PHY 393S: Seminar in Relativity, Spring 1996, Working Schedule

• Thursday, January 18th: Prof. Arvind Borde
  Southampton College and Tufts Institute of Cosmology
  ``Did the Inflationary Universe Have a Beginnning?''
  
  
• Thursday, January 25th: Maj. Randall Correll
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Numerical Evolution of Black Hole Spacetimes''
  
  
• Tuesday, February 6th: Dr. Alexei Khokhlov
  Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin
  ``Powerful Ejection of Matter from Tidally Disrupted Stars near Massive Black Holes and a Possible Application to Sgr A East''
  
  
• Thursday, February 8th: Mr. Eric Hirschmann
  Dept. of Physics, UC Santa Barbara
  ``Critical Behavior and Continuous Self-Similarity in Gravitational Collapse''
  
  
• Tuesday, February 13th: Dr. Raymond Laflamme
  Theoeretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  ``Classical Instability of Kaluza-Klein Black Holes''
  
  
• Thursday, February 22nd: Dr. Ullar Kask
  Tartu University, Estonia & Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``Is the Passage of the Schwarzschild Sphere Locally Detectable?''
  
  
• Wednesday, February 28th (3:30 pm, RLM 4.102): Prof. Cheney Crow
  UT Austin
  ``New Degrees and Emerging Opportunitites in France for Physics and Engineering Students''
  Note special date and location
  
  
• Thursday, March 7th: Prof. Craig Wheeler
  Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin
  ``Black Hole X-ray Transients''
  
  
• Thursday, ???????? ??th: Dr. Manish Parashar
  Dept. of Computer Sciences & Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``TBA''
  
  
• Thursday, ???????? ??th: Dr. Caroline Lewis
  Center for Relativity, UT Austin
  ``TBA''
  
  
• Friday, April 12th (3:30 pm, RLM 5.122): Prof. Peter Saulson
  Physics Dept, Syracuse University
  ``Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection''
  Note special date and location