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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Associate Professor
Core Faculty in Women's Studies
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Courses Taught

  • PHYS 710/810: Astrophysics I
  • PHYS 943: Quantum Mechanics I
  • PHYS 999: Doctoral Research

Education

  • Ph.D., Univ of Waterloo
  • M.S., University of California - Santa Cruz
  • A.B., Harvard University

Selected Publications

  • Rutherford, N., Mendes, M., Svensson, I., Schwenk, A., Watts, A. L., Hebeler, K., . . . Lattimer, J. M. (2024). Constraining the Dense Matter Equation of State with New NICER Mass–Radius Measurements and New Chiral Effective Field Theory Inputs. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 971(1), L19. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ad5f02

  • Glennon, N., Musoke, N., Nadler, E. O., Prescod-Weinstein, C., & Wechsler, R. H. (n.d.). Dynamical friction in self-interacting ultralight dark matter. Physical Review D, 109(6). doi:10.1103/physrevd.109.063501

  • Rutherford, N., Raaijmakers, G., Prescod-Weinstein, C., & Watts, A. (n.d.). Constraining bosonic asymmetric dark matter with neutron star mass-radius measurements. Physical Review D, 107(10). doi:10.1103/physrevd.107.103051

  • Glennon, N., Musoke, N., & Prescod-Weinstein, C. (2023). Simulations of multi-field ultralight axion-like dark matter. Phys. Rev. D, 107, 063520. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.063520

  • Drlica-Wagner, A., Prescod-Weinstein, C., Yu, H. -B., Albert, A., Amin, M., Banerjee, A., . . . Wechsler, R. H. (2022). Report of the Topical Group on Cosmic Probes of Dark Matter for Snowmass
    2021. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08215v3

  • Riley, T. E., Watts, A. L., Ray, P. S., Bogdanov, S., Guillot, S., Morsink, S. M., . . . Cognard, I. (2021). A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 918(2). doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac0a81

  • Watts, A. L., Yu, W., Poutanen, J., Zhang, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Bogdanov, S., . . . Zhou, X. (2019). Dense matter with eXTP. SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY, 62(2). doi:10.1007/s11433-017-9188-4

  • DeCross, M. P., Kaiser, D. I., Prabhu, A., Prescod-Weinstein, C., & Sfakianakis, E. I. (2018). Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. I. Covariant formalism and attractor behavior. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 97(2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.023526

  • DeCross, M. P., Kaiser, D. I., Prabhu, A., Prescod-Weinstein, C., & Sfakianakis, E. I. (2018). Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. III. Dynamical spacetime results. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 97(2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.023528

  • Guth, A. H., Hertzberg, M. P., & Prescod-Weinstein, C. (2015). Do dark matter axions form a condensate with long-range correlation?. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 92(10). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.103513

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