# ITC Luncheon, 2012-2013 ## expand\_more The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) luncheons for the academic year 2012-2013 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, 6 Sep Matthew Schwartz (Harvard) Leslie Sage (U. of Maryland) David Clements (Imperial College, London) Lorenzo Sironi (ITC) [ September 6, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120906.html) Thu, 13 Sep Douglas Finkbeiner (ITC) Tom Abel (Stanford) Smadar Naoz (ITC) Francesco Massaro (Stanford) [ September 13, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120913.html) Thu, 20 Sep Tony Pan (ITC) Julie Comerford (U. of Texas) Paul Steinhardt (Princeton) Heather Knutson (Caltech) [ September 20, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20120920.html) Thu, 27 Sep Xuening Bai (ITC) Kailash Sahu (STScI) Richard Scalzo (ANU, Mt Stromlo Obs.) Carlos Cunha (Stanford) [ September 27, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/COLLOQ/20120927.html) Thu, 4 Oct Laura Lopez (MIT) Sayan Chakraborti (ITC) Lindsay Bleem (U. of Chicago) Bence Kocsis (ITC) [ October 4, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/COLLOQ/20121004.html) Thu, 11 Oct Dimitrios Psaltis (U. of Arizona) James Bullock (UC Irvine) David Weinberg (Ohio State) Jimmy Irwin (U. of Alabama) Thu, 18 Oct Raffaella Margutti (ITC) Emily Levesque (U. of Colorado) Olek Sadowski (ITC) Tony Piro (Caltech) Thu, 25 Oct Paul Nulsen (CfA) Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS) Ken Shen (UC Berkeley) Andrey Kravtsov (U. of Chicago) [ October 25, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20121025.html) Thu, 1 Nov Matthew Walker (ITC) Hilke Schlichting (UCLA) Thomas Greif (ITC) Ranga-Ram Chary (Caltech) [ November 1, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20121101.html) Thu, 8 Nov Nick Stone (ITC) Roman Rafikov (Princeton) Dan Milisavljevic (ITC) Marc Postman (STScI) [ November 8, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20121108.html) Thu, 15 Nov Dylan Nelson (ITC) Antonio Cuesta (Yale) Reinout van Weeren (CfA) Leisa Townsley (Penn State U.) [ November 15, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20121115.html) Thu, 22 Nov * No Luncheon (Thanksgiving) Thu, 29 Nov Mark Vogelsberger (ITC) Andrea Ferrara (SNS, Pisa) Bekki Dawson (ITC) Genevieve Graves (UC Berkeley) [ November 29, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/CFA-VID/colloq_20121129.rm) Thu, 6 Dec Robert Penna (ITC) Konstantin Batygin (ITC) Volker Bromm (U TX - Austin) Cora Dvorkin (IAS): [ December 6, 2012 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/COLLOQ/20121206.html) Thu, 31 Jan Akos Bogdan (CfA) Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue) Philip Hopkins (UC Berkeley) Leon Golub (CfA) [ January 31, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130131.html) Thu, 7 Feb Matthew Bayliss (ITC) James Steiner (CfA) Meg Urry (Yale) Trent Dupuy (CfA) [ February 7, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130207.html) Thu, 14 Feb Steve Furlanetto (UCLA) Alberto Sesana (AEI) Nathan Myhrvold (Intellectual Ventures) [ February 14, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130214.html) Thu, 21 Feb Josh Carter (CfA) Ralf Klessen (U Heidelberg) Michael McDonald (MIT) Olek Sadowski (ITC) [ February 21, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130221.html) Thu, 28 Feb Lorenzo Sironi (ITC) Naoki Yoshida (U Tokyo) Armin Rest (STScI) Mikhail Medvedev (U Kansas) [ February 28, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130228.html) Thu, 7 Mar Eli Visbal (CfA) Neta Bahcall (Princeton) Bence Beky (CfA) Igor Chilingarian (CfA) Thu, 14 Mar Smadar Naoz (ITC) Dong Lai (Cornell) Fiona Harrison (Caltech) Atish Kamble (ITC) [ March 14, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130314.html) Thu, 21 Mar * No Luncheon (Spring Break) Thu, 28 Mar Cameron McBride (ITC) Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv U) Molly Swanson (ITC) Katherine Blundell (Oxford) [ March 28, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130328.html) Thu, 4 Apr Justin Kasper (CfA) Scott Ransom (NRAO) Joe Silk (Oxford) Raul Jimenez (CERN) [ April 4, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130404.html) The, 11 Apr Nathan Sanders (CfA) Paul Steinhardt (Princeton) Lars Bildsten (KITP/UCSB) Simeon Bird (IAS) [ April 11, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130411.html) Thu, 18 Apr Jamie Bock (Caltech) Eric Becklin (UCLA) Boaz Katz (IAS) Zack Slepian (CfA) [ April 18, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=BS8fegKxEeo&ns=1) Thu, 25 Apr Feryal Ozel (Arizona) Richard Ellis (Caltech) Yoram Lithwick (Northwestern) Ron Cowen [ April 25, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV6GoCrMFuY) Thu, 2 May Daniel Eisenstein (ITC) Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (Santa Cruz) Raffaella Margutti (ITC) Thomas Greif (ITC) [ May 2, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](/hhttps://www.youtube.com/edit?ns=1&video_id=33VaLWlLMqw) Thu, 9 May Bence Kocsis (ITC) Alex Lazarian (Wisconsin) Josh Frieman (Fermilab) Tassos Fragos (ITC) Thu, 16 May Shy Genel (ITC) Kris Gorski (JPL) Dimitrios Giannios (Purdue) Liubin Pan (ITC) [ May 16, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=qRCW9fWuL5Y&ns=1)