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2012
Date & TimeEventTypePresentation
Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 3:10 PM Lars Hernquist (CfA)
Cosmology on a Moving Mesh
Seminar Video
Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 2:10 PM Manuel Tiglio (U. of Maryland)
Gravitational waves and Reduced Basis
Seminar Video
Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 3:10 PM Vivana Acquaviva (Rutgers)
Understanding the Spectral Energy Distribution of galaxies
Seminar Video
Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 3:10 PM Frans Pretorius (Princeton)
Eccentric Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers
Seminar Video
Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 3:10 PM Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Princeton)
Getting the Most out of a Black Hole
Seminar
Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 3:10 PM Daniel Lecoanet (Berkeley)
Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in a Dilute Plasma
Seminar Video
Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 2:10 PM Enrico Barausse (U. of Guelph)
The evolution of the spins of massive black holes
Seminar Video
Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 2:10 PM Phil Chang (U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars
Seminar Video
Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:10 PM Chris McKee (Berkeley)
STAR FORMATION IN THE MULTIPHASE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM OF GALAXIES
Seminar
Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 3:10 PM Dong Lai (Cornell University)
Dynamical Tides in Binaries: Merging White Dwarfs, Kepler KOI-54 and Hot Jupiter Systems
Seminar Video
Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 2:10 PM Eve Ostriker (U. of Maryland)
Star Formation By Demand
Seminar Video
Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 2:10 PM Scott Noble (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Magnetized Accretion onto Inspiraling Binary Black Holes
Seminar Video
Mon, Mar 12, 2012, 3:10 PM Bruno Giacomazzo (University of Colorado (JILA))
General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Seminar Video
Mon, Mar 05, 2012, 3:10 PM Sohrab Rahvar (Sharif University)
Understanding EROS microlensing observations towards the Spiral Arms
Seminar Video
Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 3:10 PM Ramesh Narayan (Harvard)
Black Hole Spin and Relativistic Jets
Seminar Video
Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 2:10 PM Aurelien Fraisse (Princeton U.)
SPIDER: Looking for CMB B-mode Polarization Behind the Galactic Screen
Seminar
Mon, Feb 20, 2012, 3:10 PM Kristian Finlator (UCSB)
Searching for Simplicity in the High-Redshift Universe
Seminar Video
Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 2:10 PM Bridget Falck (JHU)
Efficient Methods for Structure Formation
Seminar
Thu, Feb 09, 2012, 3:10 PM Justin Khoury (UPenn)
Symmetries of the Very Early Universe
Seminar Video
Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 2:10 PM Irina Marinov (UPenn)
Role of the Ocean in climate change: the carbon story
Seminar Video
Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 3:10 PM Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (University of British Columbia)
Old Physics, New Tricks, and the Theory of Atomic Dark Matter
Seminar Video
Thu, Feb 02, 2012, 3:10 PM Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC)
Tests of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
Seminar Video
Thu, Feb 02, 2012, 11:10 AM Bronson Messer (Oak Ridge National Lab)
Towards Realistic Modeling of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Seminar
Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 3:10 PM Leslie Rogers (MIT)
Liquid Water Oceans on Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
Seminar Video
Thu, Jan 26, 2012, 2:10 PM Adrian Liu (MIT)
Optimizing global 21cm signal measurements with spectral and spatial information
Seminar Video
Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 3:10 PM Michael Mortonson (Ohio State University)
Mapping New Frontiers of Cosmic Acceleration
Seminar Video
Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 2:10 PM Kris Sigurdson (University of British Columbia)
Two Tales of the Early Universe
Seminar Video
Mon, Jan 16, 2012, 3:10 PM Kendrick Smith (Princeton)
Constraining the physics of inflation with the CMB
Seminar Video
Thu, Jan 12, 2012, 2:10 PM Andrew MacFadyen (NYU)
The Dynamics and Afterglow Radiation of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Seminar Video
Mon, Jan 09, 2012, 3:10 PM David Merritt (RIT)
Relativistic Stellar Dynamics and EMRIs
Seminar
Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 1:10 PM Vivien Raymond (Norhtwestern University)
Astrophysics with LIGO/Virgo, the challenges of parameter estimation
Seminar
Fri, Dec 09, 2011, 2:10 PM Volker Springel (MPA Garching)
Simulating the Universe: past, present, and future results
Seminar Video
Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 2:10 PM Mark Vogelsberger (CfA)
Collisionless, less Collisionless and Collisional Matter in the Universe
Seminar Video
Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 1:10 PM Evan O'Connor (Caltech)
Core Collapse Supernovae: Black Holes and Neutrinos
Seminar Video
Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 3:10 PM Daniel Thomas (Imperial College London)
Making Gravity Count: Cluster Numbers and other cosmological observables in Model Independent Modified Gravity
Seminar Video
Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 2:10 PM Michele Vallisneri (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
Space-based gravitational-wave astronomy in the next decade, with a coda of statistics
Seminar Video
Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 2:10 PM Freeke van de Voort (Leiden U.)
