13. Dezember 2017

RTG Colloquium

Where: University of Oldenburg, W30 00-033
Confirmed Speakers:

• Pasquale Bosso (University of Lethbridge) - “Quantum Gravity Phenomenology from the Generalized Uncertainty Principle”
• Matthias Hanauske (University of Frankfurt) - "Gravitational-Wave Astronomy and the Internal Properties of Hypermassive Neutron Stars in the Context of the Long-Awaited Event GW170817"
• Petya Nedkova (Sofia University) - Distorted black holes: exact solutions in an external magnetic field and local shadows
• Vojtech Witzany (ZARM, University of Bremen) - “An informal introduction to black hole accretion - part 2”

Please find the program here.

The dinner will take place at the restaurant Ali Baba (Ammerländer Heerstraße 120). It is about 1.8 km away from the W30 building where the colloquium will take place. You can take the bus 306 at 17:52 and at 18:07 from the University stop 'Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße' to the stop 'Universität'. It is also possible to walk, it would take about 20 minutes, a map with directions can be found here.

Here you can find a very nice video of a Neutron Star Merger Dance: Link