Spring 2007 Plasma Astrophysics Seminar Series
Tuesdays at 3:00pm in 301 Space Sciences
Organizers: David Rothstein, Richard Lovelace, Marina Romanova, Akshay Kulkarni, Min Long
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Archives: Fall 2006 | Spring 2007 | Fall 2007 | Spring 2008
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
January 23 |
Everyone |
Informal discussion about plasma astrophysics and our role in it |
January 30 |
Cancelled |
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February 6 |
Conventional Wisdom is Wrong: Magnetic Fields Can Be Dragged to the Center of an Accretion Disk! |
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February 13 |
Different Faces of Isolated Accreting Neutron Stars |
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February 20 |
Min Long |
Magnetic Topologies of T Tauri Stars |
February 27 |
Ryuichi Kurosawa (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) |
Radiative Transfer Models of Optical and Near-Infrared Hydrogen Lines from Classical T Tauri Stars with Complex Circumstellar Flows |
March 6 |
Meeting with Lars Bildsten (Kavli Institute, UC Santa Barbara) |
Informal discussion |
March 13 |
Leaf Turner |
Reflections on So Many Dynamos |
March 20 |
Spring break |
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March 27 |
Vasily Beskin (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow) |
Electromagnetic Model of the "Central Engine" in Compact Objects |
April 4 |
Resolving Pulsar Magnetospheres Using Interstellar Interferometry |
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April 10 |
Cancelled |
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April 17 |
Cancelled |
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April 24 |
Igor Igumenshchev (University of Rochester) |
Magnetically Driven Accretion Flows |
May 1 |
Leaf Turner |
Reflections on So Many Dynamos, Part 2 |
May 8 |
Wave Excitations in Disks: Beyond Goldreich-Tremaine |
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May 15 |
Matt Duez |
Supercritical Accretion Flows Around Black Holes: 2D Radiation Pressure-Dominated Disks with Photon Trapping |
