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Listed below are the Relativity and Cosmology seminars for the 2025-26 academic year.

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Listed below are the Relativity and Cosmology seminars for the 2024-25 academic year.

  1. Plasma behavior in the force-free system Morifumi Mizuno, University of Arizona, August 29
  2. The Black Hole Photon Ring Alex Lupsasca, Vanderbilt University, September 5
  3. No Black Holes from Light José Polo-Gómez, University of Waterloo, September 12
  4. How to learn about fundamental physics from fast rotating neutron stars: Spectra, Stability and Universal Relations Christian Krüger, University of Tuebingen, October 3
  5. Particle motion in a rotating dust spacetime Davide Astesiano, University of Iceland, October 17
  6. A Relativistic Quantum Broadcast Channel André Landulfo, Federal University of ABC, October 24
  7. Revisiting the enigmatic early universe with T-vacuum state Sujoy Modak, Cal Poly Pomona, October 31
  8. Accretion of Dark Matter onto a Moving Schwarzschild Black Hole: An Exact Solution Patryk Mach, Jagiellonian University, November 7
  9. Geodesically Complete Universes Vania Velluchi, SISSA- International School for Advanced Studies, Nov 21
  10. Geodesic causality in Kerr spacetimes Giulio Sanzeni, Ruhr University Bochum, Jan 23
  11. Geometrical origin of the Kodama vector Shunichiro Kinoshita, Nihon University, Feb 20
  12. Semiclassical Singularity Theorem Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, University of York, Mar 6
  13. Phase Space Mixing of a Vlasov Gas in the Exterior of a Kerr Black Hole Oliver Sarbach, Michoacana University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Mar 27
  14. Riemannian Flows and Horizon Classification Ettore Minguzzi, University of Florence, April 23
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Listed below are the Relativity and Cosmology seminars for the 2023-24 academic year.

  1. Geometric-optical Approximation in Black Hole Quasinormal Modes and its Connection with Light Echoes, Wei-Liang Quan, University of São Paulo, August 30
  2. The Cosmic Web: Novel Methods of Caustic Identification and Analysis, Michael Sitarz, University of Kansas, October 26
  3. Navigating the Algebraic Classification of Spacetimes with the Weyl Tensor, David McNutt, The Arctic University of Norway, November
  4. Accretion of Vlasov Gas into a Kerr Black Hole, Adam Cieślik, Jagiellonian University, November 16
  5. Physics of Pulsar Magnetospheres, Alexander Philippov, University of Maryland, Dec 5
  6. Distinguishing Jordan and Einstein Frames in Gravity through Entanglement, Sumanta Chakraborty, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Feb 1
  7. Cosmological Magnetic Fields, Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University, Feb 6
  8. The Phase Diagram of Einstein-Weyl Gravity, Samuele Silveravalle, Trento University, Feb 15
  9. Metric-independence of Vacuum and Force-Free Electromagnetic Fields, Abraham Harte, Dublin City University, Feb 20
  10. Static Spherically Symmetric Solutions in New General Relativity, Alexey Golovnev, Centre for Theoretical Physics, The British University in Egypt, Feb 22
  11. Gravitational Repulsive Effects in 3D Regular Black Holes, Orlando Luongo, University of Camerino, March 7
  12. Geodesic incompleteness of some popular regular black holes, Tian Zhou, University of Groningen, March 14
  13. Conformally Covariant Characterization of the Kerr Conformal Structure, Alfonso García-Parrado, Universidad de Cordoba, March 19
  14. Splitting Spacetime: A Systematic Analysis of Foliation Dependence in Cosmic Averaging, Pierre Mourier, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Asta Heinesen, Niels Bohr Institute, April 11
  15. Quantum Field Theory in Non-Smooth Spacetimes, Yafet Sanchez, University of Genova, Italy, April 11
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