2024
James Cornelison, “Constraints on Electromagnetic Parity Violation in the Cosmic Microwave Background using BICEP3” (October 25, 2023) Advisor: John Kovac
2023
Floor Broekgaarden, “Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New Frontier to Probe Massive Binary Stars Across Cosmic History” (April 24, 2023) Advisor: Edo Berger
Daniel Palumbo, “Interferometric Measurement of the Magnetization and Spin of Supermassive Black Holes (April 24, 2023) Advisor: Michael Johnson
Tanveer Karim, “Precision Cosmology with Emission-Line Galaxies” (April 26, 2023) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein
Lieke van Son, “The First Pieces of the Gravitational-wave Pogenitor Population Puzzle” (April 28, 2023) Advisor: Selma de Mink
Charles Law, “Zooming in on the Chemistry of Star and Planet Formation” (April 28, 2023) Advisor: Karin Öberg
Kristo Ment, “Three Terrestrial Planets Transiting Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs and Constraints on the Occurrence of Such Worlds” (May 4, 2023) Advisor: David Charbonneau
Chima McGruder, “Exploring Correlations of High Altitude Aerosol Formation in Planetary Systems with Similar Parameters” (May 5, 2023) Advisor: Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Juliana Garcia-Mejia, “The Tierras Observatory: An Ultra-precise Time-series Photometer to Characterize Nearby Low-mass Stars and Their Terrestrial Exoplanets” (May 9, 2023) Advisor: David Charbonneau
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2022
Xiaohan Wu, "Probing Reionization with Currently Available Observables of Reionization" (April 27, 2022) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein
Maurice Wilson, "Interdisciplinary Spectroscopy: The Detection and Characterization of Solar CMEs, Stellar CMEs, and Exoplanets" (April 28, 2022) Advisor: John Raymond, John Eastman
Ian Weaver, "Atmospheric characterization of high-gravity hot Jupiters with ACCESS" (April 29, 2022) Advisor: Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Rohan Naidu, "Probing Reionization with Currently Available Observables of Reionization" (April 27, 2022) Advisor: Charles Conroy
Nina Maksimova, "AbacusSummit: Next Generation N-Body Cosmology" (May 9, 2022) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein
Boryana Hadzhiyska, "Forward Modeling in the Era of Cosmological Surveys" (May 11, 2022) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein, Lars Hernquist
Brandon Curd, "Numerical Simulations of Super-Eddington Accretion Disks and Their Application to Tidal Disruption Events" (June 28, 2022) Advisor: Ramesh Narayan
Chantanelle Nava, "Tackling Stellar Active Regions in Radial Velocities: Strategies to Improve and Expand Small Exoplanet Mass Measurements" (June 29, 2022) Advisor: Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Daniel Violette, "Optimizing CdZnTe Detectors to Discover High Energy Transient Phenomena" (September 7, 2022) Advisor: Jonathan Grindlay
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2021
Munazza Alam, "Characterizing Distant Worlds: Atmospheric Reconnaissance of Giant Planets with Hubble" (April 6, 2021) Advisor: Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Sihan Yuan, "Towards better interpretation of small-scale structure of the Universe" (April 20, 2021) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein
Seth Gossage, "Next Generation Stellar Models with Rotation" (April 23, 2021) Advisor: Charles Conroy
Amber Medina, “The Magnetic Connection Between Flares, Rotation, and Age for the Volume-Complete Sample of Fully Convective M Dwarfs within 15 Parsecs" (April 29, 2021) Advisor: David Charbonneau
Jamila Pegues, "Protoplanetary Disk Chemistry across the Stellar Spectrum" (April 30, 2021) Advisor: Karin Öberg
Ellen Price, "Simulating Protoplanetary Disk Dynamics and Investigating their Exoplanet Outcomes" (May 3, 2021) Advisor: Karin Öberg
Sebastian Gomez, "Exotic Transients and How to Find Them" (May 4, 2021) Advisor: Edo Berger
Tarraneh Eftekhari, "Unveiling the Transient Radio and Millimeter Sky" (May 6, 2021) Advisor: Edo Berger
Ana-Roxana Pop, "Computational Modeling of the Baryon Content of Galaxies and Clusters in Cosmological Simulations" (May 7, 2021) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
