Collaborations

• Dark Energy Survey
• LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration
• Flash Center for Computational Science

Project areas

Large-scale structure

• Quantifying and improving simulation accuracy
• Evolution of halo structure and statistics
• Large-scale structure in scalar-field dark energy models

Clusters of galaxies

• Scatter in cluster mass-observable relationships
• Mergers between clusters
• AGN feedback in clusters
• Galaxy evolution in clusters
• Nonthermal particles and radio halos

Binary stars

• Common-envelope evolution
• Type Ia supernovae in binary star systems
• Novae
• Cosmic ray acceleration in supernova remnants

Other cool stuff

• Giant impact theory of Moon formation

Software development

• FLASH adaptive mesh refinement code
• IBEAM framework for radiative transport and relativistic hydrodynamics
• COSMOS nonuniform-grid code
• Cyberinfrastructure tools for astrophysical simulation