Title: "Radio Pulsars: Doing Nuclear
Physics with
a Telescope"
Date: Monday, April 5, 2004
Time: 4:10 p.m.
Place: 55 Roessler Hall
Precision timing studies of radio pulsar "clocks" have famously provided tests of relativistic gravity, including the first observed effects of gravitational radiation. Here I will discuss a different kind of precision measurement -- parallax -- and show how pulsar distance measurements have implications for studies of the nuclear equation of state at high density, and possibly for our understanding of the origin of the cosmic rays.
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Refreshments
3:50 p.m., Physics
Bldg. Entrance
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