ITC Colloquia 2016-2017

Date

Speaker

Title

Thu 09/08/2016

Raul Monsalve (University of Colorado Boulder and Arizona State University)

Constraining the Global 21-cm Signal from the Early Universe with EDGES and DARE

Thu 09/15/2016

Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)

The MASSIVE Survey of the 100 Most Massive Galaxies in the Local Universe

Thu 09/22/2016

Simeon Bird (Johns Hopkins University)

Adventures with Neutral Hydrogen

Thu 09/29/2016

Jerry Ostriker (Princeton)

Dark Matter: Very Light Particles Have the Right Properties to Explain Small Scale Structure

Thu 10/06/2016

Hy Trac (Carnegie Mellon)

New Ways to Use Dynamical Measurements of Galaxy Clusters

Thu 10/13/2016

Feryal Ozel (University of Arizona)

A New Era of Compact Objects

Thu 10/20/2016

Robert Fisher (UMass Dartmouth)

Constraining the Single-Degenerate Scenario of Type Ia Supernovae: The Production of Stable Iron-Peak Elements in Supernova Remnant 3C 397

Thu 10/27/2016

Konstantin Batygin (Caltech)

Planet Nine from Outer Space

Thu 11/03/2016

Janna Levin (Barnard College of Columbia University)

Black Hole Battery

Thu 11/10/2016

Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

The Basis for Cosmic ray Feedback: Written by the Wind

Thu 11/17/2016

Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Simulating Binary Black Hole Mergers, an Inside Story

Thu 12/01/2016

Rebecca Martin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Planet-disc interactions in binary star systems

 

 

Thu 01/26/2017

Andreas Burkert (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich)

The origin and dynamics of high-redshift disk galaxies

Thu 02/02/2017

Yanqin Wu (University of Toronto)

The Sizes of Kuiper Belt Objects

 

   

Thu 02/16/2017

Fred Rasio (CIERA, Northwestern University)

Dense Star Clusters as LIGO Source Factories

Thu 02/23/2017

Deirdre Shoemaker (Georgia Tech)

Numerical Relativity and the first Detection of Gravitational Waves

Thu 03/02/2017

Laura Blecha (U Maryland)

Uncovering the Signatures of Obscured AGN in Mergers

Thu 03/09/2017

Evelyne Roueff (Observatoire de Paris, France)

Challenges of Isotopic Molecular Observations

Thu 03/16/2017

Savvas M. Koushiappas

Dark matter searches in dwarf galaxies

Thu 03/23/2017

Smadar Naoz (UCLA)

Extreme Gravity and Puzzles in Galactic Nuclei

Thu 03/30/2017

Scott Gaudi (Ohio State)

The KELT Transit Survey: Hot Planets around Hot, Bright Stars

Thu 04/06/2017

Dong Lai (Cornell)

Circumbinary Accretion: From Supermassive Black Holes to Circumbinary Planets

Thu 04/13/2017

Eugene Churazov (MPI)

X-ray tomography of molecular clouds

Thu 04/20/2017

Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas)

Cosmology of flavor-mixed dark matter

Thu 04/27/2017

Kevin Heng (CSH)

Two-Stream Radiative Transfer in Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Thu 05/04/2017

Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)

Testing General Relativity with the Event Horizon Telescope

Thu 05/11/2017

Ken Shen (Berkeley)A Paradigm Shift for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors