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2021 May 18

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Giacomo Fragione (Astronomy) - Northwestern University (CIERA)

Title: Intermediate-mass black holes: love it or list it

Abstract: Very little is known about the formation, evolution and demographics of the...
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2021 May 11

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Ollie Burke (Physics) - Max Planck Institute

Title: Constraining the spin parameter of near-extremal black holes using LISA

Abstract: It has been shown in the past that extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs),...
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2021 May 04

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Aaron Zimmerman (Physics) - University of Texas

Title: Testing the nature of black holes: towards precision ringdown tests

Abstract: The final phase of gravitational radiation from black hole binaries is the ``...
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2021 Apr 27

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Jared Speck (Mathematics) - Vanderbilt University

Title: Cosmological Singularities in General Relativity: The Complete Sub-Critical Regime

Abstract: The celebrated theorems of Hawking and Penrose show that...
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2021 Apr 20

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Martin Taylor (Mathematics) - Imperial College

Title: The nonlinear stability of the Schwarzschild family of black holes

Abstract: I will present a theorem on the full finite codimension nonlinear...
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2021 Apr 06

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Adam Pound (Physics) - University of Southampton

Title: Gravitational-wave astronomy and the two-body problem in its small-mass-ratio limit

Abstract: Gravitational-wave detectors have revolutionized our...
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2021 Mar 30

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm
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Ruth Daly (Astronomy) - Penn State University

Title: Black Hole Spin and Accretion Disk Properties obtained with a New Method for 750+ Sources

Abstract: Four types of black hole system will be...
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2021 Mar 23

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm
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Lydia Patton (Philosophy) - Virginia Tech

Title: Population Synthesis in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

Abstract: Population synthesis in astrophysics “does not have direct analogues in other fields of science...
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2021 Mar 09

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Gabriele Benomio (Mathematics) - Princeton University

Title: A new instability for higher dimensional black holes

Abstract: In contrast with the classical stability of stationary, asymptotically flat black holes...
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2021 Mar 02

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Stephanie LaMassa (Astronomy) - Space Telescope Science Institute

Title: Insights into the Feeding Habits of Supermassive Black Holes from “Changing-Look” AGN...
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