Nice to meet you! I'm Rishita.
On the left is a false-colour image of the Eskimo Nebula that I created in 2020. Observations were made at the Gustav Bakos Observatory in Waterloo, ON
The regions shown are Hα / OIII / SII
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This is a movie I made to visualize the dust in a 3D protoplanetary disk simulation.
It shows a projection of the dust surface density normalized by the average value in the box. Toward the end of the video, we can see small planetesimals being created by the streaming instability.
The star is located to the left of the box.
In this simulation: the stopping time is 0.314 and the box size is 120x120x120.
The length of each dimension is 0.2×Hg (the movie is zoomed into the midplane).
My area of focus is computer simulations.
I'm particularly interested in how computers can help answer questions in math and physics.
I have a Bachelor's of Science in Mathematical Physics from the University of Waterloo, with minors in Computer Science and Biophysics. While at Waterloo, I used computer simulations to study cosmology and galaxy formation. I graduated on the Dean's Honours List for earning a cumulative average of over 80%.
I also received a Master's of Science in Physics & Astronomy at McMaster University, where I used hydrodynamic simulations to study protoplanetary disks and the early stages of terrestrial planet formation. You can find my Master's thesis here.
During my co-op terms at the TRI-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF), I used simulations to study the behaviour of atomic nuclei with the GRIFFIN Collaboration (Gamma-Ray Infrastructure For Fundamental Investigations of Nuclei).
Some other papers I worked on at school that I'm proud of:
Implementing a Universal Set of Gates in an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer
An Introduction to the Basic Quantum Adversary Method
Estimating the Masses of Gap-Opening Planets in Protoplanetary Disks
Simulation of Shallow Water Equatorial Waves in MATLAB
Educational material I created:
Slides for my public talk on the history of astrobiology at the Origins Institute
Handout on ancient number systems for sixth graders (with a surprise appearance from binary!)
A note on circular motion of a charged particle for electrical engineering students
Me, next to the GRIFFIN Spectrometer at TRIUMF in my Shad Canada sweater.
Write to me!
gudapati.rishita [at] gmail.com
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