Student participants
Please click on the links to see the reports from the students of the 2017 program.
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Name: Floor Broekgaarden | Afilliation: University of Amsterdam | Project Title:Efficiently sampling rare events in population synthesis models |
| PhDAdvisor: Daan Crommelin; Selma de Mink | Research Interests: Theoretical and computational Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves. |
Project Advisors: Stephen Justhan, Ilya Mandel, Jon Gair | |
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Name: Micheal Zevin | Afilliation: Northwestern University | Project Title: Binary-binary interactions |
| PhD Advisor: Vicky Kalogera | Research Interests: Gravitational Waves, LIGO, Stellar Evolution. | Project Advisors: Johan Samsing, Carl Haster, Carl Rodriguez, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | |
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Name: Alejandro Vigna-Gómez | Afilliation: University of Birmingham | Project Title: Stellar mergers as pair instability supernova progenitors |
| PhD Advisor: Ilya Mandel | Research Interests: Binary Stellar Evolution, Progenitors,Mass Transfer,Common Envelope Events. | Project Advisors: Stephen Justham, Phillip Podsiadlowski | |
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Name: Valeriya Korol | Afilliation: Leiden University | Project Title: Dynamics in primordial black hole clusters |
| PhD Advisor: Elena M. Rossi | Research Interests: Compact Objects,Gravitational Waves, BlackHoles, Binary Systems, Stellar Dynamics. | Project Advisors: Ross Church, Melvin Davies, Ilya Mandel, Cole Miller | |
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Name: Zoheyr Doctor | Afilliation: University of Chicago | Project Title:Testing compact binaries formation models using supernova observations |
| PhD Advisor: Daniel Holz | Research Interests: Electromagnetic follow-up of Gravitational Wave-Sources/Modeling, Binary Mergers, Astronomical Data Analysis. |
Project Advisors: Chris Belczynski, Daniel Holz, Ben Farr, Chris Fryer | |
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Name: Rhondale (Ron) Tso | Afilliation: Caltech | Project Title:Multiband cosmology using centi-Hertz gravitational wave sources |
| PhD Advisor: Yanbei Chen | Research Interests: Tests of GR, BH environments, GW detection strategies. | Project Advisors: Jon Gair, Daniel Holz, Joey Shapiro Key | |
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Name: Stefano Ascenzi | Afilliation: University of Rome La Sapienza | Project Title: The luminosity function of macronovae |
| PhD Advisor: Enzo Brocato; Valeria Ferrari; Viviana Fafone | Research Interests: Accretion Disks, Compact Objects, Cosmology, Gravitational Waves, Plasma; Astroparticle; Astro; Plasma Physics. | Project Advisors: Ryan Foley, Stefan, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Chris Fryer, Nicole Lloyd Ronning, Silvia Piranomonte | |
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Name: Soumi De | Afilliation: Syracuse University | Project Title:Effect of mass ratio in common envelope flows |
| PhD Advisor: Duncan Brown | Research Interests: LIGO Data; Parameter Measurement, Astrophysics in Compact Binary Sources of Gravitational Waves. | Project Advisors: Morgan McLeod, Ilya Mandel, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Tassos Fragos | |
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Name: Luke Kelley | Afilliation: Harvard Center for Astrophysics | Project Title:Astrometric gravitational wave detections |
| PhD Advisor: | Research Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics, Black-hole Binary Evolution, Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Signatures, Tidal Disruption Events. | Project Advisors: Jon Gair, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Will Farr, Carl Haster | |
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Name: Sophie Schroder | Afilliation: Niels Bohr Institute | Project Title:Notes on wind in binaries |
| PhD Advisor: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Aldo Alberto Batta Marquez | Research Interests: Stellar Rotation, Mass transfer on the evolution of massive star binaries, Supernova explosion. | Project Advisors: Morgan McLeod, Tassos Fragos | |
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Name: John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider | Afilliation: University of Guelph | Project Title: Neutrinos and gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae: Constraints on the supernova progenitor properties |
| PhD Advisor: Luis Lehner | Research Interests: Hydrodynamic Turbulence, Fluid-gravity Duality, Tidal Dsiruption. | Project Advisors: Irene Tamborra, Meng-Ru Wu, Evan O'Connor, Erin O'Sullivan, Phillip Moesta | |
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Name:Ariadna Murguia Berthier | Afilliation: UC Santa Cruz | Project Title:Quasi-spherical accretion flow from the collapse of massive stars |
| PhD Advisor:Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | Research Interests: Common envelope evolution of binaries, black hole mergers | Project Advisors: Agnieska Janiuk, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Ilya Mandel | |
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Name:Mads Sorensen | Afilliation:University of Geneva | Project Title:The Milky Way and solar neighborhood supernova rate. |
| PhD Advisor:Georges Meyenet & Tassos Fragos | Research Interests:Stellar and binary formation and evolution, X-ray binaries, Supernovae | Project Advisors:Chris F., Duncan Brown, Nicole, Phillip M. | |
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Name: Francisco Rivera-Paleo | Afilliation: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicola de Hidalgo | Project Title:Novel tests of general relativity |
| PhD Advisor:Francisco Siddhartha Guzman | Research Interests: Accretion Disks, Compact Objects, Gravitational Waves, Plasma, Plasma Physics. | Project Advisors: Will Farr, Ben Farr, Jeandrew Brink, Jess McYver, Alex Nielsen | |