Group Meetings this Summer will be held on Tuesdays from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM in Dearborn Observatory Room 23.

Please contact Loren Hoffman if you would like to volunteer to present something or suggest a topic for discussion. We can accommodate any format, from short informal talks on recent research results to journal-club style discussions and special seminars by visitors.


Supernova Reading Group Meetings will be held on Mondays from 1:00 - 2:00 PM in Dearborn Observatory Room 23.

Please contact Manou Rantsiou to volunteer a to present a tutorial or to lead the discussion.

August 28, 2009
Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

JOHN FREGEAU (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Title: “White Dwarf Birth Kicks in Star Clusters”.
When: Friday, August 28, 2009 from Noon to 1:00PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

August 4, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

Manou Rantsiou and Matt Dodelson will present, followed by astro-ph - please bring some interesting articles!

July 28, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will discuss the progress of summer projects. This will be followed by astro-ph - please bring some interesting articles!

July 21, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

Soko Matsumura will give a tutorial on terrestrial planet formation following Lunine et al., astro-ph/0906.4369. This will be followed by astro-ph - please bring some interesting articles!

July 16, 2009
Computational Cosmology Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

On massive black hole binaries, Colpi & Dotti,astro-ph/0906.4339.

July 14, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will catch up on astro-ph - please bring some interesting articles!

July 7, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

Tassos Fragos will present his latest results. To be followed by astro-ph - please bring some interesting articles!

June 30, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

Loren Hoffman will give a tutorial on hierarchical structure formation & GC systems. To be followed by astro-ph - please bring some interesting articles!

June 23, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

Sourav Chatterjee will discuss the effects of the IMF on collisional runaways, applied to the young cluster Arches. To be followed by astro-ph - please bring some interesting articles!

June 22, 2009
Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

NATALIE HINKEL (Arizona State University)

Title: “Simulating Stellar Clusters; One Step at a Time”.
When: Tuesday, June 22, 2009 from Noon to 1:00PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

June 16, 2009
Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

First Group Meeting of the Summer Term!

We will start with a celebration in honor of those graduating this year!

June 15, 2009
Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

Sherry Suyu (University of Bonn)

Title: “Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608+656: Implications for the Hubble Constant”.
When: Tuesday, June 15, 2009 from 11AM to Noon
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

June 3, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Last meeting of the Spring Term!

Michael Tremmel will talk about his recent results. Our astro-ph discussion will follow, please bring interesting papers!

June 1, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will not be having our meeting this week.

May 27, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Francesca Valsecchi and Tsing-Wai Wong will give updates on their research. Our astro-ph discussion will follow, please bring interesting papers!

May 25, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will not be having our meeting this week.

May 22, 2009
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Adam Burrows (Princeton University)

Title: “Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions”.
When: Tuesday, May 22, 2009 from 4PM to 5PM
Where: TECH, L211

May 21, 2009
Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

Alberto Sesana (Penn State University)

Title: “Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection with Forthcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays”.
When: Tuesday, May 20, 2009 from 4PM to 5PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

May 20, 2009
Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

Evert Glebbeek (McMaster University)

Title: “Modelling the evolution of stellar collision runaways”.
When: Tuesday, May 20, 2009 at Noon
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

May 18, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will talk about SASI and it's role on the evolution of the core-collapse SN explosion and its effects on the birth spinning rates of pulsars.

May 13, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Loren Hoffman and Soko Matsumura will give us updates. Our astro-ph discussion will follow, please bring interesting papers!

May 12, 2009
Astrophysics Seminar

Hsiao-Wen Chen (University of Chicago)

Title: “Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows as New Probes”.
When: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 from 4PM to 5PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

May 11, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will discuss Electron Capture Supernovae.

May 6, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Stefan Umbreit my give us an N-body tutorial and Jeff Andrews will talk about his recent results. Our astro-ph discussion will follow, please bring interesting papers!

May 4, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will not be having our meeting this week.

April 30, 2009
Special Astrophysics Seminar

Benjamin Knispel (AEI, Hannover)

Title: “Searching Radio Pulsars in Tight Binaries with Einstein@Home and PALFA”.
When: Thursday, April 30, 2009 from 4PM to 5PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

April 29, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Our visitor, Ben Knispel, will discuss his work on testing the so-called "Blanford's argument" regarding the upper limit on gravitational-wave emission from rotating neutron stars via simulations of the Galactic NS population. Matt McCrory will give a GPU tutorial. Our astro-ph discussion will follow, so please bring interesting papers!

April 27, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We plan to cover another review paper by Christian Ott: “The Gravitational Wave Signature of Core-collapse Supernovae”. We also discussed “The Proto-Neutron Star Phase of the Collapsar Model and the Route to Long-Soft Gamma-Ray Bursts and Hypernovae“, by Dessart et. al. 2008, ApJ, 673, 43

April 22, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Soko Matsumura and Manou Rantsiou will will present their recent results which will be followed by our astro-ph discussion.

April 21, 2009
Astrophysics Seminar

Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University)

Title: “New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD”.
When: Tuesday April 21, 2009 from 4PM to 5PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, Room 23

April 20, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

We will be covering a review paper by Thomas Janka et. al. “Theory of core-collapse supernovae”, Physics Reports 442 (2004), 38-74.

