The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) seminars for the academic year 2010-2011 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, 7 Sep | Avi Loeb | Harvard/ITC | Future Frontiers in Astrophysics: Suggestions for Young Researchers (arXiv:1008.1586) | Alicia Soderberg | |
Tue, 14 Sep | Mansi Kasliwal | Caltech | "Transients in the Local Universe" | Alicia Soderberg | |
Shy Genel | MPE Garching | Hagai Perets | |||
Tue, 21 Sep | Kevin Schlaufman | UCSC | Halo Substructure and Milky Way Formation | Rebekah Dawson | |
Renee Hlozek | Oxford | Hagai Perets | |||
Tue, 28 Sep, 14:30, Phillips | Ue-Li Pen | CITA | '21cm cosmology' | Jonathan Pritchard | |
Tue, 5 Oct | Sukanya Chakrabarti | Berkeley | Finding Dark Galaxies From Their Tidal Imprints | Stella Offner | |
Yacine Ali-Haimoud | Caltech | Fast and accurate primordial hydrogen recombination theory | Urbano Franca | ||
Tue, 12 Oct | Michael Busha | Stanford | The Magellanic Clouds in Simulations and Real Life | Molly Swanson | |
Eva Sagi | Hebrew University | Observational Signatures of TeVeS | |||
Tue, 19 Oct, 14:30, Pratt | Martin Bojowald | Penn State | Anna Frebel | ||
Tue, 26 Oct, Classroom | Eyal Kazin | NYU | Mark Vogelsberger | ||
Silvia Galli | APC-Paris7/Rome La Sapienza | Jonathan Pritchard | |||
Tue, 2 Nov | Lorenzo Sironi | Princeton | Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Shocks | Charlie Conroy | |
Tue, 2 Nov, 13:00 | Linda Strubbe | Berkeley | Electromagnetic Flares from the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes | Stella Offner | |
Tue, 9 Nov, 14:30, Pratt | David Wiltshire | U. Canterbury, NZ | Dark energy from cosmic structure | Bob Kirshner | |
Tue, 16 Nov | Jared Gabor | U. of Arizona | Building the Red Sequence | Yue Shen | |
Tue, 23 Nov | Andrew Davis | Yale | Structure Formation in the Early Universe | Yue Shen | |
Mustafa Amin | MIT | Lumps and Bumps in the Early Universe | Bence Kocsis | ||
Tue, 30 Nov, 14:30, Phillips | Manuela Campanelli | RIT | Nico Yunes | ||
Tue, 7 Dec | Adi Zolotov | NYU | The Dual Origin of Galactic Stellar Halos | Gurtina Besla | |
Ilsang Yoon | UMass | New insight on galaxy morphology from GALPHAT | |||
Tue, 14 Dec | Khee-Gan Lee | Princeton | Constraining the IGM with the SDSS Lyman-alpha forest | Yue Shen | |
Anthony Pullen | Caltech | Search for Anisotropic Power in Large Scale Structure | Jonathan Pritchard | ||
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Tue, 11 Jan | Shin'ichiro Ando | Caltech | Toward the measurement of IGMF: Evidence of gamma-ray halos around Fermi AGN | Hagai Perets | |
Tue, 18 Jan | Assaf Sternberg | Weizmann | Evidence for Circumstellar Material in Type Ia Supernovae via Na I D Absorption Features | Hagai Perets | |
Tue, 25 Jan | Davor Krajnovic | ESO | Atlas3D survey: What are the nearby early-type galaxies? | Anil Seth | |
Tue, 1 Feb | Simeon Bird | Cambridge | Minimally Parametric Constraints on the Power Spectrum from Lyman-alpha | Jonathan Pritchard | |
Tue, 8 Feb, Pratt | Andrew MacFadyen | ITC Scholar/NYU | Turbulent Explosions - The Dynamics and Signatures of GRBs | ||
Tue, 15 Feb | Andrey Beresnyak | LANL | Balanced and Imbalanced MHD Turbulence | Asaf Pe'er | |
Tue, 22 Feb | Phil Chang | CITA | Heavy Vortices and Dark Energy | Hagai Perets | |
Tue, 1 Mar | Aaron Dotter | STScl | Insights into the formation of the Galaxy from globular clusters | Charlie Conroy | |
Tue, 8 Mar | Tamara Bogdanovic | University of Maryland | Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments | Matija Cuk | |
Tue, 15 Mar | Nir Shaviv | Hebrew University | Super-Eddington Accretion Disks | ||
Tue, 22 Mar, Pratt | Ali Vanderveld | KICP | Testing the LCDM paradigm with weak gravitational lensing | Nico Yunes | |
Tue, 29 Mar | Simon Albrecht | MIT | Spin-Orbit Angles for Binary Stars and Exoplanetary Systems | Hagai Perets | |
Tue, 5 Apr, 2:30 | Kaveh Pahlevan | Yale | When the Moon was a Cloud: A Creation Myth | Darin Ragozzine | |
Tue, 12 Apr, Phillips | Priya Natarajan | ITC Scholar/Yale | Constraining cosmology with cluster lensing | Kaitlin Kratter | |
Tue, 19 Apr | Ann-Marie Madigan | Leiden | Secular stellar dynamics near massive black holes | Hagai Perets | |
Tue, 26 Apr | Sourav Chatterjee | University of Florida | Numerical Modeling of Dense Star Clusters | ||
Tue, 3 May, Pratt | Brian O'Shea | Michigan State University | The secret lives of galaxy clusters | Eric Hallman | |
Tue, 10 May | Subo Dong | IAS | Microlensing: Marching Toward a Complete Census of Cold Exoplanet Population | Ruth Murray-Clay | |
Tue, 17 May | Charles Danforth | University of Colorado | Eric Hallman | ||
Mon, 23 May, 1:00, Phillips | Jack Burns | University of Colorado | Into the Dark Ages: The Dark Ages Radio Explorer |