actuation and calibration forces	abstract
Oct 8	Krzysztof Belczynski	University of Texas at Brownsville	Stellar Black Holes Across the Universe	abstract
Nov 5	Dmitri Litvinov	University of Houston	Towards the Next Generation Magnetic Technologies	abstract
Nov 12	Oleg R. Musin	University of Texas at Brownsville	Discrete analog of Maxwell-Morse theory and its applications to Image Processing	abstract
Nov 19	Vesselin Vatchev	University of Texas at Brownsville	Restrictions of Standard Approximation Techniques and “New” Approach for Signal Processing	abstract
Dec 3	Alexander Stroeer	University of Texas at Brownsville	Exploratory data analysis strategies for gravitational wave detectors	abstract

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 9	Qiu-he Peng	Nanjing University	A New Model for Glitches in Young Pulsars
Feb 16	Carlos Kozameh	University of Cordoba	Center Of Mass and Spin in General Relativity
Feb 20	Ted Newman	University of Pittsburgh	Extracting Physical Content from Asymptotically Flat Space-Times
Mar 10	Nazmul Islam	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Novel Development of AC Electrokinetics and Micro/Nano-System Integration with MEMS Device
Apr 13	Haisheng Rong	Intel Corporation	Prospects of Silicon Photonics for Future Large Scale Photonics Integration	abstract
Apr 20	Sam Finn	Pennsylvania State University	Pointing LISA
Apr 23	Ahmed Touhami	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Atomic Force Microscopy: A Key Tool for Nanobiotechnology
May 6	Oleg Stukalov	U. of Guelph, Canada	Polysaccharide Nanoparticles : What It Takes to Bring Lab Discovery to the Market
June 11	ARCC Students	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Pulsar Timing: J1917+1736, Pulsar Detection in Data, Resonant Dispersion and Pulsars: Past and Present, Pulsar Outreach: Google Sky Plug-in
Sep 2	Cheng Ho	Los Alamos National Lab	RF Remote Sensing and Lightning
Sep 26	Steve Rangel	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Building a Natural Language Interface for the ATNF Pulsar Database using a Machine Learning Approach
Oct 9	Ahmed Touhami	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Single-Molecule Biophysics Watching & Feeling Biomolecules at Work	abstract
Oct 16	Sanjay Kumar	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Flow Around A Spinning Cylinder	abstract
Oct 23	Andreas Hanke	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Predicting the Casimir Force in Nanomechanical Systems	abstract
Oct 30	Ke Xu Sun	Stanford University	New Technologies for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors	abstract
Nov 6	Volker Quetschke	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	LIGO -An Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector	abstract
Nov 13	Karen Martirosyan	U. of Houston	Reactive Nano Systems: Fundamental and Applications	abstract
Nov 20	Manfred Fink	U. of Texas at Austin	A New Raman Spectra Analyzer to Measure Isotope Ratios with High Spectral Resolution	abstract
Dec 4	Karen Leighly	U. of Oklahoma	The Astrophysics of Broad Absorption Line Quasars	abstract

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 29	Kejia Lee	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Annular Gap Radiation Model for Pulsar Gamma-Ray Radiation
Mar 17	Richard Price	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Iteration Stability and Generalizing from Discrete to the Continuum
Apr 23	Richard Price	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Helically Symmetric Spacetimes and Gravitational Waves
May 9	David Champion	Australia Telescope National Facility	The Discovery of an Eccentric Millisecond Pulsar in the Galactic Plane
May 22	Jessica Clayton	U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee	Searching for Astrophysical Neutrinos in the Antarctic Ice Flows
May 29	Rutger van Haasteren	Leiden Observatory, Germany	Measuring Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Observations, Using a Bayesian Data Analysis Algorithm
Aug 8	R. N. Manchester	Australia Telescope National Facility	Pulsars and Gravity
Sep 15	Christopher Wren	Mitsubishi Co., Japan	Measuring the Hidden Social Life of a Building
Sep 26	Steve Rangel	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Building a Natural Language Interface for the ATNF Pulsar Database Using a Machine Learning Approach
Oct 17	Kentaro Somiya	California Institute of Technology	Second-Generation and Third-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Oct 21	Andrea Lommen	Franklin & Marshall College	Detecting Bursts of Gravitational Radiation Using Pulsar Timing
Oct 24	Rachel Rosen	U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	A Non-radial Oscillation Model for Radio Pulsars
Nov 14	Patricia Purdue	Colorado College	Modeling Acceleration Noise in LISA
Nov 19	Ashish Mahabal	California Institute of Technology	Transients: Detection, Distribution and Follow-up Leading Towards Classification
Dec 5	Arianna DiCintio	California Institute of Technology	Dissipation Processes in Metal Springs
Dec 5	Oliver Probst	Monterrey Tech (ITESM)	State of the Art and Trends in Wind Resource Assessment

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Apr 26	Ashley Ruiter	New Mexico State	Faint X-ray Sources in the Galactic Centre
May 1	Malik Rakhmanov	LIGO Hanford Observatory	The Physics of LIGO: Suspensions, Optics, and Interferometer Configurations
June 6	Benjamin Owen	Pennsylvania State University	Why LIGO Results are Already Interesting?

