ITC Colloquia 2013-2014

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2013-2014 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
Fri, 6 Sep	Andrei Mesinger	Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri	Tuning your radio to the Cosmic Dawn	Thomas Greif
Thu, 12 Sep	Beth Reid	LBNL	SDSS-III BOSS and Beyond: fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys	Cameron McBride
Thu, 19 Sep	Alessandra Corsi	George Washington University	Gamma-ray bursts, gravitational waves, and multi-messenger exploration of the transient sky	Lorenzo Sironi
Thu, 26 Sep	Jason Wright	Penn State	Precise Radial Velocities of the Future	Matt Payne
Thu, 3 Oct	Dmitri Uzdensky	Univ. of Colorado		R. Margutti
Thu, 10 Oct	Thomas Janka	MPA		A. Kamble
Thu, 17 Oct	Norman Murray	CITA	Dynamic Star Formation	Smadar Naoz
Thu, 24 Oct	Andreas Berlind	Vanderbilt University	From Dark Matter to Galaxies: Probing the Spatial Structure of the Universe on Small Scales	Cameron McBride
Thu, 31 Oct	Dave Stevenson	Caltech	Mixing and Unmixing in Planets	Smadar Naoz
Thu, 7 Nov	Merav Opher	Boston U.		Smadar Naoz
Thu, 14 Nov	Juri Poutanen	University of Oulu	Advances in X-ray burst modelling: probing cold dense matter equation of state using X-ray burst spectral evolution	Lorenzo Sironi
Thu, 21 Nov	Louis Strigari	Indiana University	Astrophysical interplay in dark matter searches	Sayan Chakraborti
Thu, 28 Nov,	Thanksgiving
Thu, 5 Dec	Mitchell Begelman	U Colorado	Hyperaccretion from ADAF to ZEBRA	R. Margutti
Thu, 30 Jan	Marla Geha	Yale University	Ultra-Faint Galaxies and a Non-Universal Initial Mass Function	Cameron McBride
Thu, 6 Feb	Amiel Sternberg	Tel Aviv University	The HI to H2 transition and HI Gas Columns in Galaxy Star-Forming Regions	Xuening Bai
Thu, 13 Feb	Todd Thompson	Ohio-state	Aspects of Galactic Winds and Feedback	Smadar Naoz
Thu, 20 Feb	Lisa Randall	Harvard University	Double Disk Dark Matter	Cameron McBride
Thu, 27 Feb	Alessandro Morbidelli	Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur		Konstantin Batygin
Thu, 6 March	Rob Garrod	Cornell	Simulating pre-biotic protostellar chemistry in the age of ALMA: The curious case of glycine	Karin Oberg
Thu, 13 March	Stephan Rosswog	Stockholm University	Towards a multi-messenger picture of compact binary mergers	Yanfei Jiang
Thu, 20 March	Spring Break
Tue, 25 March, 1:00	Volker Bromm	UT Austin	The First Stars and Galaxies: The Run-up to the JWST	Thomas Greif
Thu, 27 March	Carlos Frenk	University of Durham	Cosmology in our backyard	Shy Genel
Thu, 3 Apr	Andrew MacFadyen	NYU	Moving mesh Astrophysics- Instability of Gamma Ray Burst Jets	Raffaella Margutti
Thu, 10 Apr	Nahum Arav	Virginia Tech		Lorenzo Sironi
Thu, 17 Apr	Tiziana Di Matteo	Carnegie Mellon University	Massive Black Holes in Cosmic Structure Formation	Cameron McBride
Thu, 24 Apr	Carole Mundell	John Moores University		Atish Kamble
Thu, 1 May	Davide Lazzati	NCSU- Oregon State University		Raffaella Margutti
Thu, 8 May	Stuart Wyithe	University of Melbourne	Reionization and galaxy formation during the first Billion years	Smadar Naoz
Fri, 23 May	Mark Krumholz	UC Santa Cruz		Laura Sales