The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2014-2015 will be held on Thursdays at 11:00am in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise
Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | CFA Host |
Thu, 11 Sep | Andrew Strominger | Harvard University | Conformal Symmetry in the Sky | Raffaella Margutti |
Thu, 18 Sep | Daniel Holz | U. Chicago | Gravitational wave astrophysics with LIGO | Cameron McBride |
Thu, 25 Sep | Timothy Beers | Dept. of Physics University of Notre Dame | The chemical signature of first-generation massive stars | Cora Dvorkin |
Thu, 2 Oct | Anže Slosar | Brookhaven National Laboratory | What are Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data telling us | C.McBride |
Thu, 9 Oct | Duncan Lorimer | West Virginia University | Millisecond pulsars in the Galaxy - a growing population | Raffaella Margutti |
Thu, 16 Oct | Robert Fisher | U. Mass Dartmouth | Type Ia Supernovae: Progress Towards a Concordance Model | Michael McCourt |
Thu, 23 Oct | Peng Oh | UCSB | Turbulence and Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters | Annalisa Pillepich |
Thu, 30 Oct | Chris Matzner | University of Toronto | Clustered Star Formation and Stellar Feedback | Jerod Parrent |
Thu, 6 Nov | Eve Ostriker | Princeton University | Self-regulated star formation and resolved feedback | Xuening Bai |
Thu, 13 Nov | Pieter van Dokkum | Yale | A history of the dense cores of massive galaxies | Sarah Wellons |
Thu, 20 Nov | Julio Navarro | University of Victoria | Dwarf Galaxies as Cosmological Probes | Laura Sales |
Thu, 27 Nov, | *Thanksgiving* | |||
Thu, 4 Dec | Dan Kasen | UC Berkeley | The Color of Kilonovae; A Picture of Compact Object Merger Physics | James Guillochon |
Thu, 29 Jan | Romain Teyssier | University of Zurich | Exploring the role of feedback processes in galaxy formation | James Guillochon |
Thu, 5 Feb | Daryl Haggard | Amherst | Sgr A* and the G2 Object: Intensive X-ray and Radio Monitoring | Rafaella Margutti |
Thu, 12 Feb | Tesla Jeltema | UCSC | Multiwavelength Dark Matter Searches | Annalisa Pillepich |
Thu, 19 Feb | Douglas Scott | UBC | New results from Planck | Cora Dvorkin |
Thu, 26 Feb | Jennifer Gaskins | University of Amsterdam | Gamma rays from dark matter in the Inner Galaxy? | Cameron McBride |
Thu, 5 March | Nanda Rea | CSIC-IEEC | Magnetars life cycle: birth, evolution and death | Atish Kamble |
Thu, 12 March | Kelly Holley-Bockelmann | Vanderbilt University | Bringing Black Holes Together: How Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Form and Plunge Through the Final Parsec | C. McBride |
Thu, 26 March | Frank van den Bosch | Yale | Coming of Age in the Dark Sector | Annalisa Pillepich |
*Wed, 1 Apr*, 16:00, Phillips | Scott Tremaine | IAS | Is statistical mechanics useful for describing galaxies and planetary systems? | Bulent Kiziltan |
Thu, 2 Apr | Kelle Cruz | Hunter College/CUNY | Head in the Clouds: Decoding the Spectral Features Produced by Brown Dwarf and Exoplanent Atmospheres | Jerod Parrent |
Thu, 9 Apr | Brad Cenko | NASA Goddard | The Demographics of Tidal Disruption Flares | Dan Milisavljevic |
Thu, 16 Apr | Chris Fryer | LANL | Observational Constraints of the Supernova Engine | James Guillochon |
Thu, 23 Apr | Vasily Belokurov | IoA Cambridge | The New Magellanic Dwarfs | Annalisa Pillepich |
Thu, 30 Apr | Sally Dodson-Robinson | U Delaware | From Snowflakes to Snowballs: Bypassing the Bouncing Barrier in Planetesimal Formation | Xuening Bai |
Thu, 7 May | Priya Natarajan | Yale | Unveling the dark side of the Universe with Cluster Lensing | Bulent Kiziltan |
Thu, 21 May, *Phillips* | Stuart Firestein | Columbia | Ignorance: how it drives science | R. Margutti |