A nice depressing way to summarise years of your life into handy bite-sized snippets.
2023
- July 2023: I will be attending the American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting.
- June 2023: Our paper on star cluster formation in different spiral/barred environments has been accepted by MNRAS. Read all about Ahmad's paper here.
- May 2023: Our paper on filaments in the Milky Way has been accepted by A&A. Read all about Yifei's paper here.
- April 2023: Towy Yan has been awarded a SURE summer studenship to work with me on galactic spurs over summer!
- April 2023: Presented my work at our D3 event at Sac State, here's the poster I presented.
- March 2023: Our paper on massive star formation in different colliding molecular clouds has been accepted by MNRAS. Read all about Ahmad's paper here.
- March 2023: I have been awarded a Research and Creative Activity award to support my work for the coming two semesters and hire a summer research student, Justin Alejandro, who will be working on raditaive transfer in galaxies.
- Feb 2023: Gave a seminar for CSU Chico.
- Jan 2023: My PhD student, Elizabeth Iles, has passed her viva exam! She'll be moving on to a post-doc at Sydney with Prof. Bland-Hawthorn.
2022
- Dec 2022: Gave a seminar for UC Merced.
- Nov 2022: Our paper on star clusters in different spiral arm regions clouds has been accepted by MNRAS. Read all
about Clare's paper here.
- June 2022: Attended the Nbody science workshop, hosted by the Flatiron institute.
- April 2022: Our paper on star formation in NGC3110, an interacting galaxy, has been accepted by ApJ. Read all
about Kawana-san's paper here.
- April 2022: Theresa Nguyen has been awarded a SURE summer studenship to work with me on spiral arms over summer!
- March 2022: Gave a talk for CSUS's STEM Scholars Lecture series.
- March 2022: Our paper on star formation in different kidns of barred galaxies has been accepted by MNRAS. Read all
about Elizabeth's paper here.
- March 2022: Gave a talk for the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research's undergraduate physics society.
- Feb 2022: Our paper on molecular gas and the Galaxy's spiral arms has been accepted by A&A. Read all
about Dario's paper here.
- Jan 2022: Our paper on photoionization in spiral arms has been accepted by MNRAS. Read all
about Clare's paper here.
2021
2020
- Dec 2020: A collaboration with Alice Quillen at Rochester on the topic of young stellar associations in the Milky Way has been accepted.
- Nov 2020: Attended the JASMINE consortium meeting, in preparation for the upcoming JASMINE mission.
- Nov 2020: Our work on FUV radiation in galaxies has been accepted by MNRAS. Expect more to come on this soon!
- Aug 2020: My first solo-supevision grad student, Veronica Zhang, has passed her MSc exam!
- July 2020: My paper on star-forming clouds in different kinds of spiral arms has been accepted for publication in MNRAS.
A pre-print is available here.
- June 2020: A collaboration with Jason Hunt at Flatiron has been accepted for publication in MNRAS. Read all about it here.
- May 2020: A paper I collaborated on with our PhD student, Nirmit Sakre, has been accepted for publication in PASJ.
Read all about their molecular cloud collisions here.
- April 2020: I have been successful in my application for an Early Career Scientist KAKENHI grant (20K14456, 2.86 million yen) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
- March 2020: Visited California State University Sacramento and gave a
colloquia about my work.
- March 2020: Unfortunately the Nenkai astronomical meeting my students and I intended on attending has been cancelled. Our slides are accessible to those who registered for the conference.
- February 2020: My student, Elizabeth Iles, has passed her MSc exam! She intends to carry on with her PhD here and has been sucessful in her MEXT scholarship application.
2019
- November 2019: My paper on star formation in the Milky Way has been accepted by MNRAS, read all about it here.
- October 2019: Classes for the third generation of
ISP
students begin, and I will be teaching
Physics I,
Classical Mechanics II and
Fourier Analysis this semester.
- September 2019 [non-academic]: I proposed to my long-time partner
Dr Katrina-Kay Alaimo, she said yes!
- August 2019: Visited several universities in Taipei to collaborate on the implementation of international undergraduate science programs (NTU, NTNU, NTUST), and the JASSO undergraduate recruitment fair.
- June 2019: Our paper on clumps in galactic discs has been accepted, read about it here.
- March 2019: Our paper on giant molecular clouds in the Triangulum galaxy has been accepted, read about it here.
- March 2019: I'm off to KITP/Santa Barbara for a few weeks to understand more about modelling galaxies.
- Jan 2019: Our paper on the complex velocity field in bars has been accepted!
