# ITC Luncheon 2015-2016 ## expand\_more 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. Sort **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](https://youtu.be/8KKb7G_pcIs) 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJGbYDzAZQs) 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](https://youtu.be/ViovOF-BpSk) 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](https://youtu.be/gXfuEEPFtSM) Thu, 8 Oct 1. [Anastasia Fialkov](mailto:anastasia.fialkov@cfa.harvard.edu) (ITC) 2. [Vicki Kaspi ](mailto:vkaspi@physics.mcgill.ca)(Vicki Kaspi ) 3. [Kate Alexander](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~kalexand/) (CfA) 4. [Sherry Yeh](mailto:yeh@naoj.org) (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) [October 8, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/NsPQKOMnUjE) Thu, 15 Oct 1. [Anastasia Fialkov](mailto:anastasia.fialkov@cfa.harvard.edu) (ITC) 2. [Vicki Kaspi ](mailto:vkaspi@physics.mcgill.ca)(Vicki Kaspi ) 3. [Kate Alexander](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~kalexand/) (CfA) 4. [Sherry Yeh](mailto:yeh@naoj.org) (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) [October 15, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/OOPFdTalWrE) Thu, 22 Oct 1. James Guillochon (ITC) 2. [Boris Gaensicke](http://Boris.Gaensicke@warwick.ac.uk/) (Warwick) 3. [Chanda Prescod-Weinstein](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/chanda@mit.edu) (MIT) 4. Georgiana Ogrean (CfA) [October 22, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/eZy36BwmnsY) Thu, 29 Oct 1. [Xingang Chen](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/xingangchen01@gmail.com) (UT Dallas) 2. [Bekki Dawson](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/rdawson@berkeley.edu) (Berkeley) 3. [Clem Pryke](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/pryke@physics.umn.edu) (Minnesota) 4. [Jo Dunkley](http://jo.dunkley@physics.ox.ac.uk/) (Oxford) [October 29, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/BAzrURMKzSA) Thu, 5 Nov 1. Ilsedore Cleeves (ITC) 2. Benedikt Diemer (ITC) 3. [Catherine Walsh](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cwalsh@strw.leidenuniv.nl) (Leiden) 4. Anna Pancoast (ITC) [November 5, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/o1t7V4u-2fk) Thu, 12 Nov 1. Blakesley Burkhart (ITC) 2. [Huirong Yan](http://huirong.yan@desy.de/) (Desy) 3. [Maura McLaughlin](http://maura.mclaughlin@mail.wvu.edu/) (West Virginia) 4. [Jason Dexter](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/jdexter@mpe.mpg.de) (MPE) [November 12, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/07IiTfcLRsI) Thu, 19 Nov 1. [Joss Hawthorn](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/jbh@physics.usyd.edu.au) (University of Sydney) 2. [Aaron Parsons](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/aparsons@berkeley.edu) (UC Berkeley) 3. [Matthew Hersch](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hersch@fas.harvard.edu) (Harvard (History of Science)) 4. [Alicia Soderberg](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/asoderberg@cfa.harvard.edu) (ITC) [November 19, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/__0IMKmlDo0) Thu, 26 Nov \* No Luncheon (Thanksgiving) Thu, 3 Dec 1. [Charlie Conroy](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cconroy@cfa.harvard.edu) (ITC) 2. [Andy Szentgyorgyi](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/aszentgyorgyi@cfa.harvard.edu) (CfA) 3. [Licia Verde ](http://licia.verde@cfa.harvard.edu/)(ICC, Barcelona, Spain) 4. [Katherine Alatalo](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/kalatalo@carnegiescience.edu) (Carnegie) [December 3, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/jhfP-mBm18Y) Thu, 10 Dec 1. [Zachary Slepian](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/zslepian@cfa.harvard.edu) (CfA) 2. [Anna Ijjas](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/aijjas@princeton.edu) (Princeton) 3. [Sarah Wellons](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/swellons@cfa.harvard.edu) (CfA) 4. [Elena Gallo](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/egallo@umich.edu) (Michigan) [December 10, 2015 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/2knDmxSJh9o) Thu, 28 Jan 1. [Konstantin Batygin](http://k.batygin@gps.caltech.edu/) (Caltech) 2. [Alex Vilenkin ](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/vilenkin@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)(Tufts University) 3. [Daniel Gruen](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/dgruen@stanford.edu) (KIPAC/SLAC) 4. [Yuan-Sen Ting](http://yuan-sen.ting@cfa.harvard.edu/) (Harvard) [January 28, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/A_H9kmj2_9k) 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](https://youtu.be/SLuybxT1h2o) 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](https://youtu.be/vwfOpAHxs-E) Thu, 18 Feb 1. Edo Berger (CfA) 2. [Ethan Vishniac](http://ethan.vishniac@aas.org/) (Saskatchewan) 3. Jonathan Lunine (Cornell) 4. [Yan-Fei Jiang](http://yanfei.jiang@cfa.harvard.edu/) (CfA) [February 18, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/5U0_GLbnV0o) Thu, 25Feb 1. Eric Herbst (Virginia) 2. Idan Ginsburg (CfA) 3. Natasha Flyer (NCAR) 4. Aomawa Shields (UCLA) [February 25, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/8VoA2SvIb68) 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](https://youtu.be/ylyU796zbPM) 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](https://youtu.be/onuXdlUcIdc) 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](https://youtu.be/fWKCFm5VkOU) 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](https://youtu.be/IPKEIgTGDHA) 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](https://youtu.be/SrDggxatj2I) 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](https://youtu.be/r-9-Wwflq_k) 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](https://youtu.be/ZoI5bzodW-8) 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](https://youtu.be/onMYx-lgRSg)