This thesis locates the corporeal, (homo)erotic, temporal, and transnational tensions that give shape to a spectral presence in the works of three Latin American Neo-Baroque …
The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a period during the history of the Universe that as of today has been largely unconstrained by cosmological measurements. …
We present an analysis of systematic signals in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) Data from Phase II of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Prior work …
Dark matter is an essential ingredient in our modern understanding of the Universe. However, its fundamental role in cosmology is matched only by its conspicuous …
The last few years have seen significant interest in decaying dark matter. Specific models have been conjectured to account for observations that are not predicted …
The "E and B mode EXperiment," (EBEX) is a balloon-borne telescope which aims to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation in three …
Part I introduces the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving hyperbolic equations. The introduction and the DG scheme will be given in the first two …
Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe. Their enormous scale makes them the perfect environment to host cosmological phenomena that are …
This project is a literature review and mathematical investigation of the controversy surrounding firewalls inside the event horizon of black holes, specifically analyzing the firewall …
The quantities and properties of the dark constituents of the universe reveal much about the past and future development of the cosmos. It is thought …
Dark matter is by nature extremely difficult to detect. The only force we are certain it interacts with is gravity, making gravitational studies a key …
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is a proposed NASA-led mission designed to measure the polarization and intensity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). PIXIE will …
In recent years, weak gravitational lensing has become an indispensable method for understanding the concentration of matter on the largest scales. Galaxy clusters, the largest …
Cosmology in the 21st Century has evolved into a precision science. While ΛCDM has been established as the standard cosmological model there are still unanswered …
In this thesis, I explore possible extensions to the ΛCDM model of cosmology, their observational signatures, and the implementation of tools from machine learning for …
Despite numerous attempts at explaining and experimentally probing dark matter, thus far only its gravitational effects have been observed. These gravitational effects leave us blind …