Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (PhD student) gave a talk at the “Cosmology and galaxy astrophysics with simulations and machine learning” workshop at the Flatiron Institute (December, 2024).
Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) gave a talk at the “Multi-color universe” workshop at Heidelberg University (December, 2024).
Gemma Zhang (PhD student) gave a talk at the NeurIPS workshop in Vancouver, Canada (December, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a talk at Prof. Demba Ba’s group at Harvard (SEAS) (November, 2024).
Anmol Raina (PhD student) gave a talk at the High Energy Theory group at Harvard on our work on non-Gaussianity of CMB lensing (November, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) (October, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the University of Sussex (October, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited talk at the LHC Days in Split Conference (October, 2024).
Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (PhD student) presented a poster at the IAIFI workshop (August, 2024).
Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) gave a talk at “Cosmology in the Adriatic” workshop in Croatia (July, 2024).
Nino Ephremidze (undergraduate student) gave a talk at a workshop at MIT (July, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a talk for kids at the Cambridge Math Circle camp program (June, 2024).
Prish Chakraborty (PhD student) gave a talk at Cambridge University (June, 2024).
Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (PhD student) and Gemma Zhang (PhD student) gave talks at the AstroAI workshop (June, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited talk at the KICP conference for its 20th anniversary at the University of Chicago (June, 2024).
Congratulations to Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (PhD student) for getting an offer for the 2024-2025 CCA (Simons Foundation) pre-doctoral program! (May, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute (May, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited talk at the Institute for Theory and Computation Conference at Harvard (May, 2024).
Congratulations to Dr. Arthur Tsang for successfully defending his PhD Thesis! (May, 2024).
Prish Chakraborty (PhD student) gave talks at Berkeley and at University of Portsmouth, UK (May, 2024).
Congratulations to Dr. Siddharth Mishra-Sharma (postdoc at the IAIFI, working with the group) for accepting an offer for a tenure-track position at Boston University (Computing and Data Sciences joint with Physics)! (April, 2024).
Congratulations to Dr. Hayden Lee (former postdoc in the group) for accepting an offer for a tenure-track faculty position at UPenn! (April, 2024).
Congratulations to Chandrika Chandrashekar, Anmol Raina, Arthur Tsang, and Gemma Zhang (Ph.D. students) for being awarded the “White Prize” for excellence in teaching! (April, 2024).
Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (PhD student) gave a talk on our work on inference in cosmology with self-supervised machine learning at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard (April, 2024).
Prish Chakraborty (PhD student) gave a seminar at MIT (April, 2024).
Prish Chakraborty (PhD student) gave a seminar at Brown University (March, 2024).
Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) gave a seminar at the High Energy Theory group at Harvard on our analysis of BOSS galaxy data with weighted skew-spectrum (March, 2024).
Arthur Tsang (PhD student) gave a talk on our work on using machine learning on strong lensing at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard (February, 2024).
Prof. Dvorkin was interviewed for the Harvard University, Physics Alumni Newsletter (December, 2023).
Aizhan Akhmetzhanova and Gemma Zhang (PhD students) gave talks at the conference “Debating the potential of machine learning for astronomical surveys” at the Flatiron Institute (November, 2023).
Our paper (with Aizhan Akhmetzhanova and Siddharth Mishra-Sharma) was chosen as an IAIFI research highlight (November, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a guest lecture for the course “Topics in Current Research”, at the Physics Department at Harvard (November, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin taught a course on “Statistical Methods in Cosmology” at the Inaugural Nigerian School on High Energy, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (November, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at Boston University (Novemeber, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave invited Colloquia at Stanford and MIT (October, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited public talk at the Physics Department at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (October, 2023).
Congratulations to Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (PhD student) for successfully passing her PhD Qualifying Exam! (October, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin participated in a pre-orientation program for incoming international undergraduate students at Harvard (August, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin participated in a pre-orientation program for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented incoming undergraduate students at Harvard (August, 2023).
Arthur Tsang (PhD student) and Gemma Zhang (PhD student) gave talks at the “Gravitational lensing at different scales” workshop at the University of Chicago (August, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a public talk at University of Buenos Aires (July, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin taught a course on “Statistical Methods in Cosmology” at the Giambiagi winter school in Buenos Aires (July, 2023).
