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  • 2019 Apr 22

    ITC Seminar - Chuanfei Dong (Princeton)

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips
    Title: Mars as a Nearby Exoplanetary Laboratory: Solar Wind Interaction, Atmospheric Loss, and Prebiotic Chemistry

    Abstract:
    Mars has always represented a vital target from the standpoint of planetary science, especially on account of its past, and perhaps even its current, biological potential. In particular, ancient Mars (∼ 4 Ga) has attracted a great deal of attention because it may have possessed aqueous environments with water-rock interactions, minerals, biogenic elements, suitable energy sources for prebiotic chemistry, and possibly oceans; all of these factors could have... Read more about ITC Seminar - Chuanfei Dong (Princeton)
  • 2019 Apr 22

    ITC Seminar - Michelle Vick (Cornell)

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips
    Chaotic Dynamical Tides in Eccentric Gas Giants

    High-eccentricity migration is an important channel for the formation of hot Jupiters (HJs). In particular, Lidov–Kozai (LK) oscillations of orbital eccentricity/inclination induced by a distant planetary or stellar companion, combined with tidal friction, have been shown to produce HJs on Gyr time-scales. We re-examine this scenario with the inclusion of chaotic dynamical tides. When the planet’s orbit is in a high-eccentricity phase, the tidal force from the star excites oscillatory f-modes and i-modes in the planet. For sufficiently... Read more about ITC Seminar - Michelle Vick (Cornell)
  • 2019 Apr 18

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips

    David Latham (Harvard)  “The search for habitable planets”

    Vikki Meadows (U. Washington), "Exoplanet Biosignature Assessment"

    Silvia Toonen (Birmingham) "The fault in our stars; stellar mergers and age estimations"

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  • 2019 Apr 11

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips

    John Lewis (ITC): “CO depletion in the California Molecular Cloud”

    Ken Freeman (ANU): “Bar trapping and the Hercules moving group”

    Lisa Randall (Harvard): "Rock 'n" Roll Solutions to the Hubble Tension"

    Vikram Ravi (CfA): “Nearby nuclear radio transients”

  • 2019 Apr 10

    ITC Pizza Lunch

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips
    Lars Hernquist, "Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation"
  • 2019 Apr 04

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips

    Anna Ijjas (ITC): “Cosmic Spikes”

    Robin Wordsworth (Harvard SEAS): “Next-generation climate modeling using line-by-line radiative transfer and generalized convection”

    Jennifer Barnes (Columbia): “Diagnosing nucleosynthesis from late-time kilonova light curves”

    Mickael Rigault (CNRS/IN2P3): “Astrophysical biases of Type Ia Supernovae and the H0 tension”

  • 2019 Apr 04

    ITC Colloquium - Jennifer Barnes (Columbia)

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Pratt

    Panning for gold with things that go bang in the night

    Abstract: Electromagnetic follow-up observations of the gravitational wave-detected binary neutron star merger (NSM) GW1701817 suggested that material ejected from the accretion disk formed in the merger underwent a robust r-process nucleosynthesis, producing heavy elements like Au, Pt, and Eu. These observations seemed to answer a long-standing question about the origin of the heaviest elements in the Universe. However, the conditions that characterize the disks formed in NSMs are also found in other systems,...

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  • 2019 Apr 03

    ITC Pizza Lunch

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips
    Sownak Bose (ITC) and Jabran Zahid (CfA), "The galaxy-halo connection"

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