Equilibrium in Galaxies


I gave a pedagogical lecture on statistical equilibrium in galaxies at the U. Arizona Theoretical Astrophysics Program Computation and Data Initiative meetings in Fall 2025. The lecture notes can be found here.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship


ASTR400B - Galaxies & Cosmology, UArizona, Spring 2025

This class is primarily taken by fourth year undergraduate Astronomy majors. I assisted Prof. Gurtina Besla in teaching this class. I gave a lecture overviewing:
Github & Version Control - slides can be found here.
And built a tutorial on using the python package photutils for fitting ellipses on galaxy mass distributions:
Photutils tutorial - can be found here.

ASTR300A - Dynamics in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UArizona, Fall 2024

This class is primarily taken by third year undergraduate Astronomy majors. I assisted Prof. Kathryne J. Daniel in teaching this class. I gave lectures overviewing:
Galaxy Interactions - slides can be found here.
Graduate school application process - slides can be found here.


TIMESTEP - Github & Version Control (2024)


As a graduate student leader in the TIMESTEP undergraduate career development program at the University of Arizona, I developed a comprehensive tutorial (with hands-on exercises) on utilizing version control and github.

This tutorial was aimed towards undergraduate students at U. Arizona with the goal of introducing them to the software development and software maintainence standards in academia and industry. The tutorial can be accessed here.



Krittika Python Tutorials (2019-21)


A set of comprehensive python-for-astronomy tutorials created by our collective efforts through Krittika, the Astronomy Club of IIT Bombay. These cover several aspects of python programming with modules like numpy, scipy, astropy and matplotib in an easily accessible format.

These tutorials are particularly aimed towards undergraduate students across different institutions, with the purpose of helping them acquire the essential programming background to start Astronomy research. These tutorials are accompanied by exercises based on Astronomy applications. The tutorials can be accessed here.