Talks+&+Discussions

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Franesco Miniati || Nonthermal components and gas entropy production in collisionless shocks Generation of Magnetic Fields in Intergalactic Space || workshop lunch presentation and discussion || Talk || aficionados || Cluster outskirts discussion group ||  || Tamara Bogdanovic || Magnetizing the ICM via AGN Feedback Nature of Overstabilities in Dilute Plasmas ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue,Feb 1 || 11:00am || SSR || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// || All interested are welcome! ||
 * Wed, Feb 2 || 11:30am || FR || All participants || Daily coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || All participants || Big Questions discussion ||  ||
 * Thu, Feb 3 || 11:30am || FR || All participants || Daily coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Anthony Gonzalez + all || Anthony will discuss his recent research ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || FR ||  || Discussion of stellar content of clusters || All interested are welcome! ||
 * Fri, Feb 4 || 11:30am || FR || All participants || Daily coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Goleta Beach ||  || Informal social gathering || Bring yourself and families for a chance to get outside KITP and enjoy the beach and ocean ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 7 || 11:30am || FR || All || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || Gus Evrard || Galaxy clusters as cosmic signposts || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Feb 8 || 11:30am || FR || All || Morning coffee discussion/introductions ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Ming Sun (5-10min), Aurora Simionescu, Norbert Werner || ICL (Sun), Metallicity profile in cluster centers (Simionescu, Werner) ||  ||
 * Wed, Feb 9 || 11:30am || FR || All || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Pasquale Mazzota || Overview of the Planck cluster SZ results ||  ||
 * || 15:00 || TBA || all interested || detailed discussion of the Planck's Ysz-N200 results ||  ||
 * || 16:00 || Broida 3302 || **Alaina Henry** (UCSB) || [|A Multi-slit Spectroscopic Search for Ly-alpha galaxies: New constraints on the faint population at z=5.7] || weekly UCSB Astronomy seminar ||
 * Thu, Feb 10 || 10:00am || Tower || non-thermal afficionados || Discussion of non-thermal phenomena in clusters (in particular topics for discussion with turbulence workshop participants) ||  ||
 * || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Elena Rasia, Daisuke Nagai, Karen Yang || Presentations of recent studies of cluster scaling relations ||  ||
 * || 15:00pm || FR || stellar content afficionados || Stellar content discussion group ||  ||
 * Fri, Feb 11 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 16:00pm || Goleta Beach || all interested || Weekly Friday beach social ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 14 || 11:30am || FR || All || //Morning coffee discussion// ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || ** Eberhard Bodenschatz ** || //"//// Turbulence - What Is It? ////"// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 14:00pm || Tower || **cool core afficionados** || //Cool core discussion group// ||  ||
 * || 17:00pm ||  || **all KITP** || //Wine and Cheese// ||   ||
 * Tue, Feb 15 || 11:30am || FR || **All** || //Morning coffee discussion// ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || **Evrard, Sun** || //Cluster scaling relations// || continuation of a series of short presentations on scaling relations ||
 * Wed, Feb 16 || 11:30am || FR || **All** || //Morning coffee discussion// ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || **Meneghetti,** **Kravtsov** || //Cluster scaling relations// || continuation of a series of short presentations on scaling relations ||
 * || 14:00pm || FR || **all interested** || //SZ power spectrum discussion group// ||  ||
 * || 16:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Allesandro Rettura** || //[|On the dependence of early-type galaxy Formation Epochs, Star Formation Histories and Morphologies on Stellar Mass and Environment.]// || UCSB Astronomy Seminar ||
 * Thu, Feb 17 || 11:30am || FR || **all** || //Morning coffee discussion// ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || **Vikhlinin, Mantz** || //Parameterizing scaling relations for cosmological analyses. Photos of black board after Alexey's discussion here// ||  ||
