Recent News

  • 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. Cagan Sengul (former PhD student) discussed the book “The Universe in a Box” with Prof. Andrew Pontzen at the Harvard Science Book talks (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 getting an offer as a tenure-track faculty 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).
  • Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave an invited seminar at École Normale Supérieure to talk about our recent work “Going Beyond the Galaxy Power Spectrum: an Analysis of BOSS Data with Wavelet Scattering Transforms” (May, 2022).
  • Prof. Dvorkin participated in a faculty panel discussion about jobs with postdocs at the Physics Department at Harvard (May, 2022).
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited Colloquium at CERN (May, 2022).
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited talk at the CMB-S4 collaboration workshop on “Dark Matter Physics from the CMB-S4 Experiment” (May, 2022).
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited plenary talk at PHENO 2022 Conference (May, 2022).
  • Nick DePorzio (PhD student) gave a talk at PHENO 2022 Conference on our work on Light but Massive Relics (LiMRs) (May, 2022).
  • Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave an invited talk at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) about our recent work: “Going Beyond the Galaxy Power Spectrum: an Analysis of BOSS Data with Wavelet Scattering Transforms” (May, 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)
  • Prish Chakraborty (PhD student) gave a seminar at the High Energy Theory group at Harvard on our work on a fast method for CMBxLSS bispectrum analysis and work in progress (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 led white papers on Dark Matter, Light Relics, and Machine Learning&Cosmology for the Snowmass 2021 process (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). 
  • Dr. Georgios Valogiannis (postdoc) gave an invited talk at Stanford University to talk about our recent paper on optimal estimation of cosmological parameters with wavelet scattering transforms (January, 2022).
  • Dr. Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro accepted a position as an IAIFI postdoctoral fellow and will be joining our group this year! (January, 2022).
  • Georges Obied (PhD student) will be moving to Oxford University as a postdoctoral fellow this fall! (January, 2022).
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave a seminar at the Physics Department at McGill University (December, 2021).
  • Shu-Fan Chen (PhD student) gave a seminar at the High Energy Theory group at Harvard on our work on CMBxLSS (December, 2021).
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave a seminar at the Physics Department at Columbia University (November, 2021).
  • Congratulations to Maya Burhanpurkar (undergraduate student) for being awarded a Rhodes scholarship! (November, 2021)
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave a colloquium at UCLA (November, 2021).
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited talk at the Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics (November, 2021).
  • Prof. Dvorkin gave an invited keynote talk at the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) annual Conference (November, 2021).
  • Prof. Dvorkin participated in a new BBC/NOVA series “NOVA Universe revealed: Big Bang” (October, 2021).
  • 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).
  • Prof. Dvorkin has been interviewed by Quanta Magazine and Harvard Gazette (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).
  • Ana Díaz Rivero (PhD student) and Linda Xu (PhD student) gave invited talks at the New England Theoretical Cosmology, Gravity and Fields Workshop (July, 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).
  • BSM PANDEMIC seminar series (co-organized by Prof. Dvorkin) is co-sponsoring an APS event titled “From Passion to Action: Levers & Tools for Making Physics Inclusive & Equitable“, featuring panelists who have been actively involved with increasing diversity and improving the culture of academia (June, 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 participated in a Panel on Data Driven Scientific Discovery at the Harvard Data Science Initiative Conference (October, 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 was an external examiner of the Ph.D. thesis of Anirban Roy, working at SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Baccigalupi and Prof. David Spergel (September, 2019). His thesis was based on Prof. Dvorkin’s papers on patchy reionization: “Reconstructing Patchy Reionization from the Cosmic Microwave Background” and “B-mode CMB Polarization from Patchy Screening during Reionization”.
  • Prof. Dvorkin was awarded the DOE Early Career award (August, 2019).
  • 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).
  • Prof. Dvorkin and collaborator’s paper “Making dark matter out of light: Freeze-in from plasma effects” was highlighted as an Editors’ suggestion in PRD: https://journals.aps.org/prd/highlights (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).