Title: “I Like to Myself Believe That Planet 5 Turns Slowly” Abstract: Within the general framework of the core-nucleated accretion theory of giant planet formation, the conglomeration of massive gaseous … Continue reading "CRA seminar: Prof. Konstantin Batygin (Caltech)"
Title: Where Do Population III Stars Form? Abstract: We perform a cosmological simulation with a comoving volume of 1 Mpc^3 to study the birth-places of Population III stars, using the adaptive mesh refinement code Enzo. We investigate the distribution of host halo masses and its relationship to the Lyman-Werner background intensity. In our sample … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Danielle Skinner"
Title: Marginally Trapped Surfaces in Black Hole Mergers Abstract: For numerical simulations of black hole mergers, typically the apparent horizon that forms is of primary interest and can be used to calculate the mass and angular momentum of the merger remnant. In a generic binary black hole evolution however, the apparent horizon is only one … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Chris Evans"
Title: “Time Domain Astronomy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor in the Multimessenger Era” Abstract: On August 17, 2017, a new era in astronomy began with the detection of merging … Continue reading "CRA seminar (Dr. Colleen Wilson-Hodge)"
Jason Gallicchio and Brian Shuve from Harvey Mudd College Title: Improving Tests of Quantum Entanglement by using Light from Distant Quasars Abstract: Quantum entanglement, described by Einstein as "spooky action … Continue reading "CRA special seminar: Jason Gallicchio and Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)"
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Title: Change and Observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity Abstract: Canonical (Hamiltonian) General Relativity and the associated project in quantum gravity are said to suffer from a problem of missing change, especially in "observables": part of the "problem of time." This talk addresses this problem by reflecting on definitions of observables. Typically observables in Hamiltonian … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Dr. J. Brian Pitts (University of Cambridge)"
## Scalable Space-time adaptivity for Simulations of Binary Black Hole Intermediate-Mass-Ratio-Inspirals We present a highly scalable framework that targets problems of interest to the numerical relativity and broader astrophysics communities. … Continue reading "CRA seminar (Hari Sundar)"
