• 2022
  • Feb 2022: Paper accepted! Led by Thayne Currie, Wlad lead the modeling effort.
  • Jan 2022: Paper published.
  • Jan 2022: Teaching Astr621: Planet Formation Theory.
• 2021
  • Nov 2021: Hosting Marcelo Barraza.
  • Nov 2021: First student paper from NMSU submitted! Led by PhD student Ali Hyder.
  • Oct 2021: Wlad gives colloquium at LANL.
  • Sep 2021: Paper submitted!
  • Sep 2021: Invited talk at the (online) conference Spinning Fluids.
  • Aug 2021: Teaching Life in the Universe, an upper division course at NMSU for non-majors.
  • Jul 2021: Research note on elliptic vortex solution.
  • Jun 2021: Paper accepted.
  • Apr 2021: Awarded 100k SUs (6.8M CPU hours) on Stampede.
  • Apr 2021: Awarded the 2021 NMSU College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Outreach.
  • Apr 2021: Talk (remote) at Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, host Nathan Leigh.
  • Mar 2021: Paper on vortex trapping posted at the arXiv. A route for planet formation in very low metallicity stars.
  • Feb 2021: Dr Debanjan Sengupta hired as postdoc. Dr Sengupta will start in Dec 2021 in our group.
  • Jan 2021: Teaching Astro 506: Dynamics and Hydrodynamics, a PhD course at NMSU
• 2020
  • Dec 2020: Paper submitted! Second author, led by Natalie Raettig, on vortex trapping in 3D.
  • Dec 2020: XSEDE renewal awarded. 80k node hours (5M cpu hours). $20k equivalent.
  • Dec 2020: Course webpage for Astro 503, with online video playlists.
  • Nov 2020: Paper submitted! To Astronomy Education Journal, on original pedagogy teaching Kepler's 2nd law.
  • Nov 2020: Attending (online) Planetesimal Formation Meeting.
  • Oct 2020: Talk at DPS 2020.
  • Oct 2020: $1.3M NASA-TCAN grant awarded to study planet formation via streaming instability.
  • Oct 2020: Colloquium (remote) at Iowa State Univeristy (host Jake Simon).
  • Sep 2020: Paper submitted, on the Pencil Code, led by Axel Brandenburg.
  • Sep 2020: Paper submitted, on planet detection by disk dynamics, led by Richard Teague.
  • Aug 2020: Paper accepted, on the evolution of ices in Arrokoth, led by Casey Lisse.
  • Aug 2020: Teaching Astro 503: Fundamental Astronomy
  • Jul 2020: NSF grant awarded to study planet formation via dynamical instabilities.
  • Jul 2020: Pencil code meeting in (the virtual version of) Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Jun 2020: Courses (remote) on exoplanets and mathematical epidemiology for the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science.
  • Apr 2020: Invited talk on the (forced into remote) conference Building Blocks of Planets.
  • Apr 2020: Paper submitted! to PLOS One, on mathematical modeling of the covid-19 pandemics, first author. [medRxiv]. [July update: accepted; September update: published]
  • Apr 2020: Paper submitted! on the sublimation history of MU69, led by Jordan Steckloff. [July update: accepted.]
  • Mar 2020: COVID-19 LOCKDOWN!!
  • Mar 2020: Talk at New Horizons team meeting.
  • Mar 2020: Talk at Steward Observatory in Tucson AZ.
  • Mar 2020: Fourth Star News column.
  • Mar 2020: Paper submitted! on dynamics of stellar mass objects in AGN disks, led by Amy Secunda. [Sep update: accepted]
  • Mar 2020: Paper submitted! on dust dynamics in RHD disk models, led by Mario Flock. [May update: accepted]
  • Feb 2020: Out In Space podcast launched! With interviews with out LGBT+ astronomers.
  • Feb 2020: Second AoT Las Cruces event.
  • Feb 2020: M.Sc. student Leonardo Cassara admitted for PhD studies in Brazil. Congrats Leo!
  • Feb 2020: M.Sc. student Areli Castrejon admitted for PhD studies in the Netherlands. Congrats Areli!
  • Feb 2020: Third Star News column.
  • Feb 2020: Moderated panel on the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh.
  • Jan 2020: Launched Astronomy on Tap Las Cruces.
  • Jan 2020: Public talk at the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces.
  • Jan 2020: Teaching Planet Formation Theory (PhD course).
  • Jan 2020: Second Star News article on our local newspaper, the Las Cruces Sun News.
• 2019
  • Dec 2019: Ad Astra 2019 Rio de Janeiro!
  • Dec 2019: Started writing for our local newspaper, the Las Cruces Sun News. My monthly column is Star News, every first Sunday of the month. Here's the first one: Zeroing in on an alien ocean.
  • Nov 2019: Paper submitted! on Social Sciences (!!), about our outreach/education program Ad Astra academy! [soc arXiv]
  • Oct 2019: Paper submitted! On the orbital evolution of MU69 aka Ultima Thule.
  • Oct 2019: Attending the Disk Dynamics conference at the CCA in NYC.
  • Oct 2019: Talk at Las Cruces High School.
  • Aug 2019: Group established!