Personal website of Ryan Brady

Education

2025 - M.A. in Physics, Stony Brook University
2021 - 2025 B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Graduated Cum Laude with departmental honors in both Physics & Astronomy; sole recipient of Honors distinction in Astronomy among graduating class. Honors Thesis.

Publications

(SUBMITTED)The Open Journal of Astrophysics (PREPRINT)TDCOSMO XXVI: Uniform Lens Modeling of Eight Doubly Imaged Quasars
R. Brady, X-Y. Huang, S. Birrer, A. J. Shajib, N. S. Nihal, C. Lemon, M. Millon, V. Motta, D. Sluse, and F. Courbin
Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society Numerical Treatment of Shock Induced Nuclear Burning in Double Detonation Type Ia Supernovae
R. Brady & M. Zingale (2025)
Journal of Physics: Conference Series The Challenges of Modeling Astrophysical Reacting Flows
M. Zingale, K. Bhargava, R. Brady, Z. Chen, S. Guichandut, E. Johnson, M. Katz, A. Smith Clark (2025)

Awards

May 2026 Distinguished Travel Award, Stony Brook University ($1,400 USD)
Awards are presented to exceptional graduate students to facilitate presentation of their work at a conference of their choosing
Jan. 2026 Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award Honorable Mention, American Astronomical Society
Awards are distributed to recognize exemplary research by graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the AAS
Apr. 2025 Inaugural Barry Barish Travel Scholarship, Stony Brook University ($1,500 USD)
Awarded for outstanding research in gravitational lensing
Jan. 2025 NASA New York Space Grant, National Aeronautics & Space Administration ($1,700 USD)
Proposal: Estimating the Hubble Constant with Doubly Lensed Quasars and Time-Delay Cosmography
Nov. 2024 Stony Brook University Undergraduate Researcher of the Month [Interview] , Stony Brook University
Distinguished each month to an undergraduate who conducts innovative research on campus, who is an active participant in the broader scientific community, and who exhibits strong scholarly potential
Oct. 2024 Conference Experience for Undergraduates (CEU), University of Wisconsin - La Crosse ($2,000 USD)
Prizewinners were granted funds for travel, lodging, registration, and presentation of a poster at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting in Boston, MA.
Sep. 2024 NASA New York Space Grant, National Aeronautics & Space Administration ($1,000 USD)
Proposal: Estimating the Hubble Constant with Doubly Lensed Quasars and Time-Delay Cosmography
May 2024 SBU URECA Summer Research Fellowship, Stony Brook University ($5,000 USD)
Proposal: Improving Shcok Wave Modeling in Type Ia Supernovae Simulations
Jan. 2024 NASA New York Space Grant, National Aeronautics & Space Administration ($1,750 USD)
Proposal: Double Detonation Modeling of Type Ia Supernovae
May 2023 SBU URECA Summer Research Fellowship, Stony Brook University ($5,000 USD)
Proposal: Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays as Oscilloscopes and Arbitrary Waveform Generators

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