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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
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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