From CASS
Current Graduate Students
For previous graduate students, please see our Graduate Students Archive.
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Gerasimov, Roman
- Department of Physics
- Email: rgerasim@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 319
- Primary focus: computer modelling of atmospheres and interiors for stars and substellar objects.
Additionally: Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis for the POLARBEAR experiment (advisor: Brian Keating), constraining fundamental physics (specifically, Standard Model Extension) with astronomical data (advisor: Andrew Friedman).
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Gonzales, Daniel
- Department of Physics
- Email: dpgonzal@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 464
- I am currently working on the APOLLO project in the Gravitational Astrophysics Lab, under the leadership of Dr. Tom Murphy. APOLLO stands for Apache Point Observatory, Lunar Laser-ranging Operation. This project measures the distance to the Moon to millimeter precision to provide experimental tests of the theory of General Relativity.
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Sabhlok, Sanchit
- Department of Physics
- Email: ssabhlok@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 464
- I am a second year graduate student pursuing a PhD in Physics. I work with Dr. Tom Murphy on the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO) Project. Currently I am working on improving Detector Timing Performance for the experiment.
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Spisak, Jacob "Jake"
- Department of Physics
- Email: jspisak@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 375
- I currently work in the Simons Observatory, which is developing an array of telescopes in Chile to look at the cosmic microwave background radiation. Among other goals, we are looking to detect signatures of cosmic inflation by measuring its impact on the polarization of the CMB.
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Tsan, Tran
- Department of Physics
- Email: ttsan@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 460
- My research currently focuses on testing and integrating the Small Aperture Telescope (SAT) for the Simons Observatory (SO). SO is a ground-based CMB experiment being built in Chile. SO will deploy three 42-cm aperture SATs and a 6-m large aperture telescope (LAT). The SATs will observe in six frequency bands from 29-270 GHz and map 10% of the sky to make detailed mapping of the CMB temperature and polarization.
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Wiley, James
- Department of Physics
- Email: jhwiley@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 319
- My research: Instrumentation and observational astrophysics. Currently working on developing simulations for LIGER, an adoptive optics-fed integral field spectrograph for the W.M. Keck Observatory.
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Zhang, Yimiao "Stella"
- Department of Physics
- Email: yiz020@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 318
- I work with Professor Dusan Keres as part of the FIRE collaboration. I am interested in studying the effect of Population III stars on dwarf galaxy evolution.
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