BURN@N3AS — Berkeley Undergraduate Researchers Network
Students in the N3AS undergraduate research program are supported directly by N3AS. In addition to a scientific mentor, the students have a non-science mentor and participate in bi-weekly lectures or activities with N3AS members. Learn more about the program.
Recent scientific poster presentations by undergraduates.
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Fall 2026 Schedule
| Date | Time | Speaker(s) | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun, Sep 27 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | Amir Yogesh and leaders | Fall Social event | Campbell patio |
| Thu, Oct 1 | 3:00 PM | Nicole, Vincent, Erik, Srikar | Applying to Grad School – strategies and timeframe | N3AS 3rd Floor / Zoom |
| Late October TBD | TBD | Nicole Flors | Title TBD Topic: Fluid dynamics around neutron stars and black holes in curved spacetime | N3AS 3rd Floor / Zoom |
Mon, Nov 9 | 5:00 PM | Erik Zaborowski | Title TBD Topic: Observational cosmology, survey and instruments | N3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 5:00 PM | Srikar Gadamsetty | Ghost Particles and How to Catch Them | N3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor |
| Thu, Dec 10 (RRR Week) | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 10-12 student presenters | Researchers’ Poster Presentations; Q&A + lunch and social | Physics North 375 |
Current Students
| Student | Research Mentor | Career Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Aditi Anand | Victoria Xu | Divya Singh |
| Amir Awadalla | Nicolo Rafuzzi | Daniel Brethauer |
| Christopher Babayan | Tianshu Wang | Luca Boccioli |
| Winston Cho | Ann-Kathrin Schuetz | Ian Padilla Gay |
| Persephone Choi | Alec Lindman | Dimitra Pefkou |
| Henry Dugan | Daniel Brethauer | Tianshu Wang |
| Sierra Ebert | Raul Briceño | Tetyana Pitik |
| Leonard Harkins | Felipe Ortega Gama | Aaron Meyer |
| Ashton Homyk | John Groh | Ken McElvain |
| James Huntzinger | Aviral Prakash | Ish Gupta |
| Yunhee Jang | Rossella Gamba | Ermal Rrapaj |
| Yogesh N. Kahtri | Alexandre Adler | Ish Gupta |
| Samin Khan | Kelsey Lund | Thomas Richardson |
| Eva Li | Divya Singh | Vincent Lee |
| Xing Liu | Wick Haxton | Anupam Ray |
| Aidan Martas | Daniel Brethauer | Tianshu Wang |
| Halim Perez Melendez | Malcolm Lazarow | Ivan Burbano |
| Caprice Neman | Ivan Burbano | Alina Sabyr |
| Ansel Parke | Tetyana Pitik | Ermal Rrapaj |
| Gautam Ramkumar | Ann-Kathrin Schuetz | Ermal Rrapaj |
| Marisa Schiehser | Srikar Gadamsetty | Yash Bezawada |
| Joshua Sobajic | Jan Schütte Engel | Ken McElvain |
| Nikolas Sommerhalter | Gabriele Di Ubaldo | Malcolm Lazarow |
| Marius Thomas | Wyatt Smith | Joe Moscoso |
| Flora Wang | Mengke Li | Yuuka Kanakubo |
| Hyunoh Yeo | Anton Baleato Lizancos | Mia Kumamoto |
| Jason Yip | Oliver Scholer | Mia Kumamoto |
| Ricardo Zamora | Thomas Richardson | Felipe Ortega Gama |
Past Students
| Student | Research Mentor | Career Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Abhay Agarwal | Manibrata Sen | Xilu Wang |
| Tehya Andersen Berkeley Physics PhD program | Luke Johns | Sherwood Richers |
| Garrett Andre | Anupam Ray | Aviral Prakash |
| Danial Baradaran | Boryana Hadzhiyska | Evan Grohs |
| Yara Bawazir | Luca Boccioli | Alex Kim |
| Angela Beatty Great-NS-internship in Nuclear Division, LBNL; San Francisco State Physics MA Program | Anna Suliga | Wick Haxton |
| Pallas Ka’alele Ki’ai Beddow | Satya Gontcho a Gontcho | Tianqi Zhao |
| Niranjan Bhatia | Evan Grohs | Xilu Wang |
| Jenny Campbell | Evan Rule | |
| Yu Hong Chan | Evan Rule | Evan Grohs |
| Claire Tianyi Chen | Minas Karamanis | Mengke Li |
| Emilie Cote | Pedro Espino | Anna Suliga |
| Jasmine Crawford | Luke Johns | |
| Iman Fahmy UW Seattle Physics PhD program | Ermal Rrapaj | Amol Patwardhan |
| Ben Gold | Xilu Wang | Evan Grohs |
| Malika Golshan SULI Internship, LBL | Adrian Bayer | Pedro Espino |
| Sebastian Gonzalez | Tetyana Pitik | Felipe Ortega Gama |
| Rose Hinson | Joe De Rose | Patrick Cheong |
| Vi Hong Berkeley Physics PhD program | Jeff Berryman | Xilu Wang |
| Shaurya Jain | Minas Karamanis | Divya Singh |
| Arya Joshipura | Joe Moscoso | Amol Patwardhan |
| Yiran Ke | Baha Balantekin | Manibrata Sen |
| Kayla Kosirog | Gerrit Farren | Kelsey Lund |
