Talks

Talks by SRCfTA Visitors

Speaker	Title	Details
Peter Brand, U. Edinburgh	Shocks in molecular clouds -- observations	27 Feb, SRCfTA Workshop on shock waves in molecular clouds
Sandip Chakrabarti, TIFR	Consequences of non-Keplerian accretion disks around a black hole: From gamma rays to gravity waves	8 Jul, SRCfTA
Neil Cornish, U. Melbourne	Einstein's butterfly: Chaos and fractals meet black holes and the Big Bang	1 Aug, Theor.
Angela Cotera, NASA-JPL	Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galactic Centre	14 Jun, SRCfTA
Mark Cropper, MSSL/UCL	Determining the masses of white dwarfs in magnetic CVs from X-ray spectra	26 Jul, SRCfTA
John Greenhill, U. Tasmania	Short term variability of GRO J1655-40	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
Yashwant Gupta, TIFR	The status of the Giant Metrewave Telescope	17 Jan, ATNF
Garik Israelian, IAC	High velocity absorption components observed in Orioni	3 Sep, IoA
	Stellar winds driven by radiation pressure: Observations and a theory	13 Sep, SRCfTA & Astron.
	Sporadic ejection of matter from the luminous blue variable P Cygni	27 Sep, SRCfTA
Helen Johnston, AAO	Dim X-ray sources in globular clusters	17 May, SRCfTA
	Disk population of LMXBs	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
Guido Kanschat, U. Heidelberg	Adaptive finite element methods for 3D radiative transfer	9 Aug, SRCfTA
Jan Kuijpers, U. Utrecht	Magnetic pumping in the cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii	29 Nov, SRCfTA
	Magnetic pumping in the cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii	3 Dec, MSSSO
Zdenka Kuncic, U. Cambridge ANUATC	Thermal effects in the central continuum forming region in AGN	16 Jan, SRCfTA
	The central continuum-forming region in AGN: Coronal models and thermal Comptonization	19 Aug, SRCfTA
Jianke Li, ANUATC	Star-disk coupling in X-ray binaries	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
Rosemary Mardling, Monash U.	Tidal capture in star clusters: Formation of field LMXBs	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
Luciano Nicastro, ITeSRE-CNR	SAX: The first ``flying'' Italian-Dutch X-ray satellite	7 Jun, SRCfTA
Shi-ya Nitta, U. Nagoya	A model of hybrid outflows: Cylindrical polar jet embedded in conical wind envelope	23 July, SRCfTA
Helen Pongracic, DSTO	Computational approaches to shocks in molecular clouds: Applications	27 Feb, SRCfTA Workshop on shock waves in molecular clouds
Sudip Sen, Flinders U.	Drift and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in the presence of a velocity field	5 Aug, SRCfTA
Prabhjot Singh, Bangalore U.	Effects of partial frequency redistribution functions on spectral line formation in cool supergiant stars	19 Apr, SRCfTA
Raylee Stathakis, AAO	The internal structure of SN 1987A	22 Nov, SRCfTA
Thomas Tauris, Aarhus U.	Aspects of mass transfer in X-ray binaries	26 Apr, SRCfTA
Allyn Tennant, NASA-MSFC	The current status of AXAF	20 Sep, SRCfTA
	20 years of X-ray activities of Cir X-1	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
Michelle Thaller, Georgia State U.	Tomographic detection of an evolved companion in -Persei	1 Mar, SRCfTA
Frank Verbunt, U. Utrecht	Evidence of no field decay for radio pulsars	2 Aug, SRCfTA
Norbert Wex, MPIG	Higher order relativistic effects in the motion of binary pulsars	16 Feb, SRCfTA
	Binary pulsars as test laboratories for strong field gravity	27 Mar, U. Melbourne
	The timing of PSR 1259-63	2 Aug, SRCfTA
	Identification of black holes in binary pulsars	3 Jul, ASA AGM
S. Nan Zhang, NASA-MSFC	Recent results from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory	22 Jul, SRCfTA

Talks by SRCfTA Members

Speaker	Title	Details
Lewis Ball	Radio emission from X-ray binaries	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray Binaries
Sue Byleveld	Computational approaches to shocks in molecular clouds	27 Feb, SRCfTA Workshop on shock waves in molecular clouds
Simon Johnston	Recent news of PSR B1259-63	2 May, CalTech, USA
	The origin and evolution of millisecond pulsars	29 June, HWWS
Don Melrose	Twinkle, twinkle little pulsar/quasar	6 May, Physics Dept, U. Tasmania
	Solar flares	5 Sep, ISAS, Tokyo, Japan
	Some properties of magnetized pair plasmas	6 Sep, NAO, Japan
	Solar flares: misleading examples of how energy is stored in astrophysical plasmas?	7 Oct, JHU, USA
Curtis Saxton	Stability of accretion onto magnetic white dwarfs	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
Michelle Storey	X-ray pulsar GX 1+4	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
	Magnetic fields around active stars	11 Dec, Vacation Scholar Program, ATNF
Sergey Vladimirov	Collective effects in dusty plasmas	28 Aug, U. Innsbruck, Austria
	Alfvén waves and the Alfvén resonance in a magnetized dusty plasma	31 Aug, U. Utrecht, The Netherlands
	Modulational interactions in plasmas	6 Sept, UmU, Sweden
Mark Wardle	Shocks in molecular clouds -- theory	27 Feb, SRCfTA Workshop on shock waves in molecular clouds
	Disks and outflows from young stars	29 Feb, Conversazione, U. Sydney
	The physics of interstellar shock waves	3 Jun, Colloquium, U. Sydney
	The theory of star formation	28 Jun, HWWS
	Astrophysical shock waves	22 Aug, Colloquium, UNSW
	Shock waves	3 Dec, Vacation Scholar Program, ATNF
Kinwah Wu	Optical and radio observation of GRO J1655-40	30 Jan, NASA-MSFC, USA
	A new model for Cir X-1	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
	Magnetic cataclysmic variables	25 Sep, SRCfTA Workshop on X-ray binaries
	Accretion shocks in close binaries: Structure, stability and emission	29 Oct, CUHK, Hong Kong
	Stability of accretion shocks with a composite cooling function	13 Nov, ANUATC