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April 4, 2023Christopher Moore
Astrophysics ColloquiumProbing hot plasma in the atmosphere of a cool star with CubeSats, SmallSats, and Rockets -
April 11, 2023Diana Powell
Astrophysics ColloquiumConnecting planetary formation and characterization -
April 18, 2023Andy Sheinis
Astrophysics ColloquiumUpdate on the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer and the MSE Pathfinder -
April 25, 2023Ilaria Caiazzo
Astrophysics ColloquiumUltra-massive, magnetized, double-faced: studying exotic white dwarfs with ZTF and Gaia -
May 2, 2023Foteini Oikonomou
Astrophysics ColloquiumMulti-messenger astronomy with high-energy cosmic neutrinos -
May 9, 2023Wen-fai Fong
Astrophysics ColloquiumIlluminating the origins of the universe's fastest transients -
September 12, 2023Alexander Ji
Astrophysics ColloquiumDwarf galaxy archaeology in the Gaia era -
September 19, 2023Abigail Crites
Astrophysics ColloquiumProbing the structure and evolution of our universe -
September 26, 2023Evdokiya Kostadinova
Astrophysics ColloquiumLaboratory Space Research - how to use a Tokamak to study heat shields, energetic particles, and origins of life -
October 3, 2023Jo Bovy
Astrophysics ColloquiumMachine learning and artificial intelligence in data-driven astrophysics -
October 17, 2023Richard Mushotzky
Astrophysics ColloquiumUnderstanding the nature of host galaxies -
October 24, 2023Cora Dvorkin
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe universe as a lab for new physics across cosmic times -
October 31, 2023Bart Ripperda
Astrophysics ColloquiumHow black holes shine -
November 7, 2023Lia Corrales
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe cosmic journey of the elements, from dust to life -
November 14, 2023Shami Chatterjee
Astrophysics ColloquiumOpening a new window on low-frequency gravitational waves with galactic pulsar timing arrays -
November 21, 2023Anna Ho
Astrophysics ColloquiumFinding relativistic stellar explosions as fast optical transients -
November 28, 2023Jennifer Burt
Astrophysics ColloquiumEnhancing the science return of NASA's exoplanet missions with ground-based radial velocities -
December 5, 2023Jessica Werk
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe multi-scale, multiphase physics of the Circumgalactic Medium -
December 12, 2023Sarah Vigeland
Astrophysics ColloquiumSearching for a gravitational wave background with pulsar timing arrays -
February 6, 2024Henric Krawczynski
Astrophysics ColloquiumObservations of compact objects with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) -
February 14, 2024Michela Negro
Astrophysics ColloquiumMagnetars fireworks in the time domain and multi-messenger universe -
February 20, 2024Brad Cenko
Astrophysics ColloquiumA census of relativistic explosions in the extragalactic sky -
February 27, 2024Ehud Behar
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe missing baryons of the universe probed with Y-ray burst afterglows -
March 5, 2024Katie Breivik
Astrophysics ColloquiumBinary evolution: a multi-messenger, multi-band puzzle -
March 12, 2024Nestor Espinoza
Astrophysics ColloquiumExoplanet atmospheres revealed: insights from JWST observations -
March 19, 2024Richard Kelley
Astrophysics ColloquiumUsing extremely cold sensors to measure the hottest objects in the universe -
April 2, 2024Francois Mernier
Astrophysics ColloquiumChemical enrichment: from stars to galaxy clusters -
April 9, 2024Andrew Wetzel
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe cosmological formation of Milky Way-like galactic disks -
April 16, 2024Robyn Sanderson
Astrophysics ColloquiumDynamical tests of dark matter and galaxy formation theories in the Milky Way and beyond -
April 23, 2024Risa Wechsler
Astrophysics ColloquiumUnveiling the nature of dark matter with Small-scale Cosmic Structure -
April 30, 2024Courtney Dressing
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe Habitable Worlds Observatory -
May 14, 2024Jorge Moreno
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter -
October 8, 20242024 Kavli Prize Celebration
ReceptionIn honor of MIT's 2024 Kavli Prize laureates -
November 1, 2024Journal Club – All Hands
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October 11, 2024Christopher Layden & Kenzie Nimmo
Journal ClubTalk 1: CHIMERA occultation constraints on the abundance of kilometer-scale Kuiper Belt objects Talk 2: Using scintillation to constrain the emission physics of FRBs -
October 4, 2024Xiaowei Ou & Kishalay De
Journal ClubTalk 1: The rise of the R-process in the Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus dwarf galaxy Talk 2: The largest infrared camera scanning the skies -
April 4, 2025Yadira Gaibor & Mark Vogelsberger
Journal ClubTalk 1: Common envelope evolution and exoplanets around white dwarfs Talk 2: The Thesan Project: a brief overview -
March 21, 2025Emma Chickles & Xuejian Shen
Journal ClubTalk 1: Shifting perspectives on Type Ia supernova progenitors Talk 2: First results from the THESAN-ZOOM simulations -
March 7, 2025Michael Reefe & Melinda Soares-Furtado
Journal ClubTalk 1: Cold gas and star formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWST Talk 2: Constraints from planets in young, nearby moving groups -
March 14, 2025Alexander Yelland & Vincent MacKay
Journal ClubTalk 1: Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars in nearby systems Talk 2: Designing uv-complete radio arrays -
February 28, 2025Laurel Violet White & Adam Lanman
Journal ClubTalk 1: Abell 1885: a case study on AGN feedback in galaxy clusters Talk 2: The first CHIME/FRB Outrigger FRB host galaxies -
February 14, 2025Journal Club – All Hands
Journal Club