# ITC Seminars 2011-2012 ## expand\_more 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 [](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, 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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 [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) Tue, Apr 3 Rebecca Martin STScI Accretion Outbursts on to Young Stars and Planets Asaf Pe'er Tue, Apr 10, Pratt [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) Martin White UC Berkeley Redshift space distortions and the growth of cosmic structure Charlie Conroy Tue, Apr 17, Pratt [](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html) 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