Student Publications

As part of our REU program, students participate in multiple writing workshops that culminate in students producing a short research note and a conference abstract.  Many students continue working on their projects after the summer and present their work at a conference (most often the American Astronomical Society, AAS, conference in the winter).  Some students also write refereed journal articles that build from the work they began over the summer.  Below is a list of publications with our past REU students as (co-)authors that feature the research from their summer REU in CIERA.  You can also find this list on our ADS Library page here.  (This list was updated in July 2024.)

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Sun, M., Levina, S., Gossage, S., Kalogera, V., Leiner, E. M., Geller, A. M., & Doctor, Z., “Wind Roche-lobe Overflow in Low-mass Binaries: Exploring the Origin of Rapidly Rotating Blue Lurkers”, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 969, 8.
  2. Zwicker, C., Geller, A. M., Childs, A. C., Motherway, E., & von Hippel, T., “Investigating Mass Segregation of the Binary Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6819”, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 967, 44.
  3. Purohit, R. A., Fragione, G., Rasio, F. A., Petter, G. C., & Hickox, R. C., “Binary Black Hole Mergers and Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters with Collisional Runaways”, 2024, The Astronomical Journal, 167, 191
  4. Motherway, E., Geller, A.M., Childs, A.C., Zwicker, C., and von Hippel, T., “Tracing the Origins of Mass Segregation in M35: Evidence for Primordially Segregated Binaries”, 2024, ApJL, 962, L9
  5. Childs, A.C., Geller, A.M., von Hippel, T., Motherway, E., and Zwicker, C., “Goodbye to Chi by Eye: A Bayesian Analysis of Photometric Binaries in Six Open Clusters”, 2024, ApJ, 962, 41
  6. Rouco Escorial, A., Fong, W.-f., Berger, E., Laskar, T., Margutti, R., Schroeder, G., Rastinejad, J. C., Cornish, D., Popp, S., Lally, M., Nugent, A. E., Paterson, K., Metzger, B. D., Chornock, R., Alexander, K., Cendes, Y., Eftekhari, T., “The Jet Opening Angle and Event Rate Distributions of Short Gamma-ray Bursts from Late-time X-ray Afterglows”, 2023, ApJ, 959, 13
  7. Siegel, J. C., Kiato, I., Kalogera, V., Berry, C. P. L., Maccarone, T. J., Breivik, K., Andrews, J. J., Bavera, S. S., Dotter, A., Fragos, T., Kovlakas, K., Misra, D., Rocha, K. A., Srivastava, P. M., Sun, M., Xing, Z., Zapartas, E., “Investigating the Lower Mass Gap with Low Mass X-ray Binary Population Synthesis”, 2023, ApJ, 954, 212
  8. Kaufman, E., Christie, I. M., Lalakos, A., Tchekhovskoy, A., & Giannios, D., “Striped Jets in Post-Neutron Star Merger Systems”, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 40
  9. Peltonen, J., Rosolowsky, E., Johnson, L. C., Seth, A. C., Dalcanton, J., Bell, E. F., Braine, J., Koch, E. W., Lazzarini, M., Leroy, A. K., Skillman, E. D., Smercina, A., Wainer, T., & Williams, B. F., “Clusters, clouds, and correlations: relating young clusters to giant molecular clouds in M33 and M31”, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522, 6137
  10. Vazquez, J., Kilpatrick, C. D., Dimitriadis, G., Foley, R. J., Piro, A. L., Rest, A., & Rojas-Bravo, C., “The Type II-P Supernova 2019mhm and Constraints on its Progenitor System”, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal, 949, 75
  11. Dimitriadis, G., Maguire, K., Karambelkar, V. R., Lebron, R. J., Liu, C., Kozyreva, A., Miller, A. A., Ridden-Harper, R., Anderson, J. P., Chen, T.-W., Coughlin, M., Della Valle, M., Drake, A., Galbany, L., Gromadzki, M., Groom, S. L., Gutiérrez, C. P., Ihanec, N., Inserra, C., Johansson, J., Müller-Bravo, T. E., Nicholl, M., Polin, A., Rusholme, B., Schulze, S., Sollerman, J., Srivastav, S., Taggart, K., Wang, Q., Yang, Y., & Young, D. R., “SN 2021zny: an early flux excess combined with late-time oxygen emission suggests a double white dwarf merger event”, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 1162
  12. de Gouvêa, A., McGinness, E., Martinez-Soler, I., & Perez-Gonzalez, Y. F., “p p solar neutrinos at DARWIN”, 2022, Physical Review D, 106, 096017
  13. Sita, M., & van der Lee, S., “Potential Volcano-Tectonic Origins and Faulting Mechanisms of Three Low-Frequency Marsquakes Detected by a Single InSight Seismometer”, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), 127, e2022JE007309.
