- October 18, 2024
Devin Becker & Matthew Mould
Journal ClubTalk 1: Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge for eccentric binaries Talk 2: Surprises from the spins of black holes in relativistic binaries - October 25, 2024
Rahul Jayaraman & Sara Seager
Journal ClubTalk 1: Gamma-ray bursts observed by TESS Talk 2: Fully fluorinated non-carbon compounds NF3 and SF6 as ideal technosignature gases - September 27, 2024
Haochen Wang & Kevin Burdge
Journal ClubTalk 1: Demonstration of hybrid foreground removal on CHIME data Talk 2: Lightspeed: a new ultrafast imager for Magellan - September 13, 2024
Eleanor Rath & Paul Schechter
Journal ClubTalk 1: Investigating mutual coupling in the HERA and mitigating its effects on the 21-cm power spectrum Talk 2: Falor's exact, forward, differentiable solution to the quadruply lensed quasar problem - November 8, 2024
Kai-feng Chen & Minghao Yue
Journal ClubTalk 1: Status report on the CCHP, JWST validates HST distance measurements Talk 2: Stacking x-ray observations of 'Little Red Dots': Implications for their AGN properties - December 16, 2024
David Robinson & Uddipan Banik
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Cooling and heating functions with Machine Learning Talk 2: A theory for collisionless relaxation to universal attractors in plasmas and self-gravitating systems - December 9, 2024
Letizia Buglani
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Star-formation quenching in massive galaxies at Cosmic Noon: new perspectives from JWST - December 2, 2024
Sean Terry, Minjung Park, Alice Curtin
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: A precursor survey of the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain fields Talk 2: Rapid quenching of galaxies at cosmic noon Talk 3: Uncovering the origins of FRBs - November 25, 2024
Yilja Li & Sandip Roy
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: A new photoionization emulator to flexibly model the ionizing sources and nebular conditions Talk 2: The galactic consequences of aggressively dissipative dark sectors - November 18, 2024
Judah van Zandt & Andrea Weibel
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: The prevalence of distant giant companions to inner small planets Talk 2: Galaxy Build-up in the first 1.5 Gyr: Stellar Mass Functions, Balmer Breaks at z ~ 9 and a Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z ~ 7 - November 4, 2024
Jose Benavides & Bobby Pascua
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Morphological transition in simulated low-mass galaxies in FIREbox Talk 2: Constraining reionization with HERA - October 28, 2024
Caleb Kenji Harada & Barak Rom
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Precursor science for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Pathways to planet properties Talk 2: Dynamics and transients around supermassive black holes - October 21, 2024
Laya Ghodsi
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Multiphase circumgalactic medium of MACS1931-26 brightest cluster galaxy - October 7, 2024
Rodrigo Cordova Rosado & Sam Ponnada
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Black hole growth and connections to dark matter halos: new insights from wide-field cosmological surveys Talk 2: Constraining the non-thermal physics of galaxies with simulations and synthetic observations - September 30, 2024
Hannah Sousa-Fronenberg & Jillian Rastenejad
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Can cross-correlations deliver measurements of the Epoch of Reionization? Talk 2: Exploring the origins of r-process elements with GRBs - September 23, 2024
Viraj Karambelkar
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Anthropology of merging stars: Tracing the evolution and impact of stellar mergers with time-domain surveys. - September 16, 2024
Gilad Sadeh & Mudit Garg
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Non-thermal emission following Compact Objects Mergers Talk 2: Decoding astrophysics from inspiraling LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries - September 9, 2024
Qiong Li
Monday Afternoon Science Talks - December 10, 2024
Nadia Zakamska
Astrophysics ColloquiumJWST breakthroughs in galaxy formation - November 26, 2024
Liam Connor
Astrophysics ColloquiumEarly results and grand plans for FRB cosmology - December 3, 2024
Laura Newburgh
Astrophysics ColloquiumCracking the challenge of CHIME calibration - November 19, 2024
Greg Bryan
