ITC Colloquia 2014-2015

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) colloquia for the academic year 2014-2015 will be held on Thursdays at 11:00am in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise

Date & Location	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	CFA Host
Thu, 11 Sep	Andrew Strominger	Harvard University	Conformal Symmetry in the Sky	Raffaella Margutti
Thu, 18 Sep	Daniel Holz	U. Chicago	Gravitational wave astrophysics with LIGO	Cameron McBride
Thu, 25 Sep	Timothy Beers	Dept. of Physics University of Notre Dame	The chemical signature of first-generation massive stars	Cora Dvorkin
Thu, 2 Oct	Anže Slosar	Brookhaven National Laboratory	What are Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data telling us	C.McBride
Thu, 9 Oct	Duncan Lorimer	West Virginia University	Millisecond pulsars in the Galaxy - a growing population	Raffaella Margutti
Thu, 16 Oct	Robert Fisher	U. Mass Dartmouth	Type Ia Supernovae: Progress Towards a Concordance Model	Michael McCourt
Thu, 23 Oct	Peng Oh	UCSB	Turbulence and Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters	Annalisa Pillepich
Thu, 30 Oct	Chris Matzner	University of Toronto	Clustered Star Formation and Stellar Feedback	Jerod Parrent
Thu, 6 Nov	Eve Ostriker	Princeton University	Self-regulated star formation and resolved feedback	Xuening Bai
Thu, 13 Nov	Pieter van Dokkum	Yale	A history of the dense cores of massive galaxies	Sarah Wellons
Thu, 20 Nov	Julio Navarro	University of Victoria	Dwarf Galaxies as Cosmological Probes	Laura Sales
Thu, 27 Nov,	Thanksgiving
Thu, 4 Dec	Dan Kasen	UC Berkeley	The Color of Kilonovae; A Picture of Compact Object Merger Physics	James Guillochon
Thu, 29 Jan	Romain Teyssier	University of Zurich	Exploring the role of feedback processes in galaxy formation	James Guillochon
Thu, 5 Feb	Daryl Haggard	Amherst	Sgr A* and the G2 Object: Intensive X-ray and Radio Monitoring	Rafaella Margutti
Thu, 12 Feb	Tesla Jeltema	UCSC	Multiwavelength Dark Matter Searches	Annalisa Pillepich
Thu, 19 Feb	Douglas Scott	UBC	New results from Planck	Cora Dvorkin
Thu, 26 Feb	Jennifer Gaskins	University of Amsterdam	Gamma rays from dark matter in the Inner Galaxy?	Cameron McBride
Thu, 5 March	Nanda Rea	CSIC-IEEC	Magnetars life cycle: birth, evolution and death	Atish Kamble
Thu, 12 March	Kelly Holley-Bockelmann	Vanderbilt University	Bringing Black Holes Together: How Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Form and Plunge Through the Final Parsec	C. McBride
Thu, 26 March	Frank van den Bosch	Yale	Coming of Age in the Dark Sector	Annalisa Pillepich
Wed, 1 Apr, 16:00, Phillips	Scott Tremaine	IAS	Is statistical mechanics useful for describing galaxies and planetary systems?	Bulent Kiziltan
Thu, 2 Apr	Kelle Cruz	Hunter College/CUNY	Head in the Clouds: Decoding the Spectral Features Produced by Brown Dwarf and Exoplanent Atmospheres	Jerod Parrent
Thu, 9 Apr	Brad Cenko	NASA Goddard	The Demographics of Tidal Disruption Flares	Dan Milisavljevic
Thu, 16 Apr	Chris Fryer	LANL	Observational Constraints of the Supernova Engine	James Guillochon
Thu, 23 Apr	Vasily Belokurov	IoA Cambridge	The New Magellanic Dwarfs	Annalisa Pillepich
Thu, 30 Apr	Sally Dodson-Robinson	U Delaware	From Snowflakes to Snowballs: Bypassing the Bouncing Barrier in Planetesimal Formation	Xuening Bai
Thu, 7 May	Priya Natarajan	Yale	Unveling the dark side of the Universe with Cluster Lensing	Bulent Kiziltan
Thu, 21 May, Phillips	Stuart Firestein	Columbia	Ignorance: how it drives science	R. Margutti