  14. Johnson, L. C., Wainer, T. M., Torresvillanueva, E. E., Seth, A. C., Williams, B. F., Durbin, M. J., Dalcanton, J. J., Weisz, D. R., Bell, E. F., Guhathakurta, P., Skillman, E., Smercina, A., & Phatter Collaboration, “The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER). IV. Star Cluster Catalog”, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 938, 81.
  15. Tillman, M. T., Wellons, S., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Kelley, L. Z., & Anglés-Alcázar, D., “Running late: testing delayed supermassive black hole growth models against the quasar luminosity function”, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511, 5756.
  16. Wainer, T. M., Johnson, L. C., Seth, A. C., TorresVillanueva, E. E., Dalcanton, J. J., Durbin, M. J., Dolphin, A., Weisz, D. R., Williams, B. F., & Phatter Collaboration, “The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER). III. The Mass Function of Young Stellar Clusters in M33”, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 928, 15.
  17. Rastinejad, J. C., Paterson, K., Fong, W., Sand, D. J., Lundquist, M. J., Hosseinzadeh, G., Christensen, E., Daly, P. N., Gibbs, A. R., Hall, S., Shelly, F., & Yang, S., “A Systematic Exploration of Kilonova Candidates from Neutron Star Mergers during the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run”, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 927, 50
  18. Geller, A. M., Polzin, A., Bowen, A., & Miller, A. A., “Simulating the Eclipsing Binary Yields of the Rubin Observatory in the Galactic Field and Star Clusters”, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal, 919, 2
  19. Mortensen, K., Keerthi Vasan, G. C., Jones, T., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Sanders, R. L., Ellis, R. S., Leethochawalit, N., & Stark, D. P., “Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium of a z = 0.77 Galaxy from Mg II Tomography”, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal, 914, 92.
  20. Flores Velázquez, J. A., Gurvich, A. B., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Bullock, J. S., Starkenburg, T. K., Moreno, J., Lazar, A., Mercado, F. J., Stern, J., Sparre, M., Hayward, C. C., Wetzel, A., & El-Badry, K., “The time-scales probed by star formation rate indicators for realistic, bursty star formation histories from the FIRE simulations”, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501, 4812.
  21. González, E., Kremer, K., Chatterjee, S., Fragione, G., Rodriguez, C. L., Weatherford, N. C., Ye, C. S., & Rasio, F. A., “Intermediate-mass Black Holes from High Massive-star Binary Fractions in Young Star Clusters”, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal, 908, L29.
  22. Siegel, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Frank, K. A., & Burrows, D. N., “Analysis of XMM-Newton Observations of Supernova Remnant W49B and Clues to the Progenitor”, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 904, 175.
  23. Nugent, A. E., Fong, W., Dong, Y., Palmese, A., Leja, J., Escorial, A. R., Blanchard, P. K., Paterson, K., Chornock, R., Monson, A., Nicholl, M., & Berger, E., “The Distant, Galaxy Cluster Environment of the Short GRB 161104A at z ∼ 0.8 and a Comparison to the Short GRB Host Population”, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 904, 52.
  24. Kremer, K., Spera, M., Becker, D., Chatterjee, S., Di Carlo, U. N., Fragione, G., Rodriguez, C. L., Ye, C. S., & Rasio, F. A., “Populating the Upper Black Hole Mass Gap through Stellar Collisions in Young Star Clusters”, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 903, 45.
  25. Pankow, C., Rizzo, M., Rao, K., Berry, C. P. L., & Kalogera, V., “Localization of Compact Binary Sources with Second-generation Gravitational-wave Interferometer Networks”, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 902, 71.
  26. Paterson, K., Fong, W., Nugent, A., Escorial, A. R., Leja, J., Laskar, T., Chornock, R., Miller, A. A., Scharwächter, J., Cenko, S. B., Perley, D., Tanvir, N. R., Levan, A., Cucchiara, A., Cobb, B. E., De, K., Berger, E., Terreran, G., Alexander, K. D., Nicholl, M., Blanchard, P. K., & Cornish, D., “Discovery of the Optical Afterglow and Host Galaxy of Short GRB 181123B at z = 1.754: Implications for Delay Time Distributions”, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 898, L32.
