# ITC Seminars 2013-2014 ## expand\_more 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. Sort**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