 * || 3:30pm || Aud || **Francisco Prada (IAA, Granada)** || //Halo velocity and concentration functions in the standard LCDM cosmology// || Cluster workshop seminar ||
 * Fri, Feb 18 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * ~ **Week4** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 21 ||  ||   || **Obama** || //Presidents' Day Holiday// || No regularly scheduled events today. ||
 * Tue, Feb 22 || 11:30am || FR || all || morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * Wed, Feb 23 || 11:30am || FR || David Dearborn + all || morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Gregory Falkovich et al. || Turbulence tutorial and Q&A ||  ||
 * || 4:00 pm || Broida 3302 || Risa Wechsler || Dark Matter and Satellites in the Milky Way and its Twins ||  ||
 * Thu, Feb 24 || 10:00am || Tower || **Oh** || //Nonthermal discussion// ||  ||
 * || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning Coffee Discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Eduardo Rozo || //Some comments on the cluster richness-mass relation// ||  ||
 * Fri, Feb 25 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning Coffee Discussion ||  ||
 * ~ Week5 ||~ Time ||~ __ Place* __ ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links... ||
 * Mon, Feb 28 || 11:30am || FR || all || morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud ||  || KITP Director's black board seminar ||   ||
 * || 14:00pm || Tower || cool core aficionados || Cool core discussion group ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 1 || 11:30am || FR || all || morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Eduardo Rozo, Dragan Huterer || How pink is pink? How to measure the likelihood of high-z massive clusters in LCDM cosmology || discussion ||
 * || 16:00pm || Broida 1640 || Massimo Stiavelli || The James Webb Space Telescope || KITP Physics Colloquium ||
 * Wed, Mar 2 || 11:30am || FR || all || morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Andrew Wetzel || Evolution of SFR of cluster galaxies ||  ||
 * || 16:00pm || Broida || Massimo Stiavelli || Studying the first galaxies and reionization with the Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescopes || KITP Astronomy Seminar ||
 * Thu, Mar 3 || 10:00am || Tower || Non-thermal aficionados || Non-thermal physics in clusters discussion group ||  ||
 * || 11:30am || FR || all || morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || **Ian Parrish** || Cooling and Multi-Phase Structure in the Intracluster Medium ||  ||
 * || 16:00 ||  || baryon aficionados || Baryon content of groups and clusters discussion group ||   ||
 * Fri, Mar 4 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || 13:30pm || SSR || Matt Turk || [|y] [|t] turorial ||  ||
 * **Week 6** ||  ||   ||||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Mar 7 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning Coffee Discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud ||  || Director's blackboard seminar ||   ||
 * || 14:00pm || Tower || cool core afficionados || Cool core discussion group ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 8 || 11:30am || SSR || Rene Fassbender || The most distant massive galaxy clusters || lunch presentation, no Coffee on Tuesday ||
 * || 13:00pm || Aud || Alex Lazarian || Magnetic reconnection in weakly turbulent astrophysical fluids || talk at Turbulence workshop ||
 * || "16:00" || FR || SZ power spectrum afficionados || SZ Power spectrum discussion group ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 9 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning Coffee Discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Surhud More, Matt Becker || Properties of FOF halos, Halo Mass definition self-consistency in the halo model. || two lunch presentations ||
 * || "16:00" || FR || cluster afficionados || Observable-simulation Interaction discussion ||  ||
 * || 16:00pm || Broida 3340 || Tim Brown, Avi Shporer || The Kepler Mission: A Little While Ago, In a Galaxy Pretty Close to Home... ||  ||
 * Thu, Mar 10 || 10:00am || Tower || Non-thermal afficionados || Non-thermal discussion group ||  ||
 * || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning Coffee Discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || turbulence sympathisers || Joint session with Turbulence workshop: discussion of turbulence in clusters ||  ||
