Vic (董雨欣)

I PASSED MY PHD CANDIDACY EXAM AND WAS AWARDED 66 HOURS OF GBT TIME TODAY!!!!!!! 🍾🥂🎉🎊🎈ONWARD AND UPWARD :)

Happy holidays from the Fong Group & friends! 🎁 (📸 credit: @jillian_rast)

We were so proud to celebrate graduate student Jillian Rastinejad (@jillian_rast) at her official induction as a @NorthwesternU Presidential Fellow. Her research on origins of r-process clearly resonates across disciplines, and we are thankful to witness it! 📸: B. Robinson

We are looking to grow our group by two postdocs next year! If interested in time-domain and/or multi-messenger astronomy, please see our ad for more! Deadline Dec 20: aas.org/jobregister/ad… 🔭

🚨Paper Alert🚨 Do you like heavy elements, kilonovae, GRBs or compact object mergers? Check out this 🧵 on the freshly-submitted "Uniform Modeling of Observed Kilonovae: Implications for Diversity and the Progenitors of Merger-Driven Long Gamma-Ray Bursts" led by @jillian_rast

Fun_time at Rise_time conference! Good to be back at Purdue with @astro_dan_mil as a team SUPERNOVA alum!

If there's a transients conference in the Midwest, you bet that @NUCIERA is going to show up bigtime! Thanks for the great conference @PurduePhysAstro! #risetime #besttime

Congratulations to Prof. Wen-fai Fong of @FongGroup and @NUCIERA for being awarded Steward Observatory's 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize! We look forward to hosting you in the Fall for our colloquium and public evening lecture series. Read more: bit.ly/467qE0t

Congratulations to Dr. Genevieve Schroeder (@AstroGenevieve) on her successful defense today! She showed the sheer power of radio observations for GRBs, and her novel observing strategies are responsible for the recent increased detection rate of short GRBs. Next stop: New York!

Incredibly grateful to my family, friends, colleagues and mentors for their support in becoming a Northwestern Presidential Fellow!

Dra. Monica Gallegos- Garcia (@ynxmonica)

@navinsridhar @bluekilonova @Columbia @Stanford @KIPAC1 @SCEECSscience Congratulations Dr. Sridhar!!!!

Academic updates: -- It was an honor to learn from and work with my advisors Brian Metzger @bluekilonova and Lorenzo Sironi during my PhD @Columbia; I can't thank them enough! -- I will be joining @Stanford @KIPAC1 this Fall 2024 for my postdoctoral fellowship @SCEECSscience.

And to top it off, first aurora sighting (in chi!!)

I PASSED MY PHD CANDIDACY EXAM AND WAS AWARDED 66 HOURS OF GBT TIME TODAY!!!!!!! 🍾🥂🎉🎊🎈ONWARD AND UPWARD :)

@astro_dan_mil @PurduePhysAstro Thanks Dan!!! Wouldn’t be here without you! 🌟

Congratulations to former @PurduePhysAstro student and previous Team SUPERNOVA! member @Vic_ccc. One achievement after another! 🙌💥🔭

@reshma_at THANK YOU, RESHMA!!! SO HAPPY!

@Vic_ccc Congratulations, Vic!!

Last week, PhD Candidate @Vic_ccc submitted another paper as part of the Fong Group! Read the 🧵 below for Vic's summary about the paper. Congratulations Vic!

Happy Friday peeps! My latest paper on exploring the plausibility that a sample of radio sources in nearby dwarf galaxies are analogs to persistent radio sources (PRSs) associated with FRBs using VLA + EVN observations is live today: arxiv.org/abs/2405.00784!

Small but mighty ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

And that's a wrap on #AAS243! It was a scientifically inspirational meeting and the group's first AAS dissertation talks by @AstroGenevieve and Anya Nugent 🥹 Till next year!

FRBs are FUND👏A👏MEN👏TAL 👏