Graduate Student Members of the Theoretical Astrophysics Program

Bailin, Jeremy (Astronomy)
Galaxy formation and evolution, N-body methods

Baker, Joseph (Physics)
[Physics]

Baleisis, Audra (Astronomy)
Pop III stars, convection and nucleosynthesis

Brewster, Matthew (Astronomy)
Molecular astrophysics

Cooper, Curtis (Planetary Sciences)
Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs

D'Aubigny, Christian (Astronomy)
Observational cosmology, history of galaxy formation, Lyman-Alpha absorbers

Finn, Rose (Astronomy)
IR Instrumentation--wide field infrared camera, observational astronomy, quasars, Hubble type companions

Fortney, Jonathan (Planetary Sciences)
Extrasolar planets

Fromerth, Mike (Physics)
Modeling of the BLR's of the AGN's

Hinz, Joannah (Astronomy)
Tully-Fisher relation in nearby SO galaxies, design & construction of wide-field near-infrared camera

Hungerford, Aimee (Astronomy)
Supernova spectra

Jamkhedkar, Priya (Physics)
Astrophysics, cosmology, general theory of relativity

Kohnenkamp, Ive (Astronomy)
Cosmology, N-body simulations, structure formation

Mastrapa, Rachel (Planetary Sciences)
Kuiper Belt Objects

Murphy, Jeremiah (Astronomy)
Hydrodynamics and Astrophysics: -Core collapse supernovae; -asymmetry and pulsar kicks; -instabilities of explosions through the envelopes of massive stars

O'Brien, David (Planetary Sciences)
Celestial Mechanics, Asteroid Belt Evolution

Ott, Christian D. (Physics)

Pessah, Martin (Astronomy)
High energy astrophysics, magnetic diskoseismology, accretion disks, the Galactic Center, cosmology

Peng, Chien (Astronomy)
Gravitational lensing, supernovae, active galactic nuclei, instrumentation

Rockefeller, Gabriel (Physics)
The Galactic Center and AGNs

Sayanagi, Kunio (Physics)
Computational Astro/Geo-physical Fluid Dynamics -- Deep Convection on the Jovian Planets

Sudarsky, David (Astronomy)
Brown dwarfs, extrasolar giant planets

Thompson, Todd A. (Physics)
Supernovae, r-Process Nucleosynthesis, Protoneutron Star Cooling, Neutrino Astrophysics

Tiscareno, Matthew (Planetary Sciences)
Kuiper Belt Studies

Uscinski, Jessica (Physics)
[Interests]

Wells, Lisa (Astronomy)
Theoretical UVOIR light curves of supernovae, comparison with observations, optical and IR observations of supernovae

Young, Patrick (Astronomy)
Stellar evolution, Convection, Nucleosynthesis, and Hydrodynamics, Computational Astrophysics


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