2023 Carnegie Summer Student Research Symposium
Friday, August 25th, 2023
Click on the links below to see video of the final talks from our summer students.
Annabella Yang (UCSB)
Environmental Dependence of Stellar Population in Galaxy Groups and Clusters at z ≈ 0.1
Advisor: Meng Gu
Swathya Chauhan (UCLA)
An Analytical Model For [NII] Emission Lines From HII Regions
Advisor: Shengqi Yang
Tonya Peshel (San Francisco State University)
Investigating the ADC Prism Separation for MIRMOS
Advisor: Maren Cosens
Isabella Zadoyan (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
Comparing Galaxy Metallicity Gradients from Cosmological Simulations and Observations
Advisor: Nicole Sanchez
Necdet Canim (Pomona College)
Analysis of the Effects of Tidal and Wind Torques on Hot Jupiters
Advisor: Ma:hias Raives
Ian Johnson (Caltech)
Light After Death: Lessons from the Kilonova Light Curve of HD 222925's Progenitor
Advisor: Erika Holmbeck
Domani Sharkey (Caltech)
The Hunt for Binary Stars in the Darkest Galaxies: Investigating the Bias in Dark Matter Measurements
Advisor: Josh Simon
Nicholas Payan Inzunza (UCLA)
Using Stellar Streams to Probe the Shape of the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo
Advisor: Ana Bonaca
Kaitlyn Chen (Harvey Mudd College)
Hunting for Post-Red Supergiants
Advisor: Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein
Juan Diego Draxl Giannoni (UCSD)
Stellar Radio Astronomy: A Quiet Signal from Deep Space
Advisor: Allison Mathews
Brayan Hernandez (UCLA)
Identifying and Characterizing Lyman-Alpha Blobs at z = 4.9
Advisor: Rieko Momose
Sofia Franck (UCSC)
The Fraction of Quiescent Galaxies in Different Environments at z ~ 2.5 Characterized by Lyman-⍺ Tomography Advisor: Nima Chartab
Donavon Evans (San Francisco State University)
Can LISA Resolve Black Hole Binaries in the M87 Globular Clusters?
Advisor: Kyle Kremer
Nhi Doan (Pomona College)
Telescope Simulator for Testing the Henrietta Spectrograph
Advisor: Nick Konidaris
Avi Patel (Caltech)
Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Extract Novel Information from Zwicky Transient Facility Light Curves
Advisor: Dalya Baron
Isabel Hahn (Pomona College)
Investigating Photometric Metallicities and Ages in Subgiants
Advisor: Henrique Reggiani
Lauren Henson (Harvey Mudd College)
Investigating UV Nebular Emission in the Lowest Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies
Advisor: Peter Senchyna
Theo Chawla (Evergreen Valley College)
Viewing Distant Worlds from Earth: Simulating Ground-Based Observations of Water in Exo-Atmospheres
Advisor: Jason Williams