The growth of galaxies and their gaseous haloes
Seminar Video
Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 3:10 PM Sebastian Heinz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
All curled up: Shock-bubble interactions in clusters of galaxies
Seminar Video
Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 2:10 PM Phil Arras (U. of Virginia)
Tidal Evolution in Binaries Containing Solar-Type Stars
Seminar Video
Mon, Nov 21, 2011, 3:10 PM Francesca Valsecchi (Northwestern University)
Tidal Effects in Double White Dwarf Binaries
Seminar Video
Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 2:10 PM Greg Dobler (KITP)
The Galactic Haze/Bubbles: Our Ringside Seat for Energetic Phenomena in the Centers of Galaxies
Seminar Video
Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:10 PM Graeme Addison (Oxford)
Connecting Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution with the Clustering of High-Redshift Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies
Seminar Video
Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 2:10 PM Ann-Marie Madigan (Leiden U.)
The dynamics of stars near massive black holes
Seminar Video
Mon, Nov 14, 2011, 3:10 PM Brad Hansen (UCLA)
Empirical Calibration of Extrasolar Tidal Interactions
Seminar Video
Fri, Nov 11, 2011, 12:10 PM Johannes Noller (Imperial College London)
Non-Gaussianity in single field inflation beyond slow-roll
Seminar
Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 2:10 PM Phil Armitage (U. of Colorado)
Planet formation: First steps from first principles
Seminar Video
Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 3:10 PM Alan Kogut (NASA/GSFC)
Inflation, Reionization, and All That: The Primordial Inflation Explorer
Seminar Video
Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 2:10 PM Roman Rafikov (Princeton U.)
Metal-rich white dwarfs as signposts of planet formation
Seminar Video
Mon, Oct 31, 2011, 3:10 PM Ian Parrish (Berkeley)
The Intracluster Medium from Inside to Out: Thermal Instability and Non-thermal Pressure Support
Seminar Video
Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 2:10 PM Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)
The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
Seminar Video
Mon, Oct 24, 2011, 3:10 PM Alexander S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
Extreme Data-Intensive Computing in Astrophysics
Seminar
Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 2:10 PM Laura Blecha (Harvard)
Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers: Before and After
Seminar Video
Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 3:10 PM François Boulanger (IAS Paris)
The energetics of turbulent molecular gas and star formation
Seminar Video
Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:10 PM Jean-Loup Puget (Institut d'astrophysique spatiale)
Planck and the Cosmic Infrared Background
Seminar Video
Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 2:10 PM Dan Fabrycky (UCSC)
New Views on Extrasolar Planetary Systems from the Kepler Space Telescope
Seminar
Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:10 PM Richard O'Shaughnessy (U. of Wisconsim, Milwaukee)
Low metallicity star formation: a nursery for compact binary mergers?
Seminar Video
Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 3:10 PM Jillian Bellovary (University of Michigan)
The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations
Seminar Video
Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 2:10 PM Charles Gammie (UIUC)
Numerical Models of Weakly Radiating Black Holes
Seminar Video
Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 12:00 PM CITA Jamboree Other
Mon, Sep 26, 2011, 3:10 PM Yohai Meiron (Technion)
Simulating black hole binaries by imposing conservation laws
Seminar Video
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:10 PM Marilena LoVerde (IAS)
Primordial Non-Gaussianity in Large-scale Structure
Seminar Video
Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 3:10 PM Jaiseung Kim (Niels Bohr Institute)
Anomalous odd-parity preference of CMB anisotropy data
Seminar Video
Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 2:10 PM Niayesh Afshordi (PI / University of Waterloo)
Where will Einstein fail?
