- April 25, 2025
TBA & Eric Oelker
Journal ClubTalk 1: Talk 2: - April 18, 2025
TBA & Joel Villasenor
Journal ClubTalk 1: Talk 2: - May 2, 2025
TBA & Lina Necib
Journal ClubTalk 1: Talk 2: - April 11, 2025
TBA & Misha Ivanov
Journal ClubTalk 1: Talk 2: - February 21, 2025
TBA & Anna Frebel
Journal ClubTalk 1: Talk 2: - December 8, 2023
Ethan Taylor & Hans Moritz Gunther
Journal ClubTalk 1: The emergence of star clusters, dwarf galaxies, and something in-between within the EDGE Simulation Suite Talk 2: Estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures - December 1, 2023
Meredith Neyer & Claude Canizares
Journal ClubTalk 1: Connecting ionized bubble sizes to their environments in THESAN Talk 2: Hidden cooling flows in clusters of galaxies...a wider sample....accretion on to the central black hole - November 17, 2023
Joheen Chakraborty & Benjamin Schneider
Journal ClubTalk 1: EMRI+TDE=QPE: Periodic x-ray flares from star-disk collisions in galatic nuclei Talk 2: JWSTs first glimpses of gamma-ray burst progenitors - November 3, 2023
Devin Becker & Salvatore Vitale
Journal ClubTalk 1: Binary black holes on the brink of death: eccentric transition to plunge Talk 2: The impact of selection biases on tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave inspirals - October 27, 2023
Kaitlyn Shin & Max Tegmark
Journal ClubTalk 1: Updating the first CHIME/FRB catalog with voltage data - October 20, 2023
Emma Chickles & Adam Lanman
Journal ClubTalk 1: Searching for short-period white dwarf binaries using ATLAS and TESS Talk 2: Overview and commissioning results of the CHIME/FRB Outrigger KKO - October 13, 2023
Geoffrey Mo & Nuno Loureiro
Journal ClubTalk 1: Searching for gravitational-wave counterparts using TESS Talk 2: Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence - October 6, 2023
Wenxuan Jia & Deep Chatterjee
Journal ClubTalk 1: Broadband quantum enhancement of the LIGO detectors with frequency-dependent squeezing Talk 2: Low-latency gravitational wave alert products and their performance in anticipation of the fourth LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA observing run - September 29, 2023
Xiaowei Ou & Vincent MacKay
Journal ClubTalk 1: Detection of the Keplerian decline in the Milky Way rotation curve Talk 2: Low-cost, low-loss, ultra-wideband compact feed for interferometric radio telescopes - May 10, 2024
Kai-feng Chen & Brett McGuire
Journal ClubTalk 1: Cosmology with weak-lensing peaks in the Hyper Supreme-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Talk 2: 2021 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules - May 3, 2024
Swati Ravi & Kishalay De
Journal ClubTalk 1: Dramatic drop in the x-ray polarization of Swift J1727.8-1613 in the Soft Spectral State Talk 2: A star (black hole) is born - April 19, 2024
Sofia Alvarez-Lopez & Edmund Bertschinger
Journal ClubTalk 1: Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5 - 4.5 M compact object and a neutron star Talk 2: Critical analysis of a Physics Mentor Program - April 12, 2024
Xiaowei Ou & Avi Shporer
Journal ClubTalk 1: Signatures of tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Talk 2: GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth radios planet orbiting an M2.5 dwarf star at 15.2 pc - April 5, 2024
Jacob Willis & Xuejian ‘Jacob’ Shen
Journal ClubTalk 1: FLIMFLAM DR1: the first constraints on the cosmic baryon distribution from 8 FRB sightlines Talk 2: Challenges for galaxy formation models at the cosmic frontier - March 22, 2024
Cailin Plunkett & Xinghui Yin
Journal ClubTalk 1: Beyond the far side: observing black hole mergers beyond the pair-instability mass gap with next-gen gravitational wave detectors Talk 2: Table-top quantum gravitation experiments - March 15, 2024
Honggeun Kim & Jeroen Audenaert
Journal ClubTalk 1: Identifying ionizing bubbles in HERA observations using a U-Net Deep Learning Network Talk 2: Leveraging Machine Learning to discover variable stars in TESS - March 8, 2024
