Class Web Pages (Spring 2008):

• PHYS 317 (Introduction to Computational Physics): Information about the course can be found here.



• PHYS 610A (Quantum Mechanics): Information about the course can be found here.

Students working with me:

Brian Niebergal, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada; January 7, 2008 - June 2008.

 
 

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My areas of research:

Semiclassical treatment of dense matter
Relativistic superdense matter
Quark matter in neutron stars
Properties of (proto) neutron stars
Physics and astrophysics of strange quark matter
Properties of strange stars, strange dwarfs and strange planets
General Relativity
Rapid rotation of compact stars
Cooling of compact stars
Stellar pulsation
Mass accrection onto neutron stars
Gravity-wave instability in rotating neutron stars

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Some accomplishments:

Details about my research interests and accomplishments can be found here	Download Equations of state  of high-density neutron star matter here
For information about my book, click Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics  (IoP Publishing, 1999, 682 p.)	Review on Strange Quark Matter and Compact Stars, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 54 (2005) 193-288. (astro-ph/0407155)

 

Plus a few more appetizers:

SELECTED RECENT TALKS/LECTURES:
 

• QCD in Neutron Stars and Strange Stas, invited talk, presented at the mini-symposium on "From Crust to Core: QCD in Neutron Stars, 2006 DNP fall meeting, Nashville, TN, October, 25-28, 2006.

• Color Superconductivity and Neutron Stars, invited talk, presented at Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII, Azores Islands, 2-7 September 2006.

• "Rotating Neutron Stars", invited talk, presented at the International Conference HYP 2006, October 10-14, Mainz, Germany.

• "Pulsars as a Astrophysical Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics", invited talk, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS 28th COURSE, ERICE, SICILY: 16 - 24 SEPTEMBER 2006.

• "Quark Stars", invited talk, Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Freie Universitaet of Berlin: July 23 - 29, 2006

• "Neutron Star Interiors", invited review talk, 363th Heraeus-Seminar on NEUTRON STARS AND PULSARS: ABOUT 40 YEARS AFTER THEIR DISCOVERY, Physics Center Bad Honnef, Bad Honnef, Germany, 2006.

• "From Cosmic Cannibals to Compact Stars", invited review talk, International Symposium on Heavy Ion Physics, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 2-6 April 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.

• "Phases of Dense Matter in Compact Stars", invited talk, 8 March 2006, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA.

• "Challenges in Medium and High-Energy Neutron Star Physics", invited talk, 7 March 2006, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

• "Neutron Stars and Black Holes", 23 February 2006, Colloquium, Department of Physics, Imperial Valley Campus, Calexico, California, USA.

• "Strangeness in Astrophysics", invited colloquium, 9 February 2006, Department of Physics & Astronomy, California State University at Los Angeles, California, USA.

• "Cosmological Cannibals", 27 January 2006, Colloquium, Department of Physics, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.

• Phases of Dense Matter in Compact Stars", invited talk, International Workshop on The Physics of Compressed Baryonic Matter, GSI, December 15-16, 2005, Darmstadt, Germany.

• "Color-Superconducting Quark Matter and Compact Stars", invited talk, 14 December 2005, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany.

• "Strangeness in Neutron Stars", invited Divisional Colloquium, 28 October 2005, Nuclear Physics Theory Center, Jefferson Lab, Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA, USA.

• Strangeness in Astrophysics, 2nd Int. Workshop of Astrophysics and Relativistic Astrophysics, IWARA 2005, October 2-6, 2005, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. A pdf version of my talk can be found here.

• Strangeness in Neutron Stars, 2005 2nd Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the APS and The Physical Society of Japan, Sunday-Thursday, September 18-22, 2005; Maui, Hawaii.

• Strange Quark Matter and Compact Stars, 29th John Hopkins Workshop on Theoretical Physics, August 1-3, 2005, Budapest, Hungary.

• The Nuclear Incompressibility and Compact Stars, Workshop on Nuclear Incompressibility, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, July 14-15, 2005, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

• Nuclear Equation of State of Compact Stars, 228th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) on "Nuclear Equation of State used in Astrophysics Models", August 22--26, 2004, Philadelphia, USA.

• Phase Transitions and Equation of State of Neutron Stars, Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics at the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, May 24--28, 2004, Trento, Italy.

• The Quark-Hadron Phase Transition in Neutron Stars, Institute for Nuclear Theory program INT-04-1, ``QCD and Dense Matter: From Lattices to Stars'', 29 March to June 18, 2004, INT, Washington University, Washington, USA.