  27. Jacobson-Galán, W. V., Margutti, R., Kilpatrick, C. D., Hiramatsu, D., Perets, H., Khatami, D., Foley, R. J., Raymond, J., Yoon, S.-C., Bobrick, A., Zenati, Y., Galbany, L., Andrews, J., Brown, P. J., Cartier, R., Coppejans, D. L., Dimitriadis, G., Dobson, M., Hajela, A., Howell, D. A., Kuncarayakti, H., Milisavljevic, D., Rahman, M., Rojas-Bravo, C., Sand, D. J., Shepherd, J., Smartt, S. J., Stacey, H., Stroh, M., Swift, J. J., Terreran, G., Vinko, J., Wang, X., Anderson, J. P., Baron, E. A., Berger, E., Blanchard, P. K., Burke, J., Coulter, D. A., DeMarchi, L., DerKacy, J. M., Fremling, C., Gomez, S., Gromadzki, M., Hosseinzadeh, G., Kasen, D., Kriskovics, L., McCully, C., Müller-Bravo, T. E., Nicholl, M., Ordasi, A., Pellegrino, C., Piro, A. L., Pál, A., Ren, J., Rest, A., Rich, R. M., Sai, H., Sárneczky, K., Shen, K. J., Short, P., Siebert, M. R., Stauffer, C., Szakáts, R., Zhang, X., Zhang, J., & Zhang, K., “SN 2019ehk: A Double-peaked Ca-rich Transient with Luminous X-Ray Emission and Shock-ionized Spectral Features”, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 898, 166.
  28. Coppejans, D. L., Margutti, R., Terreran, G., Nayana, A. J., Coughlin, E. R., Laskar, T., Alexander, K. D., Bietenholz, M., Caprioli, D., Chandra, P., Drout, M. R., Frederiks, D., Frohmaier, C., Hurley, K. H., Kochanek, C. S., MacLeod, M., Meisner, A., Nugent, P. E., Ridnaia, A., Sand, D. J., Svinkin, D., Ward, C., Yang, S., Baldeschi, A., Chilingarian, I. V., Dong, Y., Esquivia, C., Fong, W., Guidorzi, C., Lundqvist, P., Milisavljevic, D., Paterson, K., Reichart, D. E., Shappee, B., Stroh, M. C., Valenti, S., Zauderer, B. A., & Zhang, B., “A Mildly Relativistic Outflow from the Energetic, Fast-rising Blue Optical Transient CSS161010 in a Dwarf Galaxy”, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 895, L23.
  29. Siegel, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Frank, K., Burrows, D. N., & Panfichi, A., “Smoothed particle inference analysis and abundance calculations of DEM L71, and comparison to SN explosion models”, 2020, Astronomische Nachrichten, 341, 163.
  30. Katz, M. L., Kelley, L. Z., Dosopoulou, F., Berry, S., Blecha, L., & Larson, S. L., “Probing massive black hole binary populations with LISA”, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491, 2301.
  31. Kremer, K., Lu, W., Rodriguez, C. L., Lachat, M., & Rasio, F. A., “Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Black Hole Remnants in Dense Star Clusters”, 2019, The Astrophysical Journal, 881, 75.
  32. Breivik, K., Kremer, K., Bueno, M., Larson, S. L., Coughlin, S., & Kalogera, V., “Characterizing Accreting Double White Dwarf Binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Gaia”, 2018, The Astrophysical Journal, 854, L1.

Research Notes and other Non-Refereed Papers

  1. Harp, R. D., Blanco, D. T., Sharma, A., Wuebbles, D. J., Horton, D. E. “Recent changes in Great Lake hydrologic variability: an artifact of chance or a robust change?” 2023, ESS Open Archive
  2. Alfonso-Pita, E., Baker, M., Behnke, E., Brandon, A., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Clark, K., Coppejans, R., Corbett, J., Cripe, C., Crisler, M., Dahl, C. E., Dering, K., de St. Croix, A., Durnford, D., Foy, K., Giampa, P., Gresl, J., Hall, J., Harris, O., Hawley-Herrera, H., Jackson, C. M., Khatri, M., Ko, Y., Lamb, N., Laurin, M., Levine, I., Lippincott, W. H., Liu, X., Neilson, R., Pal, S., Phelan, J., Piro, M.-C., Priya, S., Ray, S., Rich, E., Sheng, Z., Sloss, A., Struyk, X., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Velasco, D., Westerdale, S., Whitis, T. J., Zha, W., & Zhang, R., “Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CE$\nu$NS Detection”, 2022, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2207.12400
  3. Klare, C., & de Gouvêa, A., “Investigating the Effect of Neutrino Decay on Flavor Oscillations”, 2020, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 4, 154.
