ITC Luncheon 2018-2019

ITC Luncheon 2018-2019

 

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) luncheons for the academic year 2018-2019 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. ITC luncheons are sponsored by a generous donation from ITC senior member Dr. Eric Keto.

 

Thu 09/06/2018
  1. John Forbes (ITC)
  2. Doug Lin (UCSC)
  3. Sean Andrews (CfA)
  4. Sandro Tacchella (CfA / EIJC)
  1. Brown dwarfs more massive than the hydrogen burning limit and how to make them
  2. Dynamical evolution of the inner solar system during its formative years
  3. Protoplanetary Disk Demographics
  4. Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts
Thu 09/13/2018
  1. Michelle Ntmpaka (Harvard Data Science Iniative)
  2. Renu Malhotra (Univ of Arizona)
  3. Brant Robertson (UCSC)
  4. Jerome Quintin (McGill)
  1. Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimates with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
  2. The mid-plane of the asteroid belt
  3. Dense Regions in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
  4. Black Hole Formation in a Contracting Universe
Thu 09/20/2018
  1. Razieh Emami Meibody (ITC)
  2. Enrique Vazquez Semadeni (UNAM)
  3. David Weinberg (OSU)
  4. Hsin-Yu Chen (BHI)
  1. A Soliton Solution for the Central Dark Masses in Globular Clusters and Implications for the Axiverse
  2. Why I switched from turbulence to gravity
  3. An Update on WFIRST
  4. Gravitational-wave Precision Cosmology
Thu 09/27/2018
  1. Jenny Bergner (Harvard)
  2. Elena D’Onghia (UW Madison)
  3. Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard)
  4. David Sobral (Lancaster)
  1. A survey of complex cyanides in protoplanetary disks
  2. Satellites within satellites: the luminosity function of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the Gaia era
  3. Exoplanet Ocean Worlds: How Salty?
  4. Re-ionisation is solved: LAEs are all we need
Thu 10/04/2018
  1. Sara Issaoun (BHI)
  2. Matt Kunz (Princeton)
  3. Gerry Gilmore (Cambridge)
  4. Rana Ezzedine (MIT)
  1. The Size, Shape, and Scattering of Sagittarius A* at 86 GHz: First VLBI with ALMA
  2. Waves just ain’t what they used to be (or, how to make yourself heard in a collisionless plasma)
  3. Testing non-Einsteinian GR by astrometric gravitational wave detection
  4. Precise chemical abundances of the most iron-poor stellar relics of the early Universe
Thu 10/11/2018
  1. Christina Eilers (MPIA)
  2. Adrienne Erickcek ( UNC Chapel Hill)
  3. David DeVorkin (National Air and Space Museum)
  4. Jasleen Matharu (Cambridge)
  1. How do supermassive black holes grow in the early universe?
  2. Observational Signatures of Kination
  3. New exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum: how to highlight Theory and Computation?
  4. The cluster vs. field stellar mass-size relation at z ~ 1: implications for galaxy size growth with decreasing redshift
Thu 10/18/2018
  1. Ryan Loomis (NRAO)
  2. Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie DTM)