Astrophysics ColloquiumA multiscale physics approach to understanding galaxy evolution - October 9, 2024
Smadar Naoz
Astrophysics ColloquiumIt's raining black holes.....Hallelujah! - November 12, 2024
Munazza Alam
Astrophysics ColloquiumCharacterizing the atmospheres of Jupiters to super-earths - November 5, 2024
Phil Hopkins
Astrophysics ColloquiumConnecting stars, galaxies, and supermassive black holes from AU to megaparsecs - October 29, 2024
Josh Peek
Astrophysics ColloquiumKinetic Tomography - October 22, 2024
Elisabeth Newton
Astrophysics ColloquiumA stellar astronomer's perspective on the evolution of planets, stars, and the galaxy - September 24, 2024
Dillon Brout
Astrophysics ColloquiumExperimental status of the Standard Cosmological Model with Type Ia Supernovae - October 1, 2024
Jeremy Kepner
Astrophysics ColloquiumAstrophysical methods applied to the internet - September 17, 2024
Jenny Greene
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe nature of 'Little Red Dots' - October 30, 2023
MATs: Akshara Viswanathan & Eltha Yu-Hsuan Teng
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Tracing the Milky Way's ancient footsteps: Insights from chemodynamical investigations of bright and distant metal-poor stars Talk 2: Revealing the drivers of CO-to-H2 conversion factor variation and its impact on star formation efficiency - October 23, 2023
MATs: Rachel Bowens-Rubin & William Misener
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: The observer that cried Wolf 359: hunting for exoplanets in the fifth-closest system using direct imaging and radial velocity Talk 2: A window into sub-Neptune interiors: coupled chemistry and structure of hydrogen-silane-water atmospheres - November 6, 2023
MATs: Heidi White & Amy Secunda
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Effective and meaningful engagement of underserved and disproportionately impacted communities in STEM learning Talk 2: Probing accretion disk structure beyond the standard thin disk model - November 13, 2023
MATs: Mahdi (Sum) Qezlou & Bhagya Subrayan
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: GCosmology and galaxy evolution with Ly-alpha tomography Talk 2: Maximizing Scientific Return from All Sky Surveys with Time-Critical Inferencing: The "Scary Barbie” story - November 20, 2023
MATs: Gokul Srinivasaragavan & Ming-Feng Ho
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: GRB 221009A/SN 2022xiw and GRB 230812B/SN 2023pel - Two Ordinary SNe Associated with Energetic GRBs Talk 2: Multi-fidelity emulators and the cosmological constraints from Lyman alpha forest - November 27, 2023
MATs: Ketan Sand & Ronan Kerr
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: A periodically repeating Fast Radio Burst Talk 2: The SPYGLASS Program: Mapping the Extensive Star Formation History of the Solar Neighborhood - December 4, 2023
MATs: Fabienne Nail & Jialu Li
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Three dimensional simulations of exoplanetary atmosphere escape Talk 2: SOFIA/EXES survey of gaseous water in the massive young binary W3 IRS 5 - December 11, 2023
MATs: Constantin Gerbig & Gene Leung
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: New diffusive instabilities in dusty protoplanetary disks: Setting the stage for planetesimal formation Talk 2: The high redshift universe in JWST observations: The UV luminosity function and little red dots - February 5, 2024
MATs: Xinfeng Xu
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: What are the radial distributions of density, outflow rates, and cloud structures in the M82 wind? - February 12, 2024
MATs: Susan Redmond & Ajay Gill
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: To the stratosphere and beyond: Correcting quasi-static wavefront error drifts in astronomical telescopes Talk 2: Galaxy cluster weak lensing from the stratosphere with SuperBIT - February 26, 2024
MATs: Natasha Latouf & Martin Millon
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE): Using Grid-Based Nested Sampling in Coronagraphy Observation Simulations for Molecular Detection Talk 2: Strong gravitational lensing by AGNs as a probe of the quasar-host relations in the distant Universe - March 11, 2024
MATs: Chun Huang & Tomas Soltinsky
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the cosmic heating and reionization history Talk 2: Cracking neutron star mysteries: Physics-driven insights into interior, surface, and exterior by X-ray Timing results