Seniors 2024-2025
Tejahni Desire
Senior Thesis: Turbulence in the ISM
Advisor: Chang-Goo Kim
Shannon Filer
Senior Thesis:
Advisor: Jamie Rankin
Xander Jenkin
Senior Thesis:
Advisor: Jenny Greene & Jiayi Sun
Sajia Shahrin Neha
Senior Thesis:
Advisor:
James Robinson
Senior Thesis: Cosmological Simulations
Advisor: Romain Teyssier
Diego Solorio
Senior Thesis: Developing Astronomy Web Course
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Luke Stockless
Senior Thesis:
Advisor:
Hy Truong
Senior Thesis:
Advisor: Michael Strauss & Charlotte Ward
Vivek Vijayakumar
Senior Thesis: Decomposition of Disk Galaxies for Estimation of ISM Pressure
Advisor: Eve Ostriker & Jiayi Sun
Belinda Wu
Senior Thesis: Neutrino Sky Simulations
Advisor: Chris Tull (PHY)
Juniors 2024-2025
Sufia Birmingham
Fall JP: Changing State AGNs
Advisor: Charlotte Ward
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Jake Grodner
Fall JP: Relaxation of Collisionless Plasmas
Advisor: Uddipan Banik
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Teodor Grosu
Fall JP:
Advisor: Jo Dunkley & Nick Kokron (IAS)
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Austin Guo
Fall JP: Exoplanets Atmospheres
Advisor: Akash Gupta
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Taeho Kim
Fall JP:
Advisor: Jeremy Goodman
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Veena Krishnaraj
Fall JP:
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Mariana Ordonez
Fall JP:
Advisor:
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Jahnavi Murthy Padukone
Fall JP:
Advisor: Shirley Ho
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Amrita Sahu
Fall JP: Dark Matter Halo Concentration with Mini-Ramses Simulations
Advisor: Romain Teyssier
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Lillie Szemraj
Fall JP: Disentangling Spinning and Non-spinning Black-Hole Systems
Advisor: Neta Bahcall & Sylvia Biscoveanu (PHY)
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Sophia Varughese
Fall JP: Quasars
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Liam Wang
Fall JP: Formation of Structures in the Galaxy M95
Advisor: Jiayi Sun
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Seniors 2023-2024
Katherine Accetta
Senior Thesis: Modeling the Plasma Environment of Io
Advisor: Jamey Szalay
Jian Arnold
Senior Thesis: Developing A High Resolution Electrostatic Analyzer to Measure Thermal Width of A Laboratory Ion Beam
Advisor: Dave McComas, Jamie Rankin
Paige Cromley
Senior Thesis: Beyond Starlight: A Journalistic Exploration of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Advisor: Neta Bahcall, Mike Lemonick
Wolf Cukier
Senior Thesis: A Generalized Scattering Model for Semi-Infinite Atmospheres
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Jupiter Ding
Senior Thesis: Plasma Echo Analogues in Galactic Disk Dynamics
Advisor: Scott Tremaine, Matt Kunz, Chris Hamilton
Ryan LoRusso
Senior Thesis: Evolution of Closely Orbiting Exoplanets about Helium Burning Stars
Advisor: Joshua Winn
Cole Meyer
Senior Thesis: Thermal Imagery of Callisto from ALMA Calibrator Data
Advisor: Chris Chyba, Katherine de Kleer
Reese Owen
Senior Thesis: Using Graph Neural Networks to Mimic the Effects of Galaxy Blending in Large-scale Cosmological Simulations
Advisor: Peter Melchior
Helen Shao
Senior Thesis: Beyond ΛCDM: Constraining Neutrino Mass Sum in Non-Standard Cosmologies
Advisor: Jo Dunkley, Jahmour Givans
Diego Solorio
on leave
Josiah Taylor
Senior Thesis: A Reduced Chi Squared Analysis of Pickup Ions in the Plasma Field about Europa
Advisor: James Szalay
Joshua Zou
Senior Thesis: Tidally Locked Exoplanets: Fact and Fiction
Advisor: Joshua Winn
Juniors 2023-2024
Tejahni Desire
Fall JP: Black Hole Photon Rings with Realistic Plasma Models
Advisor: Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, Andrew Chael
Spring JP:
Advisor: Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, Andrew Chael
Shannon Filer
Fall JP: Alfvenic Reconnecting Plasmoid Thruster Simulation Analysis
Advisor: Fatima Ebrahimi
Spring JP:
Advisor: Jamie Rankin
Xander Jenkin
Fall JP: Searching Local Universe Fast Radio Bursts
Advisor: Dongzi Li
Spring JP:
Advisor: Dongzi Li
Sajia Shahrin Neha
Fall JP: X-ray Emissions in Supernova Remnants
Advisor: Chang-Goo Kim
Spring JP:
Advisor: Michael Strauss
James Robinson
Fall JP: Galaxy Clustering and Dark Matter Halo Properties for Emission Line Galaxies in LAGER
Advisor: Lucia Perez
Spring JP: An All-Sky Method for Creating Mock Kinetic SZ Data from Cosmic Simulations of Dark Matter
Advisor: Adrian Bayer
Luke Stockless
Fall JP: Searching for Tidal Orbital Decay in WASP-039b
Advisor: Josh Winn
Spring JP:
Advisor: Chris Chyba
Hy Truong
Fall JP: Modeling Disk Emission in Broadline Quasars from SDSS
Advisor: Michael Strauss, Charlotte Ward
Spring JP:
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Vivek Vijayakumar
Fall JP: RVPIPE: a line-by-line radial velocity pipeline to quickly process large spectroscopic datasets
Advisor: Ashley Chontos
Spring JP:
Advisor: Jiayi Sun & Eve Ostriker
Belinda Wu
Fall JP: JWST UNCOVER: Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
Advisor: Jenny Greene and David Setton
Spring JP: Modeling Star Formation Burst Cycles in Dwarf Galaxies
Advisor: Jenny Greene and David Setton
Seniors 2022-2023
Daisy Bissonette
Senior Thesis: The Initial Mass Function in Massive Early-Type Galaxies
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Jiangying Gao
Senior Thesis: Form-Finding and Optimization of Tensegrity Structures for Space Applications: A Study on Load-Bearing Capability and Packaging Efficiency of Tensegrity Space Masts
Advisor: Glaucio Paulino (CEE) and Neta Bahcall
Siegfried Gawenda
Senior Thesis: A Preliminary Analysis of GDR3 Metallicities for Exoplanet Hosts
Advisor: Daylan Tansu and Josh Winn
Nicole Gountanis
Senior Thesis: Using JSWT to Investigate the Crab Nebula's Synchrotron Emission
Advisor: Tea Temim and Anatoly Spitkovsky
Juan Hermo
Senior Thesis: The Stars are Shaking, Your Honor: Overview of Asteroseismology and A Benchmark Case for Bright Sun-like Stars with TESS
Advisor: Ashley Chontos and Michael Strauss
Satuye Lacayo
Senior Thesis: Galactic Evolution at High Redshifts: Simulations and Comparisons with Observations and Theoretical Models
Advisor: Romain Teyssier
Kate Macakanja
Senior Thesis: The Color of Stars: Uses of Stellar Color in the Long 19th Century
Advisor: Mike Gordin and Neta Bahcall
Trys McCann
Senior Thesis: Developing Techniques for High Redshift Quasar Selection in HSC Wide Field Data
Advisor: Sophie Reid and Michael Strauss
Emily Murray
Senior Thesis: Evaluating Clustering Algorithms as Applied to Exoplanet Populations
Advisor: Daylan Tansu and Josh Winn
Savannah Pobre
Senior Thesis: Space Invaders for a New Space Age: Using ODE's to Model the Trajectory of Low Earth Orbit with an Increasing Debris Field
Advisor: Alex Glazer and Adam Burrows
Camille Reeves
Senior Thesis: From Wall-E to Walled In: an Exploration of the Accumulating Effects of Privatization on Space Debris in the Post-Soviet Era
