Anna Y. Q. Ho

May 2022: I will present our work on finding relativistic stellar explosions as fast optical transients at Massive Stars Near and Far (IAU Symposium 361) in Ballyconnell, Ireland.
May 2022: I gave the keynote address for the annual Cray User Group meeting in Monterey, CA. The title of my talk was "The Landscape of Stellar Death."
April 2022: I gave the colloquium at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, CA. The title of my talk was "Fast Transients: A (Fleeting) Window on the Final Stages of Stellar Evolution and the Formation of Compact Objects."
April 2022: I gave an invited talk at the American Physical Society April Meeting in New York City, as one of three finalists for the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Dissertation Prize . The title of my talk was "The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions."
April 2022: I gave an invited talk at the virtual CCAT Collaboration Meeting . The title of my talk was "The Dynamic Millimeter-wave Sky with FYST & CMB-S4."

About

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell.

I am interested in high-energy astrophysics, particularly the explosive manifestations of stellar death. I use a variety of observational techniques, including optical time-domain surveys, radio interferometry, and massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys. I am an active member of the ZTF, ULTRASAT, DESI, and CMB-S4 collaborations, and serve as co-chair of the ULTRASAT gamma-ray bursts working group.

Before coming to Cornell, I was a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley, obtained my PhD in Astrophysics from Caltech, and spent a year supported by a Fulbright Scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. I received my B.S. in Physics from MIT.

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