Students | Vikram Dwarkadas

GRADUATE

Vivienne Wheaton – University of Sydney:

Involved in co-supervision of Master’s thesis titled: Hydrodynamical models and an investigation into radio emission from SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Anibal Medina – University of Chicago

Univ of Chicago Graduate Student. Co-supervised graduate project on Globular Clusters with advisor Jim Truran

: Vishwangi Shah, BITS, Pilani, Class of 2021. 5th Year integrated MSc (External Student doing unofficial internship). MsC: McGill University.

: Yerong Xu, PSD Masters Student, 2019-2020. PhD: Palermo

: Vandana Ramakrishnan PSD Master’s Student 2018-2019. PhD: Purdue

Graduate Student Publications:

Anibal Medina: On the Formation of Globular Clusters

Anibal Medina: r-process elements in globular clusters

Vandana Ramakrishnan: From Supernova to Remnant: Tracking the Evolution of the Oldest Known X-ray Supernovae

Vandana Ramakrishnan: X-Ray Luminosity of Decades-old Supernovae

Yerong Xu: Seven Years of SN 2014C: A Multiwavelength Synthesis of an Extraordinary Supernova

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

: Jared Siegel Presenting at UCI Stem 2019

: Jessica Metzger Presenting at UCI Stem 2019

: Shamaul Dilmohamed presenting at UCI Stem 2019

At University of Chicago, I have had at least one undergraduate student working with me every year for the last 12 years. I think its important to encourage undergraduate students to join and learn Astronomy.

Undergraduate Student Publications:

Julieta Gruszko: What are published X-ray light curves telling us about young supernova expansion?

Ratuja Reddy: X-ray and radio emission from the luminous supernova 2005kd

Danika Holmes: Investigating the X-ray Emission from some of the Oldest Known X-ray Supernovae

Mathias Ross: SNaX: A Database of Supernova X-Ray Light Curves

Chris Bochenek: X-ray emission from SN 2012ca: A Type Ia-CSM supernova explosion in a dense surrounding medium

Peter Boyajian: Triggered Star Formation inside the Shell of a Wolf-Rayet Bubble as the Origin of the Solar System

Aldo Panfichi: Smoothed Particle Inference Analysis of SNR DEM L71

Wilson Ricks: Excavating the Explosion and Progenitor Properties of Type IIP Supernovae via Modeling of their Optical Light Curves

Jared Siegel: Smoothed particle inference analysis and abundance calculations of DEM L71, and comparison to SN explosion models

Shamaul Dilmohamed: Searching for the Signatures of Presolar Grains in Massive Stars

Jared Siegel: SPI Analysis and Abundance Calculations of W49B [Chambliss Prize Winner]