Advisor: Kelsey Hatzell (MAE) and Neta Bahcall
Christian Robles
Senior Thesis: Princeton All Sky Camera: Instrument, Observations, and Data Reduction
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos
Henry Yuan
Senior Thesis: Spin-Orbit Resonances of Triaxial Super-Earths
Advisor: Yubo Su and Jeremy Goodman
Juniors 2022-2023
Katherine Accetta
Fall JP: Locating the Missing Baryons in Groups and Clusters
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: Analysis of the Conjunction Time for the Exoplanet HD 209458 b
Advisor: Joshua Winn
Paige Cromley
Fall JP: A Look at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Upcoming Time-Lapse of the Universe
Advisor: Mike Lemonick
Spring JP: Looking for Black Holes in Pandora's Cluster
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Wolf Cukier
Fall JP: Polarized Raytracing of Black Hole Magnetospheres
Advisor: Benjamin Crinquand and Anatoly Spitkovsky
Spring JP (Early): Natural Transport of Microbes from Early Venus to Archean Earth
Advisor: Chris Chyba
Jupiter Ding
Fall JP: Miscentering of Optical Galaxy Clusters Based on Sunyaev-Zeldovich Counterparts
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: Inclination Dynamics of Tightly-Packed Exoplanetary Systems
Advisor: Yubo Su and Jeremy Goodman
Ryan LoRusso
Fall JP: A Survey of the Turbulence Quantities in Jupiter’s Dawnside Magnetosheath
Advisor: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay
Spring JP: Radiative Transfer in a Simulated Galaxy
Advisor: Romain Teyssier
Cole Meyer
Fall JP: Estimates of Ion and Electron Heating Rates Extended to the Near-Sun Environment
Advisor: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay
Spring JP: Determining the CMB Lensing Power Spectrum Using Statistical Estimators
Advisor: Lyman Page
Reese Owen
Fall JP: Modeling Stellar Convection Using Cylindrical and Spherical Numerical Simulations
Advisor: Romain Teyssier
Spring JP: Confirming the Discovery of Hot Super Jupiter
Advisor: Ashley Chontos
Helen Shao
Fall JP: An universal equation to predict Ωm from halo and galaxy catalogues
Advisor: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro and Romain Teyssier
Spring JP: Does the Circumgalactic Medium Resolve the Missing Baryon Problem
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Diego Solorio
Fall JP: An Examination of Virial’s Theorem within Binary Galaxy Cluster Systems
Advisor: Romain Teyssier
Spring JP: An Overview of the Scientific and Native Hawaiian Perspectives Regarding the Thirty-Meter Telescope
Advisor: Mike Lemonick
Josiah Taylor
Fall JP: Fitting Dark Matter Haloes from an N-Body Simulation
Advisor: Romain Teyssier
Spring JP: Using Partial Variance of Increments to Analyze Two Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections in November 2020
Advisor: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay
Joshua Zou
Fall JP: (on leave)
Spring JP:
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Seniors 2021-2022
Zizi Coleman
Senior Thesis: A Census of Extra-Solar Transit Hosts in the Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Survey
Advisor: Rachael Beaton and Neta Bahcall
Postgraduate: teaching fellowship
Mark Dodici
Senior Thesis: Exploring Disk-Torquing as a Mechanism for Exciting Spin-Orbit Misalignments in Exoplanetary Systems
Advisor: Chris Spalding and Jeremy Goodman
Postgraduate; Graduate School, Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Sydney Evans
Senior Thesis: Environmental Monitoring and Lab System Development and Diagnostics of the Princeton Space Physics Lab
Advisor: Jamie Rankin and Dave McComas
Postgraduate: Goldman Sachs
Sinclaire Jones
Senior Thesis: A Warm Neptune Orbiting the Nearby Active mid M dwarf TOI-2-15 and Precision Spectral Parameters in the Near-Infrared with HFP-SpecMatch
Advisor: Gummi Stefansson and Josh Winn
Postgraduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Ohio State University
Gideon McFarland
Senior Thesis: The Near Zone Sizes of High-Redshift Quasars as a Probe of the Epoch of Reionization
Advisor: Sophie Reed and Michael Strauss
Postgraduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Northwestern University
Julianna Pulsinelli
Senior Thesis: Detectability of Sol Systems with Kepler and TESS
Advisor: Josh Winn
Postgraduate: industry; data science
Juniors 2021-2022
Daisy Bissonette
Fall JP: X-ray Variability of the Galactic Center Black Hole with NICER
Advisor: Lena Murchikova and Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: Biosignatures in Exoplanet Atmospheres: Signs of Life and How to Detect Them
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Wolf Cukier (early concentrator)
Spring JP: Natural Transport of Microbes from Early Venus to Archaean Earth
Advisor: Chris Chyba
Jiangying Gao
Fall JP: The Merian Survey of Dwarf Galaxies
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Spring JP: Using Radio Detection to Improve the Selection of Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Siegfried Gawenda
Fall JP: Understanding the Evolution of Composite Supernova Remnants: An X-Ray Analysis of MSH 15–56
Advisor: Tea Temim
Spring JP: The Nature of Turbulence Spectra in Jupiter's Magnetosheath
Advisor: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay and Dave McComas
Nicole Gountanis
Fall JP: Potential Atmospheric Inflation of Circumbinary Exoplanets Driven by Eccentricity Tides
Advisor: Sarah Millholland
Spring JP: The Stellar Mass Fraction of Clusters of Galaxies
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Juan Hermo
Fall JP: Detection of Jovian Irregular Satellites
Advisor: Dan Tamayo
Spring JP: Diversity and Equity Within Astrophysics and Physical Science Programs
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Satuye Lacayo
Fall JP: Convolutional Neural Network Models and Their Advantages of CMB Lensing Cluster Mass Estimations
Advisor: Ben Horowitz
Spring JP: Analyzing Object Blending with Graph Neural Networks
Advisor: Peter Melchior
Kate Macakanja
Fall JP: A Measurement of the tSZ Signal in Cosmic Voids
Advisor: Alice Pisani and Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: The Use of Quantitative Data in Diversity Efforts in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences.
Advisor: Janet Vertesi and Neta Bahcall
Trystin McCann
Fall JP: A Model for Studying MHD Plasma Turbulence in a Collisionless Environment Suitable for Application to the Expanding Solar Wind
Advisor: Matt Kunz
Spring JP: MHD Simulation of X-Ray Bursts on an Accreting Neutron Star
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Emily Murray
Fall JP: Modeling Interaction of Pulsar Wind Nebulae with Supernova Ejecta: Infrared Emission in Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8
Advisor: Tea Temim
Spring JP: Revisiting Relations Among Exoplanet Characteristics: Mass, Radius, Density, Insolation and Stellar Age
Advisor: Tansu Daylan
Myra Norton
Fall JP: How Correlated is Dust Polarization between Far-Infrared and CMB Frequencies?
Advisor: Brandon Hensley
Spring JP: (on leave)
Savannah Pobre
Fall JP: Are brightest cluster galaxies special?
