ITC Luncheon, 2011-2012
The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) luncheons for the academic year 2011-2012 are held in Phillips Auditorium on Thursdays from 12:30-1:30pm unless stated otherwise. Each Luncheon features 10 minute presentations from 4-6 speakers and is attended by 80 astronomers. Sandwiches and chips are served. Videos of the presentations are linked below
Date | Speakers | Video |
Thu, 8 Sep | Chris Hayward (ITC) Mario Livio (STScI) Alis Deason (Cambridge, UK) Shane Bussmann (CfA) | |
Thu, 15 Sep | Cameron McBride (ITC) Brian Metzger (Princeton) Nathan Sanders (ITC) Lisa Kewley (IfA) | |
Thu, 22 Sep | Karin Oberg (CfA) Smadar Naoz (ITC) Bence Kocsis (ITC) Michael Nielsen | |
Thu, 29 Sep | * No Luncheon (Rosh Hashanah) | |
Thu, 6 Oct | Mark Vogelsberger (ITC) Alicia Soderberg (ITC) Rashid Sunyaev (MPA Garching) Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley) | |
Thu, 13 Oct | Paul Torrey (ITC) Debora Sijacki (ITC) Phil Armitage (Colorado) Cristiano Sabiu (UCL) | |
Thu, 20 Oct | Laura Lopez (MIT) Ken Shen (UC Berkeley) Kevin Schawinski (Yale) Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland) | |
Thu, 27 Oct | Ramesh Narayan (ITC) Matt Walker (ITC) Frank van den Bosch (Yale) Rachel Mandelbaum (Princeton) Tassos Fragos (ITC) | |
Thu, 3 Nov | Jay Strader (CfA) Reinhard Genzel (MPIE) Jean Brodie (UCSC) Filippo Mannucci (Arcetri) | |
Thu, 10 Nov | Stella Offner (ITC) Daniel Mortlock (Imperial College) Fred Adams (Michigan) Thomas Greif (MPA) | |
Thu, 17 Nov | Mark Reid (ITC) Re'em Sari (ITC/Hebrew U) Jeremy Goodman (Princeton) Patrik Jonsson (ITC) | |
Thu, 24 Nov | * No Luncheon (Thanksgiving) | |
Thu, 1 Dec | Elena D'Onghia (ITC) Beth Willman (Haverford) Hilke Schlichting (UCLA) Dan Fabrycky (UCSC) | |
Thu, 8 Dec | Giovanni Fazio (CfA) Ivana Damjanov (CfA) Mike Brown (Caltech) Nadia Zakamska (Johns Hopkins) | |
Thu, 26 Jan | Alex Parker (ITC) Francois Fressin (CfA) Samaya Nissanke (Caltech) Toshifumi Futamase (Tohoku, Japan) | |
Thu, 2 Feb | Edo Berger (CfA) Laura Blecha (ITC) Phil Marcus (Berkeley) Jonas Zmuidzinas (Caltech) | |
Thu, 9 Feb | Rafaella Margutti (ITC) Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech) Andrew West (BU) Matthew Bayliss (ITC) | |
Thu, 16 Feb | Ruth Murray-Clay (ITC) Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute) Shy Genel (ITC) Asaf Pe'er (ITC) | |
Thu, 23 Feb | Katrien Kolenberg (CfA) Zoltan Haiman (Columbia) Ugur Ural (Potsdam) Jurgen Blum (Braunschweig, Germany) | |
Thu, 1 Mar | Lorenzo Sironi (ITC) Rosalba Perna (Boulder) Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) Raymond Pierrehumbert (U Chicago) | |
Thu, 8 Mar | Ryan Chornock (CfA) Wendy Freedman (Carnegie) Mike Eracleous (Penn State) Chris Ormel (Berkeley) | |
Thu, 15 Mar | * No Luncheon (Spring Break) | |
Thu, 22 Mar | Mark Vogelsberger (ITC) John Johnson (Caltech) Philipp Podsiadlowski (Oxford) Dan Milisavljevic (ITC) | |
Thu, 29 Mar | Charlie Conroy (ITC) Nikhil Padmanabhan (Yale) Roger Chevalier (U. Virginia) Phil Hopkins (UC Berkeley) | |
The, 5 Apr | Daniel Eisenstein (ITC) Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) Athena Stacy (NASA Goddard) Scott Chapman (Cambridge U) Gabriel Perez-Giz (NYU) | |
Thu, 12 Apr | Andy Goulding (CfA) Lyman Page (Princeton) John Eldridge (Univ. Auckland) Joanne Cohn (UC Berkeley) | |
Thu, 19 Apr | Bence Kocsis (ITC) Akos Bogdan (CfA) Chris Hirata (Caltech) Martin Weinberg(U Mass, Amherst) | |
Thu, 26 Apr | Paul Torrey (ITC) Eliot Quatert (UC Berkeley) Tony Pan (ITC) James G. Bartlett (Univ. Paris) | |
Thu, 3 May | Molly Swanson (ITC) James Binney (Oxford,UK) Bozena Czerny (Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland) Rita Tojeiro (Portsmouth,UK) | |
Thu, 10 May | Cameron McBride (ITC) Tracy Slatyer (IAS, Princeton) Chris Mihos (Case Western) Ryan Foley (CfA) Alex Lazarian (UW Madison) |