The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2013-2014 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 |
**Fri, 6 Sep** | Andrei Mesinger | Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri | Tuning your radio to the Cosmic Dawn | Thomas Greif | |
Thu, 12 Sep | Beth Reid | LBNL | SDSS-III BOSS and Beyond: fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys | Cameron McBride | |
Thu, 19 Sep | Alessandra Corsi | George Washington University | Gamma-ray bursts, gravitational waves, and multi-messenger exploration of the transient sky | Lorenzo Sironi | |
Thu, 26 Sep | Jason Wright | Penn State | Precise Radial Velocities of the Future | Matt Payne | |
Thu, 3 Oct | Dmitri Uzdensky | Univ. of Colorado | R. Margutti | ||
Thu, 10 Oct | Thomas Janka | MPA | A. Kamble | ||
Thu, 17 Oct | Norman Murray | CITA | Dynamic Star Formation | Smadar Naoz | |
Thu, 24 Oct | Andreas Berlind | Vanderbilt University | From Dark Matter to Galaxies: Probing the Spatial Structure of the Universe on Small Scales | Cameron McBride | |
Thu, 31 Oct | Dave Stevenson | Caltech | Mixing and Unmixing in Planets | Smadar Naoz | |
Thu, 7 Nov | Merav Opher | Boston U. | Smadar Naoz | ||
Thu, 14 Nov | Juri Poutanen | University of Oulu | Advances in X-ray burst modelling: probing cold dense matter equation of state using X-ray burst spectral evolution | Lorenzo Sironi | |
Thu, 21 Nov | Louis Strigari | Indiana University | Astrophysical interplay in dark matter searches | Sayan Chakraborti | |
Thu, 28 Nov, | *Thanksgiving* | ||||
Thu, 5 Dec | Mitchell Begelman | U Colorado | Hyperaccretion from ADAF to ZEBRA | R. Margutti | |
Thu, 30 Jan | Marla Geha | Yale University | Ultra-Faint Galaxies and a Non-Universal Initial Mass Function | Cameron McBride | |
Thu, 6 Feb | Amiel Sternberg | Tel Aviv University | The HI to H2 transition and HI Gas Columns in Galaxy Star-Forming Regions | Xuening Bai | |
Thu, 13 Feb | Todd Thompson | Ohio-state | Aspects of Galactic Winds and Feedback | Smadar Naoz | |
Thu, 20 Feb | Lisa Randall | Harvard University | Double Disk Dark Matter | Cameron McBride | |
Thu, 27 Feb | Alessandro Morbidelli | Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur | Konstantin Batygin | ||
Thu, 6 March | Rob Garrod | Cornell | Simulating pre-biotic protostellar chemistry in the age of ALMA: The curious case of glycine | Karin Oberg | |
Thu, 13 March | Stephan Rosswog | Stockholm University | Towards a multi-messenger picture of compact binary mergers | Yanfei Jiang | |
Thu, 20 March | ** Spring Break ** | ||||
**Tue, 25 March, 1:00** | Volker Bromm | UT Austin | The First Stars and Galaxies: The Run-up to the JWST | Thomas Greif | |
Thu, 27 March | Carlos Frenk | University of Durham | Cosmology in our backyard | Shy Genel | |
Thu, 3 Apr | Andrew MacFadyen | NYU | Moving mesh Astrophysics- Instability of Gamma Ray Burst Jets | Raffaella Margutti | |
Thu, 10 Apr | Nahum Arav | Virginia Tech | Lorenzo Sironi | ||
Thu, 17 Apr | Tiziana Di Matteo | Carnegie Mellon University | Massive Black Holes in Cosmic Structure Formation | Cameron McBride | |
Thu, 24 Apr | Carole Mundell | John Moores University | Atish Kamble | ||
Thu, 1 May | Davide Lazzati | NCSU- Oregon State University | Raffaella Margutti | ||
Thu, 8 May | Stuart Wyithe | University of Melbourne | Reionization and galaxy formation during the first Billion years | Smadar Naoz | |
**Fri, 23 May** | Mark Krumholz | UC Santa Cruz | Laura Sales |