ITC Colloquia 2011-2012

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2011-2012 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, 8 Sep	Mario Livio	STScI	Type Ia Supernovae: What are They?	Asaf Pe'er
Thu, 15 Sep	Brian Metzger	Princeton	Observable Signatures of Coalescing Compact Binaries	Stella Offner
Thu, 22 Sep, Classroom	Michael Nielsen		Doing Science in the Open	Hagai Perets
Thu, 29 Sep	Rosh Hashanah
Thu, 6 Oct, Classroom	Chung-Pei Ma	UC Berkeley		Lijun Gou
Thu, 13 Oct, Classroom	Phil Armitage	JILA Colorado		Asaf Pe'er
Thu, 20 Oct	Alessandra Buonanno	U. of Maryland	The Final Moments of Coalescing Compact Binaries: Modelingand Science	Bence Kocsis
Thu, 27 Oct	Rachel Mandelbaum	Princeton	The next decade of weak lensing science	Matthew Bayliss
Thu, 3 Nov	Re'em Sari	Hebrew University		Asaf Pe'er
Thu, 10 Nov	Fred Adams	University of Michigan		Kaitlin Kratter
Thu, 17 Nov	Jeremy Goodman	Princeton	Shear-driven turbulence on earth and in space	Stella Offner
Thu, 24 Nov	Thanksgiving
Thu, 1 Dec	Beth Willman	Haverford College	Ultra-faint dwarfs, dark matter, and galaxy formation	Charlie Conroy
Thu, 8 Dec	Mike Brown	Caltech	TBD	Darin Ragozzine
Thu, 26 Jan	Samaya Nissanke	Caltech
Thu, 2 Feb	Phil Marcus	UC Berkeley	Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks	Stella Offner
Thu, 9 Feb	Lynne Hillenbrand	Caltech	High Spectral, High Spatial, and High Cadence Observations of Young Suns	Stella Offner
Thu, 16 Feb	Avishay Gal-Yam	Weizmann Institute of Science	The nature of cosmic explosions: recent progress	Hagai Perets
Thu, 23 Feb	Zoltan Haiman	Columbia	TBD	Shy Genel
Thu, 1 Mar	Kathryn Johnston	Columbia		Elena D'Onghia
Thu, 8 Mar	Nikhil Padmanabhan	Yale U.		Cameron McBride
Thu, 15 Mar	John Johnson	Caltech		Kaitlin Kratter
Thu, 22 Mar	Philipp Podsiadlowski	Oxford		Bülent Kiziltan
Thu, 29 Mar	Roger Chevalier	U. of Virginia	Superluminous Supernovae	Alicia Soderberg
Thu, 5 Apr	Scott Chapman	U. of Cambridge		Shy Genel
Thu, 12 Apr	John Eldridge	University of Auckland	Duplicity in stellar populations	Charlie Conroy
Thu, 19 Apr	Martin Weinberg	UMass	TBD	Elena D'Onghia
Thu, 26 Apr	Eliot Quataert	UC Berkeley		Bülent Kiziltan
Thu, 3 May	James Binney	Oxford	Modeling our Galaxy	Hagai Perets
Thu, 10 May	Alex Lazarian	U. of Wisc.	Reconnection diffusion process and the changing paradigm of star formation	Stella Offner