Current Graduate Students (showing papers while at Cornell):

Yulin Gong, 2021 –

• kSZ Pairwise Velocity Reconstruction with Machine Learning (Gong & Bean), 2024.
• Pairwise kSZ signal extraction efficacy and optical depth estimation (Gong et al), 2023.

Lukas Wenzl, 2019-

• 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.

Christopher Wilson, 2019-

• 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):

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.

• 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 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.

• 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)