 * Fri, Mar 11 || 11:30am || SSR || Etienne Pointecouteau || Planck cluster selection || lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * **Week 7** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || [|Monsters Inc. Conference] ||   ||   ||
 * **Week 8** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Mar 21 || 11:30am || Founders || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 14:00pm? || Tower || Cool core afficionados || Cool Core discussion group ||  ||
 * || 17:00pm || Common || all || KITP wine and cheese social ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 22 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 23 || 12:15-13:30pm || SSR || all interested || discussion on cluster mass definition ||  ||
 * || 14:00pm || MSR || Manfred Eigen (Max Planck, Gottingen) || //"The Origin and Evolution of Life: A Physical Problem?"// ||  ||
 * Thu, Mar 24 || 10:00am || Tower || non-thermal afficionados || Non-thermal discussion group: discussion of plasma instabilities ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Christoph Pfrommer || A pedagogical introduction to magnetic draping || lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * Fri, Mar 25 || 11:30am || FR || all || morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:30pm || SSR || Bill Paxton || [|Mesa Stellar Evolution code] tutorial ||  ||
 * **Week 9** || ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Mar 28 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || SSR || Gus Evrard, Andrey Kravtsov || DES Blind cosmology challenge and opportunities || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * || 14:00-15:00 || Tower || cool core afficionados || Cool core discussion group ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 29 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 12:15-13:30 || SSR || Andi Mahdavi || //"Model-independent constraints on the line of sight extent of clusters of galaxies using X-ray and SZ observations."// || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * Wed, Mar 30 || 12:15-13:30 || SSR || Irina Zhuravleva (MPA) || //"Observational signature of ICM turbulence in X-ray line polarization"// || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * || 16:00-17:00 || Broida 3302 || Evan Kirby || //[|The Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies from Keck/DEIMOS Multi-Element Abundance Measurements"]// || UCSB astronomy seminar ||
 * Thu, Mar 31 || 10:00-11:00am || Tower || non-thermal afficionados || Non-thermal discussion group ||  ||
 * || 12:15-13:30 || SSR || Andrew Benson (Caltech) || "What I cannot create, I do not understand": A galaxy builder's toolkit || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * || 15:30 || Tower || weak lensing enthusiasts || Weak lensing discussion ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 1 || 11:30am || Founders || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 15:30 || Tower || cosmological simulations sympathisers || Discussion on numerical issues in cosmological simulations (systematic differences between different numerical techniques) ||  ||
 * ~ Week 10 ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Mon, Apr 4 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 14:00 || Tower || cool core afficionados || Cool Core discussion group ||  ||
 * Tue, Apr 5 || 12:15-13:30 || SSR || Kaustuv Basu, + Yen-Tin Lin || //"Hint of a strong redshift evolution in cluster radio luminosity function" + "classification and statistical properties of radio galaxies with extended morphology at z<0.3"// || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * Wed, Apr 6 || 12:15--13:30 || SSR || Michael McCourt, Prateek Sharma || Thermal Instability, Conduction, and Feedback in Halos || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * || 16:00 || Broida 3302 || Fulai Guo (UCSC) || //"The Physics of AGN Jet Feedback: From Radio Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters to Fermi Bubbles in Our Galaxy"// || UCSB astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thurs, Apr 7 || 10:00--11:00 || Tower || Non-thermal types || Non-thermal discussion ||  ||
 * || 11:30--12:15 || Founders || All || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 8 || 11:30--12:15 || Founders || All || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 5:00 onwards || Beach/House || All || House/beach party ||  ||
 * **Week 11** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Apr 11 || 11:30--12:15 || Founders || All || Morning Coffee ||  ||
