ITC Seminars 2011-2012

The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) seminars for the academic year 2011-2012 will be held on Tuesdays at 12:30pm in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise. There are typically 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, 6 Sep
 Felipe Marin
 Swinburne
 
 Cameron McBride
 
 
 Sayan Chakraborti
 
 
 Raffaella Margutti
 
Tue, 13 Sep
 Jing Luan
 Caltech
 Orbital evolution in common envelopes
 
 
 
 Xiaoying Xu
 U. of Arizona
 Cosmology with Reconstructed BAO in the SDSS DR7 LRG Sample
 Cameron McBride
 
Tue, 20 Sep
 Kevin Heng
 ETH Zurich
 A Hierarchical Approach to Understanding the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters: from 1D Models to 3D Simulations
 Bence Kocsis
 
 
 Benny Trakhtenbrot
 Tel Aviv Univ.
 The evolution of M*/MBH between z = 2 and z = 0
 Hagai Perets
 
Tue, 27 Sep, Phillips  
 Daisuke Nagai
 Yale University
 A New Era of Cosmology and Astrophysics with Galaxy Clusters
 Yue Shen
 
Tue, 4 Oct
 Stephen Feeny
 U. College London
 First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation
 Molly Swanson
 
 
 Will Farr
 Northwestern University
 Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics
 Molly Swanson
 
Tue, 11 Oct
 Jillian Bellovary
 University of Michigan
 The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations
 Elena D'Onghia
 
 
 Itay Rabinak
 Weizmann Institute of Science
 
 Raffaella Margutti
 
Tue, 18 Oct, Pratt 
 Tsvi Piran
 Hebrew U.
 
 Hagai Perets
 
Tue, 25 Oct
 Katie Mack
 U. of Cambridge
 The 21cm Forest
 Douglas Finkbeiner
 
 
 Peter Behroozi
 Stanford
 
 Charlie Conroy
 
Tue, 1 Nov
 Snezana Prodan
 University of Toronto
 The Curious Case of 4U 1820-30: On the Resonant Trapping and Tidal Dissipation Rate of the White Dwarf Secondary
 Kaitlin Kratter
 
 
 Francesca Valsecchi
 Northwestern University
 Tidal Effects in Double White Dwarfs Binaries
 Tassos Fragos
 
Tue, 8 Nov
 Leo Girardi
 INAF
 
 Charlie Conroy
 
Tue, 15 Nov
 Evan O'Connor
 Caltech
 Core-Collapse Supernovae: Black Holes and Neutrinos
 Raffaella Margutti
 
 
 Dan Stark
 U. Cambridge
 
 Matt Walker
 
Tue, 22 Nov, Phillips  
 Jesus Zavala Franco
 Waterloo
 
 Mark Vogelsberger
 
Tue, 29 Nov
 Kat Barger
 University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
 Elena D'Onghia
 
 
 Branimir Sesar
 Caltech
 
 Mario Juric
 
Tue, 6 Dec
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Philip Zukin
 MIT
 
 Anna Frebel
 
Tue, Jan 24, Pratt 
 Florian Butler
 University of Western Australia
 Title: The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the Local Hubble Constant
 Daniel Eisenstein
 
Tue, Jan 31
 
 
 
 
 
Tue, Feb 7
 Robert Fisher
 UMass Dartmouth
 
 Kaitlin Kratter
 
Tue, Feb 14, Pratt  
 
 
 
 
 
Tue, Feb 21
 
 
 
 
 
Tue,Feb 28
 Matt Payne
 University of Florida
 Exotic Planet Formation Scenarios: Close Resonant Systems & Fomalhaut
 Hagai Perets
 
Tue, Mar 6, Pratt  
 
 
 
 
 
Tue, Mar 13
 SPRING BREAK
 
 
 
 
Tue, Mar 20
 Nick Moeckel
 University of Cambridge
 Binaries and discs: complicating the planet-planet scattering scenario
 Kaitlin Kratter
 
Tue, Mar 27, Pratt  
 
 
 
 
 
Tue, Apr 3
 Rebecca Martin
 STScI
 Accretion Outbursts on to Young Stars and Planets
 Asaf Pe'er
 
Tue, Apr 10, Pratt 
 Martin White
 UC Berkeley
 Redshift space distortions and the growth of cosmic structure
 Charlie Conroy
 
Tue, Apr 17, Pratt 
 Sara Ellison
 University of Victoria
 Gas flows in galaxies: mergers and bars
 Elena D'Onghia
 
Tue, Apr 24
 Aaron Geller
 Northwestern University
 
 Smadar Naoz
 
Tue, May 1
 Meg Schwamb
 Yale
 Planet Hunters: Searching for Exoplanets with 340,000 Eyes
 Hagai Perets
 
Tue, May 8
 Ken Wong
 
 
 Dan Eisenstein