2023-24

Jake Bennett: The growth of the earliest quasars

Gus Beane (CfA) "GSE is Innocent" Brandon Barker (MSU) " On the prospects for r-process nucleosynthesis in collapsars" Julie McGeoch (CfA) " A space polymer of glycine and iron - its potential role in accretion and detection via JWST MIRI at 6.21 µm...

Fabio Pacucci (Clay Fellow) "Breaking Cosmic Scales: JWST's Discovery of Unexpectedly Massive Black Holes" Fabienne Nail (Amsterdam) "Three Dimensional Simulations of Exoplanetary Atmosphere Escape" Paola Dominguez Fernandez (FFL & ITC Fellow) "Magnetic...

Enrique Paillas (Waterloo) "Constraining cosmology with density-split clustering" Ani Prabhu (Princeton) "New Physics in High-energy Astrophysical Plasmas" Jake Bennett (CfA) "The Arkenstone wind model, or How we (hopefully) stop blowing up galaxies and...

Daniel Eisenstein: High-redshift galaxies with JWST Access to z>10 galaxies is being revolutionized by JWST, both with imaging and spectroscopy. Sources are reasonably plentiful and reveal a wide range of behaviors, but the uncertainties in the estimation...

Elena D'Onghia (UW Madison) "When do disks form bars?" Weicheng Zang (CfA) "Towards the Mass Function of Free-floating Planets" Xinyi Chen (Yale) "Probing primordial non-Gaussianity by reconstructing the initial conditions with machine learning" Danielle...

Shreyas Vissapragada (CfA) ""Why are these planets in the Neptune "desert?" Laura Vega (NASA Goddard) ""Exploring Flares in Simultaneous Multiwavelength Observations of Active M Dwarf Stars" Aldana Grichener (Technion) Mergers of neutron stars and black...

Jesse Han: Cold (1e4K) gas in the Galactic CGM As simulations of the CGM become more sophisticated, there are increasingly more diverse predictions of the dynamical/physical state of the cold phase. Until future-generation X-ray telescopes come online...

Igor Chilingarian: Intermediate-mass black holes: joining observations, simulations and theory Finding and characterizing the population of intermediate-mass black holes will allow us to answer one of the key questions in extragalactic astrophysics: "How...