# ITC Luncheon 2016-2017 ## expand\_more 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. Sort **Date** **Speakers** **Video** Thu, 8 Sep 1. David Charbonneau (CfA) 2. Debra Fischer (Yale) 3. Yuan-Sen Ting (CfA) 4. Raul Monsalve (Boulder) [September 8, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/1wFRa9YDNUI) Thu, 15 Sep 1. Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley) 2. John Forbes (ITC) 3. Barak Zackay (Weizmann) 4. Ana Mosquera (USNA) [September 15, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/YarfAy3I1XI) 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) [September 22, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/gCP5gkr0uZM) Thu, 29 Sep 1. Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) 2. Jerry Ostriker (Princeton) 3. Richard Binzel (MIT) 4. Nikodem Poplawski (U of New Haven ) [September 29, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/Z5xFLslPimo) Thu, 6 Oct 1. Hy Trac (CMU) 2. Yakov Faerman (TAU) 3. Eric Gaidos (U of Hawaii) 4. Rahul Kannan (MIT) [October 6, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/GovORYRirOY) Thu, 13Oct 1. Feryal Ozel (Arizona) 2. James Peebles (Princeton) 3. Victor Pankratius (MIT) 4. Daniel D'Orazio (ITC) [October 13, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/sU_YiJQJRj8) Thu, 20 Oct 1. Michael D. Johnson (ITC) 2. Robert Fisher (UMass Dartmouth) 3. Or Graur (CfA) 4. Peter Williams (CfA) [October 20, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/AAPXQMrKGmU) Thu, 27 Oct 1. Laura Kreidberg (ITC) 2. Konstantin Batygin (Caltech) 3. Matt McQuinn (U of Washington) 4. Chervin Laporte (Columbia) [October 27, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/ru40pF3qALI) Thu, 3 Nov 1. Ana Bonaca (ITC) 2. Paola Caselli (MPE) 3. Elisa Chisari (Oxford) 4. Janna Levin (Barnard College) [November 3, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/l2FmC9yNw5o) Thu, 10 Nov 1. Jayne Birkby (CfA) 2. Chris Carilli (Cavendish / Cambridge) 3. Ellen Zweibel (Wisconsin-Madison) 4. Aaron Ewall-Wice (MIT) [November 10, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/OJe1flYNY6E) Thu, 17 Nov 1. Karl Menten (NRAO) 2. Alex Lazarian (Madison) 3. Manuela Campanelli (RIT) 4. Alex Ji (MIT) [November 17, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/EfPMbCH9nNI) 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) [December 1, 2016 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/DMRqrSIKH74) Thu, 26 Jan 1. Charlie Conroy (Harvard) 2. Andreas Burkert (LMU) 3. Jennifer C. Yee (CfA) 4. Zac Manchester (Harvard) [January 26, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A229uFsQ73g&feature=youtu.be) Thu, 2 Feb 1. Benedikt Diemer (ITC) 2. Yanqin Wu (U of Toronto) 3. Matthew Evans (MIT) 4. Dan Milisavljevic (CfA) [February 2, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/IZcV0NylqIM) 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) [February 16, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/nBr3xAz9-Bs) Thu, 23Feb 1. Casey Law (UC Berkeley) 2. Lyndsay Fletcher (U of Glasgow) 3. Deirdre Shoemaker (Georgia Tech) 4. Federico Marinacci (MIT) [February 23, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/9dx6M2VPgQs) Thu, 2 Mar 1. Philip Mocz (Harvard) 2. Laura Blecha (U Maryland) 3. James Guillochon (ITC) 4. Erik Curiel (BHI) [March 2, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/K8QKceykWOU) Thu, 9 Mar 1. Stephen Portillo (Harvard) 2. Garth Illingworth (UCSC) 3. Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago) 4. Dmitri Uzdensky (IAS and Univ. Colorado Boulder) [March 9, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/KdD-GzFqspM) 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) [March 23, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/iK8nQkkjXiY) Thu, 30 Mar 1. Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona) 2. Scott Gaudi (OSU) 3. Jay Strader (Michigan State University) 4. David Neufeld (JHU) [March 30, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/NAeOGABvCy0) Thu, 6 Apr 1. Dong Lai (Cornell) 2. Natalie Batalha (NASA Ames Research Center) 3. Vikram Ravi (Caltech) 4. Peter Blanchard (CfA) [April 6, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/pCdg0Sj6NtE) Thu, 13 Apr 1. Luke Kelley (ITC) 2. Robert Simcoe (UCSC) 3. Alexie Leauthaud (UCSC) 4. Paul Chesler (BHI) [April 13, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/z2PVGhs7MJQ) Thu, 20 Apr 1. Edo Berger (CfA) 2. Evan Scannapieco (Arizona) 3. Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas) 4. Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown and ITC) [April 20, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/HSvwwG9YtWY) Thu, 27 Apr 1. Xiangcheng Ma (Caltech) 2. Kevin Heng (CSH) 3. Reinout van Weeren (CfA) 4. Azadeh Moradinezhad (Harvard) [April 27, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/kyeWNc4S0b4) Thu, 4 May 1. Keto prize winner Philip Mocz (ITC) 2. Duncan Lorimer (WVU) 3. Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA) 4. Sihan (Sandy) Yuan (ITC) [May 4, 2017 ITC Luncheon Video](https://youtu.be/8LNZ9fy1LVY)