# ITC Seminars 2010-2011 ## expand\_more 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 [](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, 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 Tue, 21 Dec Tue, 11 Jan [Shin'ichiro Ando](http://www.its.caltech.edu/~ando/eng/Home.html) 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](http://www.eso.org/~dkrajnov/) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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](http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/index.php/Directory/Chang-Philip) 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](http://www.astro.umd.edu/people/tamarab.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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