Akiba
Tatsuya Akiba
I am currently a graduate student in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences department at the University of Colorado Boulder and a graduate research assistant at JILA researching the dynamics of eccentric nuclear disks (ENDs) with Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan. I am also wrapping up my project from this summer on modeling changing-look quasars with Dr. Jason Dexter. I graduated from Truman State University in August 2019 with Bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics. During my undergraduate years, I conducted observational astronomy research with Dr. Vayujeet Gokhale and theoretical quantum mechanics research with Dr. Taner Edis. Please explore my work, and feel free to contact me to learn more about it!
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