Aizhan Akhmetzhanova (PhD student) presented a poster at the ICML 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Astrophysics (July, 2023).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave a talk about our wavelet scattering transform work at the DESI collaboration meeting and at the “Understanding cosmological observations” workshop in Benasque (July, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin was promoted to Full Professor with tenure! (June, 2023).
Our paper (with Aizhan Akhmetzhanova and Siddharth Mishra-Sharma), “Cosmological Data Compression and Inference with Self-Supervised Machine Learning”, was accepted as a poster presentation at the ICML 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Astrophysics! (June, 2023).
Congratulations to Dr. Nick DePorzio for successfully defending his PhD Thesis! (May, 2023).
Congratulations to Dr. Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah (former postdoc in the group) for accepting an offer for a tenure-track faculty position at the CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research)! (May, 2023).
Congratulations to Dr. Cagan Sengul for successfully defending his PhD Thesis! (April, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a talk at the IAIFI symposium at MIT (April, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited colloquium at Arizona State University (April, 2023).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave an invited talk about our wavelet scattering transform work at Yale (March, 2023).
Arthur Tsang (PhD student) gave a talk about our work on gravitational lensing with machine learning at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) (March, 2023).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) has accepted an offer as a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Chicago and will be starting this fall!
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited seminar at the Physics Department at Johns Hopkins University (February, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited AI Distinguished Lecture at Argonne National Laboratory (February, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin participated in an event organized by Harvard Undergraduate Women in Physics (February, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a guest lecture at the course “Creativity” (Gen Ed 1067) at Harvard University (February, 2023).
Prof Dvorkin was a keynote speaker at the National Collegiate Research Conference, a conference organized by the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA) (January, 2023).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave an invited talk at Perimeter Institute (January, 2023).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited seminar at National University of La Plata, Argentina (December, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited plenary talk at “The Dark Side of the Universe” conference in Sydney, Australia (December, 2022).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave a talk about our wavelet scattering transform work at “Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation” conference and at the DESI collaboration meeting (December, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the Physics Department at Harvard (November, 2022).
Cagan Sengul (PhD student) gave a seminar at the High Energy Theory group at Harvard on our work on gravitational lensing (November, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the Physics Department at Yale (November, 2022).
Gabriela Sato-Polito (Johns Hopkins University) visited our group and gave a seminar (November, 2022).
Dr. Nashwan Sabti (Johns Hopkins University) visited our group and gave a seminar (November, 2022).
Congratulations to Gemma Zhang (PhD student) for successfully passing her PhD Qualifying Exam! (October, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin voted “favorite professor” by the Harvard senior Class of 2023 (recognized by Harvard Yearbook Publications)!
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited High-Energy Theory Seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory (October, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a Wednesday night an invited seminar for the students at the Physics Department at Harvard (October, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited seminar at the the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at NYU (October, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin was an external examiner at the PhD thesis defense of Nicolas Chartier, at Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure (October, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the Physics Department at Northeastern University (October, 2022).
Sebastian Wagner-Carena (Stanford University) visited our group and gave a seminar (October, 2022).
Cagan Sengul (PhD student) gave an invited talk at the Physics Department at Princeton University (October, 2022).
Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) gave a seminar to our group about his recent paper (September, 2022).
Miles Cranmer (Princeton University), Mesut Caliskan (Johns Hopkins), and Ginat Yonadav-Barry (Technion) visited our group and gave seminars (September, 2022).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave an invited talk at the Physics Department at Johns Hopkins University (September, 2022).
Cagan Sengul (PhD student) gave an invited talk at the Physics Department at University of Montreal (September, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin participated in the Harvard annual Latinx Convocation to welcome the incoming students (September, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin participated in a pre-orientation program for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented incoming undergraduate students at Harvard (August, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited plenary talk at the TeVPA (TeV Particle Astrophysics) conference (August, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited plenary talk at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) summer workshop (August, 2022).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave a talk at a cosmology workshop organized by Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics in Slovenia about our work on analyzing the large-scale structure of the universe with wavelet scattering transforms (July, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin coordinated a panel on machine learning in cosmology at a cosmology workshop organized by Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics in Slovenia (July, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave invited talks at “Summiting the Unknown: New Physics, New Opportunities, New Voices” workshop at University of Washington and a cosmology workshop organized by Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics in Slovenia about her work on probing dark matter on small scales (with strong gravitational lensing). She also gave an invited talk at “Intriguing inconsistencies in the growth of structure over cosmic time” workshop in Sesto about her work on analyzing the large-scale structure of the universe with wavelet scattering transforms (June and July, 2022).