  3. Eve Lee (Caltech)
  4. Duane Lee (MIT)
  1. Misaligned Protoplanetary Disks - Evidence for Planet-Disk Interaction?
  2. Circumstellar disk diversity and clues to planet formation
  3. A balanced budget view on forming giant planets by pebble accretion
  4. Playing Your CARDs Right: Leveraging One-Shot Galactic Chemical Evolution Models to Understand and Predict Chemical Abundance Ratio Distributions in Old Galactic Systems
Thu 10/25/2018
  1. Roseanne Di Stefano (ITC)
  2. Jim Fuller (Caltech)
  3. Margaret Meixner (STScl)
  4. Tanvi Karwal (JHU)
  1. The CfA Gender Equity Study
  2. Saturn Ring Seismology
  3. JWST studies of star formation and dust evolution at low metallicity
  4. Galactic Pulsars and Cosmic-Ray Leptons
Thu 11/01/2018
  1. Nia Imara (CfA)
  2. Nick Gnedin (FNAL Fermi Lab)
  3. Christopher Moore (CfA)
  4. Daisuke Nagai (Yale)
  1. X Marks the Spot (of Star Formation)
  2. Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy Condition: Even Textbook Truths Are Worth Revisiting
  3. Magnetic Field Morphology Effects on the Determination of Oxygen and Iron Abundances in the Solar Photosphere
  4. The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts
Thu 11/08/2018
  1. Victor Buza (CfA)
  2. Dan Foreman-Mackey (Flatiron Institute)
  3. Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern)
  4. Grant Tremblay (EIJC)
  1. New Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP and BICEP2/Keck Observations through the 2015 season
  2. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods for astronomers
  3. Superluminous Supernovae at the two extremes of the electromagnetic spectrum
  4. The GRE is exclusionary and largely selects for the wrong things
Thu 11/15/2018
  1. Rahul Kannan (ITC)
  2. Alyson Brooks (Rutgers)
  3. Ben Safdi (University of Michigan)
  4. Charlotte Mason (CfA)
  1. Efficacy of stellar radiation fields in regulating star formation
  2. UDG Formation as a Function of Environment in Cosmological Simulations
  3. Evidence against the dark matter interpretation of the 3.5 keV line
  4. What can Lyman alpha emission from galaxies tell us about reionization?
Thu 11/29/2018
  1. Catherine Zucker (CfA)
  2. James Owen ( Imperial College London)
  3. Jason Wright (Penn State)
  4. Bryan Terrazas (UMich)
  1. Large-Scale Galactic Filaments -- Shock and Shear in the Milky Way?
  2. Misaligned circumbinary discs
  3. Eppur Si Muove
  4. "Black hole-galaxy scaling relations: clues to the physics behind quiescence
Thu 12/06/2018
  1. Joey Rodriguez (CfA)
  2. Jia Liu (Princeton)
  3. Chuck Steidel (Caltech)
  4. Xiaohan Wu (CfA)
  1. K2-266: A Compact Multiplanet System with a Planet that is "Way Out of Line
  2. Running massive neutrino simulations fast and accurately
  3. Diffuse Line Emission from High Redshift Galaxy Halos: Fun with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager
  4. Simulating Reionization in the Illustris Universe: the Effect of Photoheating Feedback