Theron Carmichael, "Dwarfing expectations: The rapid expansion of the transiting brown dwarf population in the era of the TESS mission." (May 10, 2021) Advisor: David Latham
Ioana Zelko, "Stardust and Cosmology" (June 23, 2021) Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner
John Lewis, "Structurally Sound: The Effect of Cloud Structure on 3 Pillars of Star Formation" (August 24, 2021) Advisor: Charles Lada
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2020
Victoria Ashley Villlar, "Time-Domain Studies in the New Eras of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and Big Data" (April 14, 2020) Advisor: Edo Berger
Zoe Todd, "From Astronomy to Chemistry: Origins of the Building Blocks of Life" (April 15, 2020) Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov
Catherine Zucker, "Charting our Uncharted Milky Way" (April 2020) Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner, Alyssa Goodman
Joshua Speagle, "Mapping the Milky Way in the Age of Gaia" (May 6, 2020) Advisor: Charlie Conroy, Daniel Eisenstein, & Doug Finkbeiner
Hannah Diamond-Lowe, "A First Reconnaissance of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets Using Ground-Based Optical Transits and Space-Based UV Spectra" (2020) Advisor: David Charbonneau
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2019
Meng Gu, "Stellar Populations and Assembly Histories of Galaxies in Nearby Massive Clusters" (April 3, 2019) Advisor: Jennifer Yee
Xiawei Wang, "Non-thermal emission from collisionless astrophysical shocks and their observational implications" (April 17, 2019) Advisor: Avi Loeb
Peter Blanchard, "Exploring Exotic Transients: Stellar Explosions, Tidal Disruptions, and Compact Object Mergers in the Golden Age of Time-Domain Astronomy" (April 26, 2019) Advisor: Edo Berger
Lehman Garrison, "Abacus: N-body Cosmology for the Next Generation of Dark Energy Science" (May 3, 2019) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein
Benjamin Cook, "Computational Approaches to Studying the Stellar Populations of Galaxies" (May 7, 2019) Advisor: Charles Conroy
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2018
Kate Alexander, "Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients with Radio Observations" (April 10, 2018) Advisor: Edo Berger
Fernando Beccera, "Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds in the First Galaxies" (May 1, 2018) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
How-Huan Chen, "The Life and Death of Interstellar Turbulence: The Intriguing Case of Ophiuchus" (May 4, 2018) Advisor: Alyssa Goodman
Jieun Choi, "From Stars to Galaxies: Unveiling Their Properties, Connection and Evolution with Next Generation Stellar Models" (April 10, 2018) Advisor: Charles Conroy
Pierre Christian, "Novel Astrophysical Constraints on Black Holes" (May 2, 2018) Advisor: Avi Loeb
Kunting (Eddie) Chua, "Structure of Dark Matter Halos in Illustris: Effect of Baryons (September 25, 2018) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
Philip Cowperthwaite, "From Design to Detection: Joint Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Astronomy" (April 20, 2018) Advisor: Edo Berger
Marion Dierickx, "Simulations of Local Group Galactic Interactions" (July 10, 2017) Advisor: Avi Loeb
Christopher Faesi, "The Physical Nature of the GMC Population in NGC 300" (December 11, 2017) Advisor: Charles Lada
Xinyi Guo, "Particle Acceleration and Heating in Low Mach Number Collisionless Shocks" (December 13, 2017) Advisor: Ramesh Narayan
Luke Kelley, "Massive Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Dynamics, Environments & Expected Detections" (April 13, 2018) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
Ryan Loomis, "Millimeter/submillimeter Observations of Chemical and Physical Complexity in Protoplanetary Disks" (April 30, 2018) Advisor: Karin Öberg
Stephen Portillo, "Counting Stars: Developing probabilistic cataloging for crowded fields" (April 17, 2018) Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner
Anjali Tripathi, "The Resolved Spatial Distribution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks" (April 2, 2018) Advisor: Sean Andrews
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2017
