Students, past and present

PhD students

• Simon Reynolds (2005-2009) (with Avery Meiksin): Metals During the Epoch of Reionisation

• Jonathan Higgins (2008-12) (with Avery Meiksin): The Scattering of Lyα photons in the IGM

• Trevor Back (2009-) (with Avery Meiksin): Effects of reionisation on the stability of minihalos

Masters students

• Steven Sinclair (2005-2006): Local Sources and the Lyα HI and HeII Forest
• Rupert Good (2006-2007): The Post-Reionisation Temperature and the Shape of the Source Spectrum.
• Cassie Philp (2007-2008): Gas and Dark Matter Distributions in the Millenium Simulation.
  Medical School
• Fraser Thompson (2010-2011): Mass Loss During Halo Mergers
• Alex Bush (2011-2012): Porting a Radiative Transfer code to GPU
• James Briggs (2011-2012): Star Formation Algorithms in Galaxy Formation Simulations

Honours students

• Kareem Sorathia (2000-2001):
  A Memory-sorting algorithm to Improve the Performance of N-body Codes
  PhD (UCLA), PostDoc (U Maryland College Park)
• Dave Hiebel (2002): Comparison of Spectrographs for the UMBC Telescope
• James Fraser (2004): The Survival of Galaxy Halos During Galaxy Cluster Infall
• Ed Thomson (2005): A Comparison of N-body Codes Hydra and Gadget2
  PhD (U Glasgow)
• Jonathan Higgins (2006): Analytic Solution to Ionisation Including Temperature
  PhD (Edinburgh 2011)
• Ed Lousley (2006): A Comparison of the Galaxy Distribution and X-ray Emission in the Bullet Cluster
• James Cattanach (2006): Dark Matter and Dark Clusters
  Skiing in British Columbia
• Cassie Philp (2007): Dark Matter and Dark Clusters
  Medical School
• Sunny Ramli (2007): Gas and Galaxy Distributions in Galaxy Clusters
  Wind Energy Analyst Engineer at Dong Energy A/S, Copenhagen
• Hiro Suzuki (2008): Gas and Galaxy Distributions in Galaxy Clusters
  PhD (Glasgow)
• Jack Nelson (2009): Gas and Galaxy Distributions in A2744
  MPhys (Edinburgh)
• Tom Catling (2010): Gas and Galaxy Distributions in A2744
• Andrew Carmichael (2011): Gas and Galaxy Distributions in A2744
• James Willis (2011): Comparison of Cosmological Simulations Performed by Gadget2 and Hydra
• Daniel Grieve (2012): Gas and Galaxy Distributions in Galaxy Clusters

High School Students

• Alec Colvin (2002): Using MPI to Parallelize Hydra
  Now an undergrad at UMD.

Last updated: 11-05-10