Nth Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California (TASC) Meeting

Program

Friday, Dec 6, 2013


The time available for each talk is 8 minutes, followed by 2 minutes of questions.

First Session

Chair: Steve Furlanetto
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
10:00
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  Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:10
Anson Lam*
UCLA
Fitting Functions for Nonlinear and Scale-Dependent Galaxy Biasing
10:20
Ignacio Quezada*
USC
Dark Matter annihilation energy output and its effects on the high-z IGM
10:30
Frederick Davies*
UCLA
Quasar Ionization Fronts in the Epoch of Reionization
10:40
Alvise Raccanelli
JPL
Large-scale Galaxy Correlations
10:50
Lauren Holzbauer*
UCLA
Fluctuations in the Near-Infrared Background
11:00
Roland de Putter
JPL
Probing Fundamental Physics with Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering
11:10
Lena Murchikova*
Caltech
Submm Recombination Lines in Dust-Obscured Starbursts and AGN
11:20
Iryna Butsky*
Caltech
The Effect of Baryons on Dark Matter Halo Shape
11:30
Andrew Wetzel
Carnegie
Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters
11:40
Oliver Elbert*
UCI
Self Interacting Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
11:50
Coral Wheeler*
UCI
The Remarkable Inefficiency of Satellite Quenching
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LUNCH
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*student

Second Session

Chair: Christian Ott
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
2:00
Joshua Wiener*
UCSB
Can Cosmic Rays Disrupt Cool Clouds in the WIM?
2:10
Andrey Egorov*
USC
Constraints on dark matter annihilation by radio observations of Milky Way
2:20
Shea Garrison-Kimmel*
UCI
Massive Failures in the Local Group
2:30
Ernazar Abdikamalov
Caltech
Simulations Core-collapse Supernova Explosions
2:40
Sherwood Richers*
Caltech
Three-Dimensional GRMHD Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae
2:50
Sarah Gossen*
Caltech
Measuring the Angular Momentum Distribution of Core-Collapse Supernova Progenitors
3:00
Hannah Klion*
Caltech
Analyzing Gravitational Waves from Rapidly Rotating Core-Collapse Supernovae
3:10
Kevin Barkett*
Caltech
Gravitational Waveforms in the Early Inspiral of Black Hole-Neutron Star Systems
3:20
Jonathan Blackman*
Caltech
Covering the full parameter space of binary black hole simulations
3:30
Roland Haas
Caltech
Self-force driven inspiral of a scalar point particle into a Schwarzschild black hole
3:40
Nick Taylor
Caltech
Numerical solutions of Einstein's equation on manifolds with nontrivial spatial topologies
3:50
Daniel Hemberger
Caltech
The SXS Catalog of Binary Black Hole Waveforms
4:00
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COFFEE BREAK
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*student

Third Session

Chair: Brad Hansen
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
4:30
Casey Handmer*
Caltech
Cauchy Characteristic Extraction in SpEC
4:40
John Wendell*
Caltech
Two Moment Neutrino Radiation Transport
4:50
Jason Kaufman*
UCSB
Turbulent Comptonization in Black Hole Accretion Disks
5:00
Matthew Coleman*
UCSB
Convection Enhances Magnetic Turbulence in Dwarf Nova Accretion Disks
5:10
Jared Brooks*
UCSB
AM CVn Systems with Low Mass Helium Star Donors
5:20
Bill Wolf
UCSB
Helium Flashes on Steadily Burning White Dwarfs
5:30
Tony Piro
Caltech
Signatures of neutron star mergers that produce massive neutron stars
5:40
Selma de Mink
Carnegie
Binaries and Stellar Mergers
5:50
Drew Clausen
Caltech
Strong Encounters With Black Holes In Globular Clusters
6:00
Jim Fuller
Caltech
Seismology of Saturn: Curious Characteristics of Pulsating Planets
6:10
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BREAK
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Dinner


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