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 13	Michelle Vallisneri	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Synthetic LISA: Simulating the Future of LISA Data Analysis	txt pdf
Mar 3	Sam Waldman	California Institute of Technology	The LIGO Interferometers: S5 and Beyond	pdf
Mar 10	Mark Miller	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Obtaining Astrophysically Relevant Gravitational Waveforms from Numerical Relativity Simulations	txt
Apr 14	Jesus Pando	De Paul University	Characterizing Nongaussianity	txt ppt
Apr 21	Christian Poppeliers	Angelo State U.	Seismic Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media: Modeling, Signal Processing and inversion	txt ppt
May 15	Dae-Il Dale Choi	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
July 7	Nicolas Yunes	Pennsylvania State University
Sep 22	Sanjay Kumar	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Richtmyer Meshkov Instability	pdf
Nov 17	Lopez Mobilia	U. of Texas at San Antonio

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 18	Ed Seidel	Louisiana State University	Using Supercomputers to Collapse Gravitational Waves, Collide Black Holes (and Study Other Cataclysms)	pdf
Feb 28	Victor Rodriguez	UNAM, Mexico	Einstein's Philosophy of Science
Mar 11	Andrea Nerozzi	U. of Texas at Austin	Wave Extraction Using Weyl Scalars	txt pdf
Mar 29	Marge Bardeen	Fermilab
Mar 30	Lee Lindblom	California Institute of Technology	Preserving the Constraints in Numerical Relativity	txt pdf
Apr 8	Harald Pfeiffer	California Institute of Technology	Binary Black Hole initial Data	pdf txt
May 10	Carsten Gundlach	U. of Southampton, UK	Boundary Conditions for the BSSN Equations	pdf
May 10	Tadeusz Janas	U. of Colorado
June 3	Shiho Kobayashi	Pennsylvania State University	Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era	pdf
June 16	Erik Schnetter	American Enterprise Institute	Mesh Refinement in Cactus	pdf
June 28	Frans Pretorius	California Institute of Technology	Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Collisions	pdf
Aug 26	Matt Benacquista	Montana State University	Galactic White Dwarf Binaries and LISA Signal
Sep 16	Soumya Mohanty	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Coherent Network Analysis	txt
Sep 27	Qiu-he Peng	Nanjing University	A Star's Life
Sep 28	Qiu-he Peng	Nanjing University	A New Explosion Mechanism for Core Collapsed Supernova
Oct 24	Teviet Creighton	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Measuring Properties of Pulsar Populations Using LIGO	txt pdf
Nov 14	Kelly Bockelman	Portland State University	Why Galaxy Shape Matters	txt
Dec 9	Carlos F. Sopuerta	Pennsylvania State University	Accurate Time-Domain Simulations of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries	txt

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 27	Shiho Kobayashi	Pennsylvania State University	Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts	txt
Apr 23	Malik Rakhmanov	U. of Florida	Geodesic Deviation Induced by Gravitational Waves for Large Separation Between the Test Masses in the Coordinates of a Local Observer	txt
May 7	Fredrick Jenet	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Radio Pulsars and Gravitational Waves: Constraining the Properties of the Proposed Super-Massive Black Hole System in 3C66B	txt
May 21	Christopher Beetle	Florida Atlantic University
Aug 20	Jorge Pullin	Louisiana State University	Quantum Mechanics with Real Clocks, Fundamental Decoherence and the Black Hole Information Paradox
Sep 10	Bernard Kelly	Pennsylvania State University	The Next Generation of Binary Black Hole Head-On Collisions at Penn State	pdf
Sep 17	Stephen R. Lau	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Rapid Evaluation of Radiation Boundary Kernels for Time Domain Wave Propagation in Black Holes
Oct 21	Michelle Larson	Pennsylvania State University	Gravitational Wave Outreach: Communicating the Gist without the Geodesic	ppt txt
Oct 22	Shane Larson	Pennsylvania State University	Close Encounters of a Different kind - LISA Extreme Mass Ratio Capture Problem.	txt
Nov 12	Rajesh K. Nayak	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Time-Delay Data Analysis for LISA	pdf txt
Nov 26	Lee Samuel Finn	Pennsylvania State University	Gravitational Wave Astronomy	txt

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Info
Feb 7	Enrique Pazos	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Cactus and Some Numerical Relativity	pdf
Feb 21	Ryoji Takahashi		Gauge Instability of 3+1 Formulation of GR: Numerical Experiments
Mar 7	David Merritt	Rutgers University	Feeding Black Holes
Mar 21	Soumya Mohanty	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Applications of Change Point Detection in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis	pdf ppt
Mar 28	Soma Mukherjee	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Data Characterization in Gravitational Waves	pdf ppt
Sep 19	Manuel Tiglio	Louisiana State University
Sep 26	Mark Hannam	U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College	Initial Data for Binary Black Holes: the Conformal Thin-Sandwich Puncture Method	pdf ppt

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Department of Physics and Astronomy College of Sciences

Past Seminars