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February 14, 2025Journal Club – All Hands
Journal Club -
February 7, 2025Joheen Chakraborty & Riccardo Arcodia
Journal ClubTalk 1: An IMBH lurking in a galactic halo caught alive during outburst Talk 2: X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions: where do we stand? -
December 6, 2024Abdelaziz Hussein & Deep Chatterjee
Journal ClubTalk 1: Constraining the Milky Way's inner dark matter distribution using hydrodynamic simulations Talk 2: Machine Learning algorithms for real-time gravitational wave science -
November 22, 2024Megan Masterson & Michael McDonald
Journal ClubTalk 1: Millihertz oscillations near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole Talk 2: A new window into ICM cooling via JWST -
November 15, 2024Xiuyuan Zhang & Eric Miller
Journal ClubTalk 1: Constraints on dark photon dark matter from Lyman -a forest simulations a & an ultra-high signal-to-noise quasar spectrum Talk 2: Early science results from XRISM -
October 18, 2024Devin 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, 2024Rahul 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, 2024Haochen 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, 2024Eleanor 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, 2024Kai-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, 2024David 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, 2024Letizia Buglani
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Star-formation quenching in massive galaxies at Cosmic Noon: new perspectives from JWST -
December 2, 2024Sean 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, 2024Yilja 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, 2024Judah 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, 2024Jose 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, 2024Caleb 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, 2024Laya Ghodsi
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Multiphase circumgalactic medium of MACS1931-26 brightest cluster galaxy -
October 7, 2024Rodrigo 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, 2024Hannah 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, 2024Viraj Karambelkar
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Anthropology of merging stars: Tracing the evolution and impact of stellar mergers with time-domain surveys. -
September 16, 2024Gilad 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, 2024Qiong Li
Monday Afternoon Science Talks -
December 10, 2024Nadia Zakamska
Astrophysics ColloquiumJWST breakthroughs in galaxy formation -
November 26, 2024Liam Connor
Astrophysics ColloquiumEarly results and grand plans for FRB cosmology -
December 3, 2024Laura Newburgh
Astrophysics ColloquiumCracking the challenge of CHIME calibration -
November 19, 2024Greg Bryan
Astrophysics ColloquiumA multiscale physics approach to understanding galaxy evolution -
October 9, 2024Smadar Naoz
Astrophysics ColloquiumIt's raining black holes.....Hallelujah! -
November 12, 2024Munazza Alam
Astrophysics ColloquiumCharacterizing the atmospheres of Jupiters to super-earths -
November 5, 2024Phil Hopkins
Astrophysics ColloquiumConnecting stars, galaxies, and supermassive black holes from AU to megaparsecs -
October 29, 2024Josh Peek
Astrophysics ColloquiumKinetic Tomography -
October 22, 2024Elisabeth Newton
Astrophysics ColloquiumA stellar astronomer's perspective on the evolution of planets, stars, and the galaxy -
September 24, 2024Dillon Brout
Astrophysics ColloquiumExperimental status of the Standard Cosmological Model with Type Ia Supernovae -
October 1, 2024Jeremy Kepner
Astrophysics ColloquiumAstrophysical methods applied to the internet -
September 17, 2024Jenny Greene
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe nature of 'Little Red Dots' -
October 30, 2023MATs: 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, 2023MATs: 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, 2023MATs: 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, 2023MATs: 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, 2023MATs: 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, 2023MATs: 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, 2023MATs: 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