The astrophysics, relativity, and cosmology (ARC) seminar is a graduate student seminar that discusses significant (often foundational) results of both historical or contemporary research interest which are broadly related to the named fields. It takes place at 4:30 pm on alternating Mondays in 312 Cahill at the California Institute of Technology.

Upcoming presentations

• 16 June 2022: TBD (Nadine Soliman)
• 23 June 2022: TBD (Suchitra Narayanan)
• 11 July 2022: Shakura–Sunyaev Disks (Yoonsoo Kim)

Past presentations

• 16 May 2022: Physics-Informed Machine Learning (Himanshu Chaudhary)
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• 9 May 2022: Zero to Julia with Automatic Differentiation (Kiran Shila)
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• 18 April 2022: Introduction to Asteroseismology (Nicholas Rui)
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• 4 April 2022: Shock-Capturing Schemes for Discontinuous Galerkin Method in SpECTRE (Yoonsoo Kim)
• 7 March 2022: Beyond General Relativity (Kyle Nelli)
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• 7 February 2022: An Invitation to Complex Spacetime I: Newman-Janis from Amplitudes (Joonhwi Kim)
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• 24 January 2022: Dynamic Programming (Sarah Habib)
• 10 January 2022: Rapid Stellar Rotation and Exoplanet Spin-Orbit Measurement (Shashank Dholakia & Shishir Dholakia)
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• 6 December 2021: Bayesian Inference with Nested Sampling (Richard Udall)
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• 15 November 2021: Rotating Stars in General Relativity (Yoonsoo Kim)
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• 1 November 2021: Diffeomorphism Invariance (Isaac Legred)
• 18 October 2021: Stellar Encounters and Dynamical Friction (Nicholas Rui)
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