#  ITC Colloquia 2013-2014 

 



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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.

Sort**Date & Location**

**Speaker**

**Affiliation**

**Title**

**CFA Host**

**CFA Office**

**Fri, 6 Sep**

 Andrei Mesinger

 Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri

 <a class="hwp-link">Tuning your radio to the Cosmic Dawn</a>

 Thomas Greif

 

Thu, 12 Sep

 Beth Reid

 LBNL

 <a class="hwp-link">SDSS-III BOSS and Beyond: fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys</a>

 Cameron McBride

 

Thu, 19 Sep

 Alessandra Corsi

 George Washington University

 <a class="hwp-link">Gamma-ray bursts, gravitational waves, and multi-messenger exploration of the transient sky</a>

 Lorenzo Sironi

 

Thu, 26 Sep

 Jason Wright

 Penn State

 <a class="hwp-link">Precise Radial Velocities of the Future</a>

 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

 <a class="hwp-link">Dynamic Star Formation</a>

 Smadar Naoz

 

Thu, 24 Oct

 Andreas Berlind

 Vanderbilt University

 <a class="hwp-link">From Dark Matter to Galaxies: Probing the Spatial Structure of the Universe on Small Scales</a>

 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

 <a class="hwp-link">Advances in X-ray burst modelling: probing cold dense matter equation of state using X-ray burst spectral evolution</a>

 Lorenzo Sironi

 

Thu, 21 Nov

 Louis Strigari

 Indiana University

 <a class="hwp-link">Astrophysical interplay in dark matter searches</a>

 Sayan Chakraborti

 

Thu, 28 Nov,

 *Thanksgiving*

 

 

 

 

Thu, 5 Dec

 Mitchell Begelman

 U Colorado

 <a class="hwp-link">Hyperaccretion from ADAF to ZEBRA</a>

 R. Margutti

 

Thu, 30 Jan

 Marla Geha

 Yale University

 <a class="hwp-link">Ultra-Faint Galaxies and a Non-Universal Initial Mass Function</a>

 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

 <a class="hwp-link">Aspects of Galactic Winds and Feedback</a>

 Smadar Naoz

 

Thu, 20 Feb

 Lisa Randall

 Harvard University

 <a class="hwp-link">Double Disk Dark Matter</a>

 Cameron McBride

 

Thu, 27 Feb

 Alessandro Morbidelli

 Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur

 

 Konstantin Batygin

 

Thu, 6 March

 Rob Garrod

 Cornell

 <a class="hwp-link">Simulating pre-biotic protostellar chemistry in the age of ALMA: The curious case of glycine</a>

 Karin Oberg

 

Thu, 13 March

 Stephan Rosswog

 Stockholm University

 <a class="hwp-link">Towards a multi-messenger picture of compact binary mergers</a>

 Yanfei Jiang

 

Thu, 20 March

 ** Spring Break **

 

 

 

 

**Tue, 25 March, 1:00**

 Volker Bromm

 UT Austin

 <a class="hwp-link">The First Stars and Galaxies: The Run-up to the JWST</a>

 Thomas Greif

 

Thu, 27 March

 Carlos Frenk

 University of Durham

 <a class="hwp-link">Cosmology in our backyard</a>

 Shy Genel

 

Thu, 3 Apr

 Andrew MacFadyen

 NYU

 <a class="hwp-link">Moving mesh Astrophysics- Instability of Gamma Ray Burst Jets</a>

 Raffaella Margutti

 

Thu, 10 Apr

 Nahum Arav

 Virginia Tech

 

 Lorenzo Sironi

 

Thu, 17 Apr

 Tiziana Di Matteo

 Carnegie Mellon University

 <a class="hwp-link">Massive Black Holes in Cosmic Structure Formation</a>

 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

 <a class="hwp-link">Reionization and galaxy formation during the first Billion years</a>

 Smadar Naoz

 

**Fri, 23 May**

 Mark Krumholz

 UC Santa Cruz

 

 Laura Sales