Teodora Bulichi & Andrew Vanderburg
Journal ClubTalk 1: Modeling quasar proximity zones in a realistic cosmological environment with a self-consistent light curve Talk 2: The Tempo Survey.I.predicting yields of transiting exosatellites, moons, & planets from a 30 days survey of Orion with the Roman Space Telescope - March 1, 2024
Noah Wolfe & Oliver Zier
Journal ClubTalk 1: Close encounters of the primordial kind, Too small to fail Talk 2: Preparing cosmological simulation codes for exascale computing - February 23, 2024
Dominika Durovcikova & Kevin Burdge
Journal ClubTalk 1: First rest-frame infrared spectrum of a z>7 quasar: JWST/MRS observations of J1120+0641 - February 16, 2024
Carol Cuesta Lazaro & Alex Gagliano
Journal ClubIAIFI special event Talk 1: MLizing cosmology: the what? how? and why? and really, why? Talk 2:Catching on quickly: reconstructing the lives of massive stars through low-latency inference - February 24, 2023
Noah Wolfe & Catherine Grant
Journal ClubTalk 2: Towards precision particle background estimation for future x-ray missions: correlated variability between Chandra ACIS and AMS - February 17, 2023
Christopher Layden & Riccardo Arcodia
Journal ClubTalk 1: Strong lensing of high-energy neutrons Talk 2: Introducing the eROSITA x-ray telescope and the upcoming data release: can it be useful for you? - February 17, 2023
David DePalma & Erin Kara
Journal ClubTalk 1: Directly tracing cool filamentary accretion over>100 kpc into the interstellar medium of a quasar host at z=1 Talk 2: UV/optical disk reverberation lags despite a faint x-ray corona in the AGN Mrk 335 - March 3, 2023
Rahul Jayaraman & Matthew Evans
Journal ClubTalk 1: Tidally perturbed g-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries Talk 2: A horizon study for Cosmic Explorer: science, observatories, and community - March 10, 2023
Alexander Yelland & Christos Panagiotou
Journal Club - March 17, 2023
Michael Reefe & Kevin Burdge
Journal ClubTalk 1: UV and Ha HST observations of 6 GASP jellyfish galaxies Talk 2: A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple - March 24, 2023
Eleanor Rath & Sarah Trowbridge Heine
Journal ClubTalk 1: A first detection of neutral hydrogen intensity mapping on Mpc scales at z=0.32 and z=0.44 Talk 2: Soft x-ray polarimeter development and prototype measurements - April 7, 2023
Abdelaziz Hussein & Tracy Slatyer
Journal ClubTalk 1: Evaporation barrier for dark matter in celestial bodies - April 14, 2023
Megan Masterson & Daniele Michilli
Journal ClubTalk 1: Tidal disruption event with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and implications for the local black hole mass function Talk 2: Detecting strongly-lensed FRBs - April 21, 2023
Katiya Fosdick & Minghao Yue
Journal ClubTalk 1: A z=1.85 galaxy group in CEERS: evolved, dustless, massive Intra-Halo Light and a Brightest Group Galaxy in the making Talk 2: Physical pairs of quasars: theory and observations - April 28, 2023
Tri Nguyen & Peter Kosec
Journal ClubTalk 1: Not so fuzzy: excluding FDM with sizes and stellar kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies Talk 2: Vertical wind structure in an x-ray binary revealed by a precessing accretion disk - August 23, 2019
SMURF 2019
SMURFSummer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum - August 24, 2020
SMURF 2020
SMURFSummer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum - August 11, 2023
SMURF 2021
SMURFSummer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum - August 25, 2021
SMURF 2021
SMURFSummer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum - January 30, 2023
Minori Shikauchi
MATsTalk: A blind search for short gamma-ray burst afterglows with CHIME - February 13, 2023
Shreya Anand & Dhayaa Anbajagane
MATsTalk 1: Testing whether Collapsars synthesize r-process elements Talk 2: Going nonlinear with weak lensing surveys: inflation, baryonic imprints, and other structure formation tales