  4. Siegel, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Frank, K. A., & Burrows, D. N., “Elemental Abundances in Supernova Remnant W49B as Clues to Its Progenitor”, 2020, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 4, 126.
  5. Haight, S. E., Pankow, C., & Kalogera, V., “Merger Rates for High-mass X-Ray Binary Systems”, 2019, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 3, 2.
  6. Terreran, G., Cartier, R., Alexander, K. D., Hajela, A., Coppejans, D., Margutti, R., Milisavljevic, D., Nicholl, M., Zauderer, A., De Marchi, L., & Stauffer, C., “Spectroscopic classification of SN2019rn as a Type II supernova with Keck-II”, 2019, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 12388, 1.

Conference Presentations

  1. Marengo, A., Geller, A., & Childs, A., “Blue Stragglers and Blue Lurkers in Open Cluster N-Body Models”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 458.19
  2. Madasi, A., Geller, A., & Childs, A., “Searching for Tidal Tails in the Open Cluster M35”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 458.18
  3. Watson, J., Geller, A., Childs, A., Von Hippel, T., & Jeffery, E., “Ages of Normal and Blue Lurker Stars in the Open Cluster M67”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 458.05
  4. Childs, A., Geller, A., von Hippel, T., Motherway, E., & Zwicker, C., “Goodbye to Chi-by-Eye: A Bayesian Analysis of Photometric Binaries in Six Open Clusters”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 422.01
  5. Schimp, J., & Bayliss, A., “Nonlinear Crowding Effects in Cyclically Competing Ecological Communities”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 401.03
  6. Cogan, E., & Mulyukova, E., “Maintaining Stable, Habitable Climates in Different Tectonic Regimes”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 363.09
  7. Bell, M., & Kilpatrick, C., “Type II Supernovae and Their Binary Companion Stars”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 260.12
  8. Kousiounelos, D., Gossage, S., & Kalogera, V., “On The Visualization of Binary Stellar Evolution for POSYDON”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 205.10
  9. Gade, V., Baibhav, V., & Kalogera, V., “Simulating Large Populations of Rare Binaries with POSYDON”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 177.09
  10. Guerrero, J., Wang, J., & Exogravity Team, “Orbital Evidence for the Formation of GQ Lup B through Cloud Fragmentation”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 112.01
  11. Banaszak, S., Witt, C., & Miller, A., “Quasars with Periodic Variability: Bayesian Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries”, 2024, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 243, 104.08
  12. Kullgren, D., Fragione, G., Weatherford, N., Gonzalez Prieto, E., and Rasio, F., “Constraining the Stellar Initial Mass Function with Gravitational Wave Data”, 2023,  American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting, 55, 116.07
  13. Sun, M., Gossage, S., Levina, S., Kalogera, V., and Doctor, Z., “Fast Rotating Low-mass Stars from Post Mass-transfer and Post Wind Mass-transfer Binary Systems”, 2023, American Physical Society April Meeting, 2023, F14.007
  14. Patel, D., Zhou, Z., and Shahriar, S., “Constraining Properties of Subliminal Lasers for Use in Dark Matter Detection”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 403.11
  15. Zwicker, C., Geller, A.M., Childs, A., and Motherway, E., “Applying Bayesian statistics to identify binaries within the open cluster NGC 6819”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 401.14
  16. Motherway, E., Geller, A.M., Childs, A., and Zwicker, C., “Using Bayesian Statistics Software (BASE-9) to Analyze Binary Stars in Open Clusters M67 and M35”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 401.13
  17. Levina, S., Sun, M., Kalogera, V., and Doctor, Z., “Applying Wind Roche-Lobe Overflow in Binary Evolution using MESA and POSYDON”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 401.06
  18. Chambers, D. and Bayliss, A., “New Solutions in Three Species Cyclic Competition Models”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 363.04
  19. Purcell, H. and De Gouvêa, A., “Simulating The Neutrino Day Night Effect With a 4th Sterile Neutrino”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 358.05
  20. Childs, A., Geller, A., Motherway, E., and Zwicker, C., “Constraining Binary Demographics in Open Clusters to Test Binary Formation and Evolution Theory”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 321.01
  21. Mann, A. and Miller, A., “Improved Model Of Optical Elements Involved In ZTF Transmissions”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 205.11
  22. Peskovic, E. and Kilpatrick, C., “Measuring the Binary Fraction of Type II-P/II-L Supernova Progenitor Systems”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 107.33
  23. Miller, E. and Mulyukova, E., “Necessary Conditions for Venus to be Habitable”, 2023, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 55, 104.19
  24. Lecoanet, D., Bowman, D., Van Reeth, T., and Freeman, I., “Internal Gravity Waves – Magnetic Field Interactions”, 2022, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2022, NG13A-08
  25. Agaba, V., Sita, M., and van der Lee, S., “Tolerance Estimation from Amplitude Observational Uncertainties for Faulting Parameters“, 2022, AGUFM.S12, 2022, S12B-07
  26. Barker, D. & Dahl, E., “MCNP Computer Simulations Help Calibrate the Scintillating Bubble Chamber”, 2022, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 54,  347.03
  27. Blanco, D., Harp, R. & Horton, D., “Observing Changes in the Great Lakes Water Level Variability”, 2021, AGU Meeting, H55S-0947
  28. Gonzalez, E., Spera, M., Kremer, K., Fragione, G., Ye, C., & Rasio, F., “Massive Black Hole Growth Through Binary Dynamics in Star Clusters”, 2021, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 53, 539.01.
