Group Meetings
Published by admin on Monday, March 1, 2010
The Gravity Group at UMississippi has a regular weekly scheduled meeting throughout the year to discuss current research progress, topics of interest and new papers. Typically, each week, two members of the group each make a short presentation, either about their current area of research or a paper that has attracted their interest.
For Fall 2025, the Group meets on Thursdays from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM for regular meetings and occasionally on Mondays from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM for external seminars, which includes a scheduled half-hour presentation and room for free-form updates. The schedule of speakers for this period is:
Group Meeting Schedule(*subject to change)
| Date | Paper Presentation | Reseach Update |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 11 | Seminar | Seminar |
| Feb 18 | Subhayu | Dinis |
| Feb 25 | Aniket | Nauman |
| March 4 | Dipika | Leo |
| March 11 | Spring | Break |
| March 18 | APS Meeting | APS Meeting |
| March 23 | Seminar | Seminar |
| March 25 | Arindam | Subhayu |
| April 1 | Leo | Amitesh |
| April 8 | Seminar | Seminar |
| April 13 | Seminar | Seminar |
| April 15 | Dinis | Arindam |
| April 22 | Nauman | Aniket |
| April 29 | Amitesh | Dipika |
The group also has a running series where an external speaker is invited to give seminar talk during one of the usual meetings on their area of research or any topic of interest. The seminar then replaces the usual format of the meetings on those days. The list of external speakers will be updated as time goes on.
Tentative List of Seminars(*subject to change)
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11 | Dr. Shilpa Kastha | Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics | Slipping into the inspiral |
| March 23 | Dr. Hayley Macpherson | University of Chicago | Numerical relativity as a tool for precision cosmology |
| April 8 | Sercan Husnugil | University of Waterloo | Black holes and Carrollian fluids: what can they teach us about each other? |
| April 13 | Dr. Aditya Vijaykumar | Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics | Subpopulations of hierarchical mergers in gravitational wave data and their implications |
The next scheduled seminar speaker is Dr. Aditay Vijaykumar.
Title: Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Abstract: The most recent observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational wave detectors has presented multiple lines of evidence hinting at hierarchical mergers in the dataset. This talk will give an overview of the hierarchical merger subpopulation, concentrating on their spins, mass ratio, and redshift distributions. I will also provide theoretical interpretations of these in context of evolution of binaries in dense star clusters and demonstrate that hierarchical mergers may explain the observed correlations between effective spin, mass ratio, and redshift.
The archive of previous seminars is here.
Note: In case one wishes to participate, please direct your queries to either Dr. Leo Stein <lcstein@olemiss.edu> or Dr. Anuradha Gupta <agupta1@olemiss.edu>.