 

Thu 01/31/2019
  1. Jane Huang (CfA)
  2. Daniela Calzetti (UMass)
  3. Eugene Chiang (Berkeley)
  4. Carl Rodriguez (MIT)
  1. Insights into planet formation from high resolution ALMA imaging
  2. The Scaling Relations of Galaxies in the Infrared
  3. Stellar Winds and Dust Avalanches in Debris Discs
  4. Binary Black Hole mergers across cosmic space and time
Thu 02/07/2019
  1. Ann-Marie Madigan (Boulder)
  2. Catherine Espaillat (BU)
  3. Shany Danieli (Yale)
  4. Shmuel Bialy (ITC)
  1. Dinosaurs in the Solar System
  2. Mentoring Models: A Multi-Method Approach
  3. Galaxies missing dark matter
  4. Thermal Phases of HI Gas - from Solar to Primordial Metallicities
Thu 02/14/2019
  1. Romane Le Gal (CfA)
  2. David Barnes (MIT)
  3. Doug Finkbeiner (Harvard)
  4. Zhong-Zhi Xianyu (Harvard Physics)
  1. Sulfur chemistry in planet-forming disks
  2. Radiative AGN feedback and dust formation with Arepo-RT
  3. Milky Way dust in 3D using star colors and Gaia DR2
  4. Aspects of compact binaries in triple systems
Thu 02/21/2019
  1. Razieh Emami Meibody (ITC)
  2. Dan Fabrycky (Chicago)
  3. Amina Helmi (Groningen)
  4. Richard Anantua (ITC)
  1. Formation Redshift of the Massive Black Holes Detected by LIGO
  2. Far-out exoplanets
  3. Constraints on the distribution of matter in the Galaxy from Gaia DR2
  4. "Observing" Jet/Accretion Flow/Black Hole (JAB) Simulations
Thu 02/28/2019
  1. Laura Mayorga (CfA)
  2. Cathy Olkin (SWRI Boulder)
  3. Jillian Bellovary (AMNH) (AMNH)
  4. Rudy Montez (CfA EIJC)
  1. The Icy Terrestrial Exoplanets in our Backyard
  2. NASA’s Lucy Mission: Surveying the Diversity of the Trojans
  3. Migrating Black Holes in AGN Disks as gravitational wave sources
  4. Bridge Programs in the US
Thu 03/07/2019
  1. Andra Stroe (CfA) (CfA)
  2. Michelle Ntampaka (Harvard Data Sciences Initiative)
  3. Rob Garrod (Virginia)
  4. Chris Kochanek (OSU)
  1. Cosmic tsunamis and tornadoes: galaxy evolution in disturbed environments
  2. The Role of Machine Learning in the Next Decade of Cosmology
  3. Microscopic simulations of interstellar and laboratory ice formation
  4. Searching for Non-Interacting Compact Object Binaries
Thu 03/14/2019
  1. Maurice Wilson (Harvard)
  2. Jedidah Isler (Dartmouth)
  3. Dan Scolnic (Duke)
  4. Paul Chesler (BHI)
  1. High precision radial velocities with MINERVA
  2. On the Vanguard: Building an Intersectional STEM Framework
  3. Addressing Possible Issues With Local Distance Ladder Measurement of Hubble Constant
  4. Holographic signatures of critical gravitational collapse
Thu 03/28/2019
  1. Rainer Weinberger (ITC)
  2. Bekki Dawson (Penn State)
  3. Leslie Rogers (Chicago)
  4. Trevor Rhone (CfA)
  1. E pur si muove: The public version of the Arepo code
  2. Who did it? Debris disk sculpting in multi-planet systems
  3. The Joint Mass-Radius-Period Distribution of Exoplanets
  4. Machine learning studies of two-dimensional magnetic materials
Thu 04/04/2019
  1. Anna Ijjas (ITC)
  2. Robin Wordsworth (Harvard SEAS)
  3. Jennifer Barnes ((Columbia)
  4. Mickael Rigault (NRS/IN2P3)
  1. Cosmic Spikes
  2. Next-generation climate modeling using line-by-line radiative transfer and generalized convection
  3. Diagnosing nucleosynthesis from late-time kilonova light curves
  4. Astrophysical biases of Type Ia Supernovae and the H0 tension
Thu 04/11/2019
  1. John Lewis (Harvard)
  2. Ken Freeman (ANU)
  3. Lisa Randall (Harvard)
  4. Vikram Ravi (CfA)
  1. CO depletion in the California Molecular Cloud
  2. Bar trapping and the Hercules moving group
  3. Rock 'n" Roll Solutions to the Hubble Tension
  4. Nearby nuclear radio transients
Thu 04/18/2019
  1. David Latham (Harvard)
  2. Vikki Meadows (U Washington)
  3. Silvia Toonen (Birmingham)
  4. Nick Stone (Columbia)
  1. The search for habitable planets
  2. Exoplanet Biosignature Assessment
  3. The fault in our stars; stellar mergers and age estimations
  4. A Statistical Solution to the Non-Hierarchical 3-Body Problem
Thu 04/25/2019
  1. Tarraneh Eftekhari (Harvard)
  2. Debora Sijacki (Cambridge)
  3. Sofia Ramstedt (Uppsala U.)
  4. Alex Lazarian (UW-Madison)
  1. A Radio Source Coincident with a Superluminous Supernova
  2. AGN jet heating of galaxy clusters
  3. DEATHSTAR: A new hope for giant winds
  4. Exploring Galactic Magnetic Fields with Velocity Gradients
Thu 05/02/2019
  1. Andrew Chael and Lehman H. Garrison (Harvard)
  2. Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin)
  3. Mike Line (ASU)
  4. Thiem Hoang (KASI)
  1. Keto Prize Talks
  2. The Start of HETDEX: the Hobby Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
  3. Brown Dwarf Abundances
  4. Discovery of a New Destruction Mechanism for Cosmic Dust and Implications in Astrophysics