Report for the academic year - Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

Astrophysics Talk: "Early Results from the Chandra
X-ray Observatory"
CLAUDE CANIZARES, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Astrophysics Talk: "R-modes: Another Window into
Neutron Stars?"
YURI LEVI, University of California, Berkeley
Princeton/IAS High Energy Theory Seminar:
"Holographic Reconstruction or Spacetime in the
AdS/CFT Correspondence."
KOSTAS SKENDERIS, Princeton University
Astrophysics Talk: "The Mass Assembly History of
Galaxies"
RICHARD ELLIS, Caltech
Princeton/IAS High Energy Theory Seminar:
"Semiclassical Noncommutative Field Theory"
ANDREW STROMINGER, Harvard University
Astrophysics Talk: "The Violent X-ray Sky as Viewed
by the All Sky Monitor on the Rossi X-ray Timing
Explorer"
HALE BRADT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton/IAS High Energy Theory Seminar:
"Neutrinos from Heaven: Lessons for Model
Building"
YOSSI NIR, Weizmann Institute of Science and
Institute for Advanced Study
Astrophysics Talk: "To the Solution of the Solar
Neutrino Correlations and Observables"
ALEXEI SMIRNOV, International Center for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, and Institute for Advanced Study
Astrophysics Talk: "Gravitational Radiation from
Accreting Neutron Stars: Implications for
Millisecond Pulsar Formation and LIGO"
LARS BILDSTEN, Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Santa Barbara
Princeton/IAS High Energy Theory Seminar:
"The Liouville Boundary Problem"
JOERG TESCHNER, Dublin Institute
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Astrophysics Talk: "The Shape of Gravity With Extra
Dimensions"
LISA RANDALL, Princeton University
Astrophysics Talk: "Detecting Cosmic Shear"
DAVID WITTMAN, Bell Labs
IAS/Princeton University High Energy Theory
Seminar: "Quantum Field Theory as a Matrix Model"
VLADIMIR KAZAKOV, Ecole Normole Supeneure
Astrophysics Talk: "Dark Halo and Disk Galaxy
Scaling Laws in Hierarchical Universes"
MATTHIAS STEINMETZ, University of Arizona
High Energy Theory Seminar: "T-duality, Noncommutative
Geometry and the Born-Infeld Action"
LORENZO CORNALBA, Institut des Hautes Etudes
France
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Astrophysics Talk: "Accretion Dynamics Near Black
Holes"
JULIAN KROLIK, Johns Hopkins University
Astrophysics Talk: "Pulsar Inner Accelerators and
Radio Emission Death Lines"
BING ZHANG, NASA-GSFC
Astrophysics Talk: "Atmospheres of the Close-in
Extrasolar Giant Planets"
SARA SEAGER, Insritute for Advanced Study
Astrophysics Talk: "GRBs: What is New"
SHRI KULKARNI, Caltech
IAS/Princeton University High Energy Theory
Seminar: "Brane-antibrane Constructions"
SUNIL MUKHI, Tata Institute
IAS/Princeton University High Energy Theory
Seminar: "Monopoles and Their Gravitational Properties
Near the Black Hole Threshold"
ARTHUR LUE, Columbia University
Astrophysics Talk: "Accretion, Advection,
Convection, Confusion"
RAMESH NARAYAN, Harvard University