Note: Hi everyone! We (Mike Rizzo Smith & Mary Kaldor) are taking over AJRC this year. We’re very excited! We are both second year PhD-track students. Mike works with Kelly Holley-Bockelmann on Black Hole Binaries and Accretion Disk Physics, and Mary works with Jessie Runnoe on Quasar Broad Line Variability. If you ever have any questions surrounding AJRC, please email us at ajrc@vanderbilt.edu (this email)! We’re trying to keep all communication consolidated in this inbox, so we would appreciate it if you hold off on using our Vanderbilt emails or Slack.
| Date | Title | Speaker | August 28, 2024 | Introduction to AJRC | Mike and Mary |
|---|---|---|
| September 4, 2024 | Lightning Talks | Everyone! | September 11, 2024 | “Identifying the electromagnetic counterparts of LISA massive black hole binaries in archival LSST data” by Xin, Chengcheng and Haiman, Zoltán (2024) [2403.18751] |
Sofia Martinez Fortis |
| September 18, 2024 | “Gaia DR3 detectability of unresolved binary systems” by Castro-Ginard et al. (2024) [2403.18751] |
Levi Schult |
| September 25, 2024 | “Spectral Variance in a Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background from a Binary Population” by William G. Lamb and Stephen R. Taylor (2024) [2407.06270] |
William Lamb |
| October 2, 2024 | Zachary Hoelscher | |
| October 9, 2024 | KeShawn Ivory | |
| October 16, 2024 | Kaylah Mcgowan | |
| October 23, 2024 | Mary Kaldor | |
| October 30, 2024 | Krystal Ruiz-Rocha | |
| November 6, 2024 | Bill Smith | November 13, 2024 | Ryan Nowicki | November 20, 2024 | Kamara Culbreath | November 27, 2024 | Thanksgiving Break – no AJRC | December 4, 2024 | Jorge Padial | December 11, 2024 | Reading Day – no AJRC | December 18, 2024 | Winter Break – no AJRC | December 25, 2024 | Winter Break – no AJRC | January 1, 2025 | Winter Break – no AJRC | January 8, 2025 | Celia Toral Cassandra Moats |
January 15, 2025 | AAS – no AJRC | January 22, 2025 | Michael Rizzo Smith | January 29, 2025 | Jaelyn Roth | February 5, 2025 | Carolyn Drake | February 12, 2025 | Kyle Gersbach | February 19, 2025 | Polina Petrov | February 26, 2025 | Azeem Bari | March 5, 2025 | Harrison Blake-Goszyk | March 12, 2025 | Spring Break – no AJRC | March 19, 2025 | Collin Dabbieri | March 26, 2025 | Suyash Deshmukh | April 2, 2025 | Brayan Hernandez | April 9, 2025 | Jose Arita-Escalante Nicholas-Tyler Howard |
April 16, 2025 | TBD |
Days with no planned AJRC are highlighted in red. Talks from special visitors are highlighted in blue.