Undergraduate research positions available

See here for contact information. Given the current pandemic, a number of research projects can also be performed remotely.

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Recent and selected publications

• “Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign”. J.C. Algaba et al. EHT-MWL Collaboration). ApJL 911:L11 (43pp), 2021. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abef71. arXiv/2104.06855
• “Multimessenger observations of counterparts to IceCube-190331A” F. Krauss et al. MNRAS, 497, 3 (2020) 2553–2561. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2148. arXiv/2007.10193​.
• “Multi-Epoch Modeling of TXS 0506+056 and Implications for Long-Term High-Energy Neutrino Emission”, M. Petropoulou et al. ApJ 891 (2020) 115, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab76d0, arXiv/1911.04010.
• “Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A,” The IceCube, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, AGILE, ASAS-SN, HAWC, H.E.S.S, INTEGRAL, Kanata, Kiso, Kapteyn, Liverpool telescope, Subaru, Swift/NuSTAR,  VERITAS , and VLA/17B-403 teams, Science 361, eaat1378 (2018). DOI:10.1126/science.aat1378. See paper here. Contributing author for IceCube, corresponding author for VERITAS.
• “Neutrino emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the IceCube-170922A alert,” IceCube Collaboration: M.G. Aartsen et al. Science 361, 147-151 (2018). DOI:10.1126/science.aat2890. See paper here.
• “VERITAS Observations of the BL Lac Object TXS 0506+056,” VERITAS Collaboration: Abeysekara et al. ApJL (2018), DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/aad053. Preprint: arXiv/1807.04607. Corresponding author. 
• “A Multimessenger Picture of the Flaring Blazar TXS 0506+056: Implications for High-Energy Neutrino Emission and Cosmic Ray Acceleration,” A. Keivani et al., ApJ (2018) 864, 1. Preprint: arXiv/1807.04537.
• “Strategies for the Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Transients with the Cherenkov Telescope Array”. I. Bartos et al. MNRAS (2018) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty602, Preprint: arXiv/1802.00446​
• “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger”, LIGO/Virgo and multiwavelength/multimessenger partners. ApJL, 848:L12 (2017), DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9. Preprint: arXiv/1710.05833
• ​”The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astronomy”,  M. Santander, review article in “Neutrino Astronomy- Current status, future prospects” Eds. T. Gaisser & A. Karle (World Scientific) arXiv/1606.09335​​.
• Full InSPIRE profile.

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In the news

Selected articles

• Motherboard (VICE): Hunting Elusive Particles from Outer Space in Antarctica – (video)
• UA News:  UA Contributes to Unprecedented Observations of Black Hole
• UA News: UA Assists in Detection of Crab Nebula Using Innovative Telescope
• Physics World: Neutrinos, the only palpable evidence of physics beyond the standard model.
• CNN: ‘Ghost particle’ found in Antarctica provides astronomy breakthrough
• Popular Science: We may finally know where the ‘ghost particles’ that surround us come from
• USA Today: Ghost particles from outer space: Scientists discover distant source of neutrinos
• Business Insider: A ghostly particle detected in Antarctica has led astronomers to a super-massive spinning black hole called a ‘blazar’
• Phys.org: VERITAS supplies critical piece to neutrino discovery puzzle

​En español

• La Voz de Galicia (España): La fuente de partículas fantasma en el cosmos lejano, al descubierto
• El Espectador (Colombia): Descubrimiento histórico de una fuente de ‘partículas fantasma’ de alta energía
• NYTimes: Llegó a Antártida desde un agujero negro: el origen de los rayos cósmicos

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Service and memberships

• APS, AAS and IAU member.
• Chair of the IceCube Realtime Oversight Committee.
• Chair of the VERITAS Astroparticle, Transient, Optical and Multimessenger science working group.
• Executive committee member of the NASA Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group and co-chair of the Cosmic Ray Science Interest Group.
• Member of the Fermi Users Group.
• Past reviewer in NASA, NSF, DPG panels. 
• Referee for ApJ, ApJL.

