2022 Carnegie Summer Student Research Symposium

Friday, August 19th, 2022

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

Brigette Vazquez Segovia (University of California San Diego)
Detecting Dark Matter Subhalos Using Gaia-1 and Other Stellar Streams
Advisor: Ana Bonaca

Ellen Min (California Institute of Technology)
Developing the GALACTICUS Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Code
Advisors: Ethan Nadler & Andrew Benson

Eleanor Hort (Pamona College)
Characterizing Faint Radio Galaxies Through their Optical Spectra
Advisor: Allison Matthews

Sofia Covarrubias (California State University, Los Angeles)
An Updated Line List for Beryllium Abundances inSolar Twins
Advisor: Henrique Reggiani

Sylvia Wang (California Institute of Technology)
Constraining Models of M31's Last Significant Merger Using Its System of Tidal Shells
Advisor: Ivanna Escala & Ana Bonaca

Rafael Cottom (Santa Barbara City College)
Deriving the First Stellar Mass Distribution from the Light- Element Abundances of Metal-poor Stars
Advisor: Erika Holmbeck

Benjamin Snyder (Cal Poly Pomona)
What Happens to the Cool Gaseous Halos of Massive Galaxies in Dense Environments?
Advisor: Fakhri Zahedy

Alycia Lipscomb (California Institute of Technology)
Verifying Reliability of Epoxy Bonds For Lens Mounting
Advisor: Alicia Lanz

Bhavya Gupta (University of California, San Diego)
Analyzing Far-IR [O III] and [C II] Emission Using SOFIA in Highly-Ionized Local Galaxies
Advisor: Peter Senchyna

Desiree Harvell (California State University, San Bernardino)
Seeking Hidden Helium in Type Ic Supernovae
Advisor: Abigail Polin

Joseph McDonald (Stanford University)
Deciphering the Information Content of Spectral Energy Distributions
Advisor: Dan Kelson

Juan Quiroz (California Institute of Technology)
Modeling the Effects of Dark Matter Decays on Halos and Subhalos
Advisor: Andrew Benson & Ethan Nadler

Ema Vo (University of California, Riverside)
Detection of the Kaiser Effect in the Intergalactic Medium Surrounding Protoclusters
Advisor: Drew Newman

Donavon Evans (San Francisco State University)
Using LISA to Detect Binary Black Holes from Globular Clusters
Advisor: Kyle Kremer

Amelia Zhao (Pamona College)
The ISM properties of High Redshift OIII emitters in the TNG simulation
Advisor: Shenggi Yang

Tiffany Liou (University of California, San Diego)
Measuring Dark Matter with Stellar Streams
Advisor: Josh Simon

Anaelle Roc (Pomona College)
Hard Ionizing Radiation from Massive Stars Stripped in Binaries: Exploring the Creation of Elusive...
Advisor: Ylva Götberg