Current Students
2012-2013
Seniors:
2012-2013
Lehman Garrison
Senior Thesis: “Galactic Warps”
Advisors: David Spergel, Naoki Yoshida (Univ. of Tokyo)
Allison Hume
Senior Thesis: “Optimizing High-Energy Astrophysical Simulations”
Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Daniel Minkin
Senior Thesis: “Spectroscopy of the Outer Parts of Galaxies”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Carolina Nunez
Senior Thesis: “Luminous Red Galaxies and Clusters at z~0.7”
Advisor: David Spergel
Prachi Parihar
Senior Thesis: "The Topology of Large Scale Structure"
Advisor: Richard Gott
Joel Zinn
Senior Thesis: "Searching for a Magnification Signal with SDSS Galaxies and WISE AGN"
Advisor: David Spergel
Juniors:
2012-2013
Frederick Addy
Fall JP: “A Behavioral Analysis of American Market Responses to the Greek Credit Crisis”
Advisor: Michael Kraus (Bendheim Center for Finance), Neta Bahcall
Spring JP: “The Refractive Properties of Venus's Atmosphere”
Advisor: Adam Burrows
Benjamin A. Cook
Fall JP: “Photometric analysis of asteroid 7 (Iris) and other minor planets with the HATNet survey”
Advisor: Gaspar Bakos
Spring JP: "Quantitative inspection of quasars and their spectroscopic properties using the SDSS Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Tomer Yavetz
Fall JP: “Modeling Submillimeter Galaxies”
Advisor: Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook Univ.), David Spergel
Spring JP: "The Importance of Earth's Oblateness for Low-Earth Satellite Orbits."
Advisor: Scott Tremaine (IAS)
Michael (Zhaoxi) Zhang
Fall JP: “Tidal Dissipation and Stellar Spin-up in Hot Jupiter Systems”
Advisor: Kaloyan Penev, Astro postdoc
Spring JP: “Current sheets and magnetic reconnection in MHD accretion disk simulations”
Advisor: James Stone