Impact Modification of Mercury’s Mantle Composition
Published in Undergraduate Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
Advisor: Linda Elkins-Tanton
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publications
Solubility of iron in metallic hydrogen and stability of dense cores in giant planets
Published in Astrophysical Journal, 2013
Recommended citation: S M Wahl, H F Wilson, B Militzer, ApJ, 773(2013) 95.
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High-temperature miscibility of iron and rock during terrestrial planet formation
Published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015
Recommended citation: S M Wahl, B Militzer, EPSL 410 (2015) 25.
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Understanding Jupiter’s Interior
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research, 2016
Recommended citation: B Militzer, F Soubiran, SM Wahl, and W Hubbard, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 121, 2016.
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Tidal Response of Preliminary Jupiter Model
Published in Astrophysical Journal, 2016
Recommended citation: S M Wahl, W Hubbard, B Militzer, ApJ, 831 (1), 14, 2016.
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The Concentric Maclaurin Spheroid method with tides and a rotational enhancement of Saturn’s tidal response
Published in Icarus, 2016
Recommended citation: S M Wahl , W Hubbard, B Militzer, Icarus, 282,183-194, 2016.
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The effect of differential rotation on Jupiter’s low-degree even gravity moments
Published in Geophysical Research Letters, 2017
Recommended citation: Y Kaspi, T Guillot ,E Galanti, Y Miguel, R Helled, WB Hubbard, B Militzer, S M Wahl, S Levin, J E P Connerney, S J Bolton, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 5960–5968, 2017.
Modeling Planetary Interiors: From Microscopic to Global Scales
Published in Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, 2017
Committee: Burkhard Militzer (chair), Bruce Buffett, David Romps, Eugene Chiang
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Comparing Jupiter Interior Structure Models to Juno Gravity Measurements and the Role of a Dilute Core
Published in Geophysical Research Letters, 2017
Recommended citation: S M Wahl, W Hubbard, B Militzer, T Guillot, Y Miguel, N Movshovitz, Y Kaspi, R Helled, D Reese, E Galanti, S Levin, J Connerney, S Bolton, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 4649–4659, 2017.
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Jupiter’s atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep
Published in Nature, 2018
Recommended citation: Y Kaspi, E Galanti, W B Hubbard, D J Stevenson, S J Bolton, L Iess, T Guillot, J Bloxham, J E P Connerney, H Cao, D Durante, W M Folkner, R Helled, A P Ingersoll, S M Levin, J I Lunine, Y Miguel, B Militzer, M Parisi, S M Wahl Nature 555 (2018) 223
Measurement of Jupiter’s asymmetric gravity field
Published in Nature, 2018
Recommended citation: L Iess, W M Folkner, D Durante, M Parisi, Y Kaspi, E Galanti, T Guillot, W B Hubbard, D J Stevenson, J D Anderson, D R Buccino, L Gomez Casajus, A Milani, R Park, P Racioppa, D Serra, P Tortora, M Zannoni, H Cao, R Helled, J I Lunine, Y Miguel, B Militzer, S M Wahl, J E P Connerney, S M Levin, S J Bolton, Nature 555 (2018) 220.
A suppression of differential rotation in Jupiter’s deep interior
Published in Nature, 2018
Recommended citation: T Guillot, Y Miguel, B Militzer, W B Hubbard, Y Kaspi, E Galanti, H Cao, R Helled, S M Wahl, L Iess, W M Folkner, D J Stevenson, J I Lunine, D R Reese, A Biekman, M Parisi, D Durante, J E P Connerney, S M Levin & S J Bolton, Nature, 555 (2018) 227.
Measurement and implications of Saturn’s gravity field and ring mass
Published in Science, 2019
Recommended citation: L Iess, B Militzer, Y Kaspi, P Nicholson, D Durante, P Racioppa, A Anabtawi, E Galanti, W Hubbard, MJ Mariani, P Tortora, S M Wahl, M Zannoni, Science, 2019.
Models of Saturn’s Interior Constructed with an Accelerated Concentric Maclaurin Spheroid Method
Published in Astrophysical Journal, 2019
Recommended citation: B Militzer, S M Wahl, W B Hubbard, ApJ, 879 78, 2019.
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Equilibrium Tidal Response of Jupiter: Detectability by Juno
Published in Astrophysical Journal, 2020
Recommended citation: S M Wahl, M Parisi, W M Folkner, W B Hubbard, B Militzer, ApJ, 891, 1, 2020.
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Tidal Response and Shape of Hot Jupiters
Published in Astrophysical Journal, 2021
Recommended citation: S M Wahl, D Thorngren, T Lu, B Militzer, ApJ, (in press).
teaching
12.001: Introduction to Geology
Published in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth and Planetary Science Department, 2010, 2010
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Lead discussion sessions and helped with weekly labs.
EPS/Astron C12: The Planets
Published in University of California, Berkeley, 2011, 2011
Graduate Student Instructor
Lead discussion sessions and helped with lab demonstrations. Developed course material, including a lab designed to teach students about the geomorphology of Mars using Google Mars.
EPS 100A: Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin
Published in University of California, Berkeley, 2014, 2014
Graduate Student Instructor
Lead weekly lab sessions, developed course material and helped organize the courses sample collection.
Berkeley D-Lab: Python Fundamentals
Published in University of California, Berkeley, 2014, 2014
Teaching assistant
Volunteered as teaching assistent for an introductory python workshop hosted by the D-lab at UC Berkeley. The workshop was focused on introducing python data analaysis for humanities.
The Hacker Within
Published in University of California, Berkeley, 2015, 2015
Presenter
Developed and presented tutorials on scientific computing, data analysis and visualization in python for fellow researchers as part of the Berkeley Chapter of The Hacker Within. Here is a presentation I gave for demonstrating the capabilities of matplotlib and another presentation demonstrating the capabilities of pandas.
Mentoring Visiting Researcher
Mentor for visiting undergraduate student researcher from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Helped design and carry out a computational research project to help understand ongoing experiments at from his research group in Japan.
Mentoring Undergraduate Researcher
Mentor for visiting undergraduate student researcher from Caltech, helped design and carry out a research project that was ultimately presented at the AGU Fall meeting.
CIPS Seminar
Organizer
Co-organized the weekly seminar for the Center for Integrative Planetary Science. Selected and hosting visiting speakers from around the country and maintained the CIPS website. Helped migrate the physical seminar to a remote seminar for the COVID lockdown.
EPS 109: Computer Simulations with Jupyter Notebooks
Guest Lecturer
Developed a section of course material and accompanying computer lab teaching students about image processing using python and LANDSAT satellite imagery. Gave a guest lecture on that material and helped students with the lab.