Ahmed Salah Abdalkarim
Email: abdalkarim@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Keith Bechtol
Year of Admission: 2024
Website: Observational Cosmology
Email: abdalkarim@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Keith Bechtol
Year of Admission: 2024
Website: Observational Cosmology
Email: abongwa@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Britton Plourde
Year of Admission: 2025
Website: Plourde Group
Research Interests: Quantum Information Science (QIS); Condensed Matter Experiment
Email: baghiyan@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Alexandre Lazarian
Year of Admission: 2025
Website: Lazarian Group
Email: beasgonzalez@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Keith Bechtol
Year of Admission: 2022
Website: Observational Cosmology
Pronouns: He/Him
Email: bdbeyer@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Jakob Moritz
Year of Admission: 2024
Website: Moritz Group
Email: tchen463@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Yang Bai
Year of Admission: 2022
Website: Phenomenology
Research Interests: theoretical particle physics, including Higgs physics, dark matter, astroparticle physics, early universe physics, and the usage of machine learning in this field.
Pronouns: she/her
Email: rschisholm@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Elena D'Onghia
Year of Admission: 2022
Websites: Home Page, D'Onghia Group
Research Interests: galactic dynamics, cosmological simulations, circumgalactic medium
I am a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison studying astrophysics under Prof. Elena D’Onghia. My research interests broadly span dwarf galaxy structure and dynamics, with an emphasis on the role of the circumgalactic medium, utilizing cosmological simulations. I am a member of the CLUES collaboration, and the SDSS collaboration.
Email: hassan.elsayed@wisc.edu
Research Advisor: Gary Shiu
Year of Admission: 2023
Websites: Home Page, String Theory, Theoretical Cosmology, AI Physics
Research Interests: I am currently working in theoretical high-energy physics, at the interface of quantum gravity, quantum information & mathematics. My research includes observable algebras and holography in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spaces; the black hole information problem and Page curves beyond the weak-gravity limit; and consistency & positivity constraints on saddle-point approximations to gravitational path integrals. I am also working on exploiting quantum simulations of SYK models in order to probe and learn more about information scrambling, evaporation, and recovery.