News

2023

JWST-MIRI observations show an exciting discovery! Andrea finds that compact disks show a cold water excess over extended disks, which likely came from increased pebble drift in these disks, consistent with our numerical models! See the NASA press release here.

Jun: Participated in the Gordon Research Conference

May: Participated in the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Spring Symposium, and gave a talk about our work there.

2022

June: Whittney presented an AAS poster about our work on effect of multiple gaps in protoplanetary disks on inner disk water vapor.

Jan: Andrea and I talk briefly about his accepted Cycle-1 JWST proposal on local TV (Houston News Channel)

2021

Aug: Our paper on “linking outer disk pebble dynamics with inner disk water vapor” is accepted and now on arXiv!

Jun-Aug: Participated in the TXST SURE Program as an undergraduate student mentor

Jul 19-23: Participated in the Sagan Summer Workshop

May-Jun: Talked remotely about my modeling work in the disk/planet discussion groups at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Lund University and Rice University.

Mar: JWST Proposal led by Andrea to link water vapor in disks to mm-observed structure is approved!

Jan 11-15: Participated in Virtually held AAS Meeting

2020

June: Joined Texas State University as a postdoctoral researcher

Jan 23: My phD advisor Steve Desch came to Clemson for a visit and gave us a stimulating colloquium talk!

Jan 4-8: Participated in AAS Meeting in Hawaii

2019

May: An eagle-eyed colleague Alan Heays brought to our attention that we (Kalyaan & Desch 2019) got featured in an article titled “The Power of Illustration” by the editor of Physics Today! Read it here.

Mar: Our paper on “effect of different angular momentum transport mechanisms on water distribution in disks” is accepted!

Jan: Gave my dissertation talk at AAS

2018

Dec: Defended my phD thesis!