Current Graduate Students (showing papers while at Cornell):
Yulin Gong, 2021 –
- kSZ Pairwise Velocity Reconstruction with Machine Learning (Gong and Bean), 2024.
- Pairwise kSZ signal extraction efficacy and optical depth estimation (Gong et al), 2023.
Christopher Wilson, 2019-
- Fisher’s Mirage: Noise Tightening of Cosmological Constraints in Simulation-Based Inference (Wilson and Bean), 2024
- Optimal Generators for Quantum Sensing (Reilly et al.), 2023
- Challenges in Constraining Gravity with Cosmic Voids (Wilson and Bean), 2022.
- Testing Gravity With Scale Dependent Cosmic Void Velocity Profiles (Wilson and Bean), 2020.
Past Graduate Students (showing papers while at Cornell):
Lukas Wenzl, PhD 2024. Gone on to be a Machine Learning Engineer in a start up in Paris, France.
- The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing and SDSS BOSS cross-correlation measurement and constraints on gravity with the EG statistic (Wenzl, Bean et al), 2024
- Constraining gravity with a new precision EG estimator using Planck + SDSS BOSS (Wenzl, Bean et al), 2024
- Magnification Bias Estimators for Realistic Surveys: an Application to the BOSS Survey(Wenzl, Chen & Bean), 2023.
- Cosmology with the Roman Space Telescope — Synergies with CMB lensing (Wenzl et al), 2021.
- Cosmology with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope — Multi-Probe Strategies (Eifler et al), 2020.
- Cosmology with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope — Synergies with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Eifler et al), 2020.
Victoria Calafut, PhD 2020. Went onto postdoctoral research at Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), Toronto.
- The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect with SDSS DR15 Galaxies (Calafut et al, ACT Collaboration), 2021.
- The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the Baryon Content of SDSS DR15 Galaxies with the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effects (Vavagiakis et al, ACT Collaboration), 2021.
- CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan (Abazajian et al, CMB-S4 collaboration), 2019.
- The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts (Simons Observatory Collaboration), 2018.
- Cluster mislocation in kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (kSZ) effect extraction (Calafut & Bean), 2018.
Georgios Valogiannis , PhD 2020. Went onto postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Currently postdoctoral researcher at University of Chicago.
- Constraints on f(R) and nDGP Modified Gravity Model Parameters with Cluster Abundances and Galaxy Clustering, (Liu, Valogiannis, Battaglia and Bean) 2021.
- Redshift space power spectrum beyond Einstein-de Sitter kernels (Aviles, Valogiannis, Rodriguez-Meza, Cervantes-Cota, Li, and Bean), 2020.
- Testing the theory of gravity with DESI: estimators, predictions and simulation requirements (Alam et al), 2020.
- An accurate perturbative approach to redshift space clustering of biased tracers in modified gravity (Valogiannis, Bean & Aviles), 2020
- Convolution Lagrangian Perturbation Theory for biased tracers beyond general relativity (Valogiannis & Bean), 2019.
- Beyond delta: Tailoring marked statistics to reveal modified gravity (Valogiannis & Bean), 2017
- Efficient simulations of large scale structure in modified gravity cosmologies with comoving Lagrangian acceleration (Valogiannis & Bean), 2017
Joyce Byun, PhD 2015. Went onto postdoctoral research at the University of Geneva and University of Arizona.
- Looking for non-Gaussianity in all the right places: A new basis for non-separable bispectra (Byun, Agarwal, Bean and Holman), 2015.
- Non-Gaussian Shape Discrimination with Spectroscopic Galaxy Surveys (Byun and Bean), 2014.
- Non-Gaussian Shape Recognition (Byun and Bean), 2013.
Eva-Marie Mueller, PhD 2015. Went onto postdoctoral research at Oxford University. Currently lecturer at University of Sussex.
- Constraints on massive neutrinos from the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (Mueller, De Bernardis, Bean and Niemack), 2015.
- Constraints on gravity and dark energy from the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (Mueller, De Bernardis, Bean and Niemack), 2014.
- Cosmological Implications of the Effective Field Theory of Cosmic Acceleration (Mueller, Bean and Watson), 2012.
Istvan Laszlo, PhD 2012. Lecturer at Monash University.
- Optimising cosmic shear surveys to measure modifications to gravity on cosmic scales (Kirk, Laszlo, Bridle and Bean), 2011.
- Disentangling dark energy and cosmic tests of gravity from weak lensing systematics (Laszlo, Bean, Kirk and Bridle), 2011.
- Cosmological constraints on dark matter self-interactions (Bean, Flanagan, Laszlo and Trodden), 2008.
- Nonlinear growth in modified gravity theories of dark energy (Laszlo and Bean), 2007.
Nishant Agarwal, PhD 2011. Assistant Professor at U. Mass. Lowell
- Universality in D-brane Inflation (Agarwal, Bean, McAllister & Xu), 2011.
- Cascading Cosmology (Agarwal, Bean, Khoury & Trodden), 2010.
- Reconstruction of a general inflationary action (Agarwal & Bean), 2009.
- Dynamical stability conditions in scalar tensor theories of gravity (Agarwal & Bean), 2008.
Matipon Tangmatitham, M.S. 2011. Michigan Tech, PhD 2019. National Astronomy Education Coordinator Team Chair, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT).
- NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, Feb 12th 2014! “Rocket, Meteor, and Milky Way over Thailand”
- Constraining the properties of gravity with large scale structure (Bean & Tangmatitham), 2010.
Past Cornell undergraduate students:
Trey Driskell, Fall 2018 (=> University Southern California grad school)
Samuel Evans, Fall 2018-Spring 2019 (=> Boston University grad school)
Keri Heuer, Spring 2017 (=> Drexel grad school)
Avirukt Mittal, Spring 2017 (=>Perimeter Institute & UC Berkeley grad school)
Byeonghee Yu, Fall 2015/Spring 2016 (=> UC Berkeley grad school)
Brenna Mockler, Spring 2015 (=> UC Santa Cruz grad school)
Kira Hicks: Fall 2013-Spring 2014 (=>University of Washington grad school)
Mykyta Hulko, 2012-2013 (=> University of Toronto grad school)
Jae Hwan Kang, 2011-2012 (=> Stanford grad school)
Derek Schaeffer, 2006-2007 ( => UCLA grad school)
Matipon Tangmatitham, 2005-2007 ( => Cornell grad school)
Past Undergraduate REU Summer Students:
Jonathan Davis, Summer REU 2018 (Utah Valley University => Cornell grad school)
Victoria Calafut: Summer REU 2013 and Fall 2013 (The College of New Jersey => Cornell grad school)
Gavin Hartnett 2008 (Syracuse => UC Santa Barbara grad school)
Nicholas Hollon 2007 (Villanova => Chicago grad school)