Florida Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
These weekly lunchtime seminars are on Mondays, at 12.40pm-1.40pm, alternating in the Astronomy (room 217) and Physics (room 2165) Departments.

	Fall 2005
Date/Location	Speaker	Title/Abstract
Sep. 12, Phys.	Ethan Siegel	Effects of Inhomogeneities on Cosmic Expansion
Sep. 19, Ast.	Jonathan Tan	Primordial Star Formation
Sep. 26, Phys.	James Chisholm	The Clustering of Primordial Black Holes
Oct. 3, Ast.	Jim Hunter	Interfacial Instabilities Driven by Self-Gravity
Oct. 10, Phys.	Steve Eikenberry	The Science Case for Future Multi-Object IR Spectrographs: FLAMINGOS-2 and IRMOS/TMT
Oct. 17, Ast.	Phil Arras (KITP/UCSB)	Thermal Evolution and Tides in Extrasolar Gas Giant Planets
Oct. 24, Phys.	Fred Hamann	Quasars, Super-Massive Black Holes, and Host Galaxy Evolution
Oct. 31, Ast.	Robert Szabo	Numerical modelling of the RR Lyrae Instability Strip
Nov. 7, Phys.	Mark Krumholz (Princeton)	Stars Form by Gravitational Collapse, Not Competitive Accretion
Nov. 14, Ast.	Nicolas Iro	Modeling Extra-Solar Giant Planet Atmospheres
Nov. 28, Ast.	Dejan Vinkovic (IAS)	Adventures in meteor physics: anomalous sounds from meteors and anomalous altitudes of meteors

	Spring 2006
Date/Location	Speaker	Title/Abstract
12pm Jan. 23, Ast.	Elizabeth Tasker	Building universes: numerical simulations of star and galaxy formation
Feb. 6, Phys.	Justin Crepp	The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph: Challenges, Progress, and the Leading Candidate Design
Feb. 13, Phys.	Robert E. Wilson	Delta Scuti Pulsators in Eclipsing Binaries
Feb. 20, Ast.	Ethan Siegel	Origins of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
Feb. 27, Phys.	Jonathan Tan	Star-Forming Accretion Flows in Giant Elliptical Galaxies and the Galactic Center
Mar. 27, Ast.	Tarek Saab	Superconductors and Astrophysics: The unlikely marriage of the extremely hot and the very cold
Apr. 3, Ast.	Robert Buchler	A Search for Ultralow-Amplitude Cepheids
Apr. 10, Phys.	Tom Kehoe	Modeling the Solar System Debris Disk: Dynamical and Collisional Evolution of Asteroidal Dust in the Zodiacal Cloud
Apr. 17, Ast.	Ian Vega	The LISA Gravity Wave Mission and Modeling Binary Inspiral
1PM TUESDAY May. 2, Phys.	Andy Gould (Ohio State)	Relativity From Thermodynamics
May. 8th, Ast.	Chris McKee (UC Berkeley)	The State of the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics
May 22, Phys.	James Chisholm	Primordial Black Hole Thermodynamics

For more information contact Jonathan Tan: jt @ astro.ufl.edu