| Ben Knepper Internship, LBL | Anupam Ray | Ken McElvain |
| Sangeeta Kumar NASA post-bac. internship, Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II (CRESST II); calculating Lyman Alpha visibility | Sanjana Curtis | |
| Kevin Lam | Payel Mukhopadhyay | Anupam Ray |
| Quentin Le Ny Carnegie Mellon University, MS in Data Analytics for Science | Noah Weaverdyck | Julien Froustey |
| Brandon Lem FRIB Michigan State PhD Program; Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellow | Anna Suliga | Nathaniel Leslie |
| Terry Li | Wick Haxton | Anna Suliga |
| Yuanyuan Ma | Vincent Lee | Tianshu Wang |
| Annie McCutcheon MA, UC Davis | Wick Haxton | Dake Zhou |
| Emma McGinness Physics PhD program, U. Chicago | Wick Haxton | Ermal Rrapaj |
| Anand Menon | Anupam Ray | Eve Schoen |
| Tess Messerer | Evan Rule | Payel Mukhopadhyay |
| Nathan Olson | Noah Weaverdyck | Ken McElvain |
| Emmanuel Paz | Anton Baleato Lizancos | |
| Kevin Peng | Thomas Richardson | Wick Haxton |
| Juan Peres | Ivan Burbano | Elena De La Hoz |
| Henry Purcell Internship, NASA Ames Research Center | Sherwood Richers | Amol Patwardhan |
| Druv Punjabi MS in Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford | Nathaniel Leslie | Aaron Meyer |
| Sophia Risin | Wenbin Lu | Dake Zhou |
| Santiago Rodriguez REU Coordinator, Space Sciences Laboratory | Luke Johns | Pedro Espino |
| Hong Joo Ryoo Johns Hopkins University, Physics/Philosophy Doctoral Program | Dimitra Pefkou | Evan Rule |
| Jorge Sanchez | Sanjana Curtis | Anton Baleato Lizancos |
| Sumbal Sharif | Jan Shutte Engel | |
| Paul Shin | Amol Patwardhan | Sherwood Richers |
| Gabrielle Stewart Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Institute Internship | Elena de la Hoz | Noah Sailer |
| Samyak Tiwari ARC Robotics Lab | Nathaniel Leslie | Lukas Graf |
| My-Tien Tran | Alan Poon | Yuuka Kanakubo |
| John Wahlmeier | Ermal Rrapaj | Kenneth McElvain |
| Shengzhu (Alex) Wang University of Hong Kong, Physics Doctoral Program | Anton Baleato Lizancos | Evan Grohs |
| Catherine Welch | Mia Kumamoto | Ermal Rrapaj |
| Carlin Will | Patrick Cheong | Aaron Meyer |
| Robert Woodward | Zack Hall | Kelsey Lund |
| Daniel Xing DUNE internship, LANL | Aaron Meyer | Sherwood Richers |
| David Yang UC Davis, Physics PhD Program | Julien Froustey | Nathaniel Leslie |
| Raymond Yum | Ken McElvain | Ermal Rrapaj |
Recent Research Presentations
| Yara Bawazir — Rotational Effects on Core Collapse Supernovae in 1D |
| Sebastian Gonzalez — Diffuse Neutrino Flux from CSM Interacting SNe |
| James Huntzinger — Consistency Evaluation of Postmerger GW Models |
| Shaurya Jain — Anomaly Detection for Galaxies utilizing Variational Autoencoders |
| Yunhee Jang — Modeling Neutron Star Structure with a TOV Solver Using Piecewise Polytropic Equations of State |
| Samin Khan (2025 Presentation) — Beta-Decay Effects on r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Mergers Samin Khan (2026 Presentation) — How β-Decay Rates Shape r-Process Nucleosynthesis Across Astrophysical Sites |
| Caprice Neman — Energy Extraction from the Lattice |
| Quentin Le Ny — Random Forest Prediction of Photometric Redshifts for ELG, LRG, and QSOs in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument |
| Yuanyuan Ma — Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in Crystal Detectors |
| Aidan Martas — Atomic Structure Calibration & Parallel Line Identification in Kilonovae |
| Anand Menon — Probing Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates via X-ray Microlensing |
| Nathan Olson — Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Non-Gaussianity |
| Kevin Peng — Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay With Large N EFT |
| Juan Peres — Duality between Thermal and Quantum systems |
| Hong Joo Ryoo — The role of the three-body system in quantum computations of scattering observables |
| Marisa Schiehser — Eos: Cherenkov Source |
| Marius Thomas — S-matrix Informed Neural Networks (SINN) for 𝜋𝜋 Scattering and Beyond |
| David Yang — Flavor Oscillations and Sterile Neutrino Production in the Early Universe |
| Jason Yip — Model-Independent Constraints on Neutrino Interactions via CEνNS |
| Raymond Yum — Efficient Propagation of Neutrino Flavors in Matter; Modeling neutrino flavor evolution in dense environments |