 * || 12:15-1:15 || Aud || Mark Voit || Director's Blackboard Talk: The Astrophysics of Galaxy Clusters ||  ||
 * Tues, Apr 12 || 11:30-12:15 || Founders || All || Morning Coffee ||  ||
 * || 12:15--1:30 || SSR || Andrei Bykov
 * ~ Week 10 ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Mon, Apr 4 || 11:30am || FR || all || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 14:00 || Tower || cool core afficionados || Cool Core discussion group ||  ||
 * Tue, Apr 5 || 12:15-13:30 || SSR || Kaustuv Basu, + Yen-Tin Lin || //"Hint of a strong redshift evolution in cluster radio luminosity function" + "classification and statistical properties of radio galaxies with extended morphology at z<0.3"// || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * Wed, Apr 6 || 12:15--13:30 || SSR || Michael McCourt, Prateek Sharma || Thermal Instability, Conduction, and Feedback in Halos || workshop lunch presentation and discussion ||
 * || 16:00 || Broida 3302 || Fulai Guo (UCSC) || //"The Physics of AGN Jet Feedback: From Radio Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters to Fermi Bubbles in Our Galaxy"// || UCSB astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thurs, Apr 7 || 10:00--11:00 || Tower || Non-thermal types || Non-thermal discussion ||  ||
 * || 11:30--12:15 || Founders || All || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 8 || 11:30--12:15 || Founders || All || Morning coffee discussion ||  ||
 * || 5:00 onwards || Beach/House || All || House/beach party ||  ||
 * **Week 11** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Apr 11 || 11:30--12:15 || Founders || All || Morning Coffee ||  ||
 * || 12:15-1:15 || Aud || Mark Voit || Director's Blackboard Talk: The Astrophysics of Galaxy Clusters ||  ||
 * Tues, Apr 12 || 11:30-12:15 || Founders || All || Morning Coffee ||  ||
 * || 12:15--1:30 || SSR || Andrei Bykov
 * || 3:30-4:30 || Founders || Outliers || Cluster outskirts discussion group ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 13 || --- || --- || --- || No coffee or lunch talks--- since many of you are going whale watching, which overlaps with our scheduled talk times. ||  ||
 * || 4:00-5:00 || Broida 3302 || Shelley Wright (Berkeley) || [| Discovering Galactic Disks, Mergers, and Weak AGN in High-Redshift Star Forming Galaxies] || UCSB astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thurs, Apr 14 || 11:30--12:30 || SSR || Stephano Ettori, Silvano Molendi || Cluster outskirts || This will supplant our morning coffee discussion. ||
 * || 1:00--2:00 || Auditorium || Evan Scannapieco, Marcus Bruggen || Subgrid and DNS modeling of turbulence in clusters and galaxies || Joint session with turbulence program. NOTE NON-STANDARD TIME! ||
 * Fri, Apr 15 || 11:30--12:15 || Founder's Room || All || Morning Coffee ||  ||
 * || 5:00 || Goleta Beach || All || Beach Party ||  ||
 * **Week 12** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Apr 18 || 11:30--12:15 || Founder's Room || All || Morning Coffee ||  ||
 * || 12:15-1:15 || Auditorium || Peter Goldreich || Turbulence Provides the Key to Reading the Record of Ancient Impacts || Director's Blackboard
 * || 2:00--3:00 || Tower Room || Cool core aficionados || Cool core discussion group ||  ||
 * || 3:30--4:30 || Tower Room || Cluster outskirts
 * Tues, Apr 19 ||  ||   ||   || No scheduled talks or discussions---2nd attempt at whale watching for everyone.... ||   ||
 * Wed, Apr 20 || 11:30--12:15 || Founder's Room || All || Morning Coffee ||  ||
 * || 12:30--1:00 || SSR || Simona Mei || ETGs in high redshift clusters: their scaling relations and how what we know depends on the stellar population models we use ||  ||
 * || 4:00-5:00 || Broida 3302 || Jim Bartlett || //Planck Early Results on Galaxy Clusters // || UCSB Astrophysics Seminar ||
 * Thurs, Apr 21 || 10:00--11:00 || SSR || Christoph Pfrommer, Non-thermal aficionados || Non-thermal discussion: "A Pedagogical Guide to Radio Phenomenon in Clusters" || Note non-standard location---SSR ||
 * || 12:30-1:30 || SSR || Paul Ricker
 * || 3:30-4:30 || Auditorium || Zoltan Haiman || Cosmological Information from Non-Linear Weak Lensing ||  ||
 * || 6:00 p.m. onwards || 952 West Campus Point || All || Survivor's party || Come rock out and celebrate the end of the workshop! ||
 * Fri, Apr 22 || 11:30-12:15 || Founder's Room || All || Morning coffee ||  ||

***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room,** **FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge** ⬆TOP