ITC Luncheon, 2013-2014

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

DateSpeakersVideo
Thu, 12 SepKonstantin Batygin (ITC)
Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley)
Adrian Liu (Berkeley)
Beth Reid (LBL)
  September 12, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 19 SepAleksander Sadowski (ITC)
Phil Muirhead (Boston U)
Alessandra Corsi (GWU)
Niall Deacon (MPIA)
  September 19, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 26 SepXuening Bai (ITC)
Soren Meibom (CfA)
Jason Wright (Penn State)
Matthew Payne (ITC)
 
Thu, 3 OctSayan Chakraborti (ITC)
Dmitri Uzdensky (Colorado)
Jenny Greene (Princeton)
Sagi Ben-Ami (Weizmann)
 
Thu, 10 OctStella Offner (Yale)
Thomas Janka (MPA)
Alak Ray (Tata Inst.)
Cameron McBride (ITC)
  October 10, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 17 OctDan Milisavljevic (ITC)
Norman Murray (CITA)
Laura Sales (ITC)
Yanfei Jiang (ITC)
 
Thu, 24 OctEd Bertschinger (MIT) with
  intro. by Judy Singer (Harvard)
Katie Morzinski (Arizona)
Andreas Berlind (Vanderbilt)
  October 24, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 31 OctClaude-André Faucher-Giguère (Berkeley)
Dave Stevenson (Caltech)
Yuexing Li (Penn State)
Miller Goss (NRAO)
  October 31, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 7 NovMatthew Bayliss (ITC)
Pascal Oesch (Yale)
Tommaso Treu (UC Santa Barbara)
Merav Opher (BU)
  November 7, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 14 NovJames Guillochon (ITC)
Charlie Conroy (UCSC)
Steve Allen (Stanford)
Juri Poutanen (Oulu U)
 
Thu, 21 NovTanmoy 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 DecMark Vogelsberger (ITC)
Mitch Begelman (University of Colorado)
Munier Salem (Columbia)
Wen-Fai Fong (ITC)
 December 5, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 30 JanRagnhild Lunnan (ITC)
Marla Geha (Yale)
Eric Feigelson (Penn State U)
Anna Frabel (MIT)
 
Thu, 6 FebMark Reid (CfA)
John Raymond (CfA)
Julianne Dalcanton (Washington)
Amiel Sternberg (Tel Aviv U)
  February 6, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 13 FebDaniel Eisenstein (ITC)
Todd Thompson (Ohio State)
Aaron Parsons (Berkeley)
Xian Chen (Albert Einstein Institute)
  February 13, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 20 FebThomas Greif (ITC)
David Soderblom (STScI)
Lisa Randall (Harvard Physics)
Aleksander Sadowski (ITC)
 
Thu, 27 FebZack 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 MarOri Fox (Berkeley)
Katie Mack (Melbourne)
Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie)
Rob Garrod (Cornell)
 
Thu, 13 MarKate 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 MarJohn Johnson (ITC)
Carlos Frenk (Durham)
Jessica Lu (Hawaii)
James Steiner (CfA)
  March 27, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 3 AprMarion Dierickx (ITC)
Colin Bischoff (CfA)
Andrew MacFadyen (NYU)
Xuening Bai (ITC)
  April 3, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 10 AprNahum Arav (Virginia Tech)
Grigor Aslanyan (Univ. Auckland)
Margaret Pan (NASA Goddard)
Xiaochun Sun (Beijing, China)
  April 10, ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 17 AprNeil Gehrels (GSFC)
Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden)
Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Tiziana di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon)
  April 17, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 24 AprShy Genel (ITC)
Dan Marrone (Arizona)
Carole Mundell (John Moores U)
Brian Lacki (IAS, Princeton)
  April 24, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video
Thu, 1 MayRaffaella Margutti (ITC)
Lorenzo Sironi (ITC)
Esra Bulbul (CfA)
Davide Lazzati (Oregon State)
 
Thu, 8 MayJohn Johnson (ITC)
Smadar Naoz (ITC)
Stuart Whythe (Melbourne)
Federico Marinacci (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)
  May 8, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video