Ravi Kumar Kopparapu

Department of Geosciences -- The Penn State University

443 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 225.678.0058

Curriculum Vitae


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Postdoctoral Positions

  • 2010 Sep - 2013 : Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University.
  • 2007 Sep - 2010 August: Postdoctoral scholar at Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University.

Education

  • August 2000- December 2006: Ph.D (Physics), Louisiana State University;
    • Dissertation Title : Population Boundaries and Gravitational Wave Templates for Evolving White Dwarf Binaries.
  • August 2000- May 2003 : M.S. in Physics, Louisiana State University
  • August 1996 - June 1998: M.Sc. in Physics, University of Pune , India
  • June 1993 - June 1996: B.Sc. in Electronics, Nagarjuna University, India

Invited talks and workshops

  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Exoplanets seminar (July, 2011)
  • NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) workshop on Revisiting the Habitable Zone (Aug 2010)
  • Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, Penn State (May 2010)
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Exoplanets seminar (April, 2010)
  • Northwestern University, Theoretical Astrophysics Group (March, 2010)
  • Penn State Institute for Graviation and Cosmos postgrad seminar (Jan 18, 2010)

Membership

  • Member of NASA's ExoPlanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) on "Planetary Architecture and Dynamical Stability"
  • Virtual Planetary Lab, NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), Pennstate.
  • American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Selected Conference Presentations

  • Hot sub-dwarfs as gravitational-wave sources for LISA
        Kopparapu, R. K., Wade, R; 2009 APS meeting (talk)
  • Distinguishing GRB Progenitors using Gravitational-Wave Observations
         Bondarescu, R; Kopparapu, R. K ; Finn, L. S; Lang, M; Summerscales, T. Z.; 2009 LIGO-VIRGO Scientific Collaboration meeting (poster)
  • Stability of Multi-planet Systems in and around Habitable Zones
        Kopparapu, R;; Barnes, R; 2009, American Astronomical Society (talk)
  • A gravitational-wave color-magnitude diagram for compact binary systems
        Kopparapu, R; 2008, Eastern Gravity Meeting (talk)
  • Can Binary Population Synthesis Models Be Tested With Hot Sub-dwarfs ?
        Kopparapu, R;Wade, R; 2008, American Astronomical Society meeting (poster)