Talk 1: Megan Masterson Advisor: Erin Kara Millihertz oscillations near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole Talk 2: Michael McDonald A new window into ICM cooling via JWST

Talk 1: Xiuyuan Zhang Advisor: Lina Necib Constraints on dark photon dark matter from Lyman-a forest simulations and an ultra-high signal-to-noise quasar spectrum                                                                                              

Talk 1: Devin Becker Advisor: Scott Hughes Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge for eccentric binaries                              Paper Talk 2: Mathew Mould Surprises from the spins of black holes in relativistic binaries… Endpoint of the up-down instability in precessing binary black holes   

Talk 1: Rahul Jayaraman Advisor: George Ricker Gamma-ray bursts observed by TESS: Prompt optical counterparts and afterglows of Swift-XRT localized GRBs                       Paper Talk 2: Sara Seager Fully fluorinated non-carbon compounds NF3 and SF6 as ideal technosignature gases                 

Talk 1: Haochen Wang Advisor: Kiyoshi Masui Demonstration of hybrid foreground removal on CHIME data                          Paper Talk 2: Kevin Burdge Lightspeed: a new ultrafast imager for Magellan

Talk 1: Investigating mutual coupling in the HERA and mitigating its effects on the 21-cm power spectrum Talk 2: Falor’s exact, forward, differentiable solution to the quadruply lensed quasar problem MIT undergrad Chirag Falor has come up with an exact, forward, differentiable solution to a problem that, for the past 45 years, has only been

Talk 1: Kai-feng Chen Advisor: Jacqueline Hewitt Status report on the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (CCHP): Three independent astrophysical determinants of the Hubble Constant using JWST                Paper JWST validates HST distance measurements: Selection of supernova subsample explains differences in JWST estimates of local H0