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: Rules of the Road for Cislunar Space
Advisor: Chris Chyba
Camille Reeves
Fall JP: Let's Talk Trash: An Analysis of Three Potential Legal Frameworks for the Mitigation and Prevention of Unnecessary Space Debris
Advisor: Chris Chyba
Spring JP: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: An Analysis of the Hidden Costs of Humanity's Journey to Mars
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Christian Robles
Fall JP: Princeton All Sky Camera (PASC)
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos
Spring JP: Review of HV Insulator Breakdown and Design
Advisor: Dave McComas and Jamie Rankin
Henry Yuan
Fall JP: Implications of Resonance Locking on Titan’s Orbit: Migration through the Evection Resonance
Advisor: Chris Spalding
Spring JP: Optimization of LSST Transient Identifications using the Prime Focus Spectrograph
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Joshua Zou
Fall JP: Transit Timing Variational Relevances to Mean Motion Resonance within the Tess Object of Interest Catalogue
Advisor: Tansu Daylan
Spring JP: (on leave)
Seniors 2020-2021
Tyler Eddy
Senior Thesis: A Multifaceted Approach to Space Physics
Advisor: David McComas, Jamie Rankin and Michael DeLuca
Postgraduate: Graduate School, Space Science & Engineering, U Michigan
Mark Forese
Senior Thesis: Planet Hunting: Searching for Long Period Exoplanets Utilizing the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the Hungarian-made Automated Telescope
Advisor: Joel Hartman
Postgraduate: Battelle science and technology development
Jake Helton
Senior Thesis: The Nebular Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts From LEGA-C
Advisor: Jenny Greene, Allison Storm
Postgraduate: U Arizona, Graduate School, Astrophysics
Cade Keegan
Senior Thesis: Title: Correlations Between Quasars and Their Host Galaxies with Hyper Suprime-Cam and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Postgraduate: Graduate School, Data Science (TBD)
Isabel Rosa Medlock
Senior Thesis: Visualizing Electron Acceleration in Simulations of Collisionless Shocks
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Postgraduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Yale
Alexander Menegas
Senior Thesis: A Model for Spherically Symmetric Matter Collapse, Black Holes and Wormholes
Advisor: Frans Pretorius
Postgraduate: Graduate School, UK (TBD)
Alexandros Papamatthaiou
Senior Thesis: Designing The Positioning System of The Space Physics Laboratory Vacuum Chamber and Calibrating SWAPI - NASA IMAP
Advisor: Dave McComas and Jamie Rankin
Postgraduate: Graduate School, MAE, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France
Juliana Pulsinelli (leave of absence)
Shai Slav
Senior Thesis: Bayesian Deep Learning for Large Scale Structure
Advisor: Shirley Ho
Postgraduate: Davidson Kempner Capital Management
Juniors 2020-2021
Zizi Coleman
Fall JP: The Venus Water Problem: Examining Effects of EUV-scaled Flux & Solar Wind on Venusian Surface
Advisor: Chris Spalding
Spring JP: Catalog of Observed Candidate Planet Hosts in the APOGEE Survey
Advisor: Rachael Beaton
Mark Dodici
Fall JP: Orbital Evolution of L4 & L5 asteroids and Irregular Satellites of a Gas Giant around an Asymptotic Giant Branch Star
Advisor: Chris Spalding
Spring JP: A Semi-Analytic Model to Explain the Mediocre Growth of Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Sydney Evans
Fall JP: Understanding the Origins of Triangulum-Andromeda through Explorations of the Chemical Abundance Trends of the Outer Disk at Large Galactocentric Radii and Distance from the Midplane
Advisor: Rachael Beaton
Spring JP: Environmental Monitoring of the Princeton Space Physics Lab
Advisor: Dave McComas and Jamie Rankin
JingjingGao (on leave)
Sinclaire Jones
Fall JP: Stellar Parameters of M-dwarfs Observed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and TESS
Advisor: Guomundur Stefansson
Spring JP: The Hot Neptune Orbiting the Active M-dwarf TOI-2015: Planet Discovery and Detailed Stellar Characterization With HPF-SpecMatch
Advisor: Guomundur Stefansson
Satuye Lacayo (on leave)
Gideon McFarland
Fall JP: Evaluating The Spectral Properties of Hydrogen Emission Lines from The H30α Line
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Spring JP: Identification and Analysis of Type 2 Quasar Candidate Spectra from The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Christian Robles (on leave)
Favian Paniagua Soto (pursuing veterinary medicine)
Seniors 2019-2020
Michelle Baird
Senior Thesis: Host Galaxies of Quasars in Hyper Suprime-Cam: Single, Dual, and Fading
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Postgraduate: Private industry
Chris Choo
Senior Thesis: Cosmic Chemical Evolution in and around Galaxies
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Postgraduate: Private industry
Hector Cruz
Senior Thesis: The Color Dependence of Galaxy Clustering Measured by the Hyper Suprime-Camera Survey
Advisor: Jo Dunkley and Andrina Nicola
Postgraduate: Johns Hopkins, Graduate School, Astrophysics
Elliot Davies
Senior Thesis: Smoothing the Universe by Cosmological Contraction with Various Scalar Field Potentials
Advisor: Paul Steinhardt
Postgraduate: U Cambridge, Graduate School, Astrophysics
Ryan Golant
Senior Thesis: The Answer, My Friend, is Blowing in the Stellar Wind: The Impact of Early Stellar Feedback on the Interstellar Medium
Advisor: Eve Ostriker
Postgraduate: Columbia, Graduate School, Astrophysics
Liam Kelly
Senior Thesis: Variability Analysis of Stars from TESS Sectors 6 & 7
Advisor: Joel Hartman
Postgraduate: US Military
Camille Liotine
Senior Thesis: Simulation Analysis of High Mass X-Ray Binaries as Merging Binary Black Hole Progenitors
Advisor: Neta Bahcall and Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern U)
Postgraduate: Northwestern, Graduate School Astrophysics
Emma Louden
Senior Thesis: The Geometry of Planetary Systems: An Exploration of the Obliquities of Kepler Planet-Hosting Stars
Advisor: Josh Winn
Postgraduate: Yale, Graduate School, Astrophysics
Lucas Makinen
Senior Thesis: Deep Learning 21cm Tomology and Inference in Cosmological Structure formation
Advisor: Peter Melchior and Shirley Ho (CCA)
Postgraduate: Astrophysics Research, Copenhagen; followed by graduate school
Malik Walker
Senior Thesis: Investigating Kinetic Instabilities Within the Solar Wind Plasma Using Hybrid-Kinetic Particle-In Cell Code
Advisor: Matt Kunz
Postgraduate: Johns Hopkins, Graduate School, Astrophysics
Andrew Wu
Senior Thesis: Finding voids billions of years in advance with machine learning
Advisor: David Spergel and Paco Navarro
Postgraduate: Georgia Tech, Graduate School Astrophysics
Chen Xie
Senior Thesis: SPACE DEBRIS: A SURVEY OF THE LEGAL REGIME
Why There is an Urgent Need for a New Binding Agreement
Advisor: Chris Chyba and Neta Bahcall
Juniors 2019-2020
Tyler Eddy
Fall JP: Discerning the Most Important Metrics for Analyzing Solar Energetic Particle Events
Advisor: Dave McComas and Jamie Rankin
Spring JP: Ribbon cutting: Opening the path to acceleration processes observed by IBEX
Advisor: Dave McComas, Eric Zirnstein and Pawel Swaczyna
Mark Forese
Fall JP: Where is the Dark Matter? Mass to Light in the Universe
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: Developing science instrumentation for the Simons Observatory for detecting primordial B-modes in the CMB
Advisor: Lyman Page
Jake Helton
Fall JP: The extended line-emitting nebulae surrounding PKS0454-22
Advisor: Jenny Greene and Sean Johnson
Spring JP: BAO+CMB Constraints on Spatial Curvature
Advisor: Jo Dunkley
Cade Keegan
Fall JP: Characterizing the noise in preliminary HATPI observations
Advisor: Joel Hartman
Spring JP: Stellar Contamination in Dual Quasar Candidates with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Isabel Rosa Marie Medlock
Fall JP: Dispersion Measure Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts due to the Intergalactic Medium
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Spring JP: Analysis of Vertical Structures of Edge-On Galaxies Using HSC-SSP
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Alexander Menegas
Fall JP: Analytic approximations to the radiation curve emitted by rotating interstellar dust
Advisor: Brandon Hensley
Spring JP: Ultraviolet Spectral Signatures of Galaxies due to Helium Stars at the Epoch of Reionization
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Alexandros Papamatthaiou
Fall JP: Redesigning the Cassini Ion Mass Spectrometer
Advisor: Dave McComas and Jamie Rankin
Spring JP: Simulating the breathing modes of the Hall Thruster using the Van der Pol Oscillator
Advisor: Yevgeny Raitses
Juliana Pulsinelli
Fall JP: Interstellar Medium Line Emission Due to Shocks at the Epoch of Reionization
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Spring JP: Spectral Variability in V* CN Cha
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Shai Slav
Fall JP: Searching for evidence of orbital decay of hot Jupiters with TESS
Advisor: Josh Winn
Spring JP: Hydrogen Radio Recombination Line Emission in Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Seniors 2018-2019
Carlos Anicetti
Senior Thesis: Properties of Host Galaxies of Quasars as measured by Hyper Suprime-Cam
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Postgraduate: Graduate School for Astrophysics, Johns Hopkins University
Madelyn Broome
Senior Thesis: Destruction of Wide Binaries by the Milky Way
Advisor: David Spergel
Postgraduate: Cambridge Masters, graduate school for Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
Sam Moore
Senior Thesis: Using the Hyper Suprime-Cam to investigate the Binggeli Effect
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Postgraduate: Graduate school for Astrophysics, Edinburgh Scotland
Jacob Tyles
