Updated: 14 April 2011

MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research 2011 Postdoc Symposium April 13−15, 2011       11:45 AM−1:20 PM       BLDG 37-252 (MARLAR ROOM)

General Information

This annual event features the MKI-affiliated postdocs presenting 15 minute talks on their past, present, and/or future research to the MKI community. Lunch will be provided, and the talks will promptly begin at noon. There will be four speakers each day; the full schedule with abstracts is available here. The 2010 Postdoc Symposium schedule is available here (PDF).

Speaker Schedule

April 13, 2011

Ilya Mandel−"Gravitational-wave Astrophysics with Compact Binaries" (Abstract)
Jeff Kissel−"Advanced LIGO: The Next Generation" (Abstract)
Thomas Corbitt−"Quantum Noise in LIGO" (Abstract)
Ruslan Vaulin−"Searches for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence: Status and Prospects" (Abstract)

April 14, 2011

Nicolas Yunes−"Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems as Probes of the Universe" (Abstract)
1 Kathy Cooksey−"The Last Eight-Billion Years of Cosmic CIV and SiIV Evolution" (Abstract)
Carie Cardamone−"Host Galaxies and Black Hole Growth at z ∼ 1" (Abstract)
Manuel Linares−"On the Cooling Tails of Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts: News from Terzan 5" (Abstract)

April 15, 2011

Simona Vegetti−"Quantifying Mass Substructure in Early-Type Galaxies" (Abstract)
Steven Leman & CDMS collaboration−"Constraints on Low-Mass WIMP Signals from CDMS" (Abstract)
Mustafa Amin−"Quintessential Acceleration and Its End" (Abstract)