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A very well-deserved Congratulations to our very own Shouleh Nikzad for being elected to the National Academy of Engineering!

Astrophysics Division Update and Astro 2030 Preparations. Speaker: Shawn Domagal-Goldman

Tracing Turbulence in Jellyfish Galaxy Tails Speaker Yuan Li (UMass) Abstract Jellyfish galaxies, found in the outskirts of galaxy clusters, exhibit extended tails of gas stripped away by ram pressure from the intracluster medium (ICM), giving rise to their distinctive…

Near-Infrared Survey Science with the Roman Space Telescope Speaker Maxime Rizzo Abstract The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch in Fall 2026, ushering in a new era of near-infrared space-based astrophysics. By combining Hubble-like spatial resolution with…

Equivariant Networks – Applications Speaker Anna Scaife, U. of Manchester Meeting Connection Join the Meeting

Illuminating the Galactic Baryon Cycle at Cosmic Noon. Speaker: Tucker Jones

Build Recurrent Neural Networks from first principles and apply them to real-time classification of astronomical transients. Implement vanilla RNNs, LSTMs, and GRUs in PyTorch and train a classifier on supernova light curves. Topics Covered Meeting Connection Join the Meeting

Follow the link here to join: https://discord.gg/DsDq5UX8TJ Over the past two years the NASA Cosmic Pathfinders Program has been slowly, but surely, developing as a platform for early-career professional growth. A growing number of participants and community members/supporters, both domestic…

Illuminating the Galactic Baryon Cycle at Cosmic Noon Speaker Tucker Jones | University of California – Davis Abstract The formation of galaxies is regulated by large-scale inflows and outflows of gas, in a process known as the baryon cycle. This…

The next AI/ML Science and Technology Interest Group (AI/ML STIG) lecture will be on February 23rd, 2026 at 4:00 pm ET/1:00 pm PT. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) Speaker Daniel Muthukrishna | Harvard/MIT Connection information and the link to join the…

The NASA Astrophysics Division Director, Shawn Domagal‑Goldman, will provide an update in a webinar on 10 March 2026, 12p-1p Eastern (9a-10a Pacific).

The deadline for NASA internships during summer 2026 is fast approaching and will be here on February 27th! We have compiled an extensive listing of the latest information on astrophysics-related summer internships offered below! All links provided below will take…

We invite everyone to join us for the next AGN SIG Vision Series Talk on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 1 pm ET/10 am PT. Our first Vision Series talk for the year will feature Dr. Santiago Garcia-Burillo (Observatorio Astronómico…

This seminar will feature an update from the Habitable Worlds Observatory Community Science & Instrument Team (CSIT), presentations on technical capabilities, and time for groups to advertise their HWO-related work and find collaborators. If you would like an advertisement slot…

Build a decoder-only transformer (a small GPT-like language model) from scratch in PyTorch. Train it on the Tiny Shakespeare dataset for character-level language modeling and use it to generate text, understanding every component along the way.

Build a decoder-only transformer (GPT-style) from scratch in PyTorch. Train it on Tiny Shakespeare for character-level language modeling and generate text.

Monsters in the Dark: Searching Far and Wide for Ultra-Luminous Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn Speaker John Weaver Abstract The first galaxies (z > 10) appear to have formed faster and more efficiently than predicted by standard models, but they are…

Monsters in the Dark: Searching Far and Wide for Ultra-Luminous Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn, Speaker | John Weaver

Space Interferometry for Astrophysics in the 2030s? Speaker William C. Danchi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Abstract Space interferometry is the next evolutionary step for high angular resolution astronomy, given the maturity and many accomplishments of ground-based interferometry in the…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) Speaker Tri Nguyen, Northwestern Learn how to build Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to work with graph-structured data. Explore node classification on citation networks and apply GNNs to model dark matter subhalo interactions with stellar streams using…

The HWO Science Interest Group invites you to the next seminar: Wednesday, February 11th, at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT .

February 2nd, 2026 at 4:00 pm ET/1:00 pm PT Graph Neural Networks Neural Network Basics: Part 3 | Tri Nguyen, Northwestern University Learn how to build Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to work with graph-structured data. Explore node classification on citation…

NASA’s Fornax Initiative is now accepting beta users on our Science Console, a JupyterLab environment in the cloud for computing next to NASA astrophysics archival data.

Space Interferometry for Astrophysics in the 2030s? Speaker: William C. Danchi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center