Senior Thesis: Dynamic Assemblage of Binary Black Hole Mergers in Globular Clusters
Advisor: Neta Bahcall and Johan Samsing
Postgraduate: Masters in Scientific Computing, University of Pennyslvania
Chen Xie (graduating in 2020)
Senior Thesis: Lessons Learned and the Decadal Surveys
Advisor: David Spergel
Juniors 2018-2019
Chris Choo
Fall JP: A Graphical Representation of the System of Exoplanets and an Examination of Essential Quantities
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Spring JP: "Oumuamua" in our Solar System
Advisor: Ed Turner
Hector Cruz
Fall JP: Modelling the SED of the torus of a low mass SMBH in NGC 4395
Advisor: Jenny Greene and Andy Goulding Spring JP: The Splashback Radius of Galaxy Systems
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Elliot Davies
Fall JP: Dark Matter candidates beyond WIMPs
Advisor: Mariangela Lisanti
Spring JP: Bound State Formation Rates of Wino, Higgsino and pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter
Advisor: Tracy Slayter (IAS) and Neta Bahcall
Ryan Golant
Fall JP: Galaxy Cluster Profiling via Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Advisor: Peter Melchior
Spring JP: Solar Wind Simulations
Advisor: Matt Kunz
Liam Kelly
Fall JP: Correlation between gas emission and young stellar populations in EBOSS galaxies
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: Cosmological Simulations
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Camille Liotine
Fall JP: Constraining isocurvature perturbations
Advisor: Jo Dunkley
Spring JP: High Energy Astrophysics Numerical Simulations
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Emma Louden
Fall JP: Characterization of HATS-34 and HATS-46 Using TESS and Gaia
Advisor: Joel Hartman
Spring JP: Mars Special Regions: Analysis of Feasibility
Advisor: Chris Chyba
Malik Walker
Fall JP: Intrinsic Alignments between Satellite Galaxies and their BCGs
Advisor: Cristobal Sifon
Spring JP: Electromagnetic precursors of merging neutron stars
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Andrew Wu
Fall JP: An Analysis of Radial Velocity Data Characterizing the Orbit of Proxima b
Advisor: Josh Winn
Spring JP: Examination of the Contribution of Cold Streams and Other Environmental Factors in the Formation of Grand Design Spiral Structure
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Seniors 2017-2018
Jonah Donnenfield
Senior Thesis: Photometric Follow-up of Transiting Planet Candidates: Optimization, Automation and Data Reduction
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos and Joel Hartman
Post Graduate: research fellowship at UCSF prior to medical school
Teva Ilan
Senior Thesis: Constraining the Relativistic Thermal and Bulk Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects
Advisor: Jo Dunkley and Mathew Madhavacheveril
Post Graduate: U Wisconsin at Madison for graduate studies in astrophysical sciences
Jin Soo Lim
Senior Thesis: Modeling the Surface Brightness Profiles of Quasar Host Galaxies using the Sersic Function
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: CBRE Group (commercial real estate and investment)
Bethlee Lindor
Senior Thesis: Clusters of Galaxies: Mass Determination/ Methods, Biases, and Precision Cosmology
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: U Washington Seattle for graduate studies in astrophysical sciences
Alisabeth Marstellar
Senior Thesis: Modeling Galaxy Bias with Artificial Neural Networks
Advisor: Marcel Schmittfull (IAS) and Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: CSafe
Amanda Newmark
Senior Thesis: An Extended Model of KH 15D: Determining the Structure of the Circumbinary Ring After the Reemergence of Star B
Advisor: Josh Winn
Post Graduate: Analytic consultant, IBM
Elias Rubin
Senior Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Runaway Star Growth in Global Clusters
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Post Graduate: Google
Tristan Schrader
Senior Thesis: The Stellar Fraction as a Function of System Mass and Scale
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Biochemistry lab in Brazil; also volunteering with mobile surgical center serving indigenous communities in the Amazon
Juniors 2017-2018
Carlos Anicetti
Fall JP: New Substellar Members of the UCL and LCC Subgroups of Scorpius-Centaurus
Advisor: Fred Moolekamp
Spring JP: Color dependence of variability in active galactic nuclei
Advisor: Neven Caplar
Madelyn Broome
Fall JP: Forecasting T.E.S.S.'s Ability to Improve Calculations of Orbital Decay Parameters for Hot Jupiters
Advisor: Josh Winn
Spring JP: Hunting for evidence of AGN feedback in a quasar-driven superbubble
Advisor: Jenny Greene and Andy Goulding
Chris Choo (returning Fall 2018)
Fall JP:
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Spring JP:
Advisor:
Sam Moore
Fall JP: Modelling the Surface Temperatures of Exoplanets
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Spring JP: Chaos and resonance in the inner stellar halo from the Galactic bar
Advisor: Aidan Price-Whelan
Jacob Tyles
Fall JP: Spin Evolution of a Massive Stellar Binary as a Formation Mechanism for Field Binary Black Holes
Advisor: Kenta Hotokezaka (Spitzer Fellow)
Spring JP: Searching for narrow-line quasars in the eBOSS survey of the SDSS
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Chen Xie
Fall JP: Estimating Astronomical Distances with HR-Diagram Analysis of Astrophotographs
Advisor: Robert Vanderbei
Spring JP: Shapes of galaxy clusters from HSC data
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Seniors 2016-17
Samuel Cabot
Senior Thesis: The Baryon Content of Galaxy Systems: Observations and Simulations
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Cambridge Masters; Yale PhD in astrophysical sciences
Alice Eltvedt
Senior Thesis: The Quasar Proximity Effect and the Intergalactic Medium at Low Redshift
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Boryana Hadzhiyska
Senior Thesis: Exploring Non-Standard Extensions to the Standard Model of the Early Universe
Advisors: Jo Dunkley, David Spergel
Post Graduate: Cambridge Masters; Harvard PhD in astrophysical sciences
Arianna Lanz
Senior Thesis: Think Planck ACT: A Cross-Correlation of the CIB and CMB using Planck, ACT and UltraVISTA
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: software engineering
Jin Soo Lim (on leave this year)
Senior Thesis:
Advisor:
Revant Nayar (returning January, 2017)
Senior Thesis: Field Theoretical Approaches to Large Scale Structure
Advisor: Matias Zaldarriaga
Katelyn Neese
Senior Thesis: Examining Morphologies of Host Galaxies of Quasars using the Hyper-Suprime Cam
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Tamar Novetsky
Senior Thesis: A Search for Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Broad-Band Spectral Energy Distribution of Quasars
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Post Graduate: Puttkammer Fellowship in Criminal Justice with the Petey Greene Program
Elias Rubin (graduating January 2018)
Senior Thesis: Cosmological simulations
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Juniors 2016-17
Catherine Blume
Fall JP: Plasma Astrophysics
Advisor: Matt Kunz
Spring JP: Predicting Catastrophe: How Self-Organized Criticality Impacts Flare Forecasting
Advisor: Hantao Ji
Chris Choo (on leave this year)
Fall JP:
Advisor:
Spring JP:
Advisor:
Jonah Donnenfield
Fall JP: PCA analysis of sky spectra in SDSS
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: Exoplanet Habitability: An Ongoing Discussion
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Angel Fan
Fall JP: The Proximus Centauri planet
Advisor: Ed Turner
Spring JP: (on leave)
Teva Ilan
Fall JP: Binary - Single Scatterings and Gravitational Inspirals
Advisor: Johan Samsing
Spring JP: 3C190: Probing The Extreme AGN 'Blowout' Phase of Galaxy Evolution
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Bethlee Lindor
Fall JP: Exoplanets
Advisor: Joel Hartman
Spring JP Targeted Search for Milky Way Satellites Using HSC
Advisor: Adrian Price-Whelan
Alisabeth Marsteller
Fall JP: Supermassive Black Holes versus Galaxy Relations
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: Analysis of unique features of Type II quasars
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Amanda Newmark
Fall JP: Weak Lensing
Advisor: Elinor Medezinski
Spring JP: Late Pre-Main-Sequence Evolution
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Tristan Schrader
Fall JP: Galaxy evolution
Advisor: Jenny Greene, Andy Goulding
Spring JP: The Plasma Physics of Proto-Planetary Disks
Advisor: Matt Kunz
Seniors 2015-16
Stephen (Nicholas) Barton
Senior Thesis: Planet Populations
Advisor: Tim Morton and Edwin Turner
Post Graduate: Imperial College for Graduate School, Applied Math, followed by Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford
Eve Matthaey
Senior Thesis: High-order particle deposition in particle-in-cell simulations
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Post Graduate: Software engineer at Bloomberg, NYC
Oderah (Justin) Otor
Senior Thesis: Revealing a Massive Companion in the Kepeler-56 System
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos [& John Johnson (CfA)]
Post Graduate: Research in Chile
Jamila Pegues
Senior Thesis: Analyzing the Distribution and Chemical Evolution of Major Nitrogen Carriers and the N/O Ratio within Theoretical Protoplanetary Disks
Advisor: Bruce Draine [& Karin Oberg CfA)]
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
Roberta Raileanu
Senior Thesis: SDSS/HSC Extragalactic Observations
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Computer Science, New York University
Thomas Gonzalez Roberts
Senior Thesis: Measuring Break-ups: A Statistical Analysis of Space Debris Collisions in Low-Earth Orbit from 1958 to 2015
Advisor: Christopher Chyba
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Data Science,University of Edinburgh