  29. Wainer, T., Johnson, L., Seth, A., & TorresVillanueva, E., “Star Cluster Mass Function Fitting using Probabilistic Modeling”, 2021, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 53, 150.07.
  30. Mackey, S. C., Zhou, Z., & Shahriar, S. M., “A Smaller and More Sensitive Gravitational Wave Detector”, 2021, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 53, 146.02.
  31. Sita, M., “Using Data from InSight to Locate and Explain Marsquakes”, 2021, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 53, 142.04.
  32. Siegel, J., Dwarkadas, V., Frank, K., & Burrows, D., “SPI Analysis and Abundance Calculations of W49B”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #236, 236, 134.03.
  33. Kaufman, E. E., Christie, I. M., Lalakos, A., & Tchekhovskoy, A., “Investigating Power Spectral Densities of Black Hole Properties”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 369.13.
  34. Becker, D., Spera, M., Kremer, K., & Rasio, F., “Populating the Black Hole Mass-Gap with Stellar Collisions in Dense Star Clusters”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 369.10.
  35. Tillman, M., Wellons, S., Faucher-Giguère, C., Kelley, L., & Anglés-Alcázar, D., “Running Late: The observable implications of delayed supermassive black hole growth.”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 344.06.
  36. Wainer, T., Johnson, L., Torres-Villanueva, E., & Seth, A., “Search for Local Group Clusters: M33 Survey Data”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 306.02.
  37. Velasco, D., “Characterization of Silicon Photomultipliers for use in Scintillating Bubble Chambers (SBCs)”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 289.07.
  38. Collins, M. D., “The YORP Effect Can Efficiently Destroy 100 Kilometer Planetesimals At The Inner Edge Of The Solar System”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 277.01.
  39. Taylor, S., Kelley, L., & Faucher-Giguere, C., “A Monte Carlo Approach to Modeling Dynamical Friction in Realistic Galactic Environments”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 208.01.
  40. Prusinski, N. Z., Erb, D. K., & Martin, C. L., “Galactic Outflows and the Morphology of Star Formation at 1 < z < 1.5”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 207.32.
  41. Cashion, M., Kremer, K., Spera, M., & Rasio, F., “The Evolution of Planetary Systems in Dense Star Clusters”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 204.13.
  42. Santos, A., & de Gouvêa, A., “Exploring a New Model for Neutrino Propagation Using Current and Future Experiments”, 2020, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235, 235, 107.17.
  43. Berry, S. J., Katz, M. L., Kelley, L. Z., Dosopoulou, F., & Larson, S. L., “LISA OBSERVATIONS OF INSPIRALING MASSIVE BINARY BLACK HOLES”, 2019, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233, 233, 369.05.
  44. Haight, S., Pankow, C., & Kalogera, V., “High Mass X-ray Binary System Merger Rates”, 2019, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233, 233, 348.17.
  45. Shiferaw, M., Gurvich, A., Geller, A., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., & Richings, A., “Visualizing HII Regions in FIRE Galaxy Simulations”, 2019, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233, 233, 253.05.
  46. Esquivia, C. M., & Fong, W.-. fai ., “On to Off: Predictions for the Radio Afterglows of Neutron Star Mergers”, 2019, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233, 233, 248.05.
