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 
| 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 | |
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| 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 |