ITC Seminars 2012-2013
The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) seminars for the academic year 2012-2013 will be held on Tuesdays at 1:00pm in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise. There are typically two 30 min seminars scheduled for each date.
Date & Location | Speakers | Affiliation | Title | CFA Host | CFA Office |
Tue, 4 Sep, 1:00 | |||||
Tue, 4 Sep, 1:00 | |||||
Tue, 11 Sep, 1:00, *Classroom* | Jonathan Pober | UC Berkeley | Smadar Naoz | ||
Tue, 11 Sep, 1:00, *Classroom* | Jim Fuller | Cornell | Smadar Naoz | ||
Tue, 18 Sep, 1:00 | Avi Loeb | Harvard | "Future Frontiers in Astrophysics: Suggestions for YoungResearchers" | ||
Tue, 25 Sep, 1:00 | Toshi Futamasi | ||||
Tue, 25 Sep, 1:00 | Laura Sales | MPA | Thomas Greif | ||
Tue, 2 Oct, 1:00 | Mark Hertzberg | MIT | Molly Swanson | ||
Tue, 2 Oct, 1:00 | Kuo-Chuan Pan | U. of Illinois | Impact of Type Ia Supernova Ejecta on Binary Companions within the Single-Degenerate Scenarioand Subsequent Evolution of Post-Impact Remnant stars | Molly Swanson | |
Tue, 9 Oct, 1:00 | William High | U. of Chicago | Targeted weak-lensing follow-up of galaxy clusters in the South Pole Telescope survey | Raffaella Margutti | |
Tue, 9 Oct, 1:00 | Adam Miller | UC Berkeley | Raffaella Margutti | ||
Tue, 16 Oct, 1:00 | James Guillochon | UCSC | New Discoveries from the Numerical Simulation of Tidal Disruptions | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 16 Oct, 1:00 | YanFei Jiang | Princeton | Thermal Stability and Vertical Structure of Radiation Dominated accretionDisks | Xuening Bai / Lorenzo Sironi | |
Tue, 23 Oct, 1:00 | Blake Sherwin | Princeton | CMB Lensing: Mapping Dark Matter with ACT and ACTPol | Tassos Fragos | |
Tue, 23 Oct, 1:00 | Drew Newman | Caltech | Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster Cores and the Assembly of Giant Ellipticals | Tassos Fragos | |
Tue, 30 Oct, 1:00 | Gwen Rudie | Caltech | Dan Milisavljevic | ||
Tue, 30 Oct, 1:00 | Nicolas Bouche | Shy Genel | |||
Tue, 6 Nov, 1:00 | Rongfeng Shen | U. of Toronto | Evolution and Precession of Accretion Disk in Tidal Disruption Events by Supermassive Black Holes | Sayan Chakraborti | |
Tue, 6 Nov, 1:00 | Eugene Vasiliev | Rochester | Supermassive black holes in non-spherical galactic nuclei and enhanced rates of star capture events | Thomas Greif | |
Tue, 13 Nov, 1:00 | Vera Gluscevic | Caltech | CMB as a Probe of New Physics: The Story of Cosmic Birefringence | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 13 Nov, 1:00 | Tim Morton | Caltech | Enabling the Kepler Exoplanet Census | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 20 Nov, 1:00 | Dan Grin | IAS | New light on cosmic initial conditions and dark matter | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 20 Nov, 1:00 | Pascal Oesch | UCSC | Galaxy Build-up in the First 2 Billion Years: New Insights from Deep HST and Spitzer Observations | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 27 Nov, 1:00 | Lauren Porter | UCSC | Simulating the Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies | Cameron McBride | |
Tue, 27 Nov, 1:00 | Jill Naiman | UCSC | Cameron McBride | ||
Tue, 4 Dec, 1:00 | Yookyung Noh | UC Berkeley | Shy Genel | ||
Tue, 4 Dec, 1:00 | Annalisa Pillepich | UCSC | Smadar Naoz | ||
Tue, 11 Dec, 1:00 | Hotaka Shiokawa | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Tassos Fragos | ||
Tue, 11 Dec, 1:00 | Tsing Wai Wong | Northwestern University | Tassos Fragos | ||
Tue, 12 Feb, 1:00 | Edward Macaulay | University of Oxford | Cosmology with Galaxy Redshifts and Peculiar Velocities - Current Mysteries and Future Prospects | Raffaella Margutti | |
Tue, 19 Feb, 1:00 | Rowan Smith | University of Heidelberg | Signatures of Dynamical Collapse during High Mass Star Formation | Shy Genel | |
Tue, 19 Feb, 1:00 | Rahul Shetty | University of Heidelberg | Evidence for a non-universal Kennicutt-Schmidt relationship using hierarchical Bayesian linear regression | Shy Genel | |
Tue, 26 Feb, 1:00 | Johan Comparat | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille | A bright and massive galaxy population at z = 1 | Cameron McBride | |
Tue, 26 March, 1:00 | Christoph Weniger | University of Amsterdam, GRAPPA Institute | Gamma-ray lines in the Fermi LAT data? | Doug Finkbeiner | |
Wed, 3 Apr @ Phillips, 1:00 ** special time and place ** | Raul Jimenez | ICC, Universitat de Barcelona | Konstantin Batygin | ||
Tue, 16 Apr, 1:00 | Roman Shcherbakov | University of Maryland | A new channel for X-ray flashes: tidal disruptions of WDs by IMBHs | Olek | |
Tue, 23 Apr, 1:00 | Min-Kai Lin | CITA | Large-scale hydrodynamic instabilities in protoplanetary disks | Xuening Bai | |
Tue, 30 Apr @ Phillips ** special place **, 1:00pm | Richard Ellis | Caltech | Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies During the Reionization Era | Shy Genel | |
Tue, 7 May, 1:00 | Jason Dexter | Berkeley | Tassos Fragos | ||
Tue, 14 May, 1:00 | Kengo Tomida | Princeton | Xuening Bai | ||
Tue, 21 May, 1:00 | Tony Pan | ITC | Properties of unusually luminous supernova |