- 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 - February 27, 2023
Tom Rose & Congyao Zhang
MATsTalk 1: Observing AGN fueling via molecular absorption lines Talk 2: Buoyant bubbles in galaxy clusters and their role in shaping cluster cores - March 6, 2023
Andrei Ceceu @ Aaron Yung
MATs - April 3, 2023
Haowen Zhang & Erica Thygesen
MATsTalk 1: Trinity: self-consistent dark matter halo-galaxy-supermassive black hole connection from z=0-10, and predictions on high-z quasars in the JWST era Talk 2: The K2 & TESS synergy: combining NASA's planet hunters - April 10, 2023
Lalitha Sairam & Genevieve Schroeder
MATsTalk 1: When stars misbehave: the impact of stellar activity on exoplanet research and the need for a public forecast Talk 2: The hunt for magnetar remnants: searching for the elusive radio signal from binary neutron star mergers - April 24, 2023
Xiurui Zhao & Sebastian von Hausegger
MATsTalk 1: Active galactic nuclei in the NuSTAR era Talk 2: The cosmic matter dipole - May 1, 2023
Evan Bauer & Ryan Lau
MATsTalk 1: Modeling runaway donor stars to understand supernovae in white dwarf binaries Talk 2: Tracing stellar explosions an cosmic dust - May 1, 2023
Jean Somalwar
MATsTalk: Tidal disruption events in the VLA Sky Survey - May 22, 2023
Cheng-Lin Liao & Ben Zhang
MATsTalk 1: Extending to the brightest end: physical properties of the 870um brightest dusty star-forming galaxies at z~3 Talk 2: Impact of property covariance on galaxy cluster weak-lensing mass calibration - June 5, 2023
Will Roper & Alex Gough
MATsTalk 1: Massive compact galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization Talk 2: The complexity of dark matter multi-streaming encoded in wave interference - July 10, 2023
Molly Wolfson & Jubee Sohn
MATsTalk 1: Constraining reionization with the Lyman-a forest flux auto-correlation function Talk 2: Measuring velocity dispersion functions of cluster galaxies based on dense spectroscopy - September 11, 2023
Manas Vishal
MATsTalk: A discontinuous Galerkin method for the distributionally-sourced s=0 Teukolsky equation - September 18, 2023
Jack Neustadt & Jon Zink
MATsTalk 1: Looking beyond the lamppost: a new method of understanding AGN continuum variability Talk 2: Exoplanets in the galaxy: insights from Kepler and K2 - September 25, 2023
Adriana Dropulic & Madeleine McKenzie
MATsTalk 1: StreamGen: morphologies and orbits of semi-analytic satellite galaxies Talk 2: Nucleosynthesis at the isotopic level: how Mg isotope ratios challenge our view of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies - October 2, 2023
Zhihui Li
MATsTalk: Unveiling the multiphase, clumpy structure of the Circumgalactic Medium of High-z galaxies - October 16, 2023
Jesse Han & Arpit Arora
MATsTalk 1: A galactic mystery 'unwarped' Talk 2: Dark matter, dynamics, and disequilibria in the Milky Way - February 12, 2019
Jennifer Yee
Astrophysics ColloquiumMicrolensing perspectives on cool planet populations