2018
- Nov 2018: Attended the conference Life and Times of the Milky Way in Shanghai, contributing a talk on comparing GAIA data to my simulations.
- Oct 2018: Supervising MSc student Veronica Zhang, who will be working on the impact of dark matter halos on spiral and bar structure.
- Sept 2018: Gave a contributed talk at the National Astronomical Meeting in Himeji.
- Sept 2018: Semester starts and I will be teaching Physics I, Classical Mechanics II, and Fourier Analysis.
- Sept 2018: Visited the University of Exeter and gave a seminar.
- Sept 2018: Our paper on SMA observations of interacting galaxies has been accepted to ApJ!
- July 2018: My paper on clouds in interacting galaxies has been accepted by MNRAS.
- June 2018: Attending AMUSE workshop in Kobe to hopefully learn a thing or two!
- April 2018: Classes begin for the first second year of the ISP and I'm teaching Classical Mechanics I.
- April 2018: Co-supervising MSc stduent Elizabeth Iles, who will be working on modeling star formation in barred galaxies.
- March 2018: Attended Habe-san's retirement workshop and gave a talk about GMCs.
- March 2018: Visited collaborators at SHAO and gave two seminars about my work
- Feb 2018: Our paper on the structure of M33 has been accepted! (Dobbs et al.)
- Feb 2018: Gave an invited talk at the FUGIN workshop in Nagoya.
- Jan 2018: Visited collaborators at NOAJ and gave an ALMA-J seminar
2017
- Nov 2017: Our paper on clouds in different galaxy models has been accepted! (Nguyen et al.)
- Nov 2017: Paper on bars and spirals in tidal interactions now accepted; come have a read!
- Oct 2017: Gave two seminars at local high school on astrosphyics.
- Sept 2017: Classes begin for the first intake of the ISP and I'm teaching first year phsyics.
- Sept 2017: Attended and gave talk on bars in interacting galaxies at the National Astronomy meeting.
- May 2017: Gave a Sci-Tech talk at Hokkaido Unveristy to the general public.
- April 2017: Paper on star formation in tidal spirals has been accepted; come read on arXiv.
- April 2017: Gave a rapid PechaKucha talk about galaxies!
- March 2017: Visited JAXA in Tokyo and gave a talk at the ISU Space Cafe.
- Feb 2017: Attended ISM-SPP confrence in Cologne, find details and my talk sldies here.
- Feb 2017: The SPH code PHANTOM is now publically available! The paper is submitted and here is the code.
- Jan 2017: SEDIGISM paper on molecular emission of the Milky Way accepted for publication, come read it on arxiv.
2016
- Nov 2016: Attended the COMING workshop at NAOJ, Tokyo. Find my slides and program here.
- Oct 2016: Website for our international science course at Hokkaido Unviesity now live!
- July 2016: Collaboration on magnetic fields in spiral galaxies by C. Dobbs accepted for publication, see here for the paper.
- June 2016: Collaboration on testing hydrodynamic schemes in galactic discs by G. Few accepted for publication, see here for the paper.
- May 2016: Appointed as Assistant Professor for Hokkaido University's Integrated Science Program (ISP).
- March 2016: Paper on tidally induced spirals accepted by MNRAS, go have a gander here!
- March 2016: Visted collaborators at McMaster University, Canada.
- Feb 2016: Wrote another highlight on research piece for Hokkaido University blog about pioneering oncology research at the university.
- Jan 2016: Gave a talk ESLI, Tokyo.
2015
- Dec 2015: Gave a talk at the East Asian ALMA Science Workshop.
- Oct 2015: Gave a talk at a workshop on cloud-cloud collisions at Hokkaido University.
- Sept 2015: Gave a talk at the Astronomical Society of Japan Annual Meeting at Konan University, Kobe and gave a seminar at RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science.
- August 2015: Gave a poster presentation at IAUXXIX, Honolulu, donwload it here and have a look if you like.
- July 2015: Major upgrade to the group webpage, come take a look!
- June 2015: Visits to NAOJ, IMPU, and ELSI in Tokyo. My slides can be found here and here is a video from my talks.
- May 2015: Wrote a highlight on research piece for Hokkaido University blog.
- April 2015: A recording of a talk I gave at CITA can be watched here.
- Mar 2015: Galactic morphology paper 2 accepted by MNRAS, read all about it here!
2014
- Dec 2014: Here is a blog post I wrote for OUP about my PhD work.
- Oct 2014: Obtained PhD and moved to Hokkaido University for post-doc with Elizabeth Tasker.
