"Data-driven discovery in the astronomical time domain"

Abstract: Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered over the past few years using observations from large and homogeneous time domain surveys of nearby stars. To push the exoplanet detection threshold to the smallest planets or the longest orbital periods using these data, we combine physical models of exoplanets with data-driven models of the stars and the spacecraft. As part of this process, we also constrain the physical properties of the target stars using the same time series. Scaling these models to hundreds of...

"The E-MOSAICS project: simulating the formation and evolution of galaxies and their globular cluster populations across full cosmic history"

Globular clusters (GCs) have long been suggested as potentially powerful tracers of the galaxy formation process. However, due to the lack of a sound theoretical framework for the formation of GCs, this promise remains largely unfulfilled. I will present the E-MOSAICS project (MOdelling Star cluster population Assembly In Cosmological Simulations within EAGLE): a suite of cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations run with the EAGLE galaxy...

Nia Imara (CfA) "X Marks the Spot (of Star Formation)" 

Nick Gnedin (Fermilab) “Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy Condition: Even Textbook Truths Are Worth Revisiting”

Christopher Moore (CfA) “Magnetic Field Morphology Effects on the Determination of Oxygen and Iron Abundances in the Solar Photosphere” 

Daisuke Nagai (Yale) “The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts”