Alexander Johnson

Program Year:

University:

Harvard University

Field of Study:

Cosmology

Advisor:

Daniel Eisenstein

Degree(s):

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, 2019; B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, 2017

Practicum Experience(s)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2023)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Zarija

Lukic

Practicum Title:

Load Balancing Nyx Cosmological Code

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Core Tracking with Massless-Aggregation-Particles (MAPs) (2024)

Dynamical Data Mining Captures Disc-Halo Couplings That Structure Galaxies (2023)

Publications

Alexander C Johnson, Michael S Petersen, Kathryn V Johnston, Martin D Weinberg, Dynamical Data Mining Captures Disc-Halo Couplings that Structure Galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023;, stad485, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad485

"Coupling Basis Function Expansion with Multi-Channel Singular Spectrum
Analysis: a Powerful Toolkit for Dynamical Systems", by Johnson, A. C., Johnston, K. V., Petersen, M., Weinberg, M.D., 53rd Annual Meeting of DDA

"An Automated Approach to Extracting the Dynamical Processes Underlying Galactic Evolution in Numerical Simulations", 239th session of AAS, by: Johnson, A. C., Johnston, K. V., Petersen, M., Weinberg, M. D.

Awards

James Mills Pierce Fellowship (Harvard)
Graduate Prize Fellowship (Harvard)
IEEE Honors Society, Eta Kappa Nu (Carnegie Mellon)
National Honors Society of Aerospace Engineering, Sigma Gamma Tau (Univ. of MD), Banneker Key Scholarship (Univ. of MD)
Aerospace Engineering scholarship (Univ of MD)