Education
Ph.D. Cornell University (2006)
B.S. University of Arizona (2001)
Websites
Specialties:
- Particle Astrophysics
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- Theoretical
- Gravitational Physics & Cosmology
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- Theoretical
- Particles & Fields
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- Theoretical
Honors and Awards
- Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute (January 1, 2016 - present)
- Emmy Noether Visting Fellow, Perimeter Institute (August 2015 - December 2015)
Selected Publications
- The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, and S. Shandera, Search for sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's second observing run, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) no. 16, 161102.
- Shandera, S., Jeong, D. and Gebhardt, H.S.G, Gravitational waves from binary mergers of subsolar mass dark black holes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) no.24, 241102.
- Shandera, S., Agarwal, N., and Kamal, A., Open quantum cosmological system, Phys. Rev. D. 98 (2018) no. 98, 083535.
- Abazajian, K.N., Adshead, P., Ahmed, Z., Allen, S., Alonso, D., et al. CMB-S4 Science Book, 2016.
- Zhao, G.B., Wang, Y., Ross, A.J., Shandera, S., Percival, W.J., Dawson, K.S., Kneib, J.-P., Meyers, A.D., Brownstein, J.R., Comparat, J., Delubac, T., Gao, P., Hojjati, A., Koyama, K., McBride, C.K., Meza, A., Newman, J.A., Rossi, G., Schneider, D.P., Seo, H.-J., Tao, C., Wang, D., Yeche, C., Zhang, H., Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., Zhu, F., and Zou, H., et al. The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS): A Cosmological Forecast, Astron. J. 151 (2016).
- Nelson, E. and Shandera, S. Statistical Naturalness and non-Gaussianity in a Finite Universe. Phys. Rev. Lett., 110 (2013), no.13, 131301.
- Shandera, S., Mantz, A., Rapetti, D., and Allen, S.W. X-ray Cluster Constraints on Non-Gaussianity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(08), 004
- Burgess, C., Holman, R., Leblond, L., and Shandera, S. Super-Hubble de Sitter Fluctuations and the dynamical RG. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2010(03), 033.
- LoVerde, M., Miller, A., Shandera, S., and Verde, L. Effects of scale-dependent non-Gaussianity on cosmological structures. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2008, no. 04 (2008): 014.
- Becker, M., Leblond, L., Shandera, S. Inflation from wrapped branes. Phys. Rev. D 76, 123516 (2007).
Assistants:
- Natasha Urbanik