The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2011-2012 will be held on Thursdays at 11:00am in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise.
Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | CFA Host | CFA Office |
Thu, 8 Sep | Mario Livio | STScI | Type Ia Supernovae: What are They? | Asaf Pe'er | |
Thu, 15 Sep | Brian Metzger | Princeton | Observable Signatures of Coalescing Compact Binaries | Stella Offner | |
Thu, 22 Sep, Classroom | Michael Nielsen | Doing Science in the Open | Hagai Perets | ||
Thu, 29 Sep | Rosh Hashanah | ||||
Thu, 6 Oct, Classroom | Chung-Pei Ma | UC Berkeley | Lijun Gou | ||
Thu, 13 Oct, Classroom | Phil Armitage | JILA Colorado | Asaf Pe'er | ||
Thu, 20 Oct | Alessandra Buonanno | U. of Maryland | The Final Moments of Coalescing Compact Binaries: Modelingand Science | Bence Kocsis | |
Thu, 27 Oct | Rachel Mandelbaum | Princeton | The next decade of weak lensing science | Matthew Bayliss | |
Thu, 3 Nov | Re'em Sari | Hebrew University | Asaf Pe'er | ||
Thu, 10 Nov | Fred Adams | University of Michigan | Kaitlin Kratter | ||
Thu, 17 Nov | Jeremy Goodman | Princeton | Shear-driven turbulence on earth and in space | Stella Offner | |
Thu, 24 Nov | Thanksgiving | ||||
Thu, 1 Dec | Beth Willman | Haverford College | Ultra-faint dwarfs, dark matter, and galaxy formation | Charlie Conroy | |
Thu, 8 Dec | Mike Brown | Caltech | TBD | Darin Ragozzine | |
Thu, 26 Jan | Samaya Nissanke | Caltech | |||
Thu, 2 Feb | Phil Marcus | UC Berkeley | Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks | Stella Offner | |
Thu, 9 Feb | Lynne Hillenbrand | Caltech | High Spectral, High Spatial, and High Cadence Observations of Young Suns | Stella Offner | |
Thu, 16 Feb | Avishay Gal-Yam | Weizmann Institute of Science | The nature of cosmic explosions: recent progress | Hagai Perets | |
Thu, 23 Feb | Zoltan Haiman | Columbia | TBD | Shy Genel | |
Thu, 1 Mar | Kathryn Johnston | Columbia | Elena D'Onghia | ||
Thu, 8 Mar | Nikhil Padmanabhan | Yale U. | Cameron McBride | ||
Thu, 15 Mar | John Johnson | Caltech | Kaitlin Kratter | ||
Thu, 22 Mar | Philipp Podsiadlowski | Oxford | Bülent Kiziltan | ||
Thu, 29 Mar | Roger Chevalier | U. of Virginia | Superluminous Supernovae | Alicia Soderberg | |
Thu, 5 Apr | Scott Chapman | U. of Cambridge | Shy Genel | ||
Thu, 12 Apr | John Eldridge | University of Auckland | Duplicity in stellar populations | Charlie Conroy | |
Thu, 19 Apr | Martin Weinberg | UMass | TBD | Elena D'Onghia | |
Thu, 26 Apr | Eliot Quataert | UC Berkeley | Bülent Kiziltan | ||
Thu, 3 May | James Binney | Oxford | Modeling our Galaxy | Hagai Perets | |
Thu, 10 May | Alex Lazarian | U. of Wisc. | Reconnection diffusion process and the changing paradigm of star formation | Stella Offner |