ITC Colloquia 2012-2013

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2012-2013 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, 6 Sep	Leslie Sage	U. of Maryland	How to publish in Nature	Smadar Naoz/Tassos Fragos
Thu, 13 Sep	Tom Abel	Stanford	Following Dark Matter into Phase Space	Mark Vogelsberger
Thu, 20 Sep	Julie Comerford	University of Texas	Dual Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Evolution	Yue Shen
Thu, 27 Sep	Kailash Sahu	Space Telescope Science Institute	HST Programs to Detect Isolated Black Holes through Astrometric Microlensing	Rosanne Di Stefano
Thu, 4 Oct	Laura Lopez	MIT	Supernova Remnants Stay in Shape	Xuening Bai
Thu, 11 Oct	James Bullock	UC Irvine		Matt Walker
Thu, 18 Oct	Tony Piro	Caltech	Connecting the Electromagnetic and Gravitational Wave Skies	Lorenzo Sironi
Thu, 25 Oct	Matias Zaldarriaga	IAS		Mark Vogelsberger
Thu, 1 Nov	Hilke Schlichting	UCLA	Recent Insights into Planet Formation and Debris Disks	Alex Parker
Thu, 8 Nov	Roman Rafikov	Princeton	New Ideas on Mechanisms of Angular Momentum Transport and Variability in Boundary Layers of Accretion Disks	Bence Kocsis
Thu, 15 Nov	Josh Winn	MIT	Spin-Orbit Interactions for Exoplanetary Systems	Smadar Naoz
Thu, 22 Nov	Thanksgiving
Thu, 29 Nov	Andrea Ferrara	SNS Pisa	Cosmic reionization and the first galaxies	Smadar Naoz
Thu, 6 Dec	Cora Dvorkin	IAS		Sayan Chakraborti
Thu, 31 Jan	Maxim Lyutikov	Purdue University	The double pulsar as a probe of fundamental physics	Lorenzo Sironi
Thu, 7 Feb	Dimitrios Psaltis	University of Arizona	Precise Measurements of the Black-Hole Properties in the Center ofthe Milky Way
Tue, 12 Feb, 11am special time and place	Bill Press	University of Texas	Eight Dimensions is Big Enough: Surprises in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game	Matt Walker
Thu, 14 Feb	Alberto Sesana	AEI	Massive black hole binaries: formation, dynamics and gravitational waves	Bence Kocsis
Thu, 21 Feb	Ralf Klessen	University of Heidelberg	Star Formation	Molly Swanson
Thu, 28 Feb	Naoki Yoshida	University of Tokyo	Direct integration of the collisionless Boltzmann equationin six-dimensional phase space	Smadar Naoz/Thomas Greif
Thu, 7 Mar	Feryal Ozel	University of Arizona	Black Hole-Galaxy Correlations without Self-Regulation
Thu, 14 Mar	Dong Lai	Cornell	Tidal Dissipations in Binaries: From Merging White Dwarfs toand Hot Jupiter Systems	Smadar Naoz
Thu, 21 Mar	Spring Break
Thu, 28 Mar	Rennan Barkana	Tel Aviv University	Detecting the First Stars at Redshift 20	Smadar Naoz
Thu, 4 Apr	Scott Ransom	NRAO		Sayan Chakraborti
Thu, 11 Apr	Paul Steinhardt	Princeton University	Cosmology in Crisis	Anna Ijjas
Thu, 18 Apr	Boaz Katz	IAS	Type Ia supernovae are the head on collisions of white dwarfs in triple systems.	Smadar Naoz / Sayan Chakraborti
Thu, 25 Apr	Yoram Lithwick	Northwestern		Xuening Bai / Smadar Naoz
Tue, 30 Apr @ Phillips, 1:00pm special time and place	Richard Ellis	Caltech	Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies During the Reionization Era	Shy Genel
Thu, 2 May	Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz	UCSC		Smadar Naoz
Thu, 9 May	Alex Lazarian	University of Wisconsin	Acceleration of energetic particles in turbulent reconnection: from solar flares to gamma ray bursts	Lorenzo
Thu, 16 May	Kris Gorski	JPL