  47. Tillman, M., Wellons, S., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., & Anglés-Alcázar, D., “Testing Models of Supermassive Black Hole Evolution with the Quasar Luminosity Function”, 2019, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233, 233, 242.25.
  48. Humphrey, S., & Coughlin, S., “Gravitational Waves from Core Collapse Supernovae”, 2019, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233, 233, 151.01.
  49. Obrzut, N., Casar, C., & Osburn, M. R., “Cultivation Of Deep Subsurface Microbial Communities”, 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231, 401.01.
  50. Hermanek, K., Chatterjee, S., & Rasio, F., “Using Blue Stragglers to Predict Retained Black Hole Population in Globular Clusters”, 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231, 344.15.
  51. Gangolli, N., de Gouvêa, A., & Kelly, K., “Finding Mass Constraints Through Third Neutrino Mass Eigenstate Decay”, 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231, 255.03.
  52. Stauffer, C., Margutti, R., & Coppejans, D., “Deep Limits on the X-ray and Radio Emission From the Nearby Type Iax SN2014dt”, 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231, 245.13.
  53. Rizzo, M., Pankow, C., Kalogera, V., Coughlin, S., Chase, E., & Imperato, S., “Equation of State Effects on Binary Neutron Star and Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger Ejecta”, 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231, 243.06.
  54. Ruda, J., & Abrams, D., “Synchronization behind the formation of Orbital Systems”, 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231, 144.10.
  55. Flores, J. A., Gurvich, A., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Sparre, M., Hayward, C., & Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) Collaboration, “Star Formation Rate Indicators in the FIRE Galaxy Formation Simulations”, 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231, 136.04.
  56. Becker, V. R., Dirks, C., Meyer, D. M., & Cartledge, S. I. B., “HST STIS Observations of Interstellar Chlorine”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 340.27.
  57. Arroyo, J., Dahl, E., & PICO, “Simulating Xenon Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter Detection”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 248.03.
  58. Fuhrman, J., Geller, A. M., Rodriguez, C. L., & Rasio, F. A., “Exploring Sources of Gravitational Waves From Star Cluster Dynamics”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 247.06.
  59. Rivera, N. I., & Schmitt, M. H., “Exoplanet Transit Analysis of KIC 8462852”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 245.16.
  60. MacIntosh, L., Cunningham, E., & Ulmer, M. P., “An Automated Census Of Variable X-Ray Objects in the Direction of Clusters of Galaxies”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 237.04.
  61. Yun, Y., Zevin, M., Sampson, L., & Kalogera, V., “A Fast Method to Predict Distributions of Binary Black Hole Masses Based on Gaussian Process Regression”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 154.24.
  62. Lowell, B., & de Gouvêa, A., “Understanding the Earth’s Composition through Neutrino Oscillations”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 147.01.
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  64. Teklu, A., “How Mathematics Describes Life”, 2017, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 138.05.
  65. Thorsen, T., Zhou, J., & Wu, Y., “Comparison of Stellar Classification Accuracies Using Automated Algorithms”, 2016, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227, 227, 348.18.
  66. Markwardt, L., & Meyer, D. M., “A Search for AU-Scale C I Structure in the Diffuse ISM”, 2016, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227, 227, 347.01.
  67. Chu, C., Lithwick, Y., & Antonini, F., “Inferring the Gravitational Potential of the Milky Way”, 2016, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227, 227, 341.20.
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  71. Leonard, K., & de Gouvêa, A., “Effects of Neutrino Decay on Oscillation Probabilities”, 2016, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227, 227, 139.04.
  72. Sanders, T., Chatterjee, S., Rasio, F. A., & Valsecchi, F., “Are there exoplanets near their Roche limits?”, 2016, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227, 227, 138.20.

