2021 Carnegie Summer Student Research Symposium

Friday, August 20th, 2021

Click on the links below to see video of the final talks from our summer students.

Kendra Nguyen (Pomona)
Comparing Compositional Predictions for super-Earth and sub-Neptune Planets
Advisor: Johanna Teske

Kevin Hamel (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
Investigating the Intermediate Redshift Circumgalactic Medium using CUBS
Advisor: Gwen Rudie

Benjamin Snyder (Cal Poly Pomona)
Resolving the Role of Environment in Shaping the Circumgalactic Media Around Massive Galaxies
Advisor: Fakhri Zahedy

Sonata Simonaitis-Boyd (UCSD)
Modeling Galaxy Spectra for Ly⍺ Tomography
Advisor: Drew Newman

Madeline Overton (San Diego State)
Improving the accuracy of the subhalo mass function by characterizing halo finder completeness
Advisor: Andrew Benson

Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan (Caltech)
Spherical Collapse of Fuzzy Dark Matter in 3D Simulations
Advisor: Xiaolong Du

Gisselle Jimenez (CSU San Bernardino)
Modeling the Chemical Evolution of Andromeda's Stellar Halo
Advisor: Ivanna Escala

Jandrie Rodriguez (East Los Angeles College)
Chemical Abundances of the Most Metal-Poor Globular Cluster in the Milky Way: ESO280-SC06
Advisor: Alex Ji

William Cerny (University of Chicago)
Studying the Dark Matter Content of the Carina II and Carina III Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies
Advisor: Josh Simon

Angelina Torres (Caltech)
Another One Blocked By Dust: Mapping the Spatial Extent of Clouds Surrounding Tabby's Star
Advisor: Josh Simon

Suyash Kumar (UCLA)
Data-driven Interstellar Dust: Constructing a 3-D Dust Map of the Milky Way
Advisor: Lauren Anderson

Vera Berger (Pomona)
Metallicity and Star Formation Activity of Dim Type Ia Supernova Hosts
Advisor: Tom Holoien

Hayden Campos (Dartmouth)
Examining Type Ia Progenitor Channels through CII Absorption Features
Advisor: Abigail Polin

Ashley Carpenter (UCLA)
Do the Cores of Massive Stars Spin Slow or Fast? First Measurements from Interacting Binaries
Advisor: Ylva Götberg

Riya Shrivastava (Caltech)
Studying Electromagnetic Transients from Stellar Collisions in Young Star Clusters
Advisor: Kyle Kremer

Beryl Hovis-Afflerbach (Caltech)
Are Massive Stripped Stars Missing at Low Metallicity?
Advisor: Ylva Götberg