#  ITC Colloquia 2019-2020 

 



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Sort    [Thu 09/05/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-952019) 

 1. Mercedes Lopez-Morales (CfA)
 
 

 1. The Path to Detecting Molecular Oxygen in Exoplanets
 
 

  

    [Thu 09/12/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-9122019) 

 1. Emily Levesque (UW) (U Washington)
 
 

 1. Red Supergiants: New Perspectives on Dying Stars
 
 

  

    [Thu 09/19/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-9192019) 

 1. Valeri Makarov and Michael Efroimsky (US Naval Observatory)
 
 

 1. Rotational States and Tidal Heating of Habitable Exoplanets
 
 

  

    [Thu 09/26/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-9262019) 

 1. Louise Edwards (Cal Poly, SLO)
 
 

 1. Clocking the formation of local Brightest Cluster Galaxies
 
 

  

    [Thu 10/03/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-1032019) 

 1. Adi Nusser (Technion)
 
 

 1. Probes of standard and non-standard cosmology
 
 

  

    [Thu 10/10/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-10102019) 

 1. Rachel Somerville (Flatiron)
 
 

 1. Think Globally Act Locally: overcoming the multiscale challenge of modeling galaxy formation
 
 

  

    [Thu 10/17/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-10172019) 

 1. Ruth Angus (AMNH)
 
 

 1. The ages of stars
 
 

  

    [Thu 10/24/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-10242019) 

 1. Michela Mapelli ( INAF Padova)
 
 

 1. Black hole demography in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy
 
 

  

    [Thu 10/31/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-10312019) 

 1. Tom Millar (QUB)
 
 

 1. Light in the Darkness: The Role of UV Photons in the Circumstellar Envelopes of AGB Stars
 
 

  

    [Thu 11/07/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-1172019) 

 1. Yuri Levin (Flatiron)
 
 

 1. Magnetic coupling between the crust and the core of neutron stars.
 
 

  In Phillips!!!!!

 

    [Thu 11/14/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-11142019) 

 1. Diederik Kruijssen (Heidelberg)
 
 

 1. The physics driving the molecular cloud lifecycle during galaxy formation and evolution
 
 

  In Phillips!!!!!!

 

    [Thu 11/21/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-11212019) 

 1. Stella Offner (UT Austin)
 
 

 1. Harnessing Machine Learning to Study Stellar Feedback
 
 

  In Phillips!!

 

    [Thu 12/05/2019](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-1252019) 

 1. Yacine Ali-Haïmoud (NYU)
 
 

 1. Hunting for dark matter in the early Universe
 
 

 



Sort    [hu 01/30/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-phillips) 

 1. Martin Lesourd (Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University)
2. Fabio Pacucci (CfA)
 
 

 1. Mathematics of Black Holes
2. Searching for a Potentially Missing Population of Lensed z > 6 Quasars
 
 

  In Phillips!

 

    [Thu 02/06/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-29) 

 1. Mario Jurić ((U of Washington))
 
 

 1. Minimoons to Planet X: Mapping Solar System Populations with ZTF and LSST
 
 

  

    [Thu 02/13/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-28) 

 1. Amaya Moro-Martin (STScI)
 
 

 1. Interstellar objects and their potential role in planet formation
 
 

  

    [Thu 02/20/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-30) 

 1. Christoph Weniger ( (GRAPPA, U Amsterdam))
 
 

 1. Uncovering Dark Matter with Compact Objects and Automatic Differentiation
 
 

  

    [Thu 02/27/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-31) 

 1. Kim-Vy Tran (University of New South Wales)
 
 

 1. ZFOURGE & MOSEL : Tracking Galaxy Growth at Cosmic Noon
 
 

  

    [Thu 03/05/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-32) 

 1. Shy Genel (Flatiron Institute)
 
 

 1. Angular Momentum on Galactic Scales: The Roles of Initial Conditions, Non-linear Evolution, and Randomness
 
 

  

    [Thu 03/26/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-34) 

 1. Barbara Ercolano (University Observatory Muenchen)
 
 

 1. The dispersal of planet forming discs and its role on the formation and evolution of planets
 
 

  

    [Thu 04/02/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-33) 

 1. Ivan Cabrera-Ziri
 
 

 1. Changing the paradigm of globular cluster formation
 
 

  

    [Thu 04/09/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-35) 

 1. Hsin-Yu Chen (BHI)
 
 

 1. Gravitational-wave observations from quarks to the Universe
 
 

  

    [Thu 04/16/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-36) 

 1. Mohammad Safarzadeh (ITC)
 
 

 1. Binary neutron stars and r-process enrichment: past, present, and the future
 
 

  

    [Thu 04/23/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-37) 

 1. Sandro Tacchella (CfA)
 
 

 1. Regulation of star formation and decoding the variability of star formation
 
 

  

    [Thu 04/30/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-38) 

 1. Sownak Bose (ITC)
 
 

 1. Small is Powerful: using small-scale structure for big-scale questions
 
 

  

    [Thu 05/07/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-39) 

 1. Carl Rodriguez (ITC)
 
 

 1. The Lives and Deaths of Star Clusters, and the Gravitational Waves They Make Along the Way