2023-24

ITC Colloquium– Sanjana Curtis Thursday, November 7, 2024 11 AM Phillips and streamed: https://youtube.com/live/kb2Gzofs97c "Nucleosynthesis and Kilonovae from Compact Object Mergers" From the iodine in our bodies to the gold in our jewelry, heavy...

ITC Luncheon in Phillips! Thursday, October 31, 2024 12:30 PM Phillips and streamed : https://youtube.com/live/HGfZfQKihnA Keith Hawkins (UT Austin) " Hunting for Polluted White Dwarfs and other Treasures in Gaia" Barak Rom (Hebrew University) " Dynamics...

ITC Colloquium– Keith Hawkins Thursday, October 31, 2024 11 AM Phillips and streamed: https://youtube.com/live/ WGik5RVZwIk "Galactic assembly and structure told by Chemokinematics" Our universe it made up of many billions of galaxies, yet we are still...

Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS, Princeton) "A New search pipeline for gravitational waves with higher-order modes using mode-by-mode filtering" Christina Lindberg (Johns Hopkins) " Reading between the Stars: Resolving the Multi-Scale Interstellar Medium in Local...

Matias Zaldarriaga Title: The nHz GW Background and the local population of BHs Abstract: I will discuss the connection between the observed GW background and the local population of Black Holes. There is a very robust upper limit for the strength of the...

Alexandra Amon (Princeton) " Illuminating the dark matter mass profiles of dwarf galaxies" Michelle Ntampaka (STScI) " Galaxy Cluster Mass Accretion Rates with Interpretable Machine Learning" Yize Dong (CfA) " Probing Final-Stage Mass Loss in Massive...

Alexandra Amon Weak lensing with a billion galaxies: New opportunities, challenges and strategies Weak gravitational lensing provides an immense opportunity to test the standard cosmological model and to probe astrophysics. Over the last decade, it has...

Eli Waxman (Weizmann Inst. of Science) " Supernova shock breakouts may contribute a significant fraction of the ~10TeV neutrino background" Keiya Hirashima (University of Tokyo) " AI Surrogate Modeling for Supernova Feedback toward Star-by-star Galaxy...

Eli Waxman "ULTRASAT: Revolutionizing our understanding of the hot transient Universe" ULTRASAT is a scientific satellite that is planned to be launched to a geostationary orbit in 2027. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field of...

Cameron Hummels (Caltech) " Synthetic Observations of the Circumgalactic Medium" Dang Pham (U Toronto) " Polluting White Dwarfs with Oort Cloud Comets" Vadim Semenov (CfA) " How Early Could the Milky Way’s Disk Form?" Zhuyun Zhuang (Caltech) " Metals in...