Viviana Acquaviva

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Viviana Acquaviva
Born (1979-06-05) 5 June 1979 (age 46)
Alma mater University of Pisa
International School for Advanced Studies
Scientific career
Institutions New York City College of Technology
Princeton University
Rutgers University
Thesis Perturbazioni cosmologiche al secondo ordine nello scenario inflazionario  (2002)
Website Viviana Acquaviva

Viviana Acquaviva (born 5 June 1979) is an Italian astrophysicist who is a professor in the Department of Physics at the New York City College of Technology. Her research interests include data science and machine learning for physics and astronomy. She was named one of Italy's most inspirational technologists in 2019. [1]

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Early life and education

Acquaviva studied physics at the University of Pisa, where she studied second order cosmological perturbations for her master thesis under the supervision of Sabino Matarrese and Paolo Paolicchi. [2] [3] She then moved to the International School for Advanced Studies for her PhD. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and Rutgers University. Her research looked at dark energy, modified models of gravity. She also trained in statistics and analysed cosmic microwave background data.[ citation needed ]

Research and career

Acquaviva joined the faculty of City University of New York. [4] Her research considers the development of computational tools to determine information about galaxy properties, including star formation history, the attenuation of dust and stellar mass. [5] [6] She created GalMC, a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, that could be used to infer age, metallicity and star formation rate from spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. [5] She was part of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). [7] She has shown that machine learning models can be used to understand the relationship between galaxy spectra and the histories of their star formation. [8]

Acquaviva seeks to improve diversity within the astrophysics community. [9] [10] She has led training programs for people from groups historically marginalized from astrophysics, including people in correctional facilities. [11]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Marino, Francesco (6 September 2021). "Le donne italiane più influenti nel digitale e nell'innovazione: Digiwomen 2021". Digitalic (in Italian). Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  2. ↑ Acquaviva, Viviana (2002). Perturbazioni cosmologiche al secondo ordine nello scenario inflazionario : tesi di laurea. OCLC   886794946.
  3. ↑ "Faculty Profile". www.citytech.cuny.edu. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  4. ↑ Unknown (20 March 2014). "CANDELS: Astronomer of the Month: Viviana Acquaviva". CANDELS. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  5. 1 2 Acquaviva, Viviana; Gawiser, Eric; Guaita, Lucia (28 July 2011). "SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION FITTING WITH MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO: METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATION TOz= 3.1 Lyα-EMITTING GALAXIES". The Astrophysical Journal. 737 (2): 47. arXiv: 1101.2215 . Bibcode:2011ApJ...737...47A. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/737/2/47. ISSN   0004-637X. S2CID   118691411.
  6. ↑ "data-science". datascience.sissa.it. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Grogin, Norman A.; Kocevski, Dale D.; Faber, S. M.; Ferguson, Henry C.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Riess, Adam G.; Acquaviva, Viviana; Alexander, David M.; Almaini, Omar; Ashby, Matthew L. N.; Barden, Marco; Bell, Eric F.; Bournaud, Frederic; Brown, Thomas M.; Caputi, Karina I. (2011). "CANDELS: the cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy". Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 197 (2): 35. arXiv: 1105.3753 . doi:10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/35. hdl: 1854/LU-8575196 . ISSN   0067-0049.
  8. ↑ Lovell, Christopher C.; Acquaviva, Viviana; Thomas, Peter A.; Iyer, Kartheik G.; Gawiser, Eric; Wilkins, Stephen M. (21 December 2019). "Learning the Relationship between Galaxies Spectra and their Star Formation Histories using Convolutional Neural Networks and Cosmological Simulations". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490 (4): 5503–5520. arXiv: 1903.10457 . doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz2851 . ISSN   0035-8711.
  9. ↑ "Viviana Acquaviva". Simons Foundation. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  10. ↑ Guglielmo, Valentina (8 December 2020). ""Questa è la mia visione del fisico moderno"". MEDIA INAF (in Italian). Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  11. ↑ "Viviana Acquaviva". Inspiring Fifty: Italy. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  12. ↑ "City Tech Professor Receives CUNY Feliks Gross Award". CUNY Newswire. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  13. ↑ "Italy 2018". Inspiring Fifty: Italy. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  14. ↑ "50 donne che hanno fatto (e fanno) la storia dell'informatica". Wired Italia (in Italian). 23 November 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  15. ↑ "The Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturers | American Astronomical Society". aas.org. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  16. ↑ hk3m5tk8 (10 June 2021). "Premio internazionale Le Tecnovisionarie® 2021: annunciate le 13 vincitrici". Tecnovisionarie® (in Italian). Retrieved 31 August 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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