A Brief History of Research Projects

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Dark Matter Haloes

Code: chplUltra (Chapel)

Testing ultralight dark matter by comparing simulation results with observational data.

Egyptian Constellations

Code: decanO.py (astropy)

Mapping Ancient Egyptian constellations to explore stellar timekeeping practices.

Primordial Black Holes

Code: Mathematica

Calculated gravitational wave signatures of primorial black hole mergers in the early universe.

Galaxy Bias

Code: C/C++

Made mock data to test bispectrum and power spectrum analysis code being developed for DESI.

Inflation & Dark Matter

Code: Wim.Py (Python)

Calculated WIMPzilla dark matter production through inflaton-field coupling for sigmoid inflation models.

Quasars

Code: Pascal, IRAF, Image J

Observed quasar 3C 454.3 during its historic flare in summer 2014 at Foggy Bottom Observatory.