Spring 2025 “Meet Yourself” Event

Featuring UArizona Grad Students

3:30 – 4:30pm

Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 308

With refreshments served in the 3^rd Floor Atrium at 3:00 pm

Line-up:

1. Vikram Manikantan, Astronomy – “Coincident Multi-messenger Bursts from Eccentric Supermassive Binary Black Holes”
2.  Tyler Reese, Planetary Sciences – “Monte Carlo Modeling of Charged Particle Acceleration across Collision-less Shocks”
3. Ian Matheson, Planetary Sciences – “The Mean Pole of the Hilda Asteroids”
4. Niranjana Shankarappa, Physics – “Estimation of Solar Wind Heating via Turbulent Cascade Models”
5. Sóley Hyman, Astronomy – “Probing the Role of Chaos in Galaxy Evolution with PECCARY”
6. Morifumi Mizuno, Physics – “Plasma Flow in Force-free Magnetospheres:  Two-fluid Model Near Pulsars and Black Holes”

Yu-Dai Tsai, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Tsai is a Director’s Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his PhD at Cornell University and was a postdoc at Fermilab and the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Tsai’s research sits at the intersection of particle physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology, developing theories, searches, and small-scale experiments to probe fundamental laws of physics. He currently focuses on exploring the Elusive Universe, consisting of dark matter, neutrinos, and gravity, studying their signatures in neutrino experiments, space missions, and quantum sensors. Several of his small-scale experiments and search concepts are being implemented in national laboratories worldwide. One of the ultimate goals of Dr. Tsai is to detect dark matter pure gravitationally in the solar system.

Relevant Links:

• https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/connections/2024-nov/asteroid-data-physics
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-black-holes-could-fly-through-the-solar-system-once-a-decade/
• https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435190-100-we-may-be-about-to-solve-the-greatest-riddle-of-electromagnetism/
• https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/is-dark-matter-the-most-powerful-wave-in-the-universe?language_content_entity=und
• https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-different-way-of-thinking?language_content_entity=und
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-want-to-use-asteroids-to-search-for-hidden-fifth-force/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obDULOzmZ6A

2025 Research Prize Awardee

3:30 – 4:30 pm in Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 312

Refreshments at 3:00 pm in the 3rd Floor Atrium

Recipient TBA

W.L. Kimmy Wu, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

3:30 – 4:30 pm in Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 312

Refreshments served at 3:00 pm in the 3rd Floor Atrium

Monday April 21, 2025

3:30 – 4:30 pm in Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 312

Refreshments served at 3:00 pm in the 3rd Floor Atrium