Former group members

Konstantin Pavlovskii

• 2015-2016 postdoctoral fellow at the UofA
• 2011-2015 PhD student at the UofA
• 2012-2015 Golden Bell Jar Graduate Scholarship in Physics


• Publications related to postdoctoral position
• Stability of mass transfer from massive giants: double black hole binary formation and ultraluminous X-ray sour\ ces (MNRAS, 2017)


• Publications related to thesis
• Mass transfer from giant donors (MNRAS, 2015)
• Galactic Ultracompact X-ray Binaries: Disk Stability and Evolution (ApJ, 2013)
• "Ultra-compact X-ray binaries with high luminosity: a key for a new scenario" (proceeding for IAUS 291)
• "How do red giants respond to mass loss?" (proceeding for IUAS 290)


• Paticipant of the conferences during PhD studies:
  
  • Stellar Tango at the Rockies 2014 (Lake Louise, Canada): oral presentation
  • CASCA 2013 (Vancouver, Canada): poster presentations
  • General Assembly (Beijing, China 2012): IAUS 290, IAUS 291 (poster presentations)

Jose Luis Avendano Nandez, PhD student 2011-2015

Now: HPC/data scientist (permanent position) at Sharcnet (consortium of Canadian academic institutions who share a network of high performance computers)

• 2011-2015 CONACyT graduate scholarship


• Publications related to thesis
• Recombination energy in double white dwarf formation (MMRAS, 2015)
• Testing Common Envelopes on Double White Dwarf Binaries (ASP, 2015)
• V1309 Sco : Understanding a Merger (ApJ, 2014)
• "Identification of the Long-Sought Common-Envelope Events" (Science, 2013)
• " On the Origin of the Metallicity Dependence in Dynamically formed Extragalactic Low-mass X-Ray Binaries" (ApJ, 2012)


• Paticipant of the conferences during PhD studeis:
  
  • 19th European Workshop on White Dwarfs 2014 (Montreal, Canada): oral presentation
  • Stellar Tango at the Rockies 2014 (Lake Louise, Canada): oral presentation
  • CASCA 2013 (Vancouver, Canada): oral presentation

Tyrone Woods , MSc student Sep 2009- Aug 2011

Now: a research fellow in the Cosmic Explosions group at the Monash Centre for Astrophysics in Melbourne, Australia.
Publications related to thesis:

• "Can We Trust Models for Adiabatic Mass Loss? "
• "On The Formation of Double White Dwarfs: Reevaluating How We Parametrize the Common Envelope Phase "
• "On the Formation of Double White Dwarfs through Stable Mass Transfer and a Common Envelope"
• "The Formation of Low-Mass Double White Dwarfs through an Initial Phase of Stable Non-Conservative Mass Transfer"
• "Formation of black-hole X-ray binaries in globular clusters"

Participant of conferences while was duing MSc:

• "CASCA" conference, London, Canada, May 2011: oral presentation
• "Compact Binaries", Valparaiso, Chile, March 2011: oral presentation
• "Interacting Binaries" conference, Mykonos, Greece, June 2010: poster presentation
• "CITA-25" conference, Toronto, May 2010: poster presentation

Marc van der Sluys, CITA National Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2010

Now: Postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen