ITC Seminars 2009-2010

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