April 15, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Visitor Jonathan Gair will give a presentation titled “Astrophysics and Cosmology with LISA Gravitational Wave Sources” which will be followed by our astro-ph discussion.

April 13, 2009
Supernova Reading Group Meeting (1:00 PM)

Conctact Manou for more details on the organization and schedule.

April 8, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Marc van der Sluys will present on Cataclysmic Variables and Vivien Raymond will present on MCMC. Don't forget to bring astro-ph papers!

April 6, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (Noon)

The first meeting of the Spring term. Ilya will gie an update on the recent status of intermediate-mass black holes. Here is a link to a review article Miller & Colbert, Int.J.Mod.Phys. D13 (2004) 1-64.

April 1, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

The first group meeting of the Spring term. Tassos will give a practice talk and Vicky will give a summary of the activities at the UC Santa Barbara workshop.

March 19, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

We will have no group meeting this week. We will next meet on the week of March 30.

March 17, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Jeff Andrews will lead the journal-club discussion.

March 12, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Tsing-Wai Wong will share his most recent results.
Afterwards, we will have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring one or two articles to discuss!

March 10, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Lamya Saleh will lead the journal-club discussion.

March 5, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

This week we will only have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring one or two articles to discuss!

March 3, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Meagan Morscher will lead the journal-club discussion.

February 26, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Chris Deloye and Francesca Valsecchi will share their most recent results.
Afterwards, we will have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring one or two articles to discuss!

February 24, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Marc van der Sluys will lead a journal-club discussion on GRBs.

February 19, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Sanghamitra Goswamiwill share with us her most recent results.
Afterwards, we will have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring one or two articles to discuss!

February 17, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Soko Matsumura will lead a tutorial on the properties of discovered planets.

February 12, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Ilya Mandel and Vivien Raymondwill share with us their recent results.
Afterwards, we will have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring one or two articles to discuss!

February 10, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Manou Ranstiou will lead a tutorial on Hydrodynamics & Hydro Sims.

February 5, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Soko Matsumura will share with us her recent results.
Afterwards, we will have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring one or two articles to discuss!

February 3, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Bart Willems will lead the Journal Club discussion.

January 29, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Manou Ranstiou will share with us her recent results.
Afterwards, we will have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring this weeks exciting articles!

January 27, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Chris Deloye will lead a tutorial on Mass Transfer.

January 22, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Meagan Morscher will share with us her recent results.
Also we will have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring this weeks exciting articles!

January 20, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Francesca Valsecchi will lead the Journal Club discussion.

January 15, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

Marc van deer Sluys will share with us his recent results.
We will also have our astro-ph meeting. Please bring this weeks exciting articles!

January 13, 2009
Journal Club / Tutorial Meeting (2:00 PM)

Jeremy Sepinsky will lead the first journal club on rather short notice.

Before the meeting you may wish to read the paper by Jeremy Sepinsky, Bart Willems and Vicky Kalogera titled Equipotential Surfaces and Lagrangian points in Non-synchronous, Eccentric Binary and Planetary Systems.

January 8, 2009
Group Meeting (2:00 PM)

The first part of this week's meeting will address organizational issues.
The second part of the meeting will be the astro-ph meeting. Please bring all the articles you read over break!

December 4, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week we will hear from Mike Tremmel and TsingWai Wong about their work.

November 27, 2008
NO MEETING THIS WEEK

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 20, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week we will hear from Lamya Saleh and Sanghamitra Goswami about their work.

November 13, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week we will have a visit from the first of the astro faculty candidates for the first 30 minutes. Then Tassos Fragos and Chris Deloye will update us on their projects.

November 6, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week Loren Hoffman and visualization specialist Matt McCrory will update us on what they have been working on.

October 30, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week Ilya Mandel and Vivien Raymond will update us on their research. Please note: We will return to our regular schedule this week and meet at 10:30am.

October 23, 2008
Group Meeting (10:00 AM)

This week Soko Matsumura and David Ackerman will update us on their research.

Please Note: Due to David's class schedule, we are starting group meeting this week at 10:00am.

October 16, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week Francesca Valsecchi will update us on her research. Then we'll have updates from Marc and Ilya on several conferences they have attended recently.

October 9, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week Stefan Umbreit and Meagan Morscher will update us on their research.

October 2, 2008
Group Meeting (10:30 AM)

This week Marc van der Sluys and Emmanouela Rantsiou will update us on their research.

Anyone else who has updates on progress or results they would like to share with the group, that would be great! If you let Chris Deloye know you would like to do so with a little advance notice, he can make sure to carve out meeting time for you. However, feel free to volunteer such items at the meetings themselves.

September 25, 2008
Group Meeting (10:00 AM)

This week Vicky Kalogera will brief us on the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing and Sourav Chatterjee us up to date on his research.

September 19, 2008
SPECIAL EVENT

John Seiradakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Title: The Antikythera Mechanism: Astronomy and Technology in Ancient Greece
When: Friday, September 19, 2008 from 2PM to 3PM
Where: Adler Planetarium's Space Visualization Laboratory