ITC Colloquia 2010-2011

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2010-2011 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, 16 Sep	Julio Navarro	Univ. of Victoria		Elena D'Onghia
Thu, 23 Sep	Steven Finkelstein	Texas A & M	Searching for the First Galaxies	Patrik Jonnson
Thu, 30 Sep	Ehud Nakar	Tel Aviv Univ.	Young supernovae - from shock breakout to recombination	Alicia Soderberg
Thu, 7 Oct	Alan McConnachie	NRC Hertzberg		Elena D'Onghia
Thu, 14 Oct	Eli Waxman	Weizmann		Shmulik Balberg
Thu, 21 Oct	Angelica de Oliveira-Costa	ITC, CfA	Probing the Universe with 21-cm tomography
Thu, 28 Oct	Neta Bahcall	Princeton University	Tracing Mass and Light on Large Scales	Hagai Perets
Thu, 4 Nov	Sara Seager	MIT	Exoplanet Atmospheres: From Discovery to Characterization and Beyond	Darin Ragozzine
Fri, 5 Nov, 12:30	David Spergel	Princeton	Recent results from ACT and prospects for small-scale CSM measurements	Molly Swanson
Thu, 18 Nov	Todd Thompson	Ohio State University	Radiation Pressure Feedback in Star-Forming Galaxies	Kaitlin Kratter
Thu, 25 Nov	Thanksgiving
Thu, 2 Dec	Jim Stone	Princeton	Gas and Dust Dynamics in Protoplanetary Disks	Stella Offner
Thu, 27 Jan	Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz	UCSC	Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes	Bulent Kiziltan
Thu, 3 Feb	Rachid Ouyed	University of Calgary	Quark-Novae as an explosion engine for Super-Luminous Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts	Andrew MacFadyen
Thu, 10 Feb	Christian Ott	Caltech	Black Hole Formation in Failing Core-Collapse Supernovae	Hagai Perets
Thu, 17 Feb, M-340	Andi Burkert	University of Munich	The origin and dynamics of high-redshift disk galaxies	Stella Offner
Thu, 24 Feb	Jeremiah Ostriker	Princeton	"On the Formation of Massive Galaxies in an LCDM Universe"	Charlie Conroy
Thu, 3 Mar	Shardha Jogee	UT Austin	Assembly, Evolution, and Activity of Massive Galaxies
Thu, 10 Mar	Stan Owocki	U. of Delaware	Magnetospheres of Magnetic Massive Stars	Andrew MacFadyen
Thu, 17 Mar, Classroom	Francois Bouchet	IAP	Hot New Planck Results
Thu, 24 Mar, Classroom	Volker Bromm	UT Austin	Formation of the First Stars and Galaxies	Jonathan Pritchard
Thu, 31 Mar	Smadar Naoz	Northwestern University	On the Nature of retrograde Hot Jupiters	Hagai Perets
Thu, 7 Apr, Classroom	Renu Malhotra	University of Arizona	The early history of the solar system	Darin Ragozzine
Thu, 14 Apr	Daniel Holz	LANL	Cosmology from gravitational-wave standard sirens	Debora Sijacki
Thu, 21 Apr	Bruce Elmegreen	IBM	Formation of Star Clusters	Stella Offner
Thu, 28 Apr, Classroom	Ingrid Stairs	UBC	Pulsars and General Relativity	Matija Cuk
Thu, 5 May	Scott Tremaine	IAS Princeton	Are planetary systems flat?	Hagai Perets
Thu, 12 May	Doug Hamilton	University of Maryland	The Orbital History of the Galilean Satellites of Jupiter	Matija Cuk
*Fri, 15 July*	Norm Murray	CITA	Feedback and Galaxy Formation	Matt Holman