ITC Seminars 2013-2014
The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) seminars for the academic year 2013-2014 will be held on Tuesdays at 1:00pm in the Pratt Conference Room (G04) unless stated otherwise.
Date & Location | Speakers | Affiliation | Title | CFA Host | CFA Office |
Tue, 10 Sep, 1:00 | David Benyamin | Hebrew University | Cosmic Ray Diffusion in a Dynamic Milky Way:recovering the observed B/C ratio in a spiral-armed cosmic ray propagation model | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 10 Sep, 1:00 | Aditya Rotti | IUCAA | Is the universe isotropic ? | Atish Kamble | |
Tue, 17 Sep, 1:00 | He Gao | UNLV | Multi-messenger signals from NS-NS mergers | Xuening Bai | |
Tue, 17 Sep, 1:00 | Sijing Shen | UC Santa Cruz | The galaxy-circumgalactic medium ecosystem in cosmological zoom-in simulations | Shy Genel | |
Tue, 24 Sep, 1:00 | Mike McCourt | Berkeley | Do galaxy clusters boil? | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 24 Sep, 1:00 | Jason Steffen | Northwestern University | More on the Architectures of Kepler Systems | Smadar Naoz | |
**Wed, 25 Sep, 12, Phillips** | Nico Yunes | Montana State University | Smadar Naoz | ||
Tue, 1 Oct, 1:00 | Sebastien Guillot | McGill University | The neutron star radius and the dense-matter equation of state. | James Guillochon | |
Tue, 1 Oct, 1:00 | Alan Powers | Giordano Bruno and the Search for Habitable Worlds | James Guillochon | ||
Tue, 8 Oct, 1:00 | Ashley Ross | University of Portsmouth | Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scale using Red and Blue Galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey | C. McBride | |
Tue, 8 Oct, 1:00 | Brian Morsony | UW Madison | Jet-powered Supernovae and GRBs | R. Margutti | |
Tue, 15 Oct, 1:00 | Alexei Baskin | Technion | Why is the Broad Line Region similar in all AGN | Aleksander Sadowski | |
Tue, 15 Oct, 1:00 | Dan Taranu | University of Toronto | Mergers in Galaxy Groups and the Fundamental Plane of Elliptical Galaxies | Laura Sales | |
Tue, 22 Oct, 1:00, *Classroom* | Rodolfo Barniol Duran | Hebrew University | R. Margutti | ||
Tue, 22 Oct, 1:00, *Classroom* | Blakesley Burkhart | University of Wisconsin-Madison | New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence in the Multiphase ISM | ||
Tue, 29 Oct, 1:00 | Girish Kulkarni | MPIA | Direct constraints on high-redshift star formation from observed chemical evolution of DLAs | Shy Genel | |
Tue, 29 Oct, 1:00 | Yuexing Li | Penn State | Bridging the gap between theory and observations of galaxies across cosmic time | Shy Genel | |
Tue, 5 Nov, 1:00 | Ke Fang | University of Chicago | The Mysterious sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays | Sayan Chakraborti | |
Tue, 5 Nov, 1:00 | Colin Hill | Princeton University | New Constraints on the Amplitude of Cosmic Density Fluctuations and Intracluster Gas from the Thermal SZ Signal Measured by Planck and ACT | Xuening Bai | |
Tue, 12 Nov, 1:00 | Alexandra Veledina | University of Oulu | Accretion in X-ray binaries: imprints of non-thermal particles | Laura Sales | |
Tue, 12 Nov, 1:00 | Chris Hayward | Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies | Galaxy mergers on a moving mesh | Laura Sales | |
Tue, 19 Nov, 1:00 | Elinor Medezinski | Johns Hopkins University | The Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble: Unveiling the Dark Sector | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 19 Nov, 1:00 | Rodrigo Nemmen | NASA Goddard | Unifying Black Hole Activity Across the Mass Scale | R. Margutti | |
Tue, 26 Nov, 1:00 | Diego Lopez-Camara | NC State University | Photospheric emission of variable jets | R. Margutti | |
Tue, 26 Nov, 1:00 | Takamitsu (Taka) Tanaka | MPA | A prominent time-domain electromagnetic signature of accreting supermassive black hole binaries | Thomas Greif | |
Tue, 3 Dec, 1:00 | Nick Cowan | Northwestern University | Planetary Science from the Top Down | Konstantin Batygin | |
Tue, 3 Dec, 1:00 | Ryan Trainor | Caltech | Probing the Brightest QSOs though the spatial distribution of galaxies and (fluorescent) Lya emitters | Konstantin Batygin | |
Tue, 10 Dec, 1:00 | Mikhail Belyaev | Princeton University | Exciting Waves in Accretion Disk Boundary Layers | Yanfei Jiang | |
Tue, 10 Dec, 1:00 | Ely Kovetz | UT Austin | Cosmic Bandits: Exploration vs. Exploitation in Cosmological Surveys | ||
** Thu, 12 Dec , 11:00 ** | Renee Hlozek | Princeton | Small-scale CMB cosmology: ACT, Planck and beyond | John Johnson | |
** Thu, 12 Dec , 11:00 ** | Jennifer van Saders | Ohio State University | Better Stars, Better Planets, Better Populations: Using Stellar Rotation to Refine Estimates of Stellar Parameters | John Johnson | |
** Thu, 19 Dec , 11:00 ** | Banibrata Mukhopadhyay | Indian Institute of Science | New mass limit for magnetized white dwarfs and its consequences | ||
Tue, 21 Jan, 1:00 | Marcel van Daalen | Leiden University | The effects of galaxy formation on clustering | Shy Genel | |
** Wed, 5 Feb, 1:00 **, *Phillips* | Elisabeth Krause | University of Pennsylvania | Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era | Cameron McBride | |
Tue, 11 Feb, 1:00 | Pau Amaro-Seoane | Max-Planck Institute | James Guillochon | ||
Tue, 4 March, 1:00 | Katherine J. Mack | University of Melbourne | Known Unknowns of Dark Matter Annihilation over Cosmic Time | Jonathan McDowell | |
Tue, 11 March, 1:00 | Ken Shen | UC Berkeley | R. Margutti | ||
Tue, 25 March, 1:00 *special colloquium* | Volker Bromm | UT Austin | Thomas Greif | ||
Tue, 1 Apr, 1:00 | Assaf Horesh | Weizmann Institute | Exploring the dynamic radio sky | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 8 Apr, 1:00 | Neil Crighton | Swinburne University of Technology | The metallicity of the z~2.5 circumgalactic medium | Kate Rubin | |
Tue, 15 Apr, 1:00 | Omer Bromberg | Princeton University | Getting a handle on the nature of long GRB jets | Smadar Naoz | |
Tue, 22 Apr, 1:00 | Yuval Birnboim | The Hebrew University | The effect of non-thermal pressure components on star forming ISM | Laura Sales | |
Tue, 29 Apr, 1:00 | Kohta Murase | Institute for Advanced Study | R. Margutti | ||
Tue, 6 May, 1:00 | Hubert Klahr | Max-Planck Institut, Heidelberg | The Formation of Planetesimals in Starving Mode:Zonal Flows and Vortices in Circumstellar Disks | Xuening Bai | |
Tue, 13 May, 1:00 | Najita, Joan | NOAO | |||
*Fri*, 30 May, 11:00, *Phillips* | Jack Burns | University of Colorado Boulder |