2025-26

In person for CfA members and streaming on YouTube . Understanding and Using Large Language Models: My Sabbatical at Anthropic Large language models like Anthropic's Claude are rapidly transforming scientific workflows, yet their inner workings remain...

In person for CfA members and streaming on YouTube . Nicolás Garavito Camargo (University of Maryland): “The XMC-Atlas: A library of Milky Way-LMC live potentials for orbital dynamics” Dani Lipman (University of Connecticut): “Bookkeeping the Central...

“Near Field Cosmology with the Milky Way’s stellar halo” Nicolás Garavito Camargo (University of Maryland) In person for CfA members and streaming on YouTube. The Gaia satellite and large-area surveys such as DESI, SDSS-V, H3, and MagE have measured the...

Cumrun Vafa (Harvard): “Stringy Predictions for the Evolving Dark Sector” Ralf M. Konietzka (Harvard): “Ray-tracing Fast Radio Bursts Through IllustrisTNG: Cosmological Dispersion Measures from Redshift 0 to 5.5” Anirudh Chiti (Stanford): “Uncovering the...

This week's ITC Colloquium is presented by Cumrun Vafa from Harvard. String Theory and the Fading Dark Sector In this talk I explain how string theory leads to the unification of the dark sector: The smallness of dark energy leads to the existence of dark...

Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania) Yael Alush (The Hebrew University): “EMRIs in Kerr Spacetime: The Role of Inclination Diffusion” Henry Whitehead (University of Oxford): “Gas Assisted Binary Black Hole Formation in AGN” Daichi Tsuna (CfA/ITC)...

This week's ITC Colloquium Speaker is Robyn Sanderson from the University of Pennsylvania. The Wide-angle View of Dark Matter in Nearby Galaxies The Gaia astrometric survey has delivered a detailed “close-up” of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, by measuring...

Jason Hunt (University of Surrey): The Dark Matter Wake of a Galactic Bar Revealed by Multichannel Singular Spectral Analysis” Marbely Micolta Calderon (University of Michigan): “Where Did the Rocks Go? Tracing Refractory Depletion in Planet-Forming Disks...

This week's ITC Colloquium is presented by Jason Hunt from the University of Surrey. Our Galaxy in Motion: Ripples, Ridges and Spirals in the Milky Way Data from ESA’s Gaia mission has revolutionized Galactic astronomy, providing an unprecedented view of...