# ITC Colloquia 2011-2012 ## expand\_more 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. Sort**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](http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/galyam/) 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