#  ITC Colloquia 2014-2015 

 



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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

Sort**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

 <a class="hwp-link">Gravitational wave astrophysics with LIGO</a>

 Cameron McBride

Thu, 25 Sep

 Timothy Beers

 Dept. of Physics University of Notre Dame

 <a class="hwp-link">The chemical signature of first-generation massive stars</a>

 Cora Dvorkin

Thu, 2 Oct

 Anže Slosar

 Brookhaven National Laboratory

 <a class="hwp-link">What are Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data telling us</a>

 C.McBride

Thu, 9 Oct

 Duncan Lorimer

 West Virginia University

 <a class="hwp-link">Millisecond pulsars in the Galaxy - a growing population</a>

 Raffaella Margutti

Thu, 16 Oct

 Robert Fisher

 U. Mass Dartmouth

 <a class="hwp-link">Type Ia Supernovae: Progress Towards a Concordance Model</a>

 Michael McCourt

Thu, 23 Oct

 Peng Oh

 UCSB

 <a class="hwp-link">Turbulence and Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters</a>

 Annalisa Pillepich

Thu, 30 Oct

 Chris Matzner

 University of Toronto

 <a class="hwp-link">Clustered Star Formation and Stellar Feedback</a>

 Jerod Parrent

Thu, 6 Nov

 Eve Ostriker

 Princeton University

 <a class="hwp-link">Self-regulated star formation and resolved feedback</a>

 Xuening Bai

Thu, 13 Nov

 Pieter van Dokkum

 Yale

 <a class="hwp-link">A history of the dense cores of massive galaxies</a>

 Sarah Wellons

Thu, 20 Nov

 Julio Navarro

 University of Victoria

 <a class="hwp-link">Dwarf Galaxies as Cosmological Probes</a>

 Laura Sales

Thu, 27 Nov,

 *Thanksgiving*

 

 

 

Thu, 4 Dec

 Dan Kasen

 UC Berkeley

 <a class="hwp-link">The Color of Kilonovae; A Picture of Compact Object Merger Physics</a>

 James Guillochon

Thu, 29 Jan

 Romain Teyssier

 University of Zurich

 <a class="hwp-link">Exploring the role of feedback processes in galaxy formation</a>

 James Guillochon

Thu, 5 Feb

 Daryl Haggard

 Amherst

 <a class="hwp-link">Sgr A\* and the G2 Object: Intensive X-ray and Radio Monitoring</a>

 Rafaella Margutti

Thu, 12 Feb

 Tesla Jeltema

 UCSC

 <a class="hwp-link">Multiwavelength Dark Matter Searches</a>

 Annalisa Pillepich

Thu, 19 Feb

 Douglas Scott

 UBC

 <a class="hwp-link">New results from Planck</a>

 Cora Dvorkin

Thu, 26 Feb

 Jennifer Gaskins

 University of Amsterdam

 <a class="hwp-link">Gamma rays from dark matter in the Inner Galaxy?</a>

 Cameron McBride

Thu, 5 March

 Nanda Rea

 CSIC-IEEC

 <a class="hwp-link">Magnetars life cycle: birth, evolution and death</a>

 Atish Kamble

Thu, 12 March

 Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

 Vanderbilt University

 <a class="hwp-link">Bringing Black Holes Together: How Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Form and Plunge Through the Final Parsec</a>

 C. McBride

Thu, 26 March

 Frank van den Bosch

 Yale

 <a class="hwp-link">Coming of Age in the Dark Sector</a>

 Annalisa Pillepich

*Wed, 1 Apr*, 16:00, Phillips

 Scott Tremaine

 IAS

 <a class="hwp-link">Is statistical mechanics useful for describing galaxies and planetary systems?</a>

 Bulent Kiziltan

Thu, 2 Apr

 Kelle Cruz

 Hunter College/CUNY

 <a class="hwp-link">Head in the Clouds: Decoding the Spectral Features Produced by Brown Dwarf and Exoplanent Atmospheres</a>

 Jerod Parrent

Thu, 9 Apr

 Brad Cenko

 NASA Goddard

 <a class="hwp-link">The Demographics of Tidal Disruption Flares</a>

 Dan Milisavljevic

Thu, 16 Apr

 Chris Fryer

 LANL

 <a class="hwp-link">Observational Constraints of the Supernova Engine</a>

 James Guillochon

Thu, 23 Apr

 Vasily Belokurov

 IoA Cambridge

 <a class="hwp-link">The New Magellanic Dwarfs</a>

 Annalisa Pillepich

Thu, 30 Apr

 Sally Dodson-Robinson

 U Delaware

 <a class="hwp-link">From Snowflakes to Snowballs: Bypassing the Bouncing Barrier in Planetesimal Formation</a>

 Xuening Bai

Thu, 7 May

 Priya Natarajan

 Yale

 <a class="hwp-link">Unveling the dark side of the Universe with Cluster Lensing</a>

 Bulent Kiziltan

Thu, 21 May, *Phillips*

 Stuart Firestein

 Columbia

 Ignorance: how it drives science

 R. Margutti