# ITC Seminars 2012-2013 ## expand\_more 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. Sort**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