Teaching & Supervision
As a postdoc, I have not had as many opportunities to teach courses as I would like, however I have supplemented this teaching work by supervising many students. These two are by far some of the most rewarding aspects of academic work.
Supervision
Below is a list of students who I have supervised at USyd, their level and project summaries, ordered from most recent to least recent.
Current Students:
- Jasmyn Curry (Second Year SSP, sole-supervisor) - Spectroscopy of pulsations in RCB stars
- Josh Ferguson (Second Year SSP, sole-supervisor) - Dipole mode suppression in the Kepler red giant sample
- George Feng (Second Year SSP, co-supervisor with Tim Bedding) - A red giant in the Pleiades cluster
- Haonan Li (Honours student, sole-supervisor) - Anamolous peaks and potential tertiary systems found via Kepler oscillating star data
- K.R. Sreenivas (PhD Student, co-supervisor with Tim Bedding) - Asteroseismology of red giants
- Lea Schimak (PhD Student, co-supervisor with Tim Bedding) - Asteroseismology of binary red giants
Past Students:
- Nikita Nikultsev (Honours student, sole-supervisor) - Merging With MESA: Modelling DY Pers by Fusing White Dwarfs (soon to be published)
- Maxwell Bennett (Honours student, co-supervisor with Tim Bedding) - Photometry in Crowded Stellar Fields with NASA’s TESS Mission
- Noah Smith & Nayan Gallego Sivaraman (First Year SSP, co-supervisor with Helen Johnston) - Analysis of the emission from Low Mass X-ray Binary A0620-00 over 6 years (soon to be published). I’ve got some Python teaching materials available publicly here.
- Caleb Clark (Second Year SSP, sole-supervisor) - An automated pipeline to find RCB dust declines (soon to be published)
- Amelie Reid (Summer Project, co-supervior with Tim Bedding and Ben Montet) - Searching the Gaia and TESS data for delta Scuti stars (has been published)
- Yifan Chen (Third Year Dalyell, co-supervisor with Tim Bedding and Yaguang Li) - Automated detection and refinement of asteroseismic parameters in 16,000 stars
- Alexander Jephtha (First Year SSP, co-supervisor with Tim Bedding and Yaguang Li) - A search for oscillating wide binaries
- Cameron Davidson (First Year SSP, co-supervisor with Tim Bedding and Yaguang Li) - Verifying the low-mass kepler red giants
Teaching
In my graduate career, I had the pleasure of teaching one of our Astronomy Lab courses for four semesters. This lab course specifically focused on stars, planets, and a little bit of cosmology. I developed most of the course material for this laboratory. If you are interested, you can explore the laboratory materials that I compiled and a sample of some of my teaching videos on this Google Drive.