Students

Thayne Currie (Astronomy) -- now moved to CfA to work with Kenyon

Elliot Koch (Physics)

Hsi-Yin (Jenny) Shih (Physics Undergraduate)

Steve first wrote a paper on the interaction between star clusters and black holes in the Galactic centre, in an attempt to model the migration of young stars from their presumed birth locations to the vicinity of the supermassive black hole. He is now working on a thesis, modelling the thermal state of so-called "dead zones" in protoplanetary disks.

Eugene is working on the spectral evolution of white dwarfs under the influence of accretion from the ISM and how this affects observational quantities like the white dwarf luminosity function.

Elliot has submitted a paper on the interaction of multiple black holes in galactic nuclei and is also developing a thesis topic on the collisional evolution of planetesimals, with application to the formation of the irregular satellites of the solar system.

Ian is doing a second-year project on the search for emission from hot Jupiter planets using NIRSPEC. With high spectral resolution and a large telescope, the goal is to separate star and planet light using the differential velocity shift as the planet goes around the star.

Jenny is working on the assembly of planetesimals to form terrestrial-stype planets, but under the conditions appropriate to the formation of the pulsar planets.

I am, of course, always willing to talk to prospective students about potential projects.

If I'm not around, it may be because I'm travelling. Here is my travel schedule:

Here is my academic family tree (advisors advisor and so on).