====== February 6, 2020 ====== **Papers of the week:** https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_NICER_Constraints_on_the_Dense_Matter_Equation_of_State **Presenters:** Robert Wharton and Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan **Title:** NICER papers (Papers 1,2,4,5 and 6)