# ITC Seminars 2009-2010 ## expand\_more 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) will be held instead, in the Phillips Auditorium at 2:30pm. Sort**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** [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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** [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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