Prish Chakraborty (PhD student) Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave talks at the “Cosmology from Home” conference (July, 2022).
Congratulations to Dr. Julian Muñoz (former postdoc) for accepting a faculty position at UT Austin! (June, 2022).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave a talk at the DESI collaboration meeting about our work on wavelet scattering transforms (June, 2022).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave an invited talk in the Euclid collaboration about our work on wavelet scattering transforms (June, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave and invited talk at CIFAR’s (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) Workshop on Cosmology and Artificial Intelligence (June, 2022).
Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave a talk about our recent work at Prof. Daniel Eisenstein’s group meeting at Harvard, CfA (June, 2022).
Lucia Gordon (undergraduate student) will be starting a PhD in Computer Science at Harvard! (May, 2022)
Maya Burhanpurkar (undergraduate student) and Prof. Dvorkin were interviewed by the Harvard Gazette about Maya’s Rhodes scholarship together with other two physics concentrators! (May, 2022).
Arthur Tsang (PhD student) gave a seminar at the High Energy Theory group at Harvard on our work on line-of-sight halos (April, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a public talk organized by the National Academy of Sciences in Argentina (April, 2022).
Congratulations to Dr. Georges Obied for successfully defending his PhD Thesis! (April, 2022)
Prof. Dvorkin and Prof. Matthew Schwartz gave an introduction to the IAIFI at the Physics Department Graduate Student Open House (March, 2022). Slides can be found here.
Congratulations to Maya Burhanpurkar (undergraduate student) for being accepted into 4 out of the 4 postgraduate programs that she applied to at Oxford! (March, 2022).
Congratulations to Prish Chakraborty (PhD student) for successfully passing his PhD Qualifying Exam! (March, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) (March, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at the CfA, Harvard (March, 2022).
Cagan Sengul (PhD student), Dr. Bryan Ostdiek (postdoc), and Prof. Cora Dvorkin gave invited talks at the “Nature of Dark Matter on Small Scales” seminar series at Yale University. The talks are based on our lensing works (February, 2022).
Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited talk at Cosmo@ar (workshop on cosmology, Argentina) (September, 2021).
Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) gave a talk at the “Cosmology from Home” conference (July, 2021).
Congratulations to Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) for successfully passing his PhD Qualifying Exam! (June, 2021).
Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) was awarded a “Government Scholarship to Study Abroad” by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan (June, 2021).
Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) gave an invited talk at the CMB-S4 “Maps to Other Statistics” working group (June, 2021).
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Xu for successfully defending her PhD Thesis! (May, 2021)
Linda Xu (PhD student) will be moving to Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow this fall!
Dr. Bryan Ostdiek (postdoc) gave an invited talk at the BSM PANDEMIC seminar series (April, 2021).
Maya Burhanpurkar (undergraduate student) won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize! (April, 2021).
Linda Xu (PhD student) gave an invited talk at SLAC/Stanford about our work on LiMRs (April, 2021).
Congratulations to Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) for winning the Emilios Harlaftis Best PhD Thesis Prize, given by the Hellenic Astronomical Society! (March, 2021).
Prof. Dvorkin has been named a “Science Ambassador” of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) (March, 2021).
Prof. Dvorkin gave a public (virtual) talk “From Cosmological Observations to Fundamental Physics” for students in rural areas of India. This event was organized to motivate women to pursue a career in science (February, 2021).
We had our virtual group dinner! (February, 2021).
Linda Xu (PhD student) gave invited talks at Ohio State, Cornell, and UMass Amherst (January, 2021).
Dr. Hayden Lee (postdoc) accepted a position as a KICP (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)/University of Chicago postdoctoral fellow! (January, 2021).
Linda Xu (PhD student) accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley! (January, 2021).
Dr. Siddharth Mishra-Sharma accepted a position as an IAIFI postdoctoral fellow and will be joining our group this year! (January, 2021).
Prof. Dvorkin has been interviewed for a BBC (NOVA) series about her work (December, 2020).
Prof. Dvorkin has given a TED talk (November, 2020).
Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) gave invited talks at the “Physics meets Machine Learning” seminar series and at UC Berkeley (November, 2020).