Nabeel Sarwar
Senior Thesis: SDSS/HSC Extragalactic Observations
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate:
Margaret (Maggie) Thompson
Senior Thesis: A Model for Astrometric Detection and Characterization of Multi-Exoplanet Systems
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: Carnegie Institute for Science, Washington, DC
Sandy (Sihan) Yuan
Senior Thesis: Photometric Identification and Studies of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies In Hyper Suprime-Cam
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
Juniors 2015-16
Samuel Cabot
Fall JP: BPT characterization of star forming galaxies ultra-high resolution cosmological hydronamic simulations
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Spring JP: "Transverse Peculiar Velocity Estimates of LEDA 69457: The Einstein Cross”
Advisor: Jeremy Goodman
Alice Eltvedt
Fall JP: Identifying Quasars with N_v/Ly_a Line Area Ratios>1 from the SDSS-III DR12
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "A Catalog of Quasars with Extreme NV/Ly alpha Ratios"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Boryana Hadzhiyska
Fall JP: Recovering the Tidal Field in the Projected Galaxy Distribution
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: Second Order Lagrangian Perturbations for the Baryonic Fluid after Recombination
Advisor: David Spergel
Arianna Lanz
Fall JP: The Photometric Properties of Dust in the Intracluster Medium
Advisor: Nick Battaglia
Spring JP: "The Causes of Variance in Star Formation Rates in Galaxies over Time"
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Jin Soo Lim
Fall JP: Numerical Analysis on the Effect of Orbital Coplanarity in Transit Survey
Advisor: Ewin Turner
Spring JP: "Host Galaxies of Quasars in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Katelyn Neese
Fall JP: Using Annual Modulation to Identify Theories of Dark Matter
Advisor: Vera Gluscevic (IAS) and Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: “Testing virial mass estimates of GMCs using numerical simulations of galactic disks”
Advisor: Eve Ostriker
Tamar Novetsky
Fall JP: Analyzing the Role of Collision sin [OII] Emissions Using Laozi Simulations
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Spring JP: "Physical Decomposition of Sky Spectra from the SDSS BOSS Survey"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Elias Rubin
Fall JP: Numerical Simulations of a Self-Gravitating, Isothermal, Planar Atmosphere
Advisor: Aaron Skinner and Eve Ostriker
Spring JP: Using Deep Autoencoders for Spectrograph Data Reconstruction
Advisor:
Seniors 2014-15
Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen
Senior Thesis: Inclined Planetary Orbits in Accretion Disks: A Preliminary study with Athena++
Advisor: James Stone
Post Graduate: Bridgewater, a global macro hedgefund
Dayton Martindale
Senior Thesis: Star-Cross’d: Coming together in an expanding universe
Advisor: Neta Bahcall & Michael Lemonick
Post Graduate: Graduate School Science Journalism UC Berkeley
Elizabeth Paul
Senior Thesis: Passive tracers in ATHENA: implementation and applications to turbulent star formation
Advisor: Eve Ostriker
Post Graduate: Graduate School Astrophysics U Maryland
Alexandra Pleus
Senior Thesis: The Effects of Spectral Resolution in Detecting Oxygen in Earth-like Exoplanets
Advisor: Tim Morton & Adam Burrows
Post Graduate: U Hawaii
Morgan Presley
Senior Thesis: Quantifying the Degree of Fine-tuning in Models of Inflation
Advisor: Paul Steinhardt (PHY)
Post Graduate: Graduate School Astrophysics UC Berkeley
Juniors 2014-15
Stephen (Nicholas) Barton
Fall JP: Light Pollution At Princeton University
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos
Spring JP: Simulating Stellar Evolution with MESA
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Eve Matthaey
Fall JP: The Contribution of Red Super Giants to the K-Band Luminosity of Spiral Galaxies
Advisor: Jenny Greene & Arjen van der Wel (Max Planck Inst.)
Spring JP: A Comparison of Photometry for Quasars in SDSS and HSC
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Revant Nayar
Fall JP: Dynamics and Instabilities of Vortex Rings
Advisor: Steve Gubser (PHY)
Spring JP: Impact of Lorentz Violation on Scalar Fields in the Early Universe
Advisor: Paul Steinhardt
Oderah (Justin) Otor
Fall JP: Spectral Categorization of Compact Galaxies via SDSS Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: Scouring and Dust in Supermassive Elliptical Galaxies
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Jamila Pegues
Fall JP: Gearing Up To Cross The Redshift Desert
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Spring JP: Distinguishing Single-Transit Planetary Systems From Astrophysical False Positives
Advisor: Tim Morton
Roberta Raileanu
Fall JP: Superbubbles Driven By Multiple Supernovae in The Two-Phase Interstellar Medium
Advisor: Eve Ostriker
Spring JP: Predicting Rotation Periods of Stars From Autocorrelation
Advisor: Tim Morton
Thomas Gonzalez Roberts
Fall JP: Effect of Grain Shape on FIR Polarization Efficiencies
Advisor: Bruce Draine
Spring JP: Anti-Satellite Weapons in the United States, The Soviet Union, And China: A Histrorical and Political Synopsis
Advisor: Chris Chyba
Nabeel Sarwar
Fall JP: Exploratory Analysis in Astrophysical Cartography
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Spring JP: Case Study of Tidal Dissipation in Various Hot Jupiters and Observations on Rotational Parameters and Quality Factors
Advisor: Kaloyan Penev
Margaret (Maggie) Thompson
Fall JP: A Search for Close Binary Companions to Kepler Host Stars
Advisor: Tim Morton
Spring JP: The Future of Exoplanet Science
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos
Sandy (Sihan) Yuan
Fall JP: Spectroscopic Identification of AGNs and Type II Quasars at Redshift Below 1 in SDSS-III/BOSS
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: A New Light on the Physical Nature of the Most Metal-Poor Damped Lyman-a System At z~3
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Seniors 2013-14
Frederick Addy
Senior Thesis: "AGN Fueling: Alignments Between Circumnuclear Structures and Radio Jets?"
Advisor: Jenny Greene
Post Graduate: Clean Energy Consulting
Benjamin Cook
Senior Thesis: "The Distribution of Dark Matter and Baryons in the Universe"
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Harvard - Graduate School, Astronomy
Tomer Yavetz
Senior Thesis: "Testing for Non-Gaussianity"
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: McKinsy Consulting Company
Michael (Zhaoxi) Zhang
Senior Thesis: "High-precision multi-color DSLR photometry"
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos
Post Graduate: Microsoft
Juniors 2013-14
Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen
Fall JP: “Investigating Possible Sources of Planet Formation: An Analysis of Proto-Planetary Vortices in Accretion Disks”
Advisor: James Stone
Spring JP: “Modeling Type Ia Supernovae in anticipation of INTEGRAL”
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Dayton Martindale
Fall JP: “Magnification Due to Microlensing by a Lone Star”
Advisor: Jeremy Goodman
Spring JP: “The Charm of Small Telescopes,” or, Begging for Planets, HAT in Hand”
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos, Michael Lemonic
Elizabeth Paul
Fall JP: “Quantifying Orientation Effects on Detection of Dust Obscured Galaxies”
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Spring JP: “Host Galaxies of Quasars in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Alexandra Pleus
Fall JP: “Analysis of Exoplanet Properties by Detection Method”
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Spring JP: “Identification of Type II Quasars from SDSS-III BOSS spectra”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Morgan Presley
Fall JP: “Implications of the Initial-Final Mass Relation for Low-Mass Stars on Prescriptions for RGB/AGB Mass Loss”
Advisor: Dave Speigel, IAS
Spring JP: “The Effects of the Eddington Factor on Turbulence in Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations of a Galactic Disk”
Advisor: Eve Ostriker
Seniors 2012-13
Lehman Garrison
Senior Thesis: “Galactic Warps”
Advisors: David Spergel, Naoki Yoshida (Univ. of Tokyo)
Post Graduate: Harvard - Graduate School, Astronomy
Allison Hume
Senior Thesis: “Optimizing High-Energy Astrophysical Simulations”
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Post Graduate:
Daniel Minkin
Senior Thesis: “Spectroscopy of the Outer Parts of Galaxies”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate:
Carolina Nunez
Senior Thesis: “Luminous Red Galaxies and Clusters at z~0.7”
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate:
Prachi Parihar
Senior Thesis: "The Topology of Large Scale Structure"
Advisor: Richard Gott
Post Graduate: Caltech - Graduate School, Astronomy
Joel Zinn
Senior Thesis: "Searching for a Magnification Signal with SDSS Galaxies and WISE AGN"
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate:
Juniors 2012-13
Frederick Addy
Fall JP: “A Behavioral Analysis of American Market Responses to the Greek Credit Crisis”
Advisor: Michael Kraus (Bendheim Center for Finance), Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: “The Refractive Properties of Venus's Atmosphere”
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Benjamin A. Cook
Fall JP: “ Photometric analysis of asteroid 7 (Iris) and other minor planets with the HATNet survey”
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos
Spring JP: "Quantitative inspection of quasars and their spectroscopic properties using the SDSS Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Tomer Yavetz
Fall JP: “ Modeling Submillimeter Galaxies”
Advisor: Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook Univ.), David Spergel
Spring JP: "The Importance of Earth's Oblateness for Low-Earth Satellite Orbits."
