Group Meetings

Published by admin on Monday, March 1, 2010

The Gravity Group at UMississippi has a regular weekly scheduled meeting throughout the year to discuss current research progress, topics of interest and new papers. Typically, each week, two members of the group each make a short presentation, either about their current area of research or a paper that has attracted their interest.

For Spring semester 2024, the Group meets on Mondays at 5-6PM for a research update, both a scheduled ca. half hour presentation and room for free-form updates, and on Thursdays at 4-5PM for a journal club. The schedule of speakers for this period is:

Group Meeting Schedule(*subject to change)

Date Research Presentation Paper Presentation
Jan 29 & Feb 1 [no meeting] arXiv discussion
Feb 5 & Feb 8 Nathan Cody
Feb 12 & Feb 15 Lorena Joe
Feb 19 & Feb 22 [no meeting] [no meeting]
Feb 26 & Feb 29 Purnima & Aniket Károly & Amitesh
Mar 4 & Mar 7 Subhayu Dipika (5:00PM)
Mar 11 & Mar 14 spring break
Mar 18 & Mar 21 Arindam (paper) seminar
Mar 25 & Mar 28 Cody seminar
Apr 1 & Apr 4 APS presentation practice TBA (APS meeting)
Apr 8 & Apr 11 Joe seminar
Apr 15 & Apr 18 Amitesh Aniket
Apr 22 & Apr 25 Raisa (paper) seminar
Apr 29 & May 3 James Cody (course presentation)

The group also has a running series where an external speaker is invited to give seminar talk during one of the usual meetings on their area of research or any topic of interest. The seminar then replaces the usual format of the meetings on those days. The list of external speakers will be updated as time goes on.

The Gravity Seminar series will take place during the weekly journal club slot for Spring Semester 2024.

Tentative List of Seminars(*subject to change)

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of talk
March 21 Isobel Romero-Shaw University of Cambridge Decoding the Gravitational-Wave Biographies of Binary Black Holes
March 28 Yanyan Zheng Missouri S&T Detecting gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae
April 11 Sebastian Völkel AEI Potsdam TBA
April 25 Shrobana Ghosh AEI Hannover TBA

The next scheduled seminar speaker is Isobel Romero-Shaw

Title: Detecting gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae
Abstract: Advanced LIGO and Virgo have detected gravitational waves from compact merging binaries such as black holes and neutron stars. The next discovery could be associated with other astrophysical sources. Core-collapse supernova is one of the most promising candidates and multi-messenger sources. It can be detected electromagnetically, as well as via gravitational waves and neutrinos. Detecting gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae will allow for direct investigations of the engine driving explosion’s dynamics. This talk will give an overview of the gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae and the search method, with a focus on the search results from the recent supernova candidate. Otherwise, this talk will show the constraints on the properties of the supernova engine, including the upper limits on the gravitational wave emission energy and power.

The archive of previous seminars is here.

Note: Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the meetings have shifted to a hybrid format. This format will be followed until otherwise announced. In case one wishes to participate, please direct your queries to either Dr. Leo Stein <lcstein@olemiss.edu>
or Dr. Anuradha Gupta <agupta1@olemiss.edu>.