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Fall 2007 Plasma Astrophysics Seminar Series

Tuesdays at 12:15 PM in 301 Space Sciences
Organizers: Marina Romanova, Richard Lovelace, David Rothstein, Akshay Kulkarni, Min Long
Note: To join the plasma astrophysics mailing list, contact Marina Romanova (romanova@astro.cornell.edu).

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Date

Speaker

Topic

August 28

Everyone

Organizational Meeting

September 4

Akshay Kulkarni

MHD Instabilities at the Disk-Magnetosphere Interface: 3D Simulations

September 11

Marina Romanova

Numerical Approaches in Astrophysics

September 18

David Montgomery

Magnetohydrodynamics Inside a Rotating Sphere

September 25

Dave Rothstein

The Magnetorotational Instability in Accretion Disks (Part 1): An Introduction

October 2

Dave Rothstein

The Magnetorotational Instability in Accretion Disks (Part 2): Numerical Simulations

October 9

No Seminar

Fall Break

October 16

Richard Lovelace

Three Disk Oscillation Modes of Rotating Magnetized Neutron Stars

October 23

No Seminar

Anrew Lyne gives a talk at 4:45 PM

October 30

Chris Thompson

Nonthermal Radiation of Magnetars

November 6

No Seminar

No Seminar

November 13

Richard Lovelace

High-Energy Cosmic Rays and AGNs

November 20

Chris Thompson

Nonthermal Radiation of Magnetars (Part 2)

November 27

Chris Thompson

Nonthermal Radiation of Magnetars (Part 3)

December 4

Dave Tsang

SuperReflection in Fluid Disks: Corotation Amplifire, Corotation Resonance, and the Rossby Zone