IAN VEGA
Professor
National Institute of Physics
University of the Philippines - Diliman
Journal Club
To keep ourselves up to date with the latest developments in gravitational physics and to nurture local interest in the field, we have established a Journal Club that meets on Mondays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm (this changes from term to term) at Room 210 of the National Institute of Physics (NIP), UP-Diliman. Most of those who attend are members of the Gravity Group of NIP, but the meeting is open to all researchers and students with a strong interest in gravity.
Since August 2017, the Journal Club has become a student-run event, led by my PhD student, Karl Simon Revelar.
Past Talks
August 2016 - December 2016 (1st Semester SY 2016-2017)
(17/10/2016) Speaker: Nole Laganga
"Paczynski-Wiita-like potential for any static spherical black hole in metric theories of gravity" by Faraoni et. al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00699)
(10/10/2016) Speaker: Sam Alcoriza
"Impact of curvature divergences on physical observers in a wormhole space-time with horizons" by Olmo et. al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01798)
(03/10/2016) Speaker: Janus Advincula
"The Theorem of Ostrogradsky" by Woodard (https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02210)
(19/09/2016) Speaker: Ian Vega
"Binary black hole shadows, chaotic scattering and the Cantor set" by Shipley and Dolan (http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04469)
(29/08/2016) Speaker: Karl Revelar
"Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday" by Caldwell, Kamionkowski, Weinberg (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302506)
(22/08/2016) Speaker: Reginald Bernardo
"Particle production and complex path analysis" by Srinivasan and Padmanabhan (http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812028)
May 2016 - July 2016 (Midyear Term, 2016)
(26/07/2016) Speaker: Reginald Bernardo
"Particle creation by black holes". by SW Hawking, Communications in mathematical physics, 43(3), 199-220 (https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1103899181)
(21/07/2016) Speaker: Jezreel Castillo
"GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence" by LIGO Scientific Collaboration (https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04855)
(05/07/2016) Speaker: Karl Revelar
"Introduction to Cosmology"
(28/06/2016) Speaker: Mark Ugalino
"Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity" by Morris and Thorne (http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/56/5/10.1119/1.15620)
2nd Semester (2015-2016)
(16/05/2016) Speaker: Janforth Cantor
"Another approach to test gravity around a black hole" by Iwata and Yoo (http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01762)
(25/04/2016) Speaker: Adrian Villanueva
"Event horizon deformations in extreme-mass-ratio black hole mergers" by Hamerly and Chen (http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5387)
(04/11/2016) Speaker: Dr. Joseph Bunao
"Exotic singularities and spatially curved Loop Quantum Cosmology" by Singh and Vidotto (http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1307)
(04/04/2016) Speaker: Noel Vargas
"Inspiral into Gargantua" by Gralla, Hughes, Warburton (http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01221)
(07/03/2016) Speaker: Jezreel Castillo
"Is the gravitational-wave ringdown a probe of the event horizon?" by Cardoso, Franzin, Pani (http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07309)
(29/02/2016) Speaker: Karl Revelar
"Overcharging a black hole and cosmic censorship" by Hubeny (http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9808043)
(22/02/2016) Speaker: Ian Vega
"Self-force and fluid resonances" by Isoyama, Mendes, and Poisson (http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00059)