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 |