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I am a physics Ph.D. candidate at Bryn Mawr College. My research broadly centers around models that help to inform us about a Milky Way-like galaxy's evolutionary track. Currently, I am interested in understanding how the evolution of a star cluster can be affected when it resides at a stable Lagrange point.

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Galaxy Dynamics and Evolution

Motion of stars via non-axisymmetric perturbations

In Progress

Bryn Mawr College

Ph.D. in Physics

Lagrange Point

Possibility of a star cluster to preserve its orbit due to residing at a stable Lagrange point

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)

Modes evolve over time, use FFT to get the spiral arm amplitudes

2016

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.S. Physics, concentration in Astrophysics

Minor in Mathematics

2023

Bryn Mawr College

M.A. in Physics

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