Linda Xu (PhD student) gave invited talks at the BSM PANDEMIC seminar series, at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Perimeter, University of Maryland, TRIUMF, and at KICP (University of Chicago) (November, 2020).
Georges Obied (PhD student) gave an invited talk at the BSM PANDEMIC seminar series (October, 2020).
Linda Xu (PhD student) gave invited talks at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and at University of San Diego (October, 2020).
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Diaz Rivero for successfully defending her PhD Thesis! (October, 2020)
Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) gave invited talks at KIPAC (Stanford), Perimeter Institute, University of Arizona, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago (October, 2020).
Congratulations to Arthur Tsang (PhD student) for successfully passing his PhD Qualifying Exam! (September, 2020).
Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) gave invited talks at the Astrostatistics group at Harvard, at Leiden University and at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA, NY) (September, 2020).
Linda Xu (PhD student) gave an invited talk at MIT (September, 2020).
Welcome to Dr. Georgios Valogiannis, a new postdoc at our group! (September, 2020).
Congratulations to Cagan Sengul (PhD student) for successfully passing his PhD Qualifying Exam! (September, 2020).
Our NSF-funded Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) has launched! Prof. Dvorkin will be serving as the Harvard representative at the Institute Board (August, 2020).
Arthur Tsang (PhD student), Nick DePorzio (PhD student), Linda Xu (PhD student), Hayden Lee (postdoc), and Julian Muñoz (postdoc) gave talks at the “Cosmology from Home” conference (August/September, 2020).
Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) gave an invited talk at the BSM PANDEMIC seminar series (August, 2020).
Nick DePorzio (PhD student) and Linda Xu (PhD student) gave invited talks at the MIT Dark Matter Journal Club. They talked about our recent papers “Finding eV-scale Light Relics with Cosmological Observables“ [arXiv:2006.09380] and “Accurately Weighing Neutrinos with Cosmological Surveys” [arXiv:2006.09395] (July, 2020).
Cagan Sengul (PhD student) gave an invited talk at Yale on our new paper: “Quantifying the Line-of-Sight Halo Contribution to the Dark Matter Convergence Power Spectrum from Strong Gravitational Lenses” [arXiv:2006.07383] (July, 2020).
Prof. Dvorkin participated in a reverse-site visit for an Artificial Intelligence NSF Center (June, 2020).
Congratulations to Maya Burhanpurkar (undergraduate student) on winning the Harvard College Research Program award! (May, 2020).
Congratulations to Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) on being awarded the GSAS Merit Fellowship for “outstanding graduate students” (April, 2020).
Congratulations to Nick DePorzio (PhD student) for successfully passing his PhD Qualifying Exam! (February, 2020).
Prof. Dvorkin’s new Harvard Freshman Seminar “The Universe: Its Origin, Evolution and Major Puzzles” has been accepted. It will be offered next Spring! (February, 2020).
Prof. Dvorkin was a reviewer for two different Department of Energy (DOE) panels (February, 2020).
Dr. Julian Muñoz (postdoc) was awarded a prestigious Hubble fellowship, and the Clay fellowship. Congratulations!
Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) presented our work at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany (February, 2020).
Linda Xu (PhD student) presented our work at Berkeley (January, 2020).
Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) has been selected by the Physics Department for the 2019 GSAS Merit Fellowship for “outstanding graduate students” (November, 2019).
Ana Diaz Rivero (PhD student) presented our recent work on strong lensing at the Shangai 2019 Conference (November, 2019).
Prof. Dvorkin chaired a session on component separation/foreground cleaning at the CMB-S4 conference at UCSD (October, 2019). Prof. Dvorkin’s former Harvard undergraduate student Sebastian Wagner-Carena presented our new component separation method in this paper.
Prof. Dvorkin gave a series of lectures on CMB Theory at the ICTP School on Observational Cosmology (July, 2019).
Prof. Dvorkin was elected the Vice Chair of the next Gordon Research Conference “String Theory and Cosmology”, to be held in 2021, and Chair of the meeting to be held in 2023 (June, 2019).
Lucia Gordon (undergraduate student) was awarded the Harvard PRISE undergraduate research fellowship to work in Dvorkin’s group during the summer of 2019 (March, 2019).
Prof. Dvorkin has led and written papers on cosmological probes of dark matter, inflation, and neutrino mass, for the Astro2020 Decadal Survey (March, 2019).
