Summer MKI Undergraduate Research Forum (SMURF)
Please come out and support MKI’s undergraduate researchers!
When: August 23rd, 1-4 PM (This Friday!)
Where: Marlar Lounge, Building 37-252
Session 1 (1-2:20 PM; 15 mins per talk)
Welcome and Introduction — Dheeraj Pasham
Constructing Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral Waveforms from Harmonics. Part 1
Talya Klinger (Supervisor: Scott Hughes)
Constructing Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral Waveforms from Harmonics. Part 2
Alexandra Hanselman (Supervisor: Scott Hughes)
Scaling Relations and Observable Covariance of Simulated Clusters
Jakob Jorgensen (Supervisors: David Barnes and Mark Vogelsberger)
The origin of the Milky Way galaxy in illustris
Yuan Wang (Supervisors: Hui Li and Mark Vogelsberger)
How to define a relaxed cluster?
Kaili Cao (Supervisor: David Barnes and Mark Vogelsberger)
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Session 2 (2:35 – 3:50; 15 mins per talk)
Time Series Clustering and Association Rule Mining on NICER Satellite’s Housekeeping Data
Chanita Tubthong (Supervisor: Dheeraj Pasham)
Resonant-line radiative transfer within power-law density profiles
Bingxin Lao (Supervisor: Aaron Smith)
Studying the chemical makeup of stars in Sculptor: Dwarf Galaxies as potential pieces of the Milky Way puzzle
Kylie Hansen (Supervisor: Anna Frebel)
Finding lensed quasars among random quartets
Sergio Cuadra (Supervisor: Paul Schechter)
Modeling Galaxy Cluster Potentials using Witt’s Hyperbola
Collin Warner (Supervisor: Paul Schechter)