The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2012-2013 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, 6 Sep | Leslie Sage | U. of Maryland | How to publish in Nature | Smadar Naoz/Tassos Fragos | |
Thu, 13 Sep | Tom Abel | Stanford | Following Dark Matter into Phase Space | Mark Vogelsberger | |
Thu, 20 Sep | Julie Comerford | University of Texas | Dual Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Evolution | Yue Shen | |
Thu, 27 Sep | Kailash Sahu | Space Telescope Science Institute | HST Programs to Detect Isolated Black Holes through Astrometric Microlensing | Rosanne Di Stefano | |
Thu, 4 Oct | Laura Lopez | MIT | Supernova Remnants Stay in Shape | Xuening Bai | |
Thu, 11 Oct | James Bullock | UC Irvine | Matt Walker | ||
Thu, 18 Oct | Tony Piro | Caltech | Connecting the Electromagnetic and Gravitational Wave Skies | Lorenzo Sironi | |
Thu, 25 Oct | Matias Zaldarriaga | IAS | Mark Vogelsberger | ||
Thu, 1 Nov | Hilke Schlichting | UCLA | Recent Insights into Planet Formation and Debris Disks | Alex Parker | |
Thu, 8 Nov | Roman Rafikov | Princeton | New Ideas on Mechanisms of Angular Momentum Transport and Variability in Boundary Layers of Accretion Disks | Bence Kocsis | |
Thu, 15 Nov | Josh Winn | MIT | Spin-Orbit Interactions for Exoplanetary Systems | Smadar Naoz | |
Thu, 22 Nov | Thanksgiving | ||||
Thu, 29 Nov | Andrea Ferrara | SNS Pisa | Cosmic reionization and the first galaxies | Smadar Naoz | |
Thu, 6 Dec | Cora Dvorkin | IAS | Sayan Chakraborti | ||
Thu, 31 Jan | Maxim Lyutikov | Purdue University | The double pulsar as a probe of fundamental physics | Lorenzo Sironi | |
Thu, 7 Feb | Dimitrios Psaltis | University of Arizona | Precise Measurements of the Black-Hole Properties in the Center ofthe Milky Way | ||
Tue, 12 Feb, 11am ** special time and place ** | Bill Press | University of Texas | Eight Dimensions is Big Enough: Surprises in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game | Matt Walker | |
Thu, 14 Feb | Alberto Sesana | AEI | Massive black hole binaries: formation, dynamics and gravitational waves | Bence Kocsis | |
Thu, 21 Feb | Ralf Klessen | University of Heidelberg | Star Formation | Molly Swanson | |
Thu, 28 Feb | Naoki Yoshida | University of Tokyo | Direct integration of the collisionless Boltzmann equationin six-dimensional phase space | Smadar Naoz/Thomas Greif | |
Thu, 7 Mar | Feryal Ozel | University of Arizona | Black Hole-Galaxy Correlations without Self-Regulation | ||
Thu, 14 Mar | Dong Lai | Cornell | Tidal Dissipations in Binaries: From Merging White Dwarfs toand Hot Jupiter Systems | Smadar Naoz | |
Thu, 21 Mar | **Spring Break** | ||||
Thu, 28 Mar | Rennan Barkana | Tel Aviv University | Detecting the First Stars at Redshift 20 | Smadar Naoz | |
Thu, 4 Apr | Scott Ransom | NRAO | Sayan Chakraborti | ||
Thu, 11 Apr | Paul Steinhardt | Princeton University | Cosmology in Crisis | Anna Ijjas | |
Thu, 18 Apr | Boaz Katz | IAS | Type Ia supernovae are the head on collisions of white dwarfs in triple systems. | Smadar Naoz / Sayan Chakraborti | |
Thu, 25 Apr | Yoram Lithwick | Northwestern | Xuening Bai / Smadar Naoz | ||
Tue, 30 Apr @ Phillips, 1:00pm ** special time and place ** | Richard Ellis | Caltech | Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies During the Reionization Era | Shy Genel | |
Thu, 2 May | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | UCSC | Smadar Naoz | ||
Thu, 9 May | Alex Lazarian | University of Wisconsin | Acceleration of energetic particles in turbulent reconnection: from solar flares to gamma ray bursts | Lorenzo | |
Thu, 16 May | Kris Gorski | JPL |