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Melissa Rasmussen

Headshot of Melissa Rasmussen
Program Year:
2
University:
Stony Brook University
Field of Study:
Astronomy
Advisor:
Michael Zingale
Degree(s):
B.S. Physics, and B.S. Computer Science, Utah State University, 2022
Personal URL:
https://melilly.github.io/

Practicum Experience(s)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Ethan
Young
Practicum Title:
Extending Fluid-Structure Interaction Codes for Floating Photovoltaic Arrays

Publications

M. Zingale, Z. Chen, M. Rasmussen, A. Polin, M. Katz, A. S. Clark, and E. T. Johnson (2024). Sensitivity of Simulations of Double-detonation Type Ia Supernovae to Integration Methodology. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 966, Number 2. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3441.

J. A. Guzik, R. Wagner, K. Kinemuchi, E. Farag, M. S. Soukup, M. Rasmussen, and P. V. F. Edelmann (2022). A Visit to a Few High-Amplitude Delta Scuti Stars. Proceedings of the 111th AAVSO Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, Nov. 4-6, 2022. https://www.aavso.org/111.

M. Zingale, M. P. Katz, A. Nonaka, and M. Rasmussen (2022). An Improved Method for Coupling Hydrodynamics with Astrophysical Reaction Networks. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 936, Number 1. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac8478.

E. Orlando, M. Rasmussen, and A. Strong (2021). Population Studies of Fermi LAT Galactic Sources. Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference. https://pos.sissa.it/395/662/pdf.

F. Poole, J. Clarke-Midura, M. Rasmussen, U. Shehzad, and V. R. Lee (2021). Tabletop games designed to promote computational thinking. Computer Science Education, Volume 32, Issue 4, pp. 449-475. DOI: 10.1080/08993408.2021.1947642.

V. R. Lee, F. Poole, J. Clarke-Midura, M. Recker, and M. Rasmussen (2020). Introducing Coding through Tabletop Board Games and Their Digital Instantiations across Elementary Classrooms and School Libraries. Proceedings of ACM SIGCSE 2020. DOI: 10.1145/3328778.3366917.

Awards

Institute for Advanced Computational Science New Recruit Award, 2023, 2024
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, USU Physics, 2022
College of Science Legacy of Utah State Award, 2021
Outstanding Junior and Outstanding Senior, USU Computer Science, 2020, 2022
USU Goldwater Scholarship Nominee, 2021
Space Dynamics Lab Student Scholar, 2021