News
Recent updates and milestones.
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First-author paper on helium-ignited binary white dwarf mergers submitted to ApJ (arXiv:2602.23414).
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Presented "Hydrodynamical Simulations of Helium-Ignited Binary White Dwarf Merger" at the 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, AZ.
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Gave an invited astrophysics seminar at the University of Connecticut on Type Ia supernovae from helium-ignited white dwarf mergers.
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Began the PhD in Engineering and Applied Sciences (Computational Science & Engineering) at UMass Dartmouth.
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Paper on the pure-deflagration origin of supernova remnant 3C 397 published in MNRAS.
Media Coverage
- UMass Dartmouth · Inside UMassD Featured for winning the 2026 APS Division of Computational Physics image competition with a white-dwarf supernova simulation.
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- American Astronomical Society Congratulations to the AAS 242 Chambliss Student Award Winners (Honorable Mention)