Dawn Graninger, "Organic Chemistry during Low-Mass Star-Formation: The Role of Reaction Barriers and Ice Desorption" (April 24, 2017) Advisor: Karin Öberg
Kirit Karkare, "Multifrequency Beam Systematics and Measurements of B-Mode Polarization with the BICEP/Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments" (April 20, 2017) Advisor: John Kovac
Meredith MacGregor, "Millimeter Studies of Nearby Debris Disks" (March 31, 2017) Advisor: David Wilner
Philip Mocz, "Moving mesh magnetohydrodynamics: magnetic processes in star formation and cosmology" (April 21, 2017) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
Sukrit Ranjan, "The UV Environment for Prebiotic Chemistry: Connecting Origin-of-Life Scenarios to Planetary Environments" (April 7, 2017) Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov
Laura Schaefer, "The Atmosphere-Interior Connection: Rocky Planets as Linked Chemical Systems" (October 18, 2016) Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov
Joshua Suresh, "The Coevolution of Galaxies and their Environments" (March 17, 2017) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
Yuan-Sen Ting, "Unraveling the History of the Milky Way through Chemical Tagging" (December 10, 2016) Advisor: Charles Conroy
Andrew Vanderburg, "The Past, Present, and Future of Planetary Systems" (May 2, 2017) Advisor: David Latham
Sarah Wellons, "Massive Compact Galaxies: A Case Study of the Diversity of Evolutionary Pathways in Cosmological Simulations" (April 7, 2017) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
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2016
Aaron Bray, "Galactic Conformity via Small-Scale Clustering in Simulations and Surveys" (April 25, 2016) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein
Ian Czekala, "The Fundamental Properties of Young Stars" (May 3, 2016) Advisor: Sean Andrews
Jason Dittman, "Distances, Massess, Radii, and Metallicities of the Small Stars in the Solar Neighborhood" (April 15, 2016) Advisor: David Charbonneau
Maria Drout, "Astronomical Transients as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Mass-Loss (a.k.a. What Peculiar Transients Can Teach Us About Stellar Evolution)" (April 26, 2016) Advisor: Edo Berger
Gregory Green, "Mapping Milky Way Dust in 3D with Stellar Photometry" (May 10, 2016) Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner
Elisabeth Newton, "The Evolution of Rotation and Magnetism in Small Stars Near the Sun" (April 29, 2016) Advisor: David Charbonneau
Ana-Maria Piso, "Origins of Gas Giant Compositions: The Role of Disk Location and Dynamics" (April 27, 2016) Advisor: Karin Öberg
Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, "Galaxy mergers and some consequences: the cosmological context" (May 5, 2016) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
Katherine Rosenfield, "Applications of High-Resolution Observations at Millimeter Wavelengths" (September 18, 2015) Advisor: Sean Andrews
Zachary Slepian, "Revitalizing the 3-Point Correlation Function Of Galaxies to Sharpen the BAO Standard Ruler" (April 15, 2016) Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein
Lauren Woolsey, "Magnetic Influences on the Solar Wind" (May 2, 2016) Advisor: Stephen Cranmer and Alyssa Goodman
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2015
Courtney Dressing, "The Prevalence and Compositions of Small Planets" (April 1, 2015) Advisor: David Charbonneau
Tanmoy Laskar, "The Diversity and Versatility of Gamma-ray Bursts" (April 29, 2015) Advisor: Edo Berger
Gongjie Li, "Long-term Dynamics of High Mass Ratio Multiples" (April 1, 2015) Advisor: Avi Loeb
Maxwell Moe, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Eclipsing Binaries" (July 15, 2015) Advisor: Rosanne DiStefano
Ranghild Lunnan, "The Properties and Environments of Superluminous Supernovae" (April 27, 2015) Advisor: Edo Berger
Dylan Nelson, "How Galaxies Get Their Gas" (May 1, 2015) Advisor: Lars Hernquist
Sarah Rugheimer, "Hues of Habitability: Characterizing Pale Blue Dots Around Other Stars" (January 26, 2015) Advisors: Dimitar Sasselov and Lisa Kaltenegger
Li Zeng, "Uncovering the Interior Structure and Chemistry of Solid Exoplanets" (May 5, 2015) Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov
Yucong Zhu, "The Bright Side of Black Holes" (May 11, 2015) Advisor: Ramesh Narayan