Summer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum

Summer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum

Talk: A blind search for short gamma-ray burst afterglows with CHIME

Talk 1: Testing whether Collapsars synthesize r-process elements Talk 2: Going nonlinear with weak lensing surveys: inflation, baryonic imprints, and other structure formation tales

Talk 1: Observing AGN fueling via molecular absorption lines Talk 2: Buoyant bubbles in galaxy clusters and their role in shaping cluster cores

Talk 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

Talk 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

Talk 1: Active galactic nuclei in the NuSTAR era Talk 2: The cosmic matter dipole

Talk 1: Modeling runaway donor stars to understand supernovae in white dwarf binaries Talk 2: Tracing stellar explosions an cosmic dust

Talk: Tidal disruption events in the VLA Sky Survey

Talk 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

Talk 1: Massive compact galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization Talk 2: The complexity of dark matter multi-streaming encoded in wave interference

Talk 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

Talk: A discontinuous Galerkin method for the distributionally-sourced s=0 Teukolsky equation

Talk 1: Looking beyond the lamppost: a new method of understanding AGN continuum variability Talk 2: Exoplanets in the galaxy: insights from Kepler and K2

Talk 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

Talk: Unveiling the multiphase, clumpy structure of the Circumgalactic Medium of High-z galaxies

Talk 1: A galactic mystery 'unwarped' Talk 2: Dark matter, dynamics, and disequilibria in the Milky Way

Microlensing perspectives on cool planet populations

Connecting galaxies and the intergalactic medium near reionization

The changing sun

Constraining axion physics with small-scale CMB measurements

Nucleosynthesis in degenerate objects

Departments that excel in diversity, equity, and inclusion: who, what, why, and how

The death throes of a stripped massive star: an eruptive mass-loss history encoded in pre-explosion emission, a fast-luminous transient, and a broad-lined Ic supernova

The black hole shadow in the M87 galaxy

Revealing exoplanet atmospheres in 3-D

The dynamics of the local group in the era of precision astrometry

Exoplanet: on the hunt for earth twin, pathway for origin of life

The future of exoplanet discovery

Disentangling nature from nurture: tracing the origin of seed black holes

Testing general relativity with black hole mergers

Prospecting for quadruply lensed quasars in the past decade and the next

Understanding the enigmatic nature of AGN ultra-fast outflows in magnetic view

Simulating the universe with Machine Learning

Unveiling the nature of dark matter with cosmological observables

Globular clusters revealing the formation and assembly history of the Milky Way

Stellar archaeology: insights into the lives (and deaths) of the first stars

Cosmology with a gravitational lens time delays

Supermassive black hole binaries in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics