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Nicholas Dimakis
Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: BINAB 2.115, ESCNE 1.606A
Email: nicholas.dimakis@utrgv.edu
Phone Brownsville: (956) 882-6679
Phone Edinburg: (956) 665-2041

Administrative Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: BINAB 2.102, ESCNE 1.606A
Phone Brownsville: (956) 882-6779
Phone Edinburg: (956) 665-3136

Past Seminars

  • Colloquium 2019
  • Colloquium 2018
  • Colloquium 2017
  • Colloquium 2016
  • Colloquium 2015
  • Colloquium 2014

Previous Seminar Schedules

2014

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
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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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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
Sergio H. Cantu Summer Physics Internships (Part 1: UTB Students at MIT) Development of an Ionic Liquid Ion Source for Space Propulsion Applications
Oct 28 Steven Shoen Summer Physics Internship (Part 2: UTB Students at Caltech) Development of electronics platforms for in situ thermal infrared imaging abstracts
Gregorio Tellez Summer Physics Internship (Part 2: UTB Students at Caltech) Long-Term Stability Tests of First-Article Advanced LIGO Optical Levers
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

2010

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

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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

2009

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

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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

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Oct 16

Sanjay Kumar

U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Flow Around A Spinning Cylinder

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Oct 23

Andreas Hanke

U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Predicting the Casimir Force in Nanomechanical Systems

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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

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Dec 4

Karen Leighly

U. of Oklahoma

The Astrophysics of Broad Absorption Line Quasars

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2008

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

2007

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?

2006

Date Speaker Institution Title Info

Feb 13

Michelle Vallisneri

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Synthetic LISA: Simulating the Future of LISA Data Analysis

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Mar 3

Sam Waldman

California Institute of Technology

The LIGO Interferometers: S5 and Beyond

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Mar 10

Mark Miller

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Obtaining Astrophysically Relevant Gravitational Waveforms from Numerical Relativity Simulations

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Apr 14

Jesus Pando

De Paul University

Characterizing Nongaussianity

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Apr 21

Christian Poppeliers

Angelo State U.

Seismic Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media: Modeling, Signal Processing and inversion

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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

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Nov 17

Lopez Mobilia

U. of Texas at San Antonio

2005

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)

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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

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Mar 29

Marge Bardeen

Fermilab

Mar 30

Lee Lindblom

California Institute of Technology

Preserving the Constraints in Numerical Relativity

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Apr  8

Harald Pfeiffer

California Institute of Technology

Binary Black Hole initial Data

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May 10

Carsten Gundlach

U. of Southampton, UK

Boundary Conditions for the BSSN Equations

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May 10

Tadeusz Janas

U. of Colorado

June 3

Shiho Kobayashi

Pennsylvania State University

Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

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June 16

Erik Schnetter

American Enterprise Institute

Mesh Refinement in Cactus

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June 28

Frans Pretorius

California Institute of Technology

Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Collisions

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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

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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

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Nov 14

Kelly Bockelman

Portland State University

Why Galaxy Shape Matters

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Dec 9

Carlos F. Sopuerta

Pennsylvania State University

Accurate Time-Domain Simulations of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries

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2004

Date Speaker Institution Title Info

Feb 27

Shiho Kobayashi

Pennsylvania State University

Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Oct 22

Shane Larson

Pennsylvania State University

Close Encounters of a Different kind - LISA Extreme Mass Ratio Capture Problem.

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Nov 12

Rajesh K. Nayak

U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Time-Delay Data Analysis for LISA

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Nov 26

Lee Samuel Finn

Pennsylvania State University

Gravitational Wave Astronomy

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2003

Date Speaker Institution Title Info

Feb 7

Enrique Pazos

U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Cactus and Some Numerical Relativity

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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

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Mar 28

Soma Mukherjee

U. of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

Data Characterization in Gravitational Waves

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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

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