I’m Urmila Chadayammuri, but most people, including fellow academics, call me Mila.
I’m a graduate student at Yale Astronomy. My current projects include:
- analyzing the evolution of gas in galaxy clusters in the Omega and Romulus simulations to understand the cool/non-cool core dichotomy
- developing new sub-grid models of Active Galactic Nucleus feedback for the adaptive-mesh hydrodynamic code ART
I also write for the Yale Scientific Magazine and teach workshops on science communication at the Graduate Writing Lab at Yale. Ping me if you’d like to help get people excited about science!
Well done Urmila !
Boban&Natasha , Kyiv
Thanks Boban uncle!
Impressive. I like the choice of simulation codes. Oddly, I recently saw computer enhanced electron microscopy of neural synapses. Modeling at the molecular level. Is it the opposite direction from cosmology?
People have strong opinions about the similarity of neural webs and the cosmic web! Some think it’s a total coincidence, others think it means the Universe is a brain.. I’m somewhere in between, because I suspect it might be a similar concept of balance of forces (gravity vs expansion for the Universe, molecular tugs from different directions in the brain) that drive the formation of both structures. Nautilus covers this in some more depth: http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/the-strange-similarity-of-neuron-and-galaxy-networks