Astrophysics Informal Seminars
Spring 2017


All seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am in the Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library (unless otherwise noted).



Date Speaker Title
February16Marcel Schmittfull
(IAS)
Observational tools for nonlinear large-scale structure
23Mikhail Medvedev
(University of Kansas and Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Cosmology of flavor-mixed dark matter
March1
Wednesday 2:00pm !!
Yanqin Wu
(University of Toronto)
The Sizes of Kuiper Belt Objects
2 Jerry Sellwood
(Rutgers)
Seeding massive black holes in galaxies
9 Laura Blecha
(University of Maryland)
Uncovering the Signatures of Obscured AGN in Mergers
16Morgan MacLeod
(IAS)
Mass ejection in common envelope interactions: observational evidence begins to constrain a long-standing theoretical problem
23 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry
(IAS)
Secular Evolution in Discrete Self-Gravitating Stellar Discs
30Tanmay Vachaspati
(Arizona State University)
Search for Intergalactic Magnetic Fields and Implications
April5
Wednesday 11am !!
Simon Foreman
(CITA)
Cosmic shear as a probe of galaxy formation physics
13Nevin Weinberg
(MIT)
Nonlinear Tides in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
20Elinor Medezinski
(Princeton)
Weighing Galaxy Clusters with Weak Lensing in the Hyper-SuprimeCam Survey
27Gabriele Trevisan
(New York University)
Resumming Infrared Effects at the BAO scale
May4Nicholas Law
(University of North Carolina)
Two Robots Exploring the Habitable Sky: Robo-AO and Evryscope
11Yoram Lithwick
(Northwestern)
Towards a Theory of Rotating Convection in Stars and Planets
18Kento Masuda
(Princeton)
Eccentric Companions to Two Kepler Planets: Clues to the Formation of Warm Jupiters
25Jennifer Sokoloski
(Columbia)
Gamma-Ray Emission from Novae
26
Friday 11am !!
Nienke van der Marel
(University of Hawaii)
Resolving gas and dust in transitional disks: the ALMA view on planet formation
June1Stephen Adler
(IAS)
Implications of a Frame-Dependent Dark Energy Action
8Nathan Leigh
(AMNH)
Chaotic Gravitational Dynamics in Star Clusters

Organizers: Morgan MacLeod (morganmacleod@ias.edu) and Valentin Assassi (assassi@ias.edu).



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