Past Events

  • 2024 Feb 08

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Caitlin Witt (Northwestern)

    Martin Elvis (CfA) "Accelerating Astro2020 with the SpaceX Starship"

    Samantha Scibelli (NRAO) "Probing the Complex Chemistry in the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation"

    Jenny Calahan (CfA) "A 2D physical and chemical picture of the terrestrial zone within protoplanetary disk"

  • 2024 Feb 01

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Viraj Pandya (Columbia) "Introducing Next-Generation Differentiable Models of Galactic Atmospheres and Galaxy Formation"

    Zach Murray (Harvard) "A Numerical Exploration of three-body Gravitational cross-sections"

    Alexia Simon (Harvard) "Laboratory D/H exchange in water:volatile mixtures"

    Lucas Pinol (Sorbonne) "Cosmological colliders beyond the lamppost"

  • 2024 Feb 01

    ITC Colloquium

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips Auditorium

    Viraj Pandya - Columbia University 

    "Galaxies Going Bananas: The Surprising 3D Geometry of High Redshift Dwarf Galaxies from JWST"
    I will present surprising observational results on the 3D geometry of high-redshift star-forming galaxies from the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. Using a differentiable Bayesian model with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, I will show that there are many more flat, elongated dwarf galaxies than there are round, circular dwarf galaxies seen in projection at high redshift. This puzzle can be...

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  • 2024 Jan 25

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

     

    Catherine Zucker (CfA) "The Formation of the Local Fluff"

    Alexia Simon (Harvard) "Laboratory D/H exchange in water:volatile mixtures"

    Minghao Yue (MIT) "EIGER: Detecting the host galaxies of high-redshift quasars"

    Kai Wang (Peking University) "Connect galaxies across cosmic time"

     

  • 2023 Dec 07

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips Auditorium

    Gus Beane (CfA) "GSE is Innocent"

    Brandon Barker (MSU) " On the prospects for r-process nucleosynthesis in collapsars"

    Julie McGeoch (CfA) " A space polymer of glycine and iron - its potential role in accretion and detection via JWST MIRI at 6.21 µm

    Amirnezam Amiri (Arkansas) "HOMERUN: A new, multi-cloud method to accurately model emission lines in star-forming galaxies"

  • 2023 Nov 30

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips Auditorium

    Fabio Pacucci (Clay Fellow) "Breaking Cosmic Scales: JWST's Discovery of Unexpectedly Massive Black Holes"

    Fabienne Nail (Amsterdam) "Three Dimensional Simulations of Exoplanetary Atmosphere Escape"

    Paola Dominguez Fernandez (FFL & ITC Fellow) "Magnetic fields in galaxy clusters"

    Shelley Cheng (Harvard) "Estimating eruptive Mass Loss in Masive Stars with MESA"

  • 2023 Nov 16

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips Auditorium

    Enrique Paillas (Waterloo) "Constraining cosmology with density-split clustering"

    Ani Prabhu (Princeton) "New Physics in High-energy Astrophysical Plasmas"

    Jake Bennett (CfA) "The Arkenstone wind model, or How we (hopefully) stop blowing up galaxies and learn to love preventative feedback"

    Alice Booth (new Clay Fellow) "Molecular complexity at the epoch of planet formation"

  • 2023 Nov 16

    ITC Discussion

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips Auditorium

    Daniel Eisenstein: High-redshift galaxies with JWST

    Access to z>10 galaxies is being revolutionized by JWST, both with imaging and spectroscopy. Sources are reasonably plentiful and reveal a wide range of behaviors, but the uncertainties in the estimation of stellar mass and the possible role of AGN are severe. What will it really take to get to useful model constraints?

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