Cosmology


The sky over Mauna Kea observed with SuNSS

The biggest challenge for next-generation ground-based spectroscopic surveys is the emission from the atmosphere itself. The Subaru Night Sky Spectrograph (SuNSS) studies this emission, called airglow, which allows us to improve our calibrations, sky subtraction, and understanding of the airglow itself.

The highest redshift galaxy we will find with JWST

We show that the highest redshift galaxies detected with the James Webb Space Telescope, will have a highly skewed distribution due to galaxy clustering, which can be quantified through an effect known as cosmic variance.

Building better galaxies with Mangrove

We show how building a graph neural network emulator using merger trees encoded as graphs can both dramatically improve the precision with which we make simulated galaxies and improve our understanding of the galaxies we make!

Learning Galaxy Properties from Merger Trees with Mangrove

This project aimed to show how building an emulator using merger trees encoded as graphs can both dramatically improve the precision with which we make simulated galaxies and improve our understanding of the galaxies we make! We achieved that with Mangrove (Paper out now)!

Improving event reconstrution at IceCube

Using Graph Neural Networks, me and a group of friends showed that event reconstruction speed and precision for low-energy neutrino events can be greatly improved.