A.A.R.G.

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The
Ann Arbor
Relativity Group

Previous Talks

24 January 2004

"Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Curved Manifolds"
James Rossmanith (University of Michigan)

26 April 2003 "Gone With The Wind: The Suppression of Relativistic Jet Instability by an Accretion Disk Outflow"
Philip Hughes (University of Michigan)

22 March 2003

"Multi time-scale fractional diffusion"
Mark Naber (Math Dept. Monroe Community College)

18 January 2003

"Moritz Schlick and The Philosophical Reception of Einstein's Theory"
Michael Bradie (Bowling Green University)

7 December 2002

"The Picture of our Universe"
David Reid (Eastern Michigan University)

16 November 2002

"Relativistic Polytropes"
Ed Glass (University of Michigan, University of Windsor)

23 March 2002

"Recent Measurements of q₀: Are Type Ia Supernovae Standard Candles in a Homogeneous Universe?"
Philip Hughes (University of Michigan)

13 March 2002 - 2:00 PM

"Status of the LIGO experiment"
Keith Riles (University of Michigan)

13 March 2002 - 11:00 AM

"Characterizing the cosmological singularity in General Relativity"
Marsha Weaver (University of Waterloo)

23 February 2002

"Critical gravitational collapse in 2+1 dimensions"
David Garfinkle (Oakland University)

26 January 2002

"On the spacetime dimension of causal sets"
David Reid (Eastern Michigan University)

23 December 2001

"Evidence of a continuum limit in causal set dynamics"
David Rideout (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Germany)

1 December 2001

"Phase transitions and Kerr Black Holes"
Ed Glass (University of Windsor)

17 November 2001

"Towards a fully general relativistic treatment of coalescing binaries involving black holes and neutron stars: computational general relativistic astrophysics"
Mark Miller (Washington University, St. Louis)

21 October 2001

"Boundary Constructions for Spacetimes"
Steve Harris (St. Louis University)

29 September 2001

"Simulations of Generic Singularities using Harmonic Coordinates"
David Garfinkle (Oakland University)

21 April 2001

"A Classical Dynamics for Causal Sets"
David Reid (Eastern Michigan University)

12 May 2001

"Twisted Gowdy Spacetimes as a Precision Laboratory for Local Mixmaster Dynamics"
Beverly Berger (Oakland University)

10 March 2001

"Fractional Differential Forms"
Mark Naber (Monroe Community College)

17 February 2001 (11:00 AM)

"Influence of gauge and constraint violating modes on the stability of numerical simulations of black hole spacetimes"
Pablo Laguna (Penn State)

17 February 2001 (2:00 PM)

"Gluing Wormholes onto Solutions of Einstein's Equations"
Jim Eisenberg (University of Oregon)

13 January 2001

"Matter fields from a decaying background vacuum energy"
Manasse Mbonye (University of Michigan)

2 December 2000

"On the Blandford-Znajek Process"
Philip Hughes and Martin Sulkanen (University of Michigan)

4 November 2000

"Electromagnetism - A New View"
Edward N. Glass (University of Windsor)

16 September 2000

"Numerical simulations of Brill waves"
David Garfinkle (Oakland University)

6 May 2000

"A Layman's guide to M-theory"
Michael Duff (University of Michigan)

30 January 2000

"Energy conditions in GR --- trials and tribulations"
Matt Visser (Washington University)

11 September 1999

"Signature of Mixmaster dynamics in inhomogeneous cosmologies"
Beverly Berger (Oakland University)

21 August 1999

"Critical gravitational collapse"
Carsten Gundlach (Chicago/Southampton)

22 May 1999

"A Generalized Histogram Method for Monte Carlo Simulations of Field Theories with an Unbounded Action"
Eric Myers (University of Michigan)

24 April 1999

"On conservation laws in GR"
Ed Glass (University of Windsor)

12 Dec 1998

"Lensing"
Gary Bernstein (Astronomy, University of Michigan)

16 May 1998

"Relativisitic time delay in the Global Positioning System"
Eric Myers (University of Michigan)

4 Apr 1998

"Does Gravitational Curvature Generate Temperature"
Manasse Mbonye (University of Michigan)

7 Mar 1998

"Jets"
Phil Hughes (University of Michigan)

24 Jan 1998

"Dimensional Reduction"
Jean Krisch (University of Michigan)

20 Dec 1997

"String Diffusion and Black Hole Atmospheres"
Ed Glass (Physics, University of Windsor)

8 Nov 1997

"Causal Sets"
David Reid (Eastern Michigan University)

4 Oct 1997

"Bel and Bel-Robinson Tensors"
Mark Naber (Monroe County Community College)

6 Sept 1997

"Einstein Yang-Mills"
Joel Smoller (Math, University of Michigan)

26 April 1997

"The effects of General Relativity on the Global Positioning System (GPS)"
Eric Myers (Physics, University of Michigan)

18 Jan 1997

"Separation of Einstein-Maxwell in Kerr"
Jonathan Kress (Math, University of Newcastle, Australia)

17 Nov 1996

"Scaling and Renormalization"
Piotor Bizon (Math, University of Michigan)

28 Apr 1996

"Symplectic Integration of Mixmaster"
David Garfinkle (Oakland University)

16 Mar 1996

"Curvature and Thermodynamic Fluctuations"
Ed Glass (Physics, University of Windsor)

17 Feb 1996

"Debye Potentials for Electromagnetic Fields"
Jonathan Kress (Math, University of Newcastle, Australia)

18 Nov 1995

"Non-perturbative Quantum Gravity and the SO(1,2) non-linear Sigma Model"
Eric Myers (Physics, University of Michigan)

11 Mar 1995

"Gravitational Energy Expressions"
Mark Naber (Monroe County Community College)

27 Jan 1995

"Choptuik in N-dimensions"
David Garfinkle (Oakland University)

3 Dec 1994

"A New Look at the Einstein Pseudotensor"
Ed Glass (University of Windsor)

5 Nov 1994

Shock Waves
Joel Smoller (Math, University of Michigan)

1 Oct 1994

"Choptuik Scaling"
David Garfinkle (Oakland University)

23 Oct 1993

"Taub Numbers"
Mark Naber (Physics, University of Windsor)

19 Jun 1993

"Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime"
Selcuk Bayin (Physics, Middle East Technical Univ, Turkey)

24 Apr 1993

"Stability of Neutron Stars"
Lee Lindblom (Montana State University)

6 Feb 1993

"Factor of 2 Anomaly for Komar Numbers"
Ed Glass (University of Windsor)

28 Mar 1992

"The Christodoulou Effect"
Ed Glass (University of Windsor)

13 Jan 1990

"Canonical Quantization and the Ashtekar Variables"
Ed Glass (Physics, University of Windsor)