#  ITC Luncheon, 2013-2014 

 



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The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) luncheons for the academic year 2013-2014 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, 12 Sep

Konstantin Batygin (ITC)  
Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley)  
Adrian Liu (Berkeley)  
Beth Reid (LBL)

 [ September 12, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130912.html)

Thu, 19 Sep

Aleksander Sadowski (ITC)  
Phil Muirhead (Boston U)  
Alessandra Corsi (GWU)  
Niall Deacon (MPIA)

 [ September 19, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](http://helix.cfa.harvard.edu/flash/ITC/20130919.html)

Thu, 26 Sep

Xuening Bai (ITC)  
Soren Meibom (CfA)  
Jason Wright (Penn State)  
Matthew Payne (ITC)

 

Thu, 3 Oct

Sayan Chakraborti (ITC)  
Dmitri Uzdensky (Colorado)  
Jenny Greene (Princeton)  
Sagi Ben-Ami (Weizmann)

 

Thu, 10 Oct

Stella Offner (Yale)  
Thomas Janka (MPA)  
Alak Ray (Tata Inst.)  
Cameron McBride (ITC)

 [ October 10, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=6ni_dIMMAPA&ns=1)

Thu, 17 Oct

Dan Milisavljevic (ITC)  
Norman Murray (CITA)  
Laura Sales (ITC)  
Yanfei Jiang (ITC)

 

Thu, 24 Oct

Ed Bertschinger (MIT) with  
 intro. by Judy Singer (Harvard)  
Katie Morzinski (Arizona)  
Andreas Berlind (Vanderbilt)

 [ October 24, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-b1sSHjS1Q)

Thu, 31 Oct

Claude-André Faucher-Giguère (Berkeley)  
Dave Stevenson (Caltech)  
Yuexing Li (Penn State)  
Miller Goss (NRAO)

 [ October 31, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jaOK2WuU4)

Thu, 7 Nov

Matthew Bayliss (ITC)  
Pascal Oesch (Yale)  
Tommaso Treu (UC Santa Barbara)  
Merav Opher (BU)

 [ November 7, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjVVmrOUDhw)

Thu, 14 Nov

James Guillochon (ITC)  
Charlie Conroy (UCSC)  
Steve Allen (Stanford)  
Juri Poutanen (Oulu U)

 

Thu, 21 Nov

Tanmoy Laskar (ITC)  
Louis Strigari (Indiana U)  
Katherine Michele Deck (MIT)  
Ben Weiss (MIT)

 [ November 21, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmeh50bgrs)

Thu, 28 Nov

* No Luncheon (Thanksgiving)

 

Thu, 5 Dec

Mark Vogelsberger (ITC)  
Mitch Begelman (University of Colorado)  
Munier Salem (Columbia)  
Wen-Fai Fong (ITC)

 [December 5, 2013 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebAma-yOqSs)

Thu, 30 Jan

Ragnhild Lunnan (ITC)  
Marla Geha (Yale)  
Eric Feigelson (Penn State U)  
Anna Frabel (MIT)

 

Thu, 6 Feb

Mark Reid (CfA)  
John Raymond (CfA)  
Julianne Dalcanton (Washington)  
Amiel Sternberg (Tel Aviv U)

 [ February 6, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vby0njUyKTk)

Thu, 13 Feb

Daniel Eisenstein (ITC)  
Todd Thompson (Ohio State)  
Aaron Parsons (Berkeley)  
Xian Chen (Albert Einstein Institute)

 [ February 13, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJnDZMu6YI)

Thu, 20 Feb

Thomas Greif (ITC)  
David Soderblom (STScI)  
Lisa Randall (Harvard Physics)  
Aleksander Sadowski (ITC)

 

Thu, 27 Feb

Zack Slepian (ITC)  
Alessandro Morbidelli (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)  
Joan Najita (NOAO/ITC)  
Brice Menard (Johns Hopkins)

 [ February 27, ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5CRDaUu68)

Thu, 6 Mar

Ori Fox (Berkeley)  
Katie Mack (Melbourne)  
Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie)  
Rob Garrod (Cornell)

 

Thu, 13 Mar

Kate Rubin (CfA)  
Annalisa Pillepich (ITC)  
Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern)  
Stephan Rosswog (Stockholm University)

 [ March 13, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](http://youtu.be/pQJUON_J6_8)

Thu, 20 Mar

*No Luncheon (Spring Break)*

 

Thu, 27 Mar

John Johnson (ITC)  
Carlos Frenk (Durham)  
Jessica Lu (Hawaii)  
James Steiner (CfA)

 [ March 27, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](http://youtu.be/VOy-9XMy5Z0)

Thu, 3 Apr

Marion Dierickx (ITC)  
Colin Bischoff (CfA)  
Andrew MacFadyen (NYU)  
Xuening Bai (ITC)

 [ April 3, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](http://youtu.be/0iOVVnjZie8)

Thu, 10 Apr

Nahum Arav (Virginia Tech)  
Grigor Aslanyan (Univ. Auckland)  
Margaret Pan (NASA Goddard)  
Xiaochun Sun (Beijing, China)

 [ April 10, ITC Luncheon Video](http://youtu.be/iUGfra0htJM)

Thu, 17 Apr

Neil Gehrels (GSFC)  
Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden)  
Bruce Draine (Princeton)  
Tiziana di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon)

 [ April 17, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](http://youtu.be/vvvEpoipj9M)

Thu, 24 Apr

Shy Genel (ITC)  
Dan Marrone (Arizona)  
Carole Mundell (John Moores U)  
Brian Lacki (IAS, Princeton)

 [ April 24, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](http://youtu.be/flBMO7EPX2w)

Thu, 1 May

Raffaella Margutti (ITC)  
Lorenzo Sironi (ITC)  
Esra Bulbul (CfA)  
Davide Lazzati (Oregon State)

 

Thu, 8 May

John Johnson (ITC)  
Smadar Naoz (ITC)  
Stuart Whythe (Melbourne)  
Federico Marinacci (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)

 [ May 8, 2014 ITC Luncheon Video](http://youtu.be/eQp1tA0n6Lg)