ITC Wednesday Pizza Lunch Spring 2014 Schedule
The Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) pizza lunch for spring 2014 will be held on Wednesdays at 1:00pm in Phillips unless stated otherwise.
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
*Tue, 4 Feb*, 1:00, *Pratt* | E. Berger, B. Metzger | CfA, Columbia U. | The transient sky: theory and observations |
Wed, 12 Feb, 1:00, Phillips | J. Grindlay, G. Miller | CfA | Time Domain Astrophysics of the Extremes with DASCH |
Wed, 19 Feb, 1:00, Phillips | L. Sironi, X. Bai | CfA, CfA | Transient Accelerators: Non-Thermal Particles from Shocks |
Wed, 26 Feb, 1:00, Phillips | B. Kirshner, K. Mandel | CfA, CfA | Type Ia SNe in the era of optical surveys |
Wed, 5 Mar, 1:00, Phillips | D. Milisavljevic, J. Parrent | CfA, CfA | Core collapse SNe |
Wed, 12 Mar, 1:00, Phillips | M. Drout, K. Shen | CfA, UC Berkeley | The new class of very fast evolving SNe: Theory and Observations |
Wed, 19 Mar, | *Spring Break* | ||
Wed, 26 Mar, 1:00, Phillips | D. Kaplan | UW-Milwaukee | The transient sky at radio wave-lengths |
Wed, 2 Apr, 1:00, Phillips | E. Chatzopoulos, R. Lunnan | U Chicago, CfA | Superluminous SNe: Theory and Observations |
Wed, 9 Apr, 1:00, Phillips | A. Zauderer, R. Chornock, J. Guillochon | CfA, CfA, CfA | Tidal disruption events: theory and observations |
Wed, 16 Apr, 1:00, Phillips | R. Margutti, S. Chakraborti | CfA, CfA | Relativistic SNe, hypernovae and sub-energetic gamma-ray bursts |
Wed, 23 Apr, 1:00, Phillips | C. Mundell, R. Chornock, T. Laskar | Liverpool John Moores University (UK), CfA, CfA | Probing the high-z Universe with long GRBs and the new class of ultra-long GRBs: reality or curiosity? |
Wed, 30 Apr, 1:00, Phillips | K. Murase, P. Gorenstein | IAS, CfA | The future of transient searches: Multi-messenger Astronomy and new instrumentation |
Wed, 7 May, 1:00, Phillips | A. Loeb, A. Rane | Harvard U., West Virginia U. | Fast radio bursts |