ITC Luncheon 2016-2017

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) luncheons for the academic year 2016-2017 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, 8 Sep

  1. David Charbonneau (CfA)
  2. Debra Fischer (Yale)
  3. Yuan-Sen Ting (CfA)
  4. Raul Monsalve (Boulder)

Thu, 15 Sep

  1. Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley)
  2. John Forbes (ITC)
  3. Barak Zackay (Weizmann)
  4. Ana Mosquera (USNA)

Thu, 22 Sep

  1. Ilya Mandel (U of Birmingham)
  2. Simeon Bird (JHU)
  3. Mateusz Ruszkowski (U of Michigan in Ann Arbor)
  4. Philip Mocz (Harvard)

Thu, 29 Sep

  1. Rashid Sunyaev (MPA)
  2. Jerry Ostriker (Princeton)
  3. Richard Binzel (MIT)
  4. Nikodem Poplawski (U of New Haven )

Thu, 6 Oct

  1. Hy Trac (CMU)
  2. Yakov Faerman (TAU)
  3. Eric Gaidos (U of Hawaii)
  4. Rahul Kannan (MIT)

Thu, 13Oct

  1. Feryal Ozel (Arizona)
  2. James Peebles (Princeton)
  3. Victor Pankratius (MIT)
  4. Daniel D'Orazio (ITC)

Thu, 20 Oct

  1. Michael D. Johnson (ITC)
  2. Robert Fisher (UMass Dartmouth)
  3. Or Graur (CfA)
  4. Peter Williams (CfA)

Thu, 27 Oct

  1. Laura Kreidberg (ITC)
  2. Konstantin Batygin (Caltech)
  3. Matt McQuinn (U of Washington)
  4. Chervin Laporte (Columbia)

Thu, 3 Nov

  1. Ana Bonaca (ITC)
  2. Paola Caselli (MPE)
  3. Elisa Chisari (Oxford)
  4. Janna Levin (Barnard College)

Thu, 10 Nov

  1. Jayne Birkby (CfA)
  2. Chris Carilli (Cavendish / Cambridge)
  3. Ellen Zweibel (Wisconsin-Madison)
  4. Aaron Ewall-Wice (MIT)

Thu, 17 Nov

  1. Karl Menten (NRAO)
  2. Alex Lazarian (Madison)
  3. Manuela Campanelli (RIT)
  4. Alex Ji (MIT)

Thu, 24 Nov

* No Luncheon (Thanksgiving)

 

Thu, 1 Dec

  1. Marion Dierickx (ITC)
  2. Xiawei Wang (ITC)
  3. Rebecca Martin (UNLV)
  4. Caroline Morley (ITC)

Thu, 26 Jan

  1. Charlie Conroy (Harvard)
  2. Andreas Burkert (LMU)
  3. Jennifer C. Yee (CfA)
  4. Zac Manchester (Harvard)

Thu, 2 Feb

  1. Benedikt Diemer (ITC)
  2. Yanqin Wu (U of Toronto)
  3. Matthew Evans (MIT)
  4. Dan Milisavljevic (CfA)

Thu, 9 Feb

  1. Bülent Kiziltan (CfA)
  2. Sownak Bose (Durham)
  3. Dimitrios Psaltis (Univ of Arizona)
  4. Dava Sobel

 

Thu, 16 Feb

  1. Andrea Merloni (MPE)
  2. Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt)
  3. Fred Rasio (CIERA, Northwestern University)
  4. Manasvi Lingham (SEAS)

Thu, 23Feb

  1. Casey Law (UC Berkeley)
  2. Lyndsay Fletcher (U of Glasgow)
  3. Deirdre Shoemaker (Georgia Tech)
  4. Federico Marinacci (MIT)

Thu, 2 Mar

  1. Philip Mocz (Harvard)
  2. Laura Blecha (U Maryland)
  3. James Guillochon (ITC)
  4. Erik Curiel (BHI)

Thu, 9 Mar

  1. Stephen Portillo (Harvard)
  2. Garth Illingworth (UCSC)
  3. Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago)
  4. Dmitri Uzdensky (IAS and Univ. Colorado Boulder)

Thu, 16 Mar

*No Luncheon (Spring Break)*

 

Thu, 23 Mar

  1. Alice Shapley (UCLA)
  2. Smadar Naoz (UCLA)
  3. Rakesh Yadav (CfA)
  4. Cecilia Garraffo (CfA)

Thu, 30 Mar

  1. Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona)
  2. Scott Gaudi (OSU)
  3. Jay Strader (Michigan State University)
  4. David Neufeld (JHU)

Thu, 6 Apr

  1. Dong Lai (Cornell)
  2. Natalie Batalha (NASA Ames Research Center)
  3. Vikram Ravi (Caltech)
  4. Peter Blanchard (CfA)

Thu, 13 Apr

  1. Luke Kelley (ITC)
  2. Robert Simcoe (UCSC)
  3. Alexie Leauthaud (UCSC)
  4. Paul Chesler (BHI)

Thu, 20 Apr

  1. Edo Berger (CfA)
  2. Evan Scannapieco (Arizona)
  3. Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas)
  4. Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown and ITC)

Thu, 27 Apr

  1. Xiangcheng Ma (Caltech)
  2. Kevin Heng (CSH)
  3. Reinout van Weeren (CfA)
  4. Azadeh Moradinezhad (Harvard)

Thu, 4 May

  1. Keto prize winner Philip Mocz (ITC)
  2. Duncan Lorimer (WVU)
  3. Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA)
  4. Sihan (Sandy) Yuan (ITC)