The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) seminars for the academic year 2009-2010 will be held on Tuesdays at 12:30pm in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise. There are two 30 min seminars scheduled for each date. On some Tuesdays, the Joint MIT/CfA/Tufts Cosmology seminar will be held instead, in the Phillips Auditorium at 2:30pm.
Date & Location | Speakers | Affiliation | Title | CFA Host | CFA Office |
Tue, 15 Sep | Andrew Wetzel | UC Berkeley | Satellite galaxy merging and disruption | Dusan Keres | |
Tue, 22 Sep, 14:30, **Pratt** | Laura V. Sales | Groningen | The Origin of Extended Disk Galaxies at z=2 | Elena D'Onghia | |
Tue, 29 Sep | Ian Roederer | UT Austin | Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Stellar Halo | Anna Frebel | |
Tue, 6 Oct | Ken Shen | UCSB | Hydrodynamical He Shell Burning in AM CVn Systems: New Results on SNe.Ia | Alicia Soderberg | |
Tue, 13 Oct, 14:30, Phillips | | | | | |
Tue, 20 Oct | Charlie Conroy | Princeton | The stellar population synthesis technique | Alicia Soderberg | |
Fri, 23 Oct, 10:00, Phillips | Simona Vegetti | Kapteyn Institute, Groningen | Detecting low-mass substructure via gravitational imaging | Doug Finkbeiner | |
Tue, 27 Oct, **M340,160 Concord** | Nico Yunes | Princeton | General Relativity on Trial: Gravitational Wave Tests and the Parameterized post-Einsteinian Framework | Lijun Gou | |
Tue, 3 Nov, 14:30, Phillips | Toby Marriage | Princeton | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: An Overview and Progress Report | Hy Trac | |
Tue, 10 Nov | Andrey Beresnyak | U. of Wisc. | Strong Imbalanced Turbulence | Jifeng Liu | |
Tue, 17 Nov | Molly Peeples | Ohio State | Balancing Outflows and Gas Dilution: The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z=0 | Jaiyul Yoo | |
Tue, 24 Nov, 14:30, Phillips | Jonathan Pritchard | CfA | Cosmology from the redshifted 21 cm line | Jaiyul Yoo | |
Tue, 1 Dec | Kaitlin Kratter | Toronto | The role of disks in the formation of stellar systems | Stella Offner | |
Tue, 8 Dec | Dan Grin | Caltech | Cosmological hydrogen recombination: the effect of high-n states and forbidden transitions | Darin Ragozzine | |
Tue, 15 Dec, 14:30, Phillips | Hiranya Peiris | UCL | The nature of the primordial fluctuations: concordance or discordance? | Jonathan Pritchard | |
Tue, 2 Feb | Alexie Leauthaud | LBL | New weak lensing results from the COSMOS survey | Jonathan Pritchard | |
Tue, 9 Feb, 14:30, Phillips | Jeremy Tinker | UC Berkeley | Galaxy Formation under the Halo Occupation Ansatz | Yuval Birnboim | |
Tue, 16 Feb | Shantanu Basu | | Self-Consistent Formation and Long-term Evolution of Circumstellar Disks | Stellar Offner | |
Tue, 23 Feb | Brian Jackson | Goddard | Close-in Extra-Solar Planets and Tides | Darin Ragozzine | |
Tue, 2 Mar, 14:30, Phillips | Jaiyul Yoo | ITC/CfA | New Perspective on Galaxy Clustering and Cosmology: General Relativistic Effects | Jonathan Pritchard | |
Tue, 9 Mar | | | | | |
Tue, 16 Mar | No Talk | | Spring Recess | | |
Tue, 23 Mar, 14:30, Phillips | David Schlegel | LBNL | BOSS and BigBOSS | Doug Finkbeiner | |
Tue, 30 Mar | Zheng Zheng | Yale | Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering | Hy Trac | |
Tue, 6 Apr | Aaron Geller | Wisconsin | Unveiling the Blue Stragglers in the Old Open Cluster NGC 188 | Hagai Perets | |
Tue, 13 Apr, 14:30, **Pratt** | Licia Verde | ICREA, Barcelona | Future galaxy surveys and the shape of the power spectrum | Jaiyul Yoo | |
Tue, 20 Apr | Nathan Leigh | McMaster | Stellar Encounters With Multiple Star Systems and the Blue Straggler Problem | Hagai Perets | |
Tue, 27 Apr, Classroom | Daniel Savin | Columbia | The Genesis Projects: Laboratory Studies in Molecular Astrophysics fromthe First Star to the Beginnings of Organic Chemistry | Yue Shen | |
Tue, 4 May, 14:30, Phillips | Zeljko Ivezic | U Washington | Reaching for the sky with SDSS and LSST | Mario Juric | |
Tue, 18 May | Kimitake Hayasaki | Hokkaido Univ. | A New Approach for Probing Binary Massive Black Holes | Akshay Kulkarni |