Institute Holiday- No Journal Club

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

MKI staff and students are invited to our weekly Journal Club, where two members will share recent research. Speaker details are forthcoming. Lunch will be served!

Introduce yourself, and meet the new and returning members of our community. Lunch will be served. Details will be sent via email! The event will be held in person only . While we hope that you can attend on campus, we understand if it’s not possible.

MKI staff and students are invited to come hear updates from leadership as we begin the new academic year. The event will be held in person only . While we hope that you can attend on campus, we understand if it’s not possible.

All are invited to come hear updates from Rob and others as we close out 2025-2026 the new academic year. The event will be held in person only . While we hope that you can attend on campus, we understand if it’s not possible.

Speaker 1: Katiya Fosdick (Advised by: Mike McDonald) Speaker 2: Te Han

Speaker 1: Sydney Jenkins Speaker 2: Ore Gottlieb

Speaker 1: Ritika Sethi (Advised by: Sarah Millholland) Speaker 2: Xuejian Shen

Speaker 1: Amanda Peake (Advised by: Scott Hughes) Speaker 2: Christina Eilers

Speaker 1: Anders Lossius (Advised by: Nergis Mavalvala) Speaker 2: Daniel Yahalomi

Speaker 1: Cian Roche Speaker 2: Gonzalo Herrera (Seeing the Invisible Universe with Neutrinos)

Speaker 1: Noah Wolfe & Sasha Lukina (Advised by: Salvo Vitale & Matt Evans- Geophysical Plasma Observation Expedition 2026) Speaker 2: John Weaver (Monsters in the Dark: Hunting for the first massive galaxies at cosmic dawn)

Speaker 1: Kai-Fang Chen Speaker 2: Daniel Muthukrishna (Modeling TESS systematics with Generative AI)

Speaker 1: TBD Speaker 2: Tracy Slatyer

Speaker 1: Juliana DiVirgilio (Sharing Your Work With the World) Speaker 2: Avi Shporer (The discovery of a crumbling planet with TESS)

Talk 1: Teo Bulichi Talk 2: Kiyo Masui

Talk 1: Chris Layden Talk 2: Emily Pass

Talk 1: Pablo Mercader-Perez Talk 2: Juliana Garcia-Mejia  

Talk 1: Emma Chickles Talk 2: Rob Simcoe Lunch is a chili bar provided by Cafe Luna! Vegetarian, Vegan, DF and GF options will be available.

Talk 1: Cailin Plunkett Talk 2: Nikhil Mukund Lunch is provided from Sugar and Spice! Vegetarian, Vegan, DF and GF options will be available.

Talk 1: Vera Berger Talk 2: Tim Hallatt Lunch is provided! OTTO pizza! Vegetarian, Vegan, and GF options will be available. Email Juliana with any questions or concerns.

Talk 1: Jack Heinzel Talk 2: Jackie Hewitt Lunch is provided! The Greek Corner: Pitas, greek salad, rice pilaf, chicken and falafel. Vegetarian, Vegan, DF, and GF options will be available. Email Juliana with any questions or concerns.

All are invited to come hear updates from Rob and others as we begin the new academic year. The meeting and lunch will take place from 12-1pm in the Marlar Lounge. After that, MKI will (weather permitting) walk over to the dome for a group photo, ideally finishing by 1:30pm. The event will be held in person only .

Swati Ravi: What’s the Buzz About GX 13+1? Constraining Coronal Geometry with QUEEN-BEE: A Bayesian Nested Sampling Framework for X-ray Polarization Rotation Analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07059 Saugata Barat: Exoplanets through time: First glimpse of the atmospheres of young transiting planets https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025AJ….170..165B/abstract Lunch is provided! Sandwiches and salads from Flour. Vegan and vegetarian sandwich options available along with GF

Zoë de Beurs: TBD Nathaniel Starkman: Tracing Dark Matter in External Galaxies with Stellar Streams from Euclid and Zooniverse   Lunch is provided! Bon Me rice & noodle bar- entirely gluten and dairy free with many vegan and vegetarian options.

Haochen Wang: Measurement of the Dispersion-Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08932 Rohan Naidu: The Beginnings of Today’s Supermassive Black Holes in JWST’s Little Red Dot “Black Hole Stars”: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250316596N/abstract   Lunch is provided! Anna’s Taqueria Taco Bar- entirely gluten free with vegan and vegetarian options.

Talk: Jonathan Chou A crisis in academia: Let’s talk about student mental health This talk shines a light on the “mental health crisis” in graduate programs, in academia, and in institutions of higher learning, in general. 41% of graduate students have moderate to severe anxiety, and 39% have moderate to severe depression. Students who belong

Talk 1: Malina Desai Advisor: Erik Katsavounidis Double trouble: Double-peaked Type II supernovae Talk 2: Jill Juneau COSMOS and beyond: Characterizing a new 8k × 8k CMOS astronomy camera and other imaging projects at MKI

Talk 1: Ritika Sethi Advisor: Sarah Millholland Signatures of atmospheric mass loss and planet migration in the time evolution of short-period transiting exoplanets                                                                 

Talk 1: Fatima Zaidouni Advisor: Erin Kara XRISM observations of AGN in the Performance Verification Phase Talk 2: Lina Necib Investigating the history of the Milky Way with Graph Neural Networks

Talk 1: Ryan Raikman Advisor: Kiyoshi Masui Dark Energy Survey: implications for cosmological expansion models from the final DES Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and Supernova data Talk 2: Misha Ivanov Galaxy clustering analysis with simulation based priors                                   Paper

Talk 1: Sasha Lukina Advisor: Matthew Evans The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: the first search for gravitational waves with the MeerKAT radio telescope