# ITC Colloquia 2012-2013 ## expand\_more 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. Sort**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