School of Humanities and Sciences
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Andrew Eberhardt
Ph.D. Student in Physics, admitted Summer 2017
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research centers on developing numerical methods to understand problems in the intersection between astrophysics, cosmology, and quantum mechanics. Currently simulations of dark matter structure on cosmological and astrophysical scales provide competitive bounds on the dark matter mass at the lowest end. I develop methods to approximate quantum field corrections to classical field simulations of scalar field dark matter.
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Gabriel Ellis
Ph.D. Student in Music, admitted Autumn 2017
BioGabriel Ellis is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Stanford University. He writes on aesthetics and affect in popular music and culture.
In his dissertation, Gabriel explores the thematization of numbness, sleep, and narcotic intoxication in musical genres ranging from 1980s shoegaze and dreampop to contemporary trap music and cloud rap. He argues that artists in these genres have developed uniquely refined aesthetic vocabularies for evoking states of “not-feeling,” paradoxically translating experiences of sensory deprivation into the sensual medium of sound. In response, he develops a theory of “anaesthetics”— the aesthetics of anaesthesia—which he offers as a paradigm for analyzing not just popular song and music video but also contemporary film, literature, digital media, and everyday life.
Gabriel’s other areas of interest include critical theory, media studies, post-Marxist aesthetics, and the study of “feelings” of all sorts, including moods, tones, textures, affects, emotions, and vibes.