Advisor: Scott Tremaine (IAS)
Michael (Zhaoxi) Zhang
Fall JP: “Tidal Dissipation and Stellar Spin-up in Hot Jupiter Systems”
Advisor: Kaloyan Penev, Astro postdoc
Spring JP: “Current sheets and magnetic reconnection in MHD accretion disk simulations”
Advisor: James Stone
Seniors 2011-12
Rachel Alexandroff
Senior Thesis: "Discovery of High Redshift Obscured Quasars in SDSS-III BOSS and Further Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Investigation"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: Johns Hopkins University Graduate School, Astronomy
Matt DiDonato
Senior Thesis: "Astronomy As a Vehicle for High School Science Education"
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: NASA Endeavor Fellowship: Columbia University, Teaching College Graduate School, STEM Physics/Astrophysics Education/Teaching at Haddonfield Memorial High School, NJ
Juan Farfan
Senior Thesis: "Supernovae Gamma-Ray Line & Hard X-Ray Continuum Emissions"
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Post Graduate: Private Industry
Margaret Shaw
Senior Thesis: "A Novel Thrust Measurement Method For Plasma Rockets with Magnetic Nozzles Using B-field Measurements"
Advisor: Jeremy Goodman and Edgar Choueiri (MAE)
Post Graduate: MIT Graduate School, Astronomy
Mary (Shangjun) Zhang
Senior Thesis: "Baryons, Mass, and Light in the Universe"
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Harvard University Graduate School, Astronomy
Juniors 2011-12
Lehman Garrison
Fall JP: "Scaling the Memory Wall: Filtering in TRISTAN-MP"
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Spring JP: "An Online Adaptive Algorithm for High-Resolution Mapping with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle"
Advisor: Chris Clark (COS)
Allison Hume
Fall JP: "Cluster Mass versus Richness Relation"
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Spring JP:
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Daniel Minkin
Fall JP: “A Review of the Literature Concerning NGC 6791 and a Need for New Calibrations Concerning He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs”
Advisor: James Gunn
Spring JP: "An Analysis of He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs"
Advisor: James Gunn
Carolina Nunez
Fall JP: "Simulations of the X-Ray Sky"
Advisor: David Spergel
Spring JP:
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Prachi Parihar
Fall JP: "Observation of the 21 cm line"
Advisor: Daniel Marlow (PHY)
Spring JP:
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Joel Zinn
Fall JP: "Gravitational Lenses in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Sample"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP:
Advisor: Richard Gott
Seniors 2010-11
Jared Crooks
Senior Thesis: "Funding the Future: A Study of the Astronomy & Astrophysics Decadal Survey and the Budgetary Process"
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, MPA, Science Policy
Michael Gordon
Senior Thesis: "In Search of Asymmetry in ACT-detected SZ Clusters"
Advisor: Lyman Page
Post Graduate: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Research
Andrew Peck
Senior Thesis: "On the Injection of Particles into Fermi Acceleration in Collisionless Shocks"
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Post Graduate: Private Sector Position
Zachary Slepian
Senior Thesis: "Slow Roll Dark Energy"
Advisor: Richard Gott
Post Graduate: Harvard University Graduate School, Astronomy
Aaron Smargon
Senior Thesis: "A Hanbury Brown-Twiss-Inspired Analysis of Coronagraphic Images"
Advisor: Jason Fleischer (EE), Jeremy Kasdin (MAE), Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Start-Up Co.
Sarah Wellons
Senior Thesis: "Simulations of External Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Post Graduate: NSF Fellowship Harvard University Graduate School, Astronomy
Juniors 2010-11
Rachael Alexandroff
Fall JP: “Comparing the True Masses of Two Exoplanets Based on a Radial Velocity Measurement of Their M sin(i) Values”
Advisor: Ed Turner
Spring JP: “A Search for High Redshift Type II Quasars from the SDSS BOSS Survey"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Matt DiDonato
Fall JP: “Examining the Colors of SDSS Quasar Host Galaxies”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Daniel Minkin
Fall JP: “A Review of the Literature Concerning NGC 6791 and a Need for New Calibrations Concerning He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs”
Advisor: Jim Gunn
Spring JP: “Analysis of NGC 6791 and a Need for New Calibrations Concerning He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs”
Advisor: Jim Gunn
Margaret Shaw
Fall JP: “The Effect of a Minimum Detectable Velocity Amplitude on the Msin(i) Distribution of Exoplanets in RV Surveys”
Advisor: Ed Turner
Spring JP: “Modeling Telluric H2 0 Absorption: Prospects for Precise RV Measurements of Low-mass Stars”
Advisor: Cullen Blake
Mary (Shangjun) Zhang
Fall JP: “Dust Extinction of Galaxies as a Function of Inclination”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "Magnetic Activity in Dwarf M Stars with White Dwarf Companions"
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Seniors 2009-10
Courtney Dressing
Senior Thesis: "New Frontiers in Exoplanet Detection: High Contrast Imaging With Subaru"
Advisor: Edwin Turner and Michael McElwain
Post Graduate: Harvard Graduate School, Astronomy
Rebecca Harper
Senior Thesis: "Statistical Comparison of Binary Stars and Planetary Systems"
Advisor: J. Richard Gott
Post Graduate: Int'l. Economic Development
Ted Price
Senior Thesis: "Examining SDSS Extended Quasars at High Redshift and Unresolved Quasars at Low Redshift"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: U of Southern CA, MBA
Bilhuda Rasheed
Senior Thesis: "Where Are the Missing Baryons in Clusters? "
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Energy and Environmental Project in Pakistan
Kathryn Silverio
Senior Thesis: "Characterizing the Emission From Interstellar Dust at Microwave" Frequencies
Advisor: David Spergel and Aurelien Fraisse
Post Graduate: UC Berkeley Graduate School, Astronomy
Hassen Yesuf
Senior Thesis: "Dynamical Mass Estimates of the Sloan Great Wall"
Advisor: J. Richard Gott
Post Graduate: UCSC Graduate School, Astronomy
Seniors 2008-09
Jessica Kloss
Senior Thesis: “Intrinsic Galaxy Alignments”
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: Graduate School in Science Journalism, Boston University
Ragnhild Lunnan
Senior Thesis: “Topology of Luminous Red Galaxies”
Advisor: Richard Gott
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
Juniors 2008-09
Courtney Dressing
Fall JP: “Activity of M Dwarfs in White Dwarf – M Dwarf Binary Systems"
Advisor: Jill Knapp
Spring JP: “Habitable Planets: The Effects of Eccentricity”
Advisor: Dave Spiegel
Rebecca Harper
Fall JP: “Conceptions of Center and Light Metaphysics in Robert Grosseteste’s De Luce”
Advisor: Vance Smith (ENG) and Neta Bahcall (AST)
Spring JP: “Fragmentation of ‘Killer’ Asteroid”
Advisor: Christopher Chyba
Michael Medeiros
Fall JP: “Designing and Building a Custom Fourier Transform Spectrometer”
Advisor: Suzanne Staggs (PHY)
Spring JP: “Optimizing Athena: Implementing Super Time Stepping for Numerical Integration”
Advisor: James Stone
Ted Price
Fall JP: “Accretion Discs with Power-Law Viscosities”
Advisor: Roman Rafikov
Spring JP: “Financial Market Volatilities”
Advisors: Neta Bahcall (Astro) and Ronnie Sircar (ORFE)
Bilhuda Rasheed
Fall JP: “Giant Planets as Loaded Polytropes”
Advisor: Roman Rafikov
Spring JP: “Radioactive Dating Methods”
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Kathryn Silverio
Fall JP: “Can TiO Explain Thermal Inversions in the Upper Atmospheres of Irradiated Giant Planets?”
