#  ITC Colloquia 2009-2010 

 



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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.

Sort**Date & Location**

**Speaker**

**Affiliation**

**Title**

**CFA Host**

**CFA Office**

Thu, 10 Sep

 Frank Shu

 Academia Sinica

 <a class="hwp-link">Astronomy, Climate Change, and Molten Salt Reactors</a>

 Charlie Lada

 

Thu, 17 Sep

 Peng Oh

 UCSB

 <a class="hwp-link">AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters</a>

 Hy Trac

 

Thu, 24 Sep

 Marc Kamionkowski

 Caltech

 <a class="hwp-link">Is the Universe Statistically Isotropic?</a>

 Jonathan Pritchard

 

Thu, 1 Oct

 Dimitrios Psaltis

 U of Arizona

 <a class="hwp-link">Stable, Accelerating Universes without Dark Energy</a>

 CK Chan

 

Thu, 8 Oct

 Robert Quimby

 Caltech

 <a class="hwp-link">Mysterious transients unmasked as the bright blue death throes of massive stars</a>

 Alicia Soderberg

 

Thu, 15 Oct

 Rosalba Perna

 Colorado

 <a class="hwp-link">Neutron Star Spins: in lonely life and with companions</a>

 Rosanne DiStefano

 

Thu, 22 Oct

 Feryal Ozel

 U of Arizona

 <a class="hwp-link">The Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter</a>

 CK Chan

 

Thu, 29 Oct, **Classroom**

 David Nesvorny

 Boulder/SwRI

 <a class="hwp-link">All you need to know about irregular satellites</a>

 Daniel Fabrycky

 

Thu, 5 Nov

 Tom Abel

 Stanford

 <a class="hwp-link">Star Formation Then and Now</a>

 Yuval Birnboim

 

Thu, 12 Nov

 Sean Carroll

 Caltech

 <a class="hwp-link">The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time</a>

 Jonathan Pritchard

 

Thu, 19 Nov

 Lars Bildsten

 KITP and UCSB

 <a class="hwp-link">Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae</a>

 Alicia Soderberg

 

Thu, 26 Nov

 No Talk

 

 Thanksgiving

 

 

Thu, 3 Dec

 Charles Gammie

 U of Illinois

 <a class="hwp-link">Numerical Models of Sgr A\*</a>

 CK Chan

 

Thu, 10 Dec

 Eugene Chiang

 UC Berkeley

 <a class="hwp-link">Planet Formation in Transitional and Debris Disks</a>

 Ruth Murray-Clay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wed, 13 Jan

 Eliot Quataert

 UC Berkeley

 <a class="hwp-link">Theoretical Models of Short-Duration Gamma-ray Bursts</a>

 Alicia Soderberg

 

Thu, 28 Jan

 Daniel Kasen

 UC Santa Cruz

 <a class="hwp-link">Four and a half ways to blow up a white dwarf</a>

 Alicia Soderberg

 

Thu, 4 Feb

 Rachel Bean

 Cornell

 <a class="hwp-link">Testing gravity on cosmic scales</a>

 Hy Trac

 

Thu, 11 Feb

 Jonathan Fortney

 UCSC

 <a class="hwp-link">Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: Modeling the Transmission Spectrum of Transiting Planets Large and Small</a>

 Ruth Murray-Clay

 

Thu, 18 Feb

 Mark Dijkstra

 ITC/CfA

 <a class="hwp-link">Seeing Through the Trough: Detecting Lyman Alpha Emission from Early Generations of Galaxies</a>

 Alicia Soderberg

 

Thu, 25 Feb

 Norman Murray

 CITA

 <a class="hwp-link">Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation</a>

 Matija Cuk

 

Thu, 4 Mar

 David Merritt

 RIT

 <a class="hwp-link">Old and new puzzles at the Galactic center</a>

 Hagai Perets

 

Thu, 11 Mar

 Hilke Schlichting

 CITA

 <a class="hwp-link">Occultations in the Kuiper Belt and what they tell us about our Solar System</a>

 Darin Ragozzine

 

Thu, 18 Mar

 No Talk

 

 Spring Recess

 

 

Thu, 25 Mar

 Pawan Kumar

 UT Austin

 <a class="hwp-link">Gamma-ray Bursts in the Fermi Era</a>

 Lijun Gou

 

Thu, 1 Apr

 Cole Miller

 Maryland

 <a class="hwp-link">Probing the high-density matter of neutron stars</a>

 Hagai Perets

 

Thu, 8 Apr

 Andrew Bunker

 Oxford

 <a class="hwp-link">The First Billion Years of History: star formation at redshift 6 and beyond</a>

 Jonathan Pritchard

 

Thu, 15 Apr, **Classroom**

 Chung-Pei Ma

 UC Berkeley

 <a class="hwp-link">Mergers and Mass Assembly of Dark Matter Halos and Galaxies in a LCDM Universe</a>

 Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

 

Thu, 22 Apr

 Eve Ostriker

 U Maryland

 <a class="hwp-link">Dynamic and Thermal Regulation of Star Formation Rates in Disk Galaxies</a>

 Elena D'Onghia

 

Thu, 29 Apr

 Adam Burrows

 Princeton

 <a class="hwp-link">Emerging Ideas on How Core-Collapse Supernovae May Explode</a>

 Rosanne Di Stefano

 

Thu, 6 May

 Christopher Matzner

 Toronto

 <a class="hwp-link">Accretion and polarization in Sgr A\*, the Galactic Center black hole</a>

 Stella Offner

 

Mon, 24 May

 Shri Kulkarni

 Caltech

 <a class="hwp-link">Less is More (Small Satellites)</a>

 Alicia Soderberg

 P-238

Mon, 21 Jun

 Nahum Arav

 VT

 <a class="hwp-link">Kinetic luminosity of quasar outflows and its implications to AGN Feedback</a>

 

 

Mon, 21 Jun, Phillips

 James Rhoads

 VT

 <a class="hwp-link">Probing Reionization using Lyman alpha Galaxies: Progress and Prospects</a>