# ITC Colloquia 2010-2011 ## expand\_more 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. SortSort**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](http://www.astro.princeton.edu/people/bahcall_neta.html) 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](http://www.as.utexas.edu/~sj/) UT Austin Assembly, Evolution, and Activity of Massive Galaxies Thu, 10 Mar [Stan Owocki](http://web.physics.udel.edu/about/directory/faculty/stanley-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](http://ciera.northwestern.edu/~smadar/index.html) Northwestern University On the Nature of retrograde Hot Jupiters Hagai Perets Thu, 7 Apr, Classroom [Renu Malhotra](http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~renu/) 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](http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/stairs/) UBC Pulsars and General Relativity Matija Cuk Thu, 5 May [Scott Tremaine](http://www.sns.ias.edu/~tremaine/) IAS Princeton Are planetary systems flat? Hagai Perets Thu, 12 May [Doug Hamilton](http://www.astro.umd.edu/people/hamilton.html) University of Maryland The Orbital History of the Galilean Satellites of Jupiter Matija Cuk ***Fri, 15 July*** [Norm Murray](http://www.astro.umd.edu/people/hamilton.html) CITA Feedback and Galaxy Formation Matt Holman