Gravity + AstrophysicsUniversity of Mississippi

Research exchange

Group meetings.

Weekly discussions of current research, papers of interest, and work in progress.

Weekly format

Research in conversation.

The group meets regularly during the academic year. Meetings usually include two short presentations: a discussion of a recent paper and an update from a member of the group.

We also invite external speakers to present their work. On seminar days, the seminar replaces the usual meeting format.

Usual time04:00 PM–05:00 PM CDT

Fall 2026 group schedule

DatePaper discussionResearch update
September 4-Aniket
September 14ArindamDipika
September 21DanielDinis
September 28JuanSubhayu
October 5DinisNauman
October 12ChristianLeo
October 19AniketAmitesh
October 26DipikaDaniel
November 2AmiteshArindam
November 9Nauman-
November 16SubhayuGokul
November 30Leo-

Spring 2026 group schedule

DatePaper discussionResearch update
February 11SeminarSeminar
February 18SubhayuDinis
February 25AniketNauman
March 4DipikaLeo
March 11Spring breakSpring break
March 18APS meetingAPS meeting
March 23SeminarSeminar
March 25ArindamSubhayu
April 1LeoAmitesh
April 8SeminarSeminar
April 13SeminarSeminar
April 15DinisArindam
April 22NaumanDipika
April 29AmiteshAniket

Invited speakers

Recent seminars

Seminar dates and titles may change.

DateSpeakerAffiliationTalk
April 13, 2026Dr. Aditya VijaykumarCanadian Institute for Theoretical AstrophysicsSubpopulations of hierarchical mergers in gravitational-wave data and their implications
April 8, 2026Sercan HusnugilUniversity of WaterlooBlack holes and Carrollian fluids: what can they teach us about each other?
March 23, 2026Dr. Hayley MacphersonUniversity of ChicagoNumerical relativity as a tool for precision cosmology
February 11, 2026Dr. Shilpa KasthaSaha Institute of Nuclear PhysicsSlipping into the inspiral
November 6, 2025Marica MinucciNBI, CopenhagenConserved Currents and Bilinear Forms for Quasinormal Modes in the Hyperboloidal Formalism
October 23, 2025Nils SiemonsenPrinceton UniversityErgoregion instability: the nonlinear story
October 9, 2025Maxence CormanAEI PotsdamNonlinear dynamics of compact object mergers beyond General Relativity
September 29, 2025Chris KavanaghUniversity College DublinProgress and prospects with analytic perturbation theory for small-mass-ratio compact binaries
August 6, 2025Rico LoNBIQuasinormal modes and excitation factors of Kerr black holes – isn’t it a solved problem?
June 25, 2025Áron KovácsQMULWell-posed initial value formulation of general effective field theories of gravity

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