CIERA news articles

  1. Two REU students win American Astronomical Society Chambliss Awards (Posted February 7, 2024)
  2. CIERA REU students present at 243rd meeting of the AAS (Posted January 25, 2024)
  3. 21 undergraduates conduct summer research with REU and ISG (Posted September 22, 2023)
  4. REU Student Claire Zwicker Wins Chambliss Honorable Mention for Research Poster at AAS (Posted March 28, 2023)
  5. CIERA REU Students Present at 241st Meeting of the AAS (Posted January 23, 2023)
  6. REU Site Directors Meeting Led by CIERA’s Aaron Geller (Posted December 8, 2022)
  7. REU Welcomed 14 Students to Campus for a Successful 2022 Summer (Posted September 12, 2022)
  8. Another Successful CIERA REU Program in the Books! (Posted October 20, 2021)
  9. CIERA’s REU Program Goes Virtual! (Posted August 31, 2020)
  10. CIERA REU Students Present at 235th Meeting of the AAS (Posted January 10, 2020)
  11. CIERA REU Students Present at 233rd Meeting of the AAS (Posted January 31, 2019)
  12. CIERA REU Panel Discussion Explores Careers in Astrophysics (Posted August 6, 2018)
  13. Announcing CIERA’s 2018 Summer Undergraduate Researchers (Posted June 1, 2018)
  14. CIERA REU Students Present at 231st Meeting of the AAS (Posted January 31, 2018)
  15. CIERA REU Student José Flores Wins Best Poster Presentation at 2017 SACNAS Conference (Posted October 21, 2017)
  16. 2017 REU Students Present Their Research at Annual Poster Session (Posted August 18, 2017)
  17. CIERA REU Students Discover Careers in Astronomy (Posted July 31, 2017)
  18. CIERA’s 2017 Summer Student Researchers (Posted July 30, 2017)
  19. CIERA REU Students Present at 229th Meeting of the AAS (Posted January 28, 2017)
  20. CIERA REU Students Present at PhysCon (Posted November 27, 2016)
  21. CIERA REU Student Beverly Lowell Presents Research at Symposium (Posted October 31, 2016)
  22. REU Poster Session Celebrates Hard Work with Sweet Rewards (Posted August 30, 2016)
  23. CIERA’s 2016 Summer Student Researchers (Posted August 28, 2016)
  24. Experts Share with CIERA REU Students at Career Panel Discussion (Posted July 13, 2016)
  25. CIERA’s 2015 Summer Student Researchers (Posted August 31, 2015)

Awards and other accolades won by our past CIERA REU students:

  • 2024: Larissa Markwardt – Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant
  • 2024: Melissa Cashion – Outstanding graduate student (Purdue)
  • 2024: Melissa Cashion – Wolfram technologies staff pick for “Europa’s double ridged produced by ice wedging”
  • 2024: Dan Blanco – NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2024: Saarah Hall – Illinois Space Grant Graduate Fellow
  • 2024: Claire Zwicker – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2024: Sebastian Banaszak – AAS Chambliss Award Winner
  • 2024: Vishnu Gade – AAS Chambliss Award Winner
  • 2023: Jason Parks – EMT Licensure, NREMT Licensure
  • 2023: Mercedes Collins – multiple Employee Achievement Awards from Lockheed Martin
  • 2023: Owen Eskandari – TA Rookie of the Year (UW-Madison Physics department)
  • 2023: Kwamena Awotwi – Columbia U. award for Principled Action
  • 2023: Kwamena Awotwi – Columbia U. GEM Fellowship
  • 2023: Kwamena Awotwi – Columbia U.  Multicultural Affairs Diversity Award
  • 2023: Elena Gonzalez – NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2023: Chloe Klare – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2023: Scott Mackey – Brinson Foundation ARCS Scholar
  • 2023: Estephani TorresVillanueva -NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2023: Dylan Chambers – Physics Outstanding Graduating Senior, Illinois State U.
  • 2023: Dylan Chambers – Skadron Award (1st Place), Illinois State U.
