Student participants
Please click on the links to see the reports from the students of the 2018 program.
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Name: Rachel Cochrane | Afilliation: University of Edinburgh | Project Title: Predictions for the spatial extent of the dust continuum emission in 2 < z < 5 star-forming galaxies |
PhD Advisor: Philip Best | Research Interests: Star-forming galaxies across cosmic time; galaxy clustering and halo occupation distribution modelling. |
Project Advisors: Jenifer Lotz, Chris Hayward | |
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Name: Corey Brummel-Smith | Afilliation: Georgia Tech. | Project Title: Nature of AGN Feedback: Testing Numerical Models with Chandra Observations |
PhD Advisor: John Wise | Research Interests: Supernova induced star formation. Galaxy formation. Magnetic fields | Project Advisors: Yuan Li,Daisuke Nagai | |
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Name: Xiaohan Wu | Afilliation: CfA, Harvard | Project Title: Simulated Properties of Reionization-Epoch Galaxies: Predictions for JWST |
PhD Advisor: Lars Hernquist | Research Interests: Radiative transfer and cosmic reionization, galaxy dynamics and Jeans modeling . | Project Advisors: Romeel Dave,Jennifer Lotz | |
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Name: Cassi Lochhass | Afilliation: Ohio State U. | Project Title: Properties of the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium |
PhD Advisor: Todd Thompson | Research Interests: Circumgalactic medium, galactic winds, star formation feedback. | Project Advisors: Greg Bryan, Yuan Li, Miao Li | |
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Name: Kartheik Iyer | Afilliation: Rutgers Univ. | Project Title: The diversity and variability of star formation histories in different simulations |
PhD Advisor: Eric Gawiser | Research Interests: Galaxy evolution, star formation. | Project Advisors:Sandro Tacchella,Chris Hayward, Shy Genel and Lars Hernquist | |
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Name: Daisy Leung | Afilliation: Cornell University | Project Title: Dynamical Properties of Molecular Cloud Complexes in a Redshift 6 Prototypical Galaxy at the Epoch of Reionization |
PhD Advisor: Jim Cordes | Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, ISM properties of high redshift galaxies, radio and sub-mm astronomy, gravitational lensing. |
Project Advisors:Andrea Pallottini,Andrea Ferrara, Mordecai Mac Low | |
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Name: Marius Ramsoy | Afilliation: Oxford University | Project Title:The formation of disks at low and high redshift |
PhD Advisor: Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz | Research Interests: Properties of cold flows into galaxies. |
Project Advisors:Laura Sales,Susan Kassin, Shy Genel and Lars Hernquist | |
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Name: Lydia Elias | Afilliation: UC Riverside | Project Title: Detecting the Cosmic Web: LyA Emission from Gas Filaments at z=3 |
PhD Advisor: Laura Sales | Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, stellar haloes, stellar and AGN feedback | Project Advisors:Shy Genel,Adrienne Slyz, Julien Devriendt | |
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Name:Aditi Viyajan | Afilliation: Indian Institute of Science | Project Title:Properties of outflowing gas in TIGRESS |
PhD Advisor: Biman Nath, Prateek Sharma | Research Interests: Galactic outflows. Hydrodynamic simulations . | Project Advisors: Lucia Armillotta,Chang-Goo Kim, Eve Ostriker, Miao Li | |
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Name: Tyler Parsotan | Afilliation: Oregon State U. | Project Title: Is Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback Necessary to Get Galaxy Sizes Right? |
PhD Advisor: Davide Lazzati | Research Interests: Radiation transfer modeling, hydrodynamic simulations, subgrid physics. | Project Advisors: Chris Hayward, Daniel Angles-Alcazar | |
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Name: Kareem El-Badry | Afilliation: UC Berkeley | Project Title: Conduction, cooling, and turbulent mixing in superbubbles driven by clustered supernovae |
PhD Advisor: Eliot Quataert, Dan Weisz | Research Interests: Low-mass galaxies, near-field cosmology, globular clusters, the Milky Way | Project Advisors: Eve Ostriker,Chang-Goo Kim | |
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Name: Claire Kopenhafer | Afilliation: Michigan State University | Project Title:Quenching From the Outside-In: Finding MISFIReD Analogues in Illustris |
PhD Advisor: Brian O'Shea | Research Interests: Modeling the circumgalatic medium, uncertainty quantification, exascale computing | Project Advisors: Stephanie Tonnesen,Tjistke Starkenburg | |
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Name: Ulrich Steinwandel | Afilliation: Munich Observatory | Project Title:Optical properties of the Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDIs) |
PhD Advisor: Benjamin Moster | Research Interests: Numerical galaxy formation and evolution, supernova feedback, galactic outflows, magnetic fields | Project Advisors: Alexander Kaurov,Phil Hopkins | |
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Name: Xinyu Li | Afilliation: Columbia University | Project Title:The emergence of large scale magnetic fields in disk galaxies |
PhD Advisor: Lam Hui, Andrei Beloborodov | Research Interests: Large-scale structure, fuzzy dark matter, magnetars, force-free electrodynamics . | Project Advisors:Romain Teyssier,Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz | |
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Name:Darryl Seligman | Afilliation:Yale University | Project Title:Nonlinear Evolution of the Resonant Drag Instability in Magnetized Gas |
PhD Advisor: Greg Laughlin | Research Interests:Computational fluid dynamics, planet formation, accretion disks, asteroids | Project Advisors:Phil Hopkins | |
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Name:Josh Borrow | Afilliation:Institute for Computational Cosmology | Project Title:Where did it all come from? Inter-Lagrangian baryon transfer in the Simba simulations |
PhD Advisor: Richard Bower | Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, subgrid-scale modeling, HPC | Project Advisors:Daniel Angles-Alcazar,Romeel Dave | |
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Name:Gohar Dashyan | Afilliation: IAS Paris | Project Title:AGN-driven quenching of satellite galaxies |
PhD Advisor: Gary Mamon, Yohan Dubois Joseph Silk | Research Interests: Feedback processes in dwarf galaxies, AGN feedback, cosmic ray feedback. | Project Advisors:Ena Choi,Rachel Somerville | |