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April 14, 2025Saiyang Zhang & Lizhong Zhang
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: The imprint of primordial black holes over cosmic history Talk 2: Modeling black hole accretion with radiation GRMHD: a parameter survey and connection to observations -
April 7, 2025Christopher Lindsay
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Stellar astrophysics and galactic archaeology with asteroseismology -
March 31, 2025Marie Lau
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Probing quasar/galaxy evolution, feeding, and feedback: Extremely Red Quasars (ERQs) and the Quasar-Associated Inflows Legacy Survey (QUAILS) -
March 10, 2025Jesse Han
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud -
May 6, 2025Sanaea Rose
Astrophysics ColloquiumStellar bumper cars: Collisions in the centers of galaxies -
March 3, 2025Tiger Hsiao
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: First star clusters observed in the early universe with JWST and gravitational lensing -
February 24, 2025Grant Donnelly & Andra Stroe
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Touched by fire: insights from PAHs in active galaxies Talk 2: Shocking tales of structure formation: evolving galaxies and black holes in evolving environments -
February 10, 2025Ben Lakeland
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Using the sun to find earth twins -
May 9, 2025Jonathan Chou
Journal ClubTalk: A crisis in academia: Let's talk about student mental health -
February 3, 2025Charlie Mpetha
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: The infall region of galaxy clusters as a complementary probe to cluster abundance -
May 13, 2025Pat Slane
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe x-ray sky in high definition: 25 years of astrophysics with the Chandra x-ray observatory -
April 29, 2025Nicholas Galitzki
Astrophysics ColloquiumProbing the beginning of the universe with precision microwave polarimetry observations -
May 7, 2025Xiaohui Fan
Astrophysics ColloquiumJWST views of quasars and little red dots at cosmic dawn -
April 15, 2025John Wu
Astrophysics ColloquiumAstronomy re-envisioned: investigating the physics of galaxy evolution with Machine Learning -
April 8, 2025Itai Linial
Astrophysics ColloquiumDynamics and energetic transients in galactic nuclei -
April 1, 2025Michelle Ntampaka
Astrophysics ColloquiumTrustworthy Machine Learning for data-driven discovery -
March 18, 2025Shreyas Vissapragada
Astrophysics ColloquiumObserving atmospheric evolution in extrasolar planets -
March 4, 2025Denis Erkal
Astrophysics ColloquiumMapping out the colliding dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and LMC with stellar streams -
February 25, 2025Kathryne Daniel
Astrophysics Colloquium“Two-Eyed Seeing”: uniting perspectives to drive innovation in galactic dynamics and major observatory design -
January 24, 2025Swati Ravi
MKI IAPStellar style: sustainable upcycling -
January 22, 2025Swati Ravi
MKI IAPBeginner hand sewing and embroidery for the MKI Quilt -
January 28, 2025Lina Necib
MKI IAPGaia space telescope: largest stellar catalog to date -
March 11, 2025Shri Kulkarni – Rossi Lecture
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe Zwicky Transient Facility: concept to results -
April 25, 2025Malina Desai & Jill Juneau
Journal ClubTalk 1: Double trouble: Double-peaked Type II supernovae Talk 2: COSMOS and beyond: Characterizing a new 8k × 8k CMOS astronomy camera and other imaging projects at MKI -
April 18, 2025Ritika Sethi & Joel Villasenor
Journal ClubTalk 1: Signatures of atmospheric mass loss and planet migration in the time evolution of short-period transiting exoplanets Talk 2: The spin on asteroids - TESS observations of Pompeja (203) -
May 2, 2025Fatima Zaidouni & Lina Necib
Journal ClubTalk 1: XRISM observations of AGN in the Performance Verification Phase Talk 2: Investigating the history of the Milky Way with Graph Neural Networks -
April 11, 2025Ryan Raikman & Misha Ivanov
Journal ClubTalk 1: Dark Energy Survey: implications for cosmological expansion models Talk 2: Galaxy clustering analysis with simulation based priors -
February 21, 2025Sasha Lukina & Anna Frebel
Journal ClubTalk 1: The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: the first search for gravitational waves with the MeerKAT radio telescope Talk 2: Extragalactic stellar archaeology -
December 8, 2023Ethan 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, 2023Meredith 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, 2023Joheen 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, 2023Devin 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, 2023Kaitlyn Shin & Max Tegmark
Journal ClubTalk 1: Updating the first CHIME/FRB catalog with voltage data -
October 20, 2023Emma 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, 2023Geoffrey Mo & Nuno Loureiro
Journal ClubTalk 1: Searching for gravitational-wave counterparts using TESS Talk 2: Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence -
October 6, 2023Wenxuan 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, 2023Xiaowei 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, 2024Kai-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, 2024Swati 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, 2024Sofia 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, 2024Xiaowei 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, 2024Jacob 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