ITC Luncheon 2015-2016

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) luncheons for the academic year 2015-2016 are held in Phillips Auditorium on Thursdays from 12:30-1:30 pm. Each Luncheon features 10 minute presentations from 4 speakers and is attended by 100 astronomers. Videos of the presentations are linked below.

Date

Speakers

Video

Thu, 10 Sep

  1. Lorenzo Sironi (ITC)
  2. Gongjie Li (ITC)
  3. Jens Chluba (Cambridge)
  4. Mercedes Lopez-Morales (CfA)

September 10, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 17 Sep

  1. Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)
  2. Katja Poppenhager (CfA)
  3. Ryan O'Leary (U Colorado)
  4. Meredith Hughes (Wesleyen)

September 17, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 24 Sep

  1. Phil Hopkins (Caltech)
  2. Jennifer Van Saders (Ohio State)
  3. Kevin Schaal (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)
  4. Rodolfo Montez (Vanderbilt University)

September 24, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 1 Oct

  1. Leslie Rogers (Berkeley)
  2. Holger Baumgardt (U. of Queensland)
  3. Mark Dijkstra (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo)
  4. Max Moe (Arizona/CfA)

October 1, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 8 Oct

  1. Anastasia Fialkov (ITC)
  2. Vicki Kaspi (Vicki Kaspi )
  3. Kate Alexander (CfA)
  4. Sherry Yeh (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

October 8, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 15 Oct

  1. Anastasia Fialkov (ITC)
  2. Vicki Kaspi (Vicki Kaspi )
  3. Kate Alexander (CfA)
  4. Sherry Yeh (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

October 15, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 22 Oct

  1. James Guillochon (ITC)
  2. Boris Gaensicke (Warwick)
  3. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (MIT)
  4. Georgiana Ogrean (CfA)

October 22, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 29 Oct

  1. Xingang Chen (UT Dallas)
  2. Bekki Dawson (Berkeley)
  3. Clem Pryke (Minnesota)
  4. Jo Dunkley (Oxford)

October 29, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 5 Nov

  1. Ilsedore Cleeves (ITC)
  2. Benedikt Diemer (ITC)
  3. Catherine Walsh (Leiden)
  4. Anna Pancoast (ITC)

November 5, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 12 Nov

  1. Blakesley Burkhart (ITC)
  2. Huirong Yan (Desy)
  3. Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia)
  4. Jason Dexter (MPE)

November 12, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 19 Nov

  1. Joss Hawthorn (University of Sydney)
  2. Aaron Parsons (UC Berkeley)
  3. Matthew Hersch (Harvard (History of Science))
  4. Alicia Soderberg (ITC)

November 19, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 26 Nov

* No Luncheon (Thanksgiving)

 

Thu, 3 Dec

  1. Charlie Conroy (ITC)
  2. Andy Szentgyorgyi (CfA)
  3. Licia Verde (ICC, Barcelona, Spain)
  4. Katherine Alatalo (Carnegie)

December 3, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 10 Dec

  1. Zachary Slepian (CfA)
  2. Anna Ijjas (Princeton)
  3. Sarah Wellons (CfA)
  4. Elena Gallo (Michigan)

 

December 10, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 28 Jan

  1. Konstantin Batygin (Caltech)
  2. Alex Vilenkin (Tufts University)
  3. Daniel Gruen (KIPAC/SLAC)
  4. Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard)

January 28, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 4 Feb

  1. Morgan May (Columbia University and Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  2. Rosanne Di Stefano (ITC)
  3. Keith Gendreau (Goddard)
  4. Aleksander Sadowski (MIT)

February 4, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 11 Feb

  1. Jeremiah Murphy (Florida State University)
  2. Douglas Finkbeiner (ITC)
  3. Prahar Mitra (Harvard)
  4. Jack Singal (U. Richmond)

February 11, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 18 Feb

  1. Edo Berger (CfA)
  2. Ethan Vishniac (Saskatchewan)
  3. Jonathan Lunine (Cornell)
  4. Yan-Fei Jiang (CfA)

February 18, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 25Feb

  1. Eric Herbst (Virginia)
  2. Idan Ginsburg (CfA)
  3. Natasha Flyer (NCAR)
  4. Aomawa Shields (UCLA)

February 25, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 3 Mar

  1. Re'em Sari (HUJI)
  2. Jim Stone (Princeton)
  3. Karin Oberg (CfA)
  4. Ben Shappee (Carnegie Observatory)

March 3, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 10 Mar

  1. Elisabeth Newton (CfA)
  2. Sam Gralla (University of Arizona)
  3. Eric Agol (U. Washington)
  4. Steffi Walch (University of Cologne)

March 10, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 17 Mar

*No Luncheon (Spring Break)*

 

Thu, 24 Mar

  1. James Guillochon (ITC)
  2. Elena D'Onghia (UW-Madison)
  3. Rychard Bouwens (Leiden)
  4. Richard Kremer (Dartmouth)

March 24, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 31 Mar

  1. Atish Kamble (ITC)
  2. Daniel Harlow (Harvard Physics))
  3. Andrew Siemion (UC Berkeley)
  4. Rowan Smith (University of Heidelberg)

March 31, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 7 Apr

  1. Nia Imara (Harvard)
  2. Jenny Greene (Princeton)
  3. Ben Margalit (Columbia/ITC)
  4. Ivan Zolotukhin (IRAP)

April 7, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 14 Apr

  1. Nicola Amorisco (ITC)
  2. Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University)
  3. Jack Steiner (MIT)
  4. Ryan Allured (CfA)

April 14, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 21 Apr

  1. Malcolm Perry (University of Cambridge, UK)
  2. Cole Miller (University of Maryland)
  3. George Rieke (U. Arizona)
  4. Jerod Parrent (CfA)

April 21, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video

Thu, 28 Apr

  1. Lisa Kewley (ANU)
  2. Richard Klein (UCB)
  3. Chat Hull (CfA)
  4. Xuening Bai (ITC)

 

Thu, 5 May

  1. Zach Slepian (ITC)
  2. Joan Schmelz (University of Memphis)
  3. Sara Seager (MIT)
  4. Merav Opher (Boston University)

May 5, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video