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ITC Special Seminar: Melinda Soares-Furtado (Princeton)

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" Using Image Subtraction to Search for Planets and Variables in Crowded Stellar Fields" Abstract: Open clusters and globular clusters serve as useful astrophysical laboratories, containing an assemblage of coeval stars sharing similar distances and...

ITC director Avi Loeb and ITC postdoc Manasvi Lingam have identified major challenges for the development of life in TRAPPIST-1

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ITC director Avi Loeb and ITC postdoc Manasvi Lingam have identified major challenges for the development of life in what has recently become one of the most famous exoplanet systems, TRAPPIST-1. Read about it!

9/19 ITC Seminar - Mattia di Mauro (Stanford)

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"Characterizing the population of pulsars in the Galactic bulge with the Fermi Large Area Telescope" ABSTRACT: Several groups have demonstrated the existence of an excess in the gamma-ray emission around the Galactic Center (GC) with respect to the...

9/26 ITC Special - Aleksey Generozov (Columbia)

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10/3 ITC Seminar - Andrew Graus (UCI)

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10/3 ITC Seminar - Saavik Ford (AMNH / CUNY)

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"The AGN Channel For LIGO Black Hole Binary Mergers" Abstract: I will present a model for stellar mass black hole binary (BHB) mergers accelerated by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) accretion disk. This model predicted the existence of overweight'...

10/10 ITC Seminar - Shmuel Bialy (Tel Aviv)

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10/31 ITC Seminar - Stephen Pardy (UW Madison)

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11/7 ITC Seminar - Robyn Sanderson (Caltech)

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11/14 ITC Seminar - Xiangcheng Ma (Caltech)

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11/21 ITC Seminar - Maria Petropoulou (Princeton)

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"Plasmoids in relativistic magnetic reconnection: blobs of blazar jets?" Abstract: Powerful flares from blazars with minute-timescale variability are challenging for current models of blazar emission. An excellent candidate for describing such events is...

10/5 ITC Colloquium - Paul Duffell (Berkeley)

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"Moving Mesh Astrophysics" Abstract: Novel methods in recent years have been developed for numerically solving the hydrodynamical and MHD equations relevant to all kinds of astrophysical flows. I will first (briefly) present one such computational...