ITC Colloquia 2009-2010

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2009-2010 will be held on Thursdays at 11:00am in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise.

Date & Location	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	CFA Host	CFA Office
Thu, 10 Sep	Frank Shu	Academia Sinica	Astronomy, Climate Change, and Molten Salt Reactors	Charlie Lada
Thu, 17 Sep	Peng Oh	UCSB	AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters	Hy Trac
Thu, 24 Sep	Marc Kamionkowski	Caltech	Is the Universe Statistically Isotropic?	Jonathan Pritchard
Thu, 1 Oct	Dimitrios Psaltis	U of Arizona	Stable, Accelerating Universes without Dark Energy	CK Chan
Thu, 8 Oct	Robert Quimby	Caltech	Mysterious transients unmasked as the bright blue death throes of massive stars	Alicia Soderberg
Thu, 15 Oct	Rosalba Perna	Colorado	Neutron Star Spins: in lonely life and with companions	Rosanne DiStefano
Thu, 22 Oct	Feryal Ozel	U of Arizona	The Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter	CK Chan
Thu, 29 Oct, Classroom	David Nesvorny	Boulder/SwRI	All you need to know about irregular satellites	Daniel Fabrycky
Thu, 5 Nov	Tom Abel	Stanford	Star Formation Then and Now	Yuval Birnboim
Thu, 12 Nov	Sean Carroll	Caltech	The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time	Jonathan Pritchard
Thu, 19 Nov	Lars Bildsten	KITP and UCSB	Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae	Alicia Soderberg
Thu, 26 Nov	No Talk		Thanksgiving
Thu, 3 Dec	Charles Gammie	U of Illinois	Numerical Models of Sgr A*	CK Chan
Thu, 10 Dec	Eugene Chiang	UC Berkeley	Planet Formation in Transitional and Debris Disks	Ruth Murray-Clay


Wed, 13 Jan	Eliot Quataert	UC Berkeley	Theoretical Models of Short-Duration Gamma-ray Bursts	Alicia Soderberg
Thu, 28 Jan	Daniel Kasen	UC Santa Cruz	Four and a half ways to blow up a white dwarf	Alicia Soderberg
Thu, 4 Feb	Rachel Bean	Cornell	Testing gravity on cosmic scales	Hy Trac
Thu, 11 Feb	Jonathan Fortney	UCSC	Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: Modeling the Transmission Spectrum of Transiting Planets Large and Small	Ruth Murray-Clay
Thu, 18 Feb	Mark Dijkstra	ITC/CfA	Seeing Through the Trough: Detecting Lyman Alpha Emission from Early Generations of Galaxies	Alicia Soderberg
Thu, 25 Feb	Norman Murray	CITA	Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation	Matija Cuk
Thu, 4 Mar	David Merritt	RIT	Old and new puzzles at the Galactic center	Hagai Perets
Thu, 11 Mar	Hilke Schlichting	CITA	Occultations in the Kuiper Belt and what they tell us about our Solar System	Darin Ragozzine
Thu, 18 Mar	No Talk		Spring Recess
Thu, 25 Mar	Pawan Kumar	UT Austin	Gamma-ray Bursts in the Fermi Era	Lijun Gou
Thu, 1 Apr	Cole Miller	Maryland	Probing the high-density matter of neutron stars	Hagai Perets
Thu, 8 Apr	Andrew Bunker	Oxford	The First Billion Years of History: star formation at redshift 6 and beyond	Jonathan Pritchard
Thu, 15 Apr, Classroom	Chung-Pei Ma	UC Berkeley	Mergers and Mass Assembly of Dark Matter Halos and Galaxies in a LCDM Universe	Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere
Thu, 22 Apr	Eve Ostriker	U Maryland	Dynamic and Thermal Regulation of Star Formation Rates in Disk Galaxies	Elena D'Onghia
Thu, 29 Apr	Adam Burrows	Princeton	Emerging Ideas on How Core-Collapse Supernovae May Explode	Rosanne Di Stefano
Thu, 6 May	Christopher Matzner	Toronto	Accretion and polarization in Sgr A*, the Galactic Center black hole	Stella Offner
Mon, 24 May	Shri Kulkarni	Caltech	Less is More (Small Satellites)	Alicia Soderberg	P-238
Mon, 21 Jun	Nahum Arav	VT	Kinetic luminosity of quasar outflows and its implications to AGN Feedback
Mon, 21 Jun, Phillips	James Rhoads	VT	Probing Reionization using Lyman alpha Galaxies: Progress and Prospects