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Spring JP: “Sub-Structure in Clusters of Galaxies Using SDSS”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Hassen Yesuf
Fall JP: “High-Redshift Narrow Line Seyfert Galaxies 1 from SDSS”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Using Clusters of Galaxies”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Seniors 2007-08
Zoe Buck
Senior Thesis: “Cross-correlation of Galaxies and Quasars in SDSS Stripe 82”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: Science Journalism for a year, then graduate school
Katherine Miller
Senior Thesis: “Quantifying the Bullet Cluster: Pairwise Velocity Distributions in N-Body Cosmological Simulations”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate
Science Education and Outreach
Penny Pelton
Senior Thesis: “Identifying Galaxy-QSO Superpositions in the SDSS”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: Analyst for Princeton Consultants
Valery Rashkov
Senior Thesis: “Variability in Sloan’s Equatorial Stripe: A Search for Optically Violent Variable Objects”
Advisor: David Spergel and Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, UC, Santa Cruz
Gregory Snyder
Senior Thesis: “White Dwarf Companions: Colors in SDSS and 2MASS”
Advisor: Jill Knapp
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard Astronomy PHD program
Juniors 2007-08
Jessica Kloss
Fall JP: “Galaxies and Their Nearest Neighbors”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Classifying Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Robert Lupton
Ragnhild Lunnan
Fall JP: “Spectroscopic Properties of Radio Galaxies in the SDSS”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Computer Self-Gravity Using a Multigrid Method”
Advisor: James Stone
Seniors 2006-07
Zach Berta
Senior Thesis: "The Rosy Matched Filter: An Automated Red-Sequence Cluster Finder"
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
William Dahab
Senior Thesis: "Super-Massive Black Holes in Quasars "
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Wall Street Analyst
Greg Haislip
Senior Thesis: “Maximum BCG: Finding Clusters in COSMOS"
Advisor: Neta Bahcall and Dave Johnson, Caltech
Post Graduate: Naval Officers Program, Intelligence and Cryptology
Kelly Halford
Senior Thesis: "Aim For The Moon, At Least If You Miss, You Will End Up Among The Stars: Determining The Pointing Of The Atacama Cosmology Telescope"
Advisor: David Spergel
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, UCLA
Lorne Hofstetter
Senior Thesis: “Portrait of the Sloan Great Wall”
Advisor: Richard Gott
Post Graduate: General Electric’s Global Research Center; and graduate school in engineering
Lear Janiv
Senior Thesis: “The Local Galactic Escape Velocity: The Mass of the Milky Way”
Advisor: Jill Knapp
Post Graduate: Goldman Sachs, Credit Derivates Trader
Ariel Klainerman
Senior Thesis: “A Conformal Journey to the Center of the Earth: Extending the Map of the Universe Down to the Quark”
Advisor: Richard Gott
Post Graduate: Finances/Consulting Sector ; Air Force
Blake Martin
Senior Thesis: “The Scale Dependence of The Baryon Mass Fraction”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Medical School
Corey Ritter
Senior Thesis: “Coupling the QUIET Receiver to the ACT Telescope: A Simple Two-Lens Solution”
Advisor: Suzanne Staggs
Post Graduate: Military, Army
Juniors 2006-07
Zoe Buck
Fall JP: “Identifying Pre-Main-Sequence-Stars Using SDSS Spectroscopy”
Advisor: Jill Knapp
Spring JP: "Accurately Determining Galaxy Cluster Parameters using a Matched Filter Method"
Advisor: David Spergel
Katherine Miller
Fall JP: “Why Are They Pointing at Us? Are BL-Lac Objects Messages from Aliens at the Edge of the Universe?"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "Oh Be a Fine Girl, Kiss Me Like That "
Advisor: Jill Knapp
Penny Pelton
Fall JP: "Selecting Radio Galaxies in the SDSS"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "Developing Photometric Search Methods to Identify T Tauri Candidates in the Taurus Cloud"
Advisor: Jill Knapp
Valery Rashkov
Fall JP: “The Search for Faint Galaxies in the SDSS Sky Fibers ”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Photometric Redshift Determinations”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall and Ofer Lahav, UCL
Gregory Snyder
Fall JP: “Looking for Luminous Red Galaxies Using SDSS DR5 Photometry”
Advisor: Jim Gunn
Spring JP: "Magnetized Shock-Cloud Interactions ”
Advisor: Jim Stone
Seniors 2005-06
Emmett Carlson
Senior Thesis: “Hybrid Universes Formed by Matching Schwarzschild Solutions to Incomplete Spherical Solutions”
Advisor: Jeremy Goodman
Post Graduate: Teaching Math/Physics
Mark Daniels
Senior Thesis: “A Modular Diffraction Simulator for use in the Terrestrial Planet Finder Laboratory”
Advisor: David Spergel (Astrophysical Sciences) and Ruslan Belikov (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Post Graduate: Graduate School, MAE, Princeton University.
Maggie Kirkland
Senior Thesis: “Estimating the Number of Habitable Planets in the Galaxy”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Graduate School,Cornell University, Neurobiology and Behavior
Martin Niederste-Ostholt
Senior Thesis: “Alignment of Brightest Cluster Galaxies with their Host Clusters”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy
James Wray
Senior Thesis: “High-Dispersion Spectroscopy of Europa and Enceladus: Probing the Tenuous Atmospheres of Active Icy Moons”
Advisor: Ed Turner
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astronomy,Planetary Science, Cornell University
Juniors 2005-06
Zach Berta
Fall JP: “From Dragons and Toads to Dopplegrams: The Science of Helioseismology”
Advisor: Aristotle Socrates
Spring JP: “Work in Progress on the Detection of Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor: David Spergel
William Ezra Dahab
Fall JP: “A Method for Analyzing Bright Objects in Sloan Digital Sky Survey to Search or Bright Quasars”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Lifetime of Meteors in Planetary Systems, with Relation to Lithopanspermia”
Advisor: Ed Turner
Greg Haislip
Fall JP: “Disk Origin for S-Stars in Galactic Center?”
