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)

Thu, 17 Sep

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

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)

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)

Thu, 8 Oct

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

Thu, 15 Oct

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

Thu, 22 Oct

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

Thu, 29 Oct

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

Thu, 5 Nov

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

Thu, 12 Nov

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

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)

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)

Thu, 10 Dec

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

 

Thu, 28 Jan

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

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)

Thu, 11 Feb

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

Thu, 18 Feb

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

Thu, 25Feb

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

Thu, 3 Mar

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

Thu, 10 Mar

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

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)

Thu, 31 Mar

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

Thu, 7 Apr

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

Thu, 14 Apr

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

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)

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)