  • 2023: Dana Kullgren – Barry Goldwater Scholarship
  • 2023: Ayanna Mann – Barry Goldwater Scholarship
  • 2023: Claire Zwicker – AAS Chambliss Honorable Mention
  • 2022/24: Tobin Wainer – HSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2022/23: Dan Blanco – Rutgers U. School of Graduate Studies Dean’s Fellowship
  • 2022/23: Ava Polzin – Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention
  • 2022/23: Rachel Fry – NAU/NASA Space Grant for Undergraduate Research
  • 2022: Andrew Santos – Chapeau Monge Award
  • 2022: Larissa Markwardt – PI of JWST Cycle 1 GO Program, “The First Near-IR Spectroscopic Survey of Neptune Trojans”
  • 2022: Larissa Markwardt – Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship
  • 2022: Eryn Cangi – LASP Barth Graduate Fellowship
  • 2022: Samantha Berry – Fulbright Scholarship for Radboud University department of Science
  • 2022: Megan Tillman – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2022: Owen Eskandari – Dartmouth College Haldestine Chemistry-Physics Prize
  • 2022: Scott Mackey – UChicago Sachs Fellowship
  • 2022: Jared Siegel – NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2022: Tobin Wainer – U. of Utah Most Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
  • 2022: Saarah Hall – GEM Associate Fellow
  • 2022: Claire Zwicker – 1st place in poster presentation at Lewis College of Science Undergraduate Research Day
  • 2021/22: Chloe Klare – Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (Penn State)
  • 2021: Devin Becker – DePaul Physics Student of the Year, DePaul Mathematics Student of the Year
  • 2021: Estephani TorresVillanueva – Advanced Opportunity Fellowship (AOF)
  • 2021: Tobin Wainer – AAS Chambliss Honorable Mention
  • 2021: Tobin Wainer – U. of Utah Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • 2021: Saarah Hall – Hispanic Scholarship Fund
  • 2020: Melissa Cashion – Featured in article in Sky & Telescope
  • 2020: Andrew Bowen –  AAS Chambliss Award winner
  • 2020: Andrew Santos –  Fulbright Fellowship (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet in France)
  • 2020: Mahlet Shiferaw – Featured in the Harvard Gazette 
  • 2020: Tessa Thorsen – Patrick and Marguerite Sung Fellowship in Mathematics (UMD)
  • 2020: Kristopher Mortensen – UC Davis Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
  • 2020: Andrew Santos – Most Outstanding Purdue Physics Senior
  • 2020: Owen Eskandari – Presidential Scholar (Dartmouth College)
  • 2020: Erica Albrigo – 1st Place Poster Presentation at the 2020 Illinois Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ILSAMP) Symposium
  • 2020: Chloe Klare – Astronaut Foundation Scholarship
  • 2020: Jared Siegel – AAS Chambliss Award winner
  • 2019/20/21: Larissa Markwardt – Michigan Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship
  • 2019-21: Candice Stauffer – CIERA IDEAS Fellowship
  • 2019/20: Ava Polzin – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2019: Beverly Lowell – NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2019: Natalia Obrzut – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2019: Alexandra Detweiler –  AWIS Kirsten R. Lorentzen Award
  • 2019: Sinead Humphrey –  AAS Chambliss Honorable Mention
  • 2019: Eryn Cangi –  NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2019: Eryn Cangi – NASA FINESST (formerly NESSF)
  • 2019: Tessa Thorsen – Marie Curie Fellow (University of L’Aquila)
  • 2019: Abraham Teklu – Lourie Fellowship
  • 2019: Jennifer Ruda – Outstanding Beginning Teacher by IACTE
  • 2019: Ava Polzin – Deans Emerging Scholars Fellowship (Yale University)
  • 2018: Mahlet Shiferaw – Carl A. Rouse Memorial Fellowship (at Caltech)
  • 2018: Mahlet Shiferaw – Frederick A. Tarantino Memorial Scholarship (at Harvard)
  • 2018: José Flores Velázquez – NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2018: Kayla Leonard – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2018: Tessa Thorsen – J. Osborn Summer Fellowship (UMD)
  • 2018: Abraham Teklu – Turner Fellowship
  • 2017/18: Lupe MacIntosh – student body president at Harvey Mudd
  • 2017: José Flores Velázquez – Best poster prize at SACNAS
  • 2017: Yuqi Yun – Poster contest winner at 2017 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
  • 2017: VanessaRivera – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2017: Vanessa Rivera – U. of Arizona Graduate Access Fellowship
  • 2017: Larissa Markwardt – NSF GRFP Awardee
  • 2017: Larissa Markwardt – Lingelbach Award from University of Arkansas
  • 2017: Kayla Leonard – Outstanding Graduating Senior, Dept of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
  • 2017: Kayla Leonard – Student Commencement Speaker, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas as Austin
  • 2017: Tessa Thorsen – AMSC Summer Research Fellowship (UMD)
  • 2017: Valerie Becker – DOE Leadership and citizenship award
  • 2017: Michael Bueno – Harvard University’s Banneker/ Aztlan Institute Core Student
  • 2017: Abraham Teklu – Nicodemus Scholar Award
  • 2017: Abraham Teklu – Ken Krane Scholar Award
  • 2016: Eryn Cangi – AAS Chambliss Award winner
  • 2016: Kayla Leonard – Barry Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention
  • 2016: Cesar Bustos –  1st place oral presentation at the Illinois LSAMP 2016 Spring Symposium
  • 2016: Tessa Thorsen – Earl E. Ziegler Senior Mathematics Award (Gettysburg College)
  • 2016: Tessa Thorsen – Miller-Mara Senior Physics Prize (Gettysburg College)
  • 2015: Jason Parks – City Colleges of Chicago District Student Government Vice President, President of Student Government Olive-Harvey College

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