# ITC Luncheon, 2011-2012 ## expand\_more 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 Sort**Date** **Speakers** **Video** Thu, 8 Sep Chris Hayward (ITC) Mario Livio (STScI) Alis Deason (Cambridge, UK) Shane Bussmann (CfA) [September 8, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20110908.rm) Thu, 15 Sep Cameron McBride (ITC) Brian Metzger (Princeton) Nathan Sanders (ITC) Lisa Kewley (IfA) [September 15, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20110915n.rm) Thu, 22 Sep Karin Oberg (CfA) Smadar Naoz (ITC) Bence Kocsis (ITC) Michael Nielsen [September 22, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20110922a.rm) Thu, 29 Sep * No Luncheon (Rosh Hashanah) Thu, 6 Oct Mark Vogelsberger (ITC) Alicia Soderberg (ITC) Rashid Sunyaev (MPA Garching) Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley) [October 6, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20111006a.rm) Thu, 13 Oct Paul Torrey (ITC) Debora Sijacki (ITC) Phil Armitage (Colorado) Cristiano Sabiu (UCL) [October 13, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20111013.rm) Thu, 20 Oct Laura Lopez (MIT) Ken Shen (UC Berkeley) Kevin Schawinski (Yale) Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland) [October 20, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20111020a.rm) Thu, 27 Oct Ramesh Narayan (ITC) Matt Walker (ITC) Frank van den Bosch (Yale) Rachel Mandelbaum (Princeton) Tassos Fragos (ITC) [October 27, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/cfa102709.rm) Thu, 3 Nov Jay Strader (CfA) Reinhard Genzel (MPIE) Jean Brodie (UCSC) Filippo Mannucci (Arcetri) [November 3, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20111103.rm) Thu, 10 Nov Stella Offner (ITC) Daniel Mortlock (Imperial College) Fred Adams (Michigan) Thomas Greif (MPA) [November 10, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20111110a.rm) 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) [December 1, 2011 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20111201a.rm) 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) [February 9, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20120209a.rm) 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) [March 1, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20120301a.rm) Thu, 8 Mar Ryan Chornock (CfA) Wendy Freedman (Carnegie) Mike Eracleous (Penn State) Chris Ormel (Berkeley) [March 8, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120308.html) Thu, 15 Mar * No Luncheon (Spring Break) Thu, 22 Mar Mark Vogelsberger (ITC) John Johnson (Caltech) Philipp Podsiadlowski (Oxford) Dan Milisavljevic (ITC) [March 22, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120322.html) Thu, 29 Mar Charlie Conroy (ITC) Nikhil Padmanabhan (Yale) Roger Chevalier (U. Virginia) Phil Hopkins (UC Berkeley) [March 29, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120329.html) The, 5 Apr Daniel Eisenstein (ITC) Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) Athena Stacy (NASA Goddard) Scott Chapman (Cambridge U) Gabriel Perez-Giz (NYU) [April 5, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120405.html) Thu, 12 Apr Andy Goulding (CfA) Lyman Page (Princeton) John Eldridge (Univ. Auckland) Joanne Cohn (UC Berkeley) [April 12, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120412.html) Thu, 19 Apr Bence Kocsis (ITC) Akos Bogdan (CfA) Chris Hirata (Caltech) Martin Weinberg(U Mass, Amherst) [April 19, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120419.html) Thu, 26 Apr Paul Torrey (ITC) Eliot Quatert (UC Berkeley) Tony Pan (ITC) James G. Bartlett (Univ. Paris) [April 26, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120426.html) Thu, 3 May Molly Swanson (ITC) James Binney (Oxford,UK) Bozena Czerny (Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland) Rita Tojeiro (Portsmouth,UK) [May 3, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120503.html) Thu, 10 May Cameron McBride (ITC) Tracy Slatyer (IAS, Princeton) Chris Mihos (Case Western) Ryan Foley (CfA) Alex Lazarian (UW Madison)