#  ITC Colloquia 2020-2021 

 



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Sort    [Thu 09/03/2020 video](https://youtu.be/__Bkdjl7r9k) 

 1. Anna Ho (Caltech)
2. Aklant Bhowmick (UFL)
 
 

 1. The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions
2. Supermassive Black hole fueling in IllustrisTNG: Impact of environment
 
 

    [Thu 09/10/2020 video](https://youtu.be/vflh1kXZU8A) 

 1. Karan Jani (Vanderbilt)
2. Catherine Zucker (Harvard)
 
 

 1. Detection of Lite-Intermediate Mass Black Holes in LIGO-Virgo
2. 3D Dust Mapping in the Age of Gaia
 
 

    [Thu 09/17/2020 video](https://youtu.be/_AZqoZ_1deM) 

 1. Leonardo dos Santos (Geneva)
2. Hila Glanz (Technion)
 
 

 1. The high-energy environment and atmospheric escape of small exoplanets
2. New perspectives on common envelope evolution
 
 

    [Thu 09/24/2020 video](https://youtu.be/vIdwn2Opd8w) 

 1. Kim Boddy (UTexas Austin)
2. Marie Korsaga (U Cape Town)
 
 

 1. Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology
2. Astronomers’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic
 
 

    [Thu 10/01/2020 video](https://youtu.be/HyZ-rl2CFCI)1. Sarah Jeffreson (ITC)
2. Azadeh Fattahi (Durham)
 
 

 1. The lifecycles of giant molecular clouds in Milky Way-like galaxies
2. Surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies: the build-up of the Milky Way's stellar halo
 
 

    [Thu 10/08/2020 video](https://youtu.be/-uEnc3myy1k) 

 1. Jorge Penarrubia (U Edinburgh)
2. Kishalay De (Caltech)
 
 

 1. Impact of `dark' microhaloes on the dynamics of stars & planetary systems
2. The faintest thermonuclear supernovae and the explosive fates of helium accreting white dwarfs
 
 

    [Thu 10/15/2020 video](https://youtu.be/vQwSH03Vpio) 

 1. Jun Makino (Kobe University)
2. Wenbin Lu (Caltech)
 
 

 1. Frameworks for large-scale astrophysical simulations
2. A Unified Picture of Fast Radio Bursts
 
 

    [Thu 10/22/2020 video](https://youtu.be/_9flsRST8zs) 

 1. Jennifer Andrews (Arizona)
2. Diana Powell (UCSC)
 
 

 1. Supernova Imposters and the Eruptions of Massive Stars
2. Protoplanetary Disks and Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres: Insights from Microphysics
 
 

    [Thu 10/29/2020 video](https://youtu.be/HicYkh3WfNM) 

 1. Wren Suess (Berkeley)
2. Jens Chluba (U Manchester)
 
 

 1. The growth & transformation of galaxies across cosmic time
2. Challenges and opportunities with CMB spectral distortions
 
 

    [Thu 11/05/2020 video](/) 

 1. Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi (AMNH)
2. Evan Bauer (CfA)
 
 

 1. System architectures as fossils of brown dwarf and giant planet formation
2. Runaway Subdwarfs and White Dwarfs from Thermonuclear Supernovae
 
 

    [Thu 11/12/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-50) 

 1. Bence Kocsis (Oxford)
2. Carme Gallart (IAC)
 
 

 1. On the AGN Origin of Gravitational Wave Sources observed by LIGO/VIRGO
2. The History of the Galactic disc and halo from Gaia DR2 HR diagram fitting
 
 

    [Thu 11/19/2020](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-51) 

 1. Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA-HD)
 
 

 1. The many diverse manifestations of supermassive black-hole feedback
 
 

    [Thu 12/03/2020 video](https://youtu.be/G1jKIQ5Eb7M) 

 1. Gwen Rudie (Carnegie)
2. Priya Natarajan (Yale)
 
 

 1. The Circumgalactic Medium of Star-Forming Galaxies during Cosmic Noon
2. Stress-Testing the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
 
 

 



Sort    [Thu 01/28/2021 video](https://youtu.be/ESz6cbJG2GY) 

 1. Anthony Brown (Leiden)
 
 

 1. Gaia Early Data Release 3: First science results
 
 

    [Thu 02/04/2021 video](https://youtu.be/HihalPEQwjQ) 

 1. Matteo Cantiello (Flatiron Institute)
 
 

 1. Stellar Evolution in AGN Disks
 
 

    [Thu 02/11/2021 video](https://youtu.be/1QtjoWFtBGs) 

 1. Clara Sousa-Silva (CfA)
 
 

 1. Finding an Alien Biosphere with Computational Chemistry
 
 

    [Thu 02/18/2021 video](https://youtu.be/BtQu8LhJpf0) 

 1. Maya Fishbach (Northwestern)
 
 

 1. LIGO-Virgo’s Biggest Black Holes and the Mass Gap
 
 

    [Thu 02/25/2021 video](https://youtu.be/HnzZpkwbcGE) 

 1. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (Princeton)
 
 

 1. Building the cosmological rosetta stone
 
 

    [Thu 03/04/2021 video](https://youtu.be/K8uZ52L3TD4) 

 1. Anna Schauer (U Texas Austin)
 
 

 1. The formation of the first stars - environmental dependence and observational prospects
 
 

    [Thu 03/11/2021](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-59) 

 1. Keivan Stassun & Marina Kounkel (Vanderbilt)
 
 

 1. "Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations "
 
 

    [Thu 03/18/2021](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-60) 

 1. Lisa Kaltenegger (Cornell)
 
 

 1. TBD
 
 

    [Thu 03/25/2021 video](https://youtu.be/IWcqQbtEbcs) 

  Malena Rice (Yale)

 

 1. "Surveying the Trans-Neptunian Solar System with TESS"
 
 

    [Thu 04/01/2021 video](https://youtu.be/ORrAepVu1Pg) 

 1. Rodrigo Ibata (Université de Strasbourg)
 
 

 1. Learning the properties of our Galaxy with Stellar Streams
 
 

    [Thu 04/08/2021](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-63) 

 1. Brian Nord (FNAL)
 
 

 1. TBD
 
 

    [Thu 04/15/2021](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/itc-colloquium/itc-colloquium-65) 

  **Cancelled** 

 1. No Colloquium (Harvard scheduled wellness day)
 
 

    [Thu 04/22/2021 video](https://youtu.be/rJb_lTrmHrY) 

 1. Laura Prichard (STScI)
 
 

 1. TBD
 
 

    [Thu 04/29/2021 video](https://youtu.be/Sz3boZJNnM4) 

 1. Paola Caselli (MPE)
 
 

 1. From clouds to planets: the astrochemical link