Graduate Students R-Z
Megan Reiter
B.A., 2007, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Stellar Astronomy, Instrumentation
Megan is working with Yancy Shirley, looking at regions of high mass star formation in three molecular transitions in order to understand the chemical and kinematical structure of the cores.
Timothy Rodigas
B.A., 2008, University of Virginia
Areas of Interest: Extrasolar Planets, Planet Formation, Radial Velocity Planet Demographics
Timothy works on direct imaging of exoplanets and also does some Monte Carlo simulations for radial velocity planet statistics.
Wiphu Rujopakarn
B.S. 2006, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
http://inthanon.as.arizona.edu
Wiphu studies galaxy evolution in the mid-infrared with Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS), the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES), and the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS).
Wayne SchlingmanB.S., 2004, University of New Mexico
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation
http://chaco.as.arizona.edu/~schlingman/
Wayne studies star-forming regions in our galaxy using submm wavelengths in order to understand their properties and how those properties may change based on their location within the Milky Way galaxy. He also studies how students taking general education introductory level astronomy courses understand fundamental topics as a function of the teaching and learning environment of their classroom.
Andrew Shevchuk
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Suresh Sivanandam
M.S., 2007, University of Arizona
B.S., 2004, University of British Columbia
Website: http://coriolanus.as.arizona.edu/~suresh/
Areas of Interest: Galaxy Transformation, Galaxy Cluster Evolution, Exoplanets, X-ray Astronomy, Instrumentation
Suresh is currently working on his thesis with Marcia Rieke. He is studying the effects of ram-pressure stripping in infalling cluster galaxies through Spitzer IRS observations of molecular hydrogen transitions. He is also working on a tunable-filter near-IR imager (LAIRS), which will be used for follow-up observations.
Andrew Skemer
B.A., 2006, Swarthmore College
Areas of Interest: Star and Planet Formation, Adaptive Optics, Astrostatistics
Andy does adaptive optics in the mid-infrared using the MMT's uniquely suited adaptive secondary and the MIRAC4 camera.
Nathan Stock
B.S., 2006, Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of Interest: Extrasolar planets, planetary systems, astrobiology
Nathan searches for warm debris disks - analogous to the asteroid belt in our solar system - around nearby stars, in order to be better understand planetary systems outside our own solar system.
Ming Sun
B.S.,
Areas of Interest: Laboratory Astrophysics
Brandon Swift
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Emily Tenenbaum
B.A., 2004, Pomona College
Areas of Interest: Laboratory Astrophysics, Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation
Emily is interested in circumstellar and interstellar chemistry.
Johanna Teske
B.S., 2008, American University (Physics)
Areas of Interest: Stellar Astronomy, Planetary Astronomy, Astrobiology
Johanna's research focuses on the relationship between forming/young stars and their growing/present planetary systems. She is defining spectral indices from high-resolution Spitzer spectra of T Tauri stars that can be used to determine relative abundances of organic molecules in low-resolution spectra of the same objects. She also part of other projects, including spectroastrometry with AIRES at the MMT and radio observations of molecules in T Tauri stars.
Jonathan Trump
B.S., 2004, Penn State University
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy
Jonathan observes active galactic nuclei (AGN), seeking to understand modes of AGN accretion and obscuration, feedback on and by AGN hosts, and bolometric measures of AGN emission.
Krystal Tyler
M.S., 2007, The University of Arizona
B.S., 2005, Purdue University
Areas of Interest:Extragalactic Astronomy, Galaxy Evolution
http://yorktown.as.arizona.edu/~ktyler
Krystal is currently studying galactic evolution in galaxy groups with a specific focus on star-forming galaxies in the infrared.
Gregory Walth
B.S., 2008, University of California, Los Angeles
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Kenneth Wong
B.S., 2007, University of California, Davis (Physics)
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
Kenneth's main project is the Prism Multi-Object Survey (PRIMUS), a redshift survey out to z ~ 1 in fields with existing IR and UV photometry. It is the largest intermediate-redshift survey to date, and will be useful in determining properties of galaxy evolution such as star formation rate, stellar mass, AGN activity, clustering, etc. as a function of z.
Lei Xu
B.S., 2006, Nanjing University
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Xiaoying Xu
B.S., 2007, University of Toronto
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