During the first two years of our Ph.D. program, students work on a series of research projects on different topics and with different advisors.  Some recent publications that have emerged from these "semester projects": 

• Christian Kragh Jespersen, Peter Melchior, Shirley Ho (2022), Mangrove: Learning Galaxy Properties from Merger Trees
• Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Daniel Tamayo, and Miles Cranmer (2022). Stability Constrained Characterization of the 23 Myr Old V1298 Tau System: Do Young Planets Form in Mean Motion Resonance Chains?
• Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Josh Winn, and Kassandra Anderson (2021).  Further Evidence for Tidal Spin-up of Hot Jupiter Host Stars
• He Jia et al. (2022), Observational Signatures of Black Hole Accretion: Rotating vs. Spherical Flows with Tilted Magnetic Fields (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.515.1392J/abstract)Yan Liang et al. (2022), DI Herculis revisited: Starspots, Gravity Darkening, and 3D Obliquities (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...927..114L/abstract) 
• Nora Linzer et al. (2022), Spectropolarimetric measurements of hidden broad lines in nearby megamaser galaxies: a lack of clear evidence for a correlation between black hole masses and virial products  https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220801669L/abstract
• Alisa Galishnikova, Matthew Kunz, and Alexander Schekochihin (2022). Tearing instability and current-sheet disruption in the turbulent dynamo https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220107757G/abstract
• Tianshu Wang & Peter Melchior (2022),  Graph Neural Network-based Resource Allocation Strategies for Multi-Object Spectroscopy (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MLS%26T...3a5023W/abstract)
• Roohi Dalal et al. (2021), Brightest Cluster Galaxies are Statistically Special from z=0.3 to z=1.0
• Amy Secunda, Betsy Hernandez, Jeremy Goodman (2020), Evolution of Retrograde Orbiters in an AGN Disk
• Miles Cranmer et al. (2020), Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases
• Lachlan Lancaster, Jenny Greene et al. (2020), A Mystery in Chamaeleon: Serendipitous Discovery of a Galactic Symbiotic Nova
• Eric Moseley, Bruce Draine, Kengo Tomida, Jim Stone (2020), Turbulent dissipation, CH+ abundance, H2 line luminosities, and polarization in the cold neutral medium
• Amy Secunda, Renyue Cen, et al. (2020), Delayed Photons from Binary Evolution Help Reionize the Universe
• Oliver Philcox, Elena Massara, David Spergel (2020), What does the marked power spectrum measure? Insights from perturbation theory
• Lachlan Lancaster et al. (2020), Dynamical friction in a Fuzzy Dark Matter universe
• Tianshu Wang, Adam Burrows (2020), Generalized Kompaneets formalism for inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering in supernova simulations
• Zack Li and Renyue Cen (2020), Assembly Conformity of Structure Growth: Fossil versus Normal Groups of Galaxies
• Erin Kado-Fong et al. (2020), Diffuse Ionized Gas in Simulations of Multiphase, Star-forming Galactic Disks
• Oliver Philcox, David Spergel, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (2020), Effective halo model: Creating a physical and accurate model of the matter power spectrum and cluster counts
• Vassilis Tsiolis et al. (2020), Structure formation in turbulence as an instability of effective quantum plasma
• Oliver Philcox et al. (2020), Combining full-shape and BAO analyses of galaxy power spectra: a 1.6% CMB-independent constraint on the Hubble constant
• Goni Halevi, Andy Goulding, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), HSC-XD 52: An X-Ray Detected AGN in a Low-mass Galaxy at z ∼ 0.56
• Wenrui Xu, Jim Stone (2019), Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion in supergiant X-ray binaries: stability and disc formation
• Zack Li, Jia Liu, et al. (2019), Constraining neutrino mass with tomographic weak lensing peak counts
• Avery Bailey, Jeremy Goodman (2019), Understanding WASP-12b
• Zack Li, Vera Glusevic et al. (2019), Disentangling dark physics with cosmic microwave background experiments
• Wenrui Xu, Jeremy Goodman (2019), The linear theory of tidally excited spiral density waves: application to CV and circumplanetary discs
• Scott Carlsten, Michael Strauss, et al. (2019), Wavelength-dependent PSFs and their impact on weak lensing measurements

Some recent publications by students working on their dissertations:

• Alwin Mao, Eve Ostriker, Chang-Goo Kim (2020), Cloud Properties and Correlations with Star Formation in Self-consistent Simulations of the Multiphase ISM
• Avery Bailey, Jim Stone, Jeffrey Fung (2020), The Three Dimensional Flow Field Around Planets on Eccentric Orbits
• Brianna Lacy, Adam Burrows (2020), JWST Transit Spectra I: Exploring Potential Biases and Opportunities in Retrievals of Tidally-locked Hot Jupiters with Clouds and Hazes
• Scott Carlsten, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), Radial Distributions of Dwarf Satellite Systems in the Local Volume
• Zack Li, et al. (2020), The cross correlation of the ABS and ACT maps
• Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), Tracing the Intrinsic Shapes of Dwarf Galaxies Out to Four Effective Radii: Clues to Low-mass Stellar Halo Formation
• Luke Bouma, Josh Winn, et al. (2020), PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet
• Cxvhristina Kreisch et al. (2020), Neutrino puzzle: Anomalies, interactions, and cosmological tensions
• Luke Bouma, Josh Winn, et al. (2020), WASP-4 Is Accelerating toward the Earth
• Brianna Lacy, Adam Burrows (2020), Prospects for Directly Imaging Young Giant Planets at Optical Wavelengths
• Scott Carlsten et al. (2020), Wide-field Survey of Dwarf Satellite Systems around 10 Hosts in the Local Volume
• Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny Greene, et al. (2020), Star Formation in Isolated Dwarf Galaxies Hosting Tidal Debris: Extending the Dwarf-Dwarf Merger Sequence
• Samuel Yee, Josh Winn, et al. (2020), The Orbit of WASP-12b Is Decaying
• Luke Bouma et al. (2019), Cluster Difference Imaging Photometric Survey. I. Light Curves of Stars in Open Clusters from TESS Sectors 6 and 7
• Heather Prince, Jo Dunkley (2019), Data compression in cosmology: A compressed likelihood for Planck data
• Christina Kreisch et al. (2019), Massive neutrinos leave fingerprints on cosmic voids
• Scott Carlsten et al. (2019), Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations to Study Nearby Satellite Galaxy Systems: Calibration and Methodology
• Scott Carlsten et al. (2019), Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations to Study nearby Satellite Galaxy Systems: The Complete Satellite System of M101
• Mackenzie Moody et al. (2019), Hydrodynamic Torques in Circumbinary Accretion Disks
• Luke Bouma, Josh Winn, et al. (2019), WASP-4b Arrived Early for the TESS Mission
• Brianna Lacy et al. (2019), Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Optical Coronagraph on WFIRST
• Christina Kreisch, Eiichiro Komatsu (2019), Cosmological constraints on Horndeski gravity in light of GW170817
• Erin Kado-Fong, Jenny Greene, et al. (2019), Tidal Features at 0.05 < z < 0.45 in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: Properties and Formation Channels