The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) luncheons for the academic year 2013-2014 are held in Phillips Auditorium on Thursdays from 12:30-1:30pm unless stated otherwise. Each Luncheon features 10 minute presentations from 4-6 speakers and is attended by 80 astronomers. Sandwiches and chips are served. Videos of the presentations are linked below
Date | Speakers | Video |
Thu, 12 Sep | Konstantin Batygin (ITC) Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley) Adrian Liu (Berkeley) Beth Reid (LBL) | September 12, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 19 Sep | Aleksander Sadowski (ITC) Phil Muirhead (Boston U) Alessandra Corsi (GWU) Niall Deacon (MPIA) | September 19, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 26 Sep | Xuening Bai (ITC) Soren Meibom (CfA) Jason Wright (Penn State) Matthew Payne (ITC) | |
Thu, 3 Oct | Sayan Chakraborti (ITC) Dmitri Uzdensky (Colorado) Jenny Greene (Princeton) Sagi Ben-Ami (Weizmann) | |
Thu, 10 Oct | Stella Offner (Yale) Thomas Janka (MPA) Alak Ray (Tata Inst.) Cameron McBride (ITC) | October 10, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 17 Oct | Dan Milisavljevic (ITC) Norman Murray (CITA) Laura Sales (ITC) Yanfei Jiang (ITC) | |
Thu, 24 Oct | Ed Bertschinger (MIT) with intro. by Judy Singer (Harvard) Katie Morzinski (Arizona) Andreas Berlind (Vanderbilt) | October 24, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 31 Oct | Claude-André Faucher-Giguère (Berkeley) Dave Stevenson (Caltech) Yuexing Li (Penn State) Miller Goss (NRAO) | October 31, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 7 Nov | Matthew Bayliss (ITC) Pascal Oesch (Yale) Tommaso Treu (UC Santa Barbara) Merav Opher (BU) | November 7, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 14 Nov | James Guillochon (ITC) Charlie Conroy (UCSC) Steve Allen (Stanford) Juri Poutanen (Oulu U) | |
Thu, 21 Nov | Tanmoy Laskar (ITC) Louis Strigari (Indiana U) Katherine Michele Deck (MIT) Ben Weiss (MIT) | November 21, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 28 Nov | * No Luncheon (Thanksgiving) | |
Thu, 5 Dec | Mark Vogelsberger (ITC) Mitch Begelman (University of Colorado) Munier Salem (Columbia) Wen-Fai Fong (ITC) | December 5, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 30 Jan | Ragnhild Lunnan (ITC) Marla Geha (Yale) Eric Feigelson (Penn State U) Anna Frabel (MIT) | |
Thu, 6 Feb | Mark Reid (CfA) John Raymond (CfA) Julianne Dalcanton (Washington) Amiel Sternberg (Tel Aviv U) | February 6, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 13 Feb | Daniel Eisenstein (ITC) Todd Thompson (Ohio State) Aaron Parsons (Berkeley) Xian Chen (Albert Einstein Institute) | February 13, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 20 Feb | Thomas Greif (ITC) David Soderblom (STScI) Lisa Randall (Harvard Physics) Aleksander Sadowski (ITC) | |
Thu, 27 Feb | Zack Slepian (ITC) Alessandro Morbidelli (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur) Joan Najita (NOAO/ITC) Brice Menard (Johns Hopkins) | February 27, ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 6 Mar | Ori Fox (Berkeley) Katie Mack (Melbourne) Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie) Rob Garrod (Cornell) | |
Thu, 13 Mar | Kate Rubin (CfA) Annalisa Pillepich (ITC) Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern) Stephan Rosswog (Stockholm University) | March 13, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 20 Mar | *No Luncheon (Spring Break)* | |
Thu, 27 Mar | John Johnson (ITC) Carlos Frenk (Durham) Jessica Lu (Hawaii) James Steiner (CfA) | March 27, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 3 Apr | Marion Dierickx (ITC) Colin Bischoff (CfA) Andrew MacFadyen (NYU) Xuening Bai (ITC) | April 3, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 10 Apr | Nahum Arav (Virginia Tech) Grigor Aslanyan (Univ. Auckland) Margaret Pan (NASA Goddard) Xiaochun Sun (Beijing, China) | April 10, ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 17 Apr | Neil Gehrels (GSFC) Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden) Bruce Draine (Princeton) Tiziana di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon) | April 17, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 24 Apr | Shy Genel (ITC) Dan Marrone (Arizona) Carole Mundell (John Moores U) Brian Lacki (IAS, Princeton) | April 24, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |
Thu, 1 May | Raffaella Margutti (ITC) Lorenzo Sironi (ITC) Esra Bulbul (CfA) Davide Lazzati (Oregon State) | |
Thu, 8 May | John Johnson (ITC) Smadar Naoz (ITC) Stuart Whythe (Melbourne) Federico Marinacci (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies) | May 8, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video |