Seminar Video
Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 2:10 PM Paul Demorest (NRAO)
Testing Physics with Millisecond Radio Pulsars
Seminar Video
Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 3:00 PM Aaron Dutton (UVic)
Dark Halo Contraction and the Stellar IMF: Constraints from Scaling Relations and Strong Lensing
Seminar Video
Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 3:00 PM Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC)
Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes
Seminar Video
Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 2:00 PM Tanmay Vachaspati (ASU)
TBA-Vachaspati
Seminar Video
Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 7:30 PM SACKLER PUBLIC LECTURE
Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)

The World as Hologram
Seminar Video
Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 3:00 PM CITA Colloquium (Sackler Lecture Series)
Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)

Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Seminar Video
Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 2:00 PM CITA National Fellows Meeting
Jesús Zavala Franco (University of Waterloo); Hendrik Hildebrandt (UBC); Nathan Kaib (Queens)
Seminar
Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 1:30 PM Sergei Shandarin (University of Kansas)
TBA - Shandarin
Seminar Video
Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 3:10 PM Alex Maloney (McGill)
Quantum Gravity in de Sitter Space
Seminar Video
Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 2:00 PM Andreas Albrecht (UC Davis)
Inflation, infinity, equilibrium and the observable Universe
Seminar Video
Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 9:00 AM 21-cm Cosmology: Advanced Data Analysis Workshop
Fri, May 27, 2011, 12:00 PM Daisuke Nagai (Yale)
Cosmology and Astrophysics with Galaxy Clusters
Seminar
Tue, May 24, 2011, 2:10 PM Antje Putze (Stockholm University)
Phenomenology and detection of nuclear cosmic rays
Seminar Video
Thu, May 19, 2011, 2:30 PM Alex Young (UPenn)
SZE Results from MUSTANG and Prospects for MUSTANG-2
Seminar Video
Thu, May 19, 2011, 2:00 PM Erik Reese (UPenn)
Follow-Up ACT: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array Observations
Seminar Video
Wed, May 18, 2011, 2:10 PM Philipp Moesta (Albert Einstein Institute)
Electromagnetic counterparts and horizon geometry of binary black-hole mergers
Seminar Video
Mon, May 16, 2011, 3:00 PM Peter Goldreich (Caltech/IAS)
Overstable Modes in Planetary Rings
Seminar Video
Thu, May 12, 2011, 2:10 PM Holden Chen (ASU)
Geodesically Complete Analytic Solutions to a Cyclic Universe
Seminar Video
Mon, May 09, 2011, 3:10 PM Ari Laor (Technion)
The Radiative Efficiency of Accretion Flows in Individual Active Galactic Nuclei
Seminar Video
Thu, May 05, 2011, 2:10 PM Mark Wyman (KICP, University of Chicago)
Massive gravitons and enhanced gravitational lensing
Seminar Video
Mon, May 02, 2011, 3:00 PM John Everett (UWisc Madison)
Thermal and Non-Thermal Acceleration of Multiphase Galactic Winds: Bipartisan Wind Driving?
Seminar Video
Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 2:10 PM Aristotle Socrates (IAS)
Thermal Tides: An Explanation for the Inflated Radii of the Hot Jupters
Seminar
Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 2:10 PM Zhiqi Huang (Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA/Saclay)
The Dark Energy trajectories in the post-EUCLID era
Seminar
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 2:10 PM Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser University)
Local non-Gaussianity Estimators for the CMB Data Analysis
Seminar
Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 3:10 PM Andrei Gruzinov (NYU)
Pulsars
Seminar Video
Fri, Apr 15, 2011, 1:00 PM John Whelan (RIT)
Cross-Correlation Methods in Continuous Gravitational-Wave Searches
Seminar
Thu, Apr 14, 2011, 2:00 PM Louis D'endecourt (Paris)
Photo and thermochemistry of interstellar ices: from astrochemistry to astrobiology?
Seminar Video