We are pleased to announce that the eighth annual MKI Postdoctoral Symposium will take place on April 29-30 and May 1 2015 from 11:45 AM-1:30 PM in Marlar Lounge (MIT, 37-252). The lunch will be served every day at 11:45 a.m. with talks beginning at 12:00 p.m, and plenty of time for discussion. A detailed list of speakers and talks, which cover a broad range of research topics, can be found here: http://space.mit.edu/symposium/postdoc/2015/

See you there!

2015 symposium organizers:  Salvatore Vitale, Olek Sadowski, and Niels Warburton

DAY 2 — April 30th
Moderator: Aleksander Sadowski

Speaker:  Aleksander Sadowski
Title:  Thin accretion disks – theory vs observations vs simulations

Speaker:  Kevin Schlaufman
Title:  The Best and Brightest Metal-poor Stars

Speaker:  Victoria Grinberg
Title:  Understanding the origin of hard X-rays in black hole binaries using polarization