| Wednesday
Forum |
| The ITC Wednesday
Forum is a free discussion led by an invited
CfA member or visitor. It is held at 3:00 pm in the ITC Lounge
unless noted otherwise. Please contact Yuexing
Li (yxli@cfa) for more information about this Forum. |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Spring 2008 |
| Wed, 23 Jan |
Alexey Vihklinin (HEA) |
Cosmology with
galaxy clusters: what is done, what
is promising, what is puzzling? |
| Wed, 30 Jan |
Warren Brown (OIR) |
Hypervelocity stars |
| Wed, 06 Feb |
Qizhou Zhang (RG) |
How to make big stars? |
| Wed, 13 Feb |
Elena D'Onghia
(U. Zurich) |
Dwarf galaxies
in the local group |
| Wed, 20 Feb |
Michael Meyer (Arizona) |
Two Tails of a
Distribution Function: The Initial Mass Functions of Extreme Star Formation |
| Wed, 27 Feb |
Fotini
Markopoulou-Kalamara (Perimeter) |
A simple model of emergent space and matter |
| Wed, 05 Mar |
Jeff McClintock (HEA) |
Measuring black hole spin: progress, problems and promise |
| Wed, 12 Mar |
Lisa Kaltenegger (OIR) |
Assembling the puzzle: Atmospheric and Surface Biomarkers on exoplanets |
| Wed, 19 Mar |
Jay Strader (OIR) |
Unsolved
problems in extragalactic globular
clusters
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| Wed, 26 Mar |
**Spring Break** |
**Have fun** |
| Tue, 01 Apr**
(special date) |
Brenda Frye (Dublin) |
Strongly-lensed Lyman-break Galaxies: Rare Views of the High Redshift Universe |
| Wed, 09 Apr |
Dimitar Sasselov
(SSP, HOLI) |
What's next in exoplanet research? - some
theoretical issues |
| Wed, 16 Apr |
Ronald Walsworth (CfA, Physics) |
Potential
applications of
astro-combs + lab tour |
| Wed, 23 Apr |
David Wilner
(RG) |
Protoplanetary Disk Structure |
| Wed, 30 Apr |
Robert Kirshner (OIR) |
Observing supernovae in the infrared: a better way to measure dark energy? |
| Wed, 07 May |
Saku Vrtilek (HEA) |
Doppler
tomography of X-ray binaries |
| Wed, 14 May |
**Sackler Symposium** |
21 cm Cosmology |
| Wed, 21 May |
Josh Grindlay (HEA) |
GRB Analogs from
Blazars |
| Wed, 28 May |
Alyssa Goodman (RG, IIC) |
How Much Does Gravity Matter in Star Formation? |
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| Fall 2007 |
| Wed, 19 Sep |
Lincoln
Greenhill (RG) |
Puzzles of water masers in AGNs, and
Sethi+07 paper |
| Wed, 26 Sep |
Jim
Moran (RG) |
Toward a New Distance to the Active Galaxy NGC 4258: II. Centripetal Accelerations and Investigation of Spiral Structure |
| Wed, 03 Oct |
Dave
Charbonneau (SSP) |
The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology |
| Wed, 10 Oct |
Frank Briggs (Australian National Univesity) |
The interplay between galaxies and the baryon reservoirs in their halos |
| Wed, 17 Oct |
Rosanne Di
Stefano (ITC) |
Nearby lenses |
| Wed, 24 Oct |
Mark Neyrinck
(Hawaii Univ.) |
Baryon Wiggles and Information Plateaux in Cosmological Power-Spectrum
Covariance Matrices |
| Wed, 31 Oct |
John
Huchra (OIR) |
An IR Survey of the Nearby Universe |
| Wed, 07 Nov |
Maxim
Markevitch (HEA) |
Why cluster cold fronts are so smooth? |
| Wed, 14 Nov |
Dan
Harris (HEA) |
Some unpopular ideas
on relativistic jets |
| Wed, 21 Nov |
Turkey |
How to make a
happy Thanksgiving? |
| Wed, 28 Nov |
Chris Stubbs (ITC) |
A conversation with Christopher Stubbs: Testing GR, Microlensing towards the LMC,
and chasing Dark Energy |
| Wed, 05 Dec |
Dave
Latham (OIR) |
Blue Stragglers |
| Wed, 12 Dec |
Dusan Keres |
Growth of
galaxies in SPH simulations |
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