• Neutron Star Interiors: From Nuclei to Quarks, 20 April 2004, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.

• Neutron Stars and Strange Quark Matter Stars; Talk presented at the KIAS-APCTP International Symposium in Astro-Hadron Physics, Compact Stars: Quest For New States of Dense Matter, November 10 - 14, 2003, Seoul, South Korea.

• Quark Matter and Compact Stars; Talk presented at the XVIth International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PaNic02), held through September 30 - October 4, 2002 in Osaka, Japan.

• Nuclear and High-Energy Astrophysics; three lectures presented at the international workshop on HADRON PHYSICS 2002, Bento Goncalves, Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL, April 14 - 19, 2002.

• F. Weber, Andreu Torres i Cuadrat, Alexander Ho, Philip Rosenfield, "Strangeness in Compact Star", accepted for publication in the Proceedings of Sciences, (2006), (astro-ph/0602047).

• D. Page, U. Geppert, and F. Weber, "Neutron Star Cooling", to appear in Nuclear Physics A (2006), (astro-ph/0508056).

• T. Klaehn, D. Blaschke, S. Typel, E.N.E. van Dalen, A. Faessler, C. Fuchs, T. Gaitanos, H. Grigorian, A. Ho, E.E. Kolomeitsev, M. C. Miller, G. Ropke, J. Truemper, D.N. Voskresensky, F. Weber, H. H. Wolter, "Constraints of the high-density nuclear equation of state from the phenomenology of compact stars and heavy-ion collisions", submitted to Phys. Rev. C (2006), (nucl-th/0602038).

• A. Torres i Cuadrat and F. Weber, "Compact Star Properties revised with Color Superconducting Phases of Quark Matter: Implications on Rotation and Emission", Proceedings of the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, August 3-10, 2005, Pune, India.

• F. Weber, "Neutron Stars and Quark Stars", Proceedings of the KIAS-APCT International Symposium in Astro-Hadron Physics on Compact Stars: Quest For New States of Dense Matter¡, November 10-14, 2003, Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea, World Scientific, ISBN 981-238-954-7, (2005) 128.

• F. Weber, Strange Quark Matter and Compact Stars , Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 54 (2005) 193-288 (astro-ph/0407155).

• G. F. Burgio, H.-J. Schulze, and F. Weber, On the Maximum Rotational Frequency of Neutron and Hybrid Stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics 408 (2003) 675.

• F. Weber, Quark Matter in Compact Stars, Nucl. Phys. A721 (2003) 1032c.

• S. I. Bastrukov, J. Yang, D. V. Podgainy, and F. Weber, Signatures of Field-induced Spin Polarization of Neutron Star Matter in Seismic Vibrations of Paramagnetic Neutron Stars, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 29 (2003) 683.

• S. Bastrukov, D. V. Podgainy, J. Yang, and F. Weber, Electromagnetic Activity of Pulsating Paramagnetic Neutron Stars, JETP  95 (2002) 789.

• F. Weber, Nuclear and High-Energy Astrophysics, Proceedings of the VIII International Workshop on Hadron Physics 2002 (World Scientific 2003, ISBN 981-238-192-9) p. 73-134.

• N. K. Glendenning and F. Weber, Signal of Quark Deconfinement in Millisecond Pulsars and Reconfinement in Accreting X-ray Neutron Stars, Lecture Notes in Physics 578 (Springer 2001) p. 305.

• N. Glendenning and F. Weber, Possible Evidence of Quark Deconfinement in Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries, Astrophysial Journal 559 (2001) L119.

• Ch. Schaab, A. Sedrakian, F. Weber, M. K. Weigel, Impact of Internal Heating on the Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics 346 (1999) 465.

• S. I. Bastrukov, F. Weber, and D. V. Podgainy, On the Stability of Global Non-Radial Pulsations of Neutron Stars, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 25 (1999) 107.

• N. K. Glendenning, S. Pei, and F. Weber , Signal of Quark Deconfinement in the Timing Structure of Pulsar Spin-Down, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 1603.

• Ch. Kettner, F. Weber, M. K. Weigel, and N. K. Glendenning, Structure and Stability of Strange and Charm Stars at Finite Temperatures, Phys. Rev. D51 (1995) 1440.

• N. K. Glendenning, Ch. Kettner, and F. Weber, Possible New Class of Dense White Dwarfs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 3519.

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