2024 Carnegie Summer Student Research Symposium

Friday, August 23rd, 2024

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

Katie Hermanson (CSU East Bay)
Globular Cluster-like Dwarf Galaxies in the EDGE2 Simulation Suite
Advisor: Stacy Kim

Yi Wei (William) Yang (Caltech)
Formation of Black Hole–White Dwarf X-ray Binaries in Globular Clusters
Advisor: Kyle Kremer 

Lizzy Teryoshin (UCSD)
A Study of Supernovae Breakout Simulations: Ejecta Morphology and Dynamics
Advisor: David Vartanya 

Justin Alejandro (Sacramento State)
Simulating Hot Jupiter Systems Under Tidal Gravity
Advisor: Matthias Raives

Aarna Garg (UCSC)
Understanding the Star Formation Rate Discrepancy: A Study of Hidden Active Galactic Nuclei
Advisor: Allison Matthews & Peter Senchyna

Leia Shen (Harvey Mudd College)
Lithium as a Signpost for Compact Object Binary Candidates
Advisor: Josh Simon

Damien Tessmer (San Diego State University)
Origin of the Elements Revealed by Equilibrium Chemical Evolution
Advisor: James Johnson

Ryan Tsiao (UCR)
Spectroscopic Confirmation and Gas-phase Metallicity Analysis of a Protocluster at z~2.46
Advisor: Nima Chartab

Alexis Vazquez (San Francisco State University)
Distribution of Supermassive Black Hole Accretion Rates: A Semi-Analytic Modeling Approach Using Galacticus
Advisor: Sachi Weerasooriya

Joahan Castañeda Jaimes (Caltech)
Hidden Star Formation and AGN in ESO 148-IG002
Advisor: Jeff Rich

Nhi Doan (Pomona College)
Wavefront Metrology of Volume-Phase Holographic Grating Prototypes for MIRMOS
Advisor: Julia Brady

Alex Escamilla (San Diego State University)
Measuring Star Formation Efficiency in STARFORGE
Advisor: Mike Grudić

River Schmidt-Eder (Carleton College)
The Role of Compact Galaxies in Reionization
Advisor: Tony Pahl

Steven Romero-Ruiz (Caltech)
Characterizing Pulsar Distances with HI Kinematics
Advisor: Stella Ocker

Isabelle Winnick (Pomona College)
Exploring Life Beyond the Habitable Zone: Thorium in Solar Twins
Advisor:  Jhon Yana Galarza