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