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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 -
March 22, 2024Cailin 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, 2024Honggeun 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, 2024Teodora 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, 2024Noah 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, 2024Dominika Durovcikova & Kevin Burdge
Journal ClubTalk 1: First rest-frame infrared spectrum of a z>7 quasar: JWST/MRS observations of J1120+0641 -
February 16, 2024Carol 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, 2023Noah 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, 2023Christopher 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, 2023David 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, 2023Rahul 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, 2023Alexander Yelland & Christos Panagiotou
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March 17, 2023Michael 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, 2023Eleanor 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, 2023Abdelaziz Hussein & Tracy Slatyer
Journal ClubTalk 1: Evaporation barrier for dark matter in celestial bodies -
April 14, 2023Megan 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, 2023Katiya 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, 2023Tri 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, 2019SMURF 2019
SMURFSummer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum -
August 24, 2020SMURF 2020
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August 11, 2023SMURF 2021
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August 25, 2021SMURF 2021
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January 30, 2023Minori Shikauchi
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: A blind search for short gamma-ray burst afterglows with CHIME -
February 13, 2023Shreya Anand & Dhayaa Anbajagane
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 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, 2023Tom Rose & Congyao Zhang
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Observing AGN fueling via molecular absorption lines Talk 2: Buoyant bubbles in galaxy clusters and their role in shaping cluster cores -
March 6, 2023Andrei Ceceu @ Aaron Yung
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April 3, 2023Haowen Zhang & Erica Thygesen
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 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, 2023Lalitha Sairam & Genevieve Schroeder
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 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, 2023Xiurui Zhao & Sebastian von Hausegger
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Active galactic nuclei in the NuSTAR era Talk 2: The cosmic matter dipole -
May 1, 2023Evan Bauer & Ryan Lau
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Modeling runaway donor stars to understand supernovae in white dwarf binaries Talk 2: Tracing stellar explosions an cosmic dust -
May 1, 2023Jean Somalwar
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Tidal disruption events in the VLA Sky Survey -
May 22, 2023Cheng-Lin Liao & Ben Zhang
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 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, 2023Will Roper & Alex Gough
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Massive compact galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization Talk 2: The complexity of dark matter multi-streaming encoded in wave interference -
July 10, 2023Molly Wolfson & Jubee Sohn
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 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, 2023Manas Vishal
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: A discontinuous Galerkin method for the distributionally-sourced s=0 Teukolsky equation -
September 18, 2023Jack Neustadt & Jon Zink
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Looking beyond the lamppost: a new method of understanding AGN continuum variability Talk 2: Exoplanets in the galaxy: insights from Kepler and K2