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Recent and upcoming talks and travel

2022

• Paris Saclay Astroparticle Symposium, Nov 2022
• SWGO candidate site visits (Chile & Argentina) Oct-Nov 2022
• 10th Fermi International Symposium, Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct 2022
• IceCube Collaboration Meeting, Madison, WI. Sept 2022
• (Invited) – Neutrinos as multimessenger probes of AGN environments, NASA TDAMM Workshop, Annapolis, MD, Aug 2022
• (Invited) – News from the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky – CCAPP Seminar – OSU, Apr 2022
• (Invited public lecture) – Neutrino Astronomy: A New Window into the Extreme Universe – STScI, Apr 2022
• (Invited lecture) – Multimessenger searches for cosmic-ray sources – ISAPP, Institut Pascal, Paris, France – Apr 2022

2021

• (Invited) – Multimessenger astrophysics with neutrinos and gamma rays in the coming decade – 88th meeting of SESAPS, FSU, Florida, US (Nov 2021)
• (Invited) – Paris Saclay Astroparticle Symposium 2021, Paris, France (Oct-Nov 2021)
• (Invited) – Synergies between IceCube and Fermi-LAT – Fermi-LAT Collaboration Meeting (Mar 2021)}
• (Invited) – The realtime multi-messenger program of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory – 2021 COSPAR General Assembly (Feb 2021)
• (Invited) – High-energy neutrinos as a multi-messenger probe of supermassive black hole environments – 2021 COSPAR General Assembly (Feb 2021)
• (Invited) – Highlights from the VERITAS IACT observing program. 2021 COSPAR General Assembly (Feb 2021).
• (Invited)  – Probing the AGN-neutrino connection – Astrophysics Seminar – Dept. of Physics and Astronomy – Purdue University (Feb 2021)
• (Invited) –Monsters in the night: searching for the sources of the highest-energy particles in the universe – Cal Poly Physics Colloquium (Jan 2021)

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2020

• (Invited) – Multiwavelength and multimessenger synergies for CMB-S4 – CMB-S4 Workshop, Aug 2020
• (Invited public talk) Capturing the highest-energy light from the universe – Winternitz Conference, UA CHC

• (Invited) Recent results in high-energy neutrino astrophysics with IceCube – Neutrino 2020 Conference (plenary talk).
• (Invited) The highest-energy particles in the universe – Nevis Labs Summer Colloquium Series (Columbia University)
• (Invited) 43rd COSPAR General Assembly, Sydney, Australia (Aug 15-22) 
• VERITAS observing shift, Whipple Observatory, AZ (May 26-30) 
• IceCube Collaboration meeting, Brussels, Belgium (May 9-15) 
• Fermi Symposium 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa (Mar 29 – Apr 3)  
• VERITAS Collaboration meeting, Tucson, AZ (Jan 12-17)

2019

• (Invited) CosNuMM2019, TD Lee Institute, Shanghai, China (Nov 26 – Nov 30)
• Fermi Users Group meeting- NASA Goddard (Oct 3)
• (Invited) CEA Saclay, France (Sep 21 – Sep 24)
• IceCube Collaboration Meeting, Chiba, Japan (Sep 15 – Sep 21)
• ICRC 2019 – Madison, WI (Jul 24 – Aug 1)
• pSCT/CTA meeting – Madison, WI (Jul 23 – Jul 24)
• Multimessenger Diversity Network meeting – Madison, WI (Jul 22 – Jul 24)
• IceCube Collaboration Meeting, Madison, WI (Apr 29- May 4) 
• (Invited) LHAASO Scientific Observation and Multimessenger Astronomy Workshop –  (Apr 22-28) Chengdu, China
• (Invited) APS April meeting – Unveiling the high-energy neutrino sky – Kavli plenary keynote speaker – (Apr 13-16). Chair of the NASA PhysPAG/CR-SIG minisymposium.
• (Co-organizer) IceCube Masterclass 2019 (UA – Mar 11, 2019) 
• (Invited) AAS HEAD Meeting – “Nature’s accelerators and neutrino sources” (Monterey, CA Mar 17-21)
• NSF Multimessenger@INCLUDES workshop (Madison, WI – Mar 7-9) 
• (Co-organizer) CUWiP Alabama 2019 (UA, Jan 18-19)

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