• BURN@N3AS — Berkeley Undergraduate Researchers Network

    Archived Research Presentations (2023-2024)

    Poster Anderson — Oscillating Neutrinos as Open Quantum Systems
    Poster Baradaran — Predicting the 21 cm Field with a Hybrid Perturbation Theory Approach
    Poster Bawazir — Rotational Effects of Core Collapse Supernovae in 1D
    Poster Bhatia — Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Characterizing Abundances of Light Abundances
    Poster Chan — Quantum Annealing for Many-Body Physics
    Poster Cote — Simulating Differentially Rotating Hybrid Stars;
    Classifications of Unknown Transients Using ParSNIP (ULab mentor)
    Poster Crawford — Anomalous Diffusion in MRI: Fractional Derivatives versus Relaxation Spectra
    Poster Fahmy — Bayesian Analysis of the Detection of Astrophysical Neutrinos
    Poster Golshan — Neutrino Detection Using Machine Learning
    Poster Hinson — Redshift Calibrations for Next-Generation Surveys
    Poster Hong — Axion Searches from Chandra Observation of Magnetic White Dwarf
    Poster Jang — Modeling Neutron Start Structure with TOV Solver Using Piecewise Polytropic Equations of State
    Poster Kumar — Calculation of Neutrino Propagation Through the Sun;
    Simulating Supernova 1987A Remnants (ULab mentor)
    Poster Lem — Uncertainties of EFT coupling limits from dark matter direct detection experiments stemming from nuclear shell model calculations
    Poster Liu — Can axions escape stars and supernovae?
    Poster Messerer — Flavor-Violating Axions: From the Lab to the Cosmos
    Poster Purcell — Neutrino Spin Oscillations Catalyzed by the Fast Flavor Instability
    Poster Risin — Likelihood of tidal disruption events as second generation mergers of binary black holes
    Poster Rodriguez — The Flavor Pendulum in Collective Neutrino Oscillations
    Poster Shin — Cosmology and Non-Standard Equations of State
    Poster Sharif — Optimizing Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors—Resonant Spheres
    Poster Stewart — Advancing CMB component separation: HEALPix Parameters’ maps
    Poster Tiwari — Compact Binary Merger Gravitational Wave (GW) Signal Model for a Rotating Earth
    Poster Wang — Delensing the CMB B-Mode with Simulated Galaxy Density
    Poster Will — Mass Ejecta and Magnetic Winding in a Highly Magnetized, Hypermassive Neutron Star;
    Magnetic Energy Transfer in Kerr Black Holes (ULab mentor)
    Poster Xing — Violation of the Gell-man–Okubo Relation with Lattice QCD
    Poster Yang — Flavor Oscillations and Sterile Neutrino Production in the Early Universe
    Poster Yum (1) — Classifications of Unknown Transients Using ParSNIP;
    Argon Cross-Sections and Supernovae Neutrinos at the DUNE Experiment (PDF)
    Poster Yum (2) — Efficient Propagation of Neutrino Flavors in Matter

    Fall 2025 Talks Schedule

    DateTimeSpeaker(s)TopicLocation
    Wed, Sep 241:30 PMN3AS Postdocs and Grad Students (Luca, Malcolm, Alec, Joe)Applying to Grad School: Tips and TimeframeN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    Fri, Oct 103:15 PMTetyana Pitik,
    N3AS Fellow
    Nuclear Astrophysics: The Origins of Heavy ElementsPhysics South 325
    Thu, Oct 232:30 PMAlina Sabyr,
    BCCP Fellow
    Cosmological ConstraintsN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor

    Wed, Nov 5
    2 PMMengke Li,
    N3AS Fellow
    Constraining Nuclear Mass ModelsPhysics South 326
    Wed, Nov 191:30 PMRossella Gamba, N3AS Fellow
    Gravitational Waves from compact binaries: modeling and applicationsPhysics South 326
    Thu, Dec 119:30 AM – 12:00 PMFall 2025 Undergraduate Researchers Symposium & Poster PresentationsPhysics North, Conference Room 375

    Spring 2025 Talks Schedule

    DateTimeSpeaker(s)TopicLocation
    Wed, Feb 192 PMYuki FujimotoFrom quarks to neutron stars: the condensed matter physics of quantum chromodynamicsN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    Fri, Feb 283 PMSimona MeiDead galaxies at the first epochs of structure formationN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    / Zoom
    Thu, Mar 133 PM Joe Moscoso From Nanotechnology at the Beach to Nuclear Theory: Reflections on my Collegiate Journey as a first-gen studentN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    / Zoom
    Fri, Apr 11

    1 PM Gerry Miller “Why are the neutron and proton so interesting?N3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    Thu, Apr 243 PMDavid CalvertThe impact of Magnetohydrodynamics and Neutrino Physics on Core-Collapse SupernovaeN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    / Zoom
    April, TBDUW StudentsVirtual poster sessionvia Zoom
    Wed, May 7
    (RRR week)
    9:30 AM –
    12:30 PM
    Berkeley Student  presentersPoster Session Presentations 
    Q&A + lunch 
    Campbell 131

    Fall 2024 Talks Schedule

    DateTimeSpeakersTopicLocation
    9/20Fall N3AS social event with current students and mentors
    10/7/20242:30 PMVi Hong, Ivan Burbano, Wick HaxtonApplying to Grad SchoolN3AS 3rd Floor / Zoom
    10/25/20242:00 PMErmal Rrapaj, Felipe, LucaKey Research Skills: reading papers and keeping up with publications in your fieldN3AS 3rd Floor / Zoom
    11/5/20243 PMIvan BurbanoExploring Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theories Using Computational MethodsN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    11/21/20244 PMJuno ChanFirst-order Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Transition in Accretion-Induced Collapse of White DwarfsN3AS 351 South, 3rd Floor
    12/10/20249:00 AM –
    12:30 PM
    Student presentersPoster session