Advisor: Andrew Youdin
Spring JP: “Examining the Relationship between H Luminosity, [OIII] Luminosity, Spectral Line Width, and Other Relevant Spectral Line Strengths in AGN and Starburst Galaxies”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Kelly Halford
Fall JP: “Carbon White Dwarfs of the SDSS DR4”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Spring JP: “Temperature Evolution in the Intergalactic Medium”
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Lorne Hofstetter
Fall JP: “Searching for White Dwarfs in the Galactic Halo”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Spring JP: “Characterizing the Environment of Low Redshift Luminous Red Galaxies”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Lear Janiv
Fall JP: “Cluster CMB Polarization Signal as a Tracer of Dark Energy”
Advisor: David Spergel
Spring JP: “Density Dependant Metal Distribution as a Function of Redshift”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall and Renyue Cen
Ariel Klainerman
Fall JP: “The ACT Project: Extracting the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect from Simulated Sky Maps”
Advisor: David Spergel
Spring JP: “What is the Probability that a Highly Redshifted AGN with Narrow H is Type I"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Blake Martin
Fall JP: “Intrinsically Interesting Objects of the SDSS”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Gaseous Halos Around Galaxies”
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Corey Ritter
Fall JP: “Exploring the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Trouble List Spectra – A Fishing Expedition”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Magnetic Shielding in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
Advisor: Suzanne Staggs
Seniors 2004-05
Daniel Miller
Senior Thesis: “The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon Technology in Iran”
Advisor: Hal Feiveson (WWS) and Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: State Department
Joseph Muñoz
Senior Thesis: “Model Dependence of the Primordial Density Perturbation Spectrum on Small Scales”
Advisor: Paul Steinhardt (Physics) and Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
Rob Siverd
Senior Thesis: “Small Telescope Earthshine Observation”
Advisor: Ed Turner and David Spergel
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astronomy, Ohio State University
Nicolas Teh
Senior Thesis: “An Analytical Approach to Singularity Theorems in GR”
Advisor: Sergiu Klainerman (Math) and Jeremy Goodman
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Juniors 2004-05
Emmett Carlson
Fall JP: “A Search for Halo White Dwarf Candidates Using Proper Motion from SDSS”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Spring JP: “Paradoxes Involving Time Travel”
Advisor: Hans Halvorson (Philosophy) and J. Richard Gott
Mark Daniels
Fall JP: “A Method for Inferring Surface Data from Planets with Variable Cloud Cover”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner
Spring JP: “Determining Properties of Hydrogen Clouds Using Quasars as Light Sources”
Advisor: Ed Jenkins
Maggie Kirkland
Fall JP: “Gravitational Microlensing in the Presence of a Planetary Disk”
Advisor: Scott Tremaine
Spring JP: “Detectability of Molecular Hydrogen with IRAC”
Advisor: Bruce Draine
Martin Niederste-Ostholt
Fall JP: “Gravitational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks”
Advisor: Andrew Youdin
Spring JP: “Searching for Stars that are Escaping the Galaxy”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
James Wray
Fall JP: “A New Technique for Galaxy Photometric Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: James E. Gunn
Spring JP: “Simulation Studies of Supercluster Properties and Evolution”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall
Seniors 2003-04
Philip F. Hopkins
Senior Thesis: “Cluster Alignments and Ellipticities in LCDM Cosmology”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
Madhuri Kaul
Senior Thesis: “Emissivity of Stacked Corrugated Feed Horn”
Advisor: Suzanne Staggs, Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, University of Pennsylvania
Joshua Younger
Senior Thesis: “Large-Scale Structure in LCDM Cosmology”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Post Graduate: Graduate Schooll, Astrophysics, Harvard
Juniors 2003-04
Daniel Miller
Fall JP: “Circumstellar Disk Theory and its Applications”
Advisor: Marc Kuchner
Spring JP: “Absolute Magnitudes and Tangential Velocities of Brown Dwarfs”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Joseph Muñoz
Fall JP: “A Test for Residual Foregrounds in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Data with the Temperature-Polarization Correlation”
Advisor: David Spergel
Spring JP: “Geometrical Effects of Anti-de Sitter Space on the Behavior of Force-Mediating Bosons”
Advisor: Richard Gott
Rob Siverd
Fall JP: “Classification of Distant Radio Objects”
Advisor: Zeljko Ivezic
Spring JP: “Identification of BL Lacertae Objects from SDSS Spectra”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Nicholas Teh
Fall JP: “On Conformal Symmetry”
Advisor: Igor Klebanov, Neta A. Bahcall
Spring JP: “Applications of Operator K-Theory motivated by the Bell’s Inequality in Algebraic QFT”
Advisor: Hans Halvorson, Neta Bahcall
Seniors 2002-03
Cullen Blake
Senior Thesis: “A Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets Around Nearby L Dwarfs” “Photometry with the Super-Wide-Field ASAS III Camera”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski, David N. Spergel
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
Joshua Schroeder
Senior Thesis: “Carbon Stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, University of Colorado
Charles Steinhardt
Senior Thesis: “Constraints on Field Theoretical Models for Variation of the Fine Structure Constant”’
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University/Current Position: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Assistant Professor
Juniors 2002-03
Philip F. Hopkins
Fall JP: “Selection of Metal-Poor Giant and RR Lyrae Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data”
Advisor: Zeljko Ivezic
Spring JP: “Examination of Reddened Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Madhuri Kaul
Fall JP: “SDSS Proper Motion Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP: “Comparison of the K+ Background in MiniBooNE as Generated by the GEANT and MARS Monte Carlo Simulations”
Advisor: Andrew Bazarko (Physics), Neta A. Bahcall
Joshua D. Younger
Fall JP: “Mie Scattering in Dusty Disks: Dependence on the Inclination”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner
Spring JP: “A Search for Cool Population II M Subdwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Seniors 2001-02
Julia Comerford
Senior Thesis: “Probability of Gravitational Lensing of High-Redshift Quasars”
Advisor: Zoltan Haiman
Post Graduate: Graduate Student, Astrophyics, University of California, Berkeley
Ernie Tretkoff (Physics)
Senior Thesis: “Halo Clustering in Warm Dark Matter Models”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall, Paul Bode
Post Graduate: Graduate School, University of California, Santa Cruz (Science Writing)
Juniors 2001-02
Cullen Blake
Fall JP: “The Princeton Variability Survey”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “Difference Image Analysis of EXPLORE I Data”
Advisor: Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas
Joshua Schroeder
Fall JP: “Spectal Features of Carbon Stars Found in SDSS”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP: “Milky Way Absorption Features in Ultraviolet Spectra of Quasars 3C273 and RX “Milky Way Absorption Features in Ultraviolet Spectra of Quasars 3C273 and RX"
Advisor: Edward B. Jenkins
Charles L. Steinhardt
Fall JP: “Search for Type Ia Supernovae at Large Redshifts with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Spring JP: “Variation of the Fine Structure Constant”
Advisor: John N. Bahcall
Daniel Grin (Physics)
Fall JP: “Finding Lyman Limit Systems in the Spectra of High Redshift SDSS QSOs”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Spring JP:
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Seniors 2000-01
Deborah L. Freedman
Senior Thesis: “A Life Preserver for a Black Hole and Other Applications of “Q = M” Material”
Advisor: J. Richard Gott, III
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University
Adam L. Gittes
Senior Thesis: “Violence in the Night Sky: A New Measure for Variable Star Classification”
Advisor: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Post Graduate: Wall Street
Edwin J. Knerr
Senior Thesis: “Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way Galaxy”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Post Graduate: Law School
Joseph J. MacAvoy
Senior Thesis: “Reusable and Expendable Launch Vehicles and the High Cost of Access to Space”
Advisor: Robert Stengel (Engineering), Jerry Grey (MAE), Neta A. Bahcall
Post Graduate: Policy/Law School (William and Mary Law School)
Tind S. Ryen
Senior Thesis: “E + A Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Post Graduate: Science Policy Program
Brooke D. Simmons
Senior Thesis: “An Atmosphere Detector for the Princeton I,Q,U Experiment”
Advisor: Suzanne Staggs (Physics), James E. Gunn
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Yale University
Juniors 2000-01
Julia Comerford
Fall JP: “Circular and Elliptical Orbit Estimations of a Fourth Planet Around Pulsar PSR-B1257+2”
Advisor: Bradley Hansen
Spring JP: “The Dependence of Mass-to-Light Ratio on Cluster Overdensity”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Kimberly Palladino (Physics)
Fall JP: “The Observed Mass-Temperature Relation in High Density Systems”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Spring JP:
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Seniors 1999-2000
Richard S. De Simone
Senior Thesis: “The Stellar Velocity Distribution in the Solar Neighborhood”
Advisor: Scott D. Tremaine
Post Graduate: Tower Research Capitals
Alex C. McDaniel
Senior Thesis: “L and T Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joshua A. Pepper
Senior Thesis: “A Search for Active Nuclei and an Investigation of Galactic Color Profiles in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Images”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Post Graduate: Graduate School, Astrophysics, Ohio State University
Alana L. Sette
Senior Thesis: “The Cosmic Background Radiation: A Visual Introduction”
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Post Graduate: Science/Engineering Company
Kristian Finlator (Physics)
Senior Thesis: “Modeling the Near-Infrared Colors of Stars and Quasars”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Post Graduate:
Juniors 1999-2000
Deborah L. Freedman
Fall JP: “Determining Properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall, Eli Waxman
Spring JP: “Constraining Ω and σ8: A Concordance of Observations”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Adam L. Gittes
Fall JP: “Non-Isotropic Kick Velocities of Neutron Stars in Binary Systems”
Advisor: Bradley Hansen
Spring JP: “Weighing the Universe With the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Edwin J. Knerr
Fall JP: “Microlensing in a Binary System”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “Error Analysis of the Lightcurves for QSO's 0957+561 and 2237+305”
Advisor: Edwin Turner
Joseph J. MacAvoy
Fall JP: “The Relation Between Velocity Dispersion and X-Ray Temperature in a Sample of Abell Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor: Michael J. Way
Spring JP: “Spectral Types and Variability of Stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Tind S. Ryen
Fall JP: “Survey of Ultraviolet Interstellar Absorption Spectra”
Advisor: Edward B. Jenkins, Todd Tripp
Spring JP: “Discussion of Atmospheric Modeling of Mars”
Advisor: Tullis Onstott (Geosciences), Scott D. Tremaine
Brooke D. Simmons
Fall JP: “Galactic Extinction Estimates For Comparison to the Schlegel-Finkbeiner-Davis Maps”
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Spring JP: “Galactic Extinction of Stars, Galaxies, and Quasars: Searching for Gray Dust”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Chris McLeavey (Physics)
Fall JP: “SZ Effect and MAP Physics”
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Spring JP:
Advisor: