Dr. Sarah E. Shandera

Oﬃce: 814-863-9595 The Pennsylvania State University Fax: 814-863-9608 Department of Physics [email protected] 104 Davey Laboratory, PMB#98 University Park, PA 16802

Education

2001 - 2006 Cornell University, PhD “Brane Inﬂation: Mechanisms and Observational Status” Advisor: S. H. Henry Tye 1999 - 2001 University of Arizona, B.Sc., Physics and Mathematics 1997 - 1999 University of Wyoming

Positions Held

July 2018 - present Associate Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University Aug. 2011 - 2018 Assistant Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2009 Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University, Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP) Jan. 2002 - May 2006 Teaching Assistant, Cornell University May 2001 - Dec. 2001 Research Assistant, Cornell Electron Storage Ring Aug. 1999 - May 2001 Research Assistant, University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Lab Through Arizona/NASA Spacegrant program

Professional Memberships

American Physical Society

Awards and Honors

Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute 2015 - present Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute 2015 STFC Advanced Fellowship (relinquished) 2011 Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award 2005 (Award of funds to apply toward a math and science program for young women in juvenile detention.) Sarah E. Shandera p. 2/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Scientiﬁc Activities

CMB Stage 4 Membership Committee 2018 - present Co-lead for Inﬂation Chapter working group, CMB-Stage 4 Report: arXiv:1610.02743 Organizer, Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology March 31-April 1 2016 Pennsylvania State University March 26-67, 2015 April 3-4, 2014 April 4-5, 2013 Session Convener, CosPA 2013 (Symposium on Cosmology and Nov 12-15, 2013 Particle Astrophysics), University of Hawai’i Co-organizer, Non-Gaussianity Workshop Nov 5-8, 2012 MPA-Garching Advisory Board, Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration Aug 24-26, 2012 Carnegie Mellon Co-organizer, ‘Non-Gaussianity as May 20-June 10, 2012 a Window to the Primordial Universe’ Aspen Center for Physics Co-organizer, ‘Workshop on Physics May 9-11, 2012 with a positive cosmological Constant’, Penn State University Co-organizer, ‘Cosmological non-Gaussianity: May 13-15, 2011 observations confront theory’, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Co-organizer ‘IR issues and Oct 27-30, 2010 loops in deSitter space’ Workshop, Perimeter Institute Lead organizer ‘Fundamental Physics and April 28-30, 2010 Large Scale Structure’ Workshop, Perimeter Institute Guest Editor, Advances in Astronomy 2010-2011 Special Issue Member, American Physical Society 2001-present Referee: Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Physics Letters B, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Sarah E. Shandera p. 3/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Recent Invited Conference Talks

Workshop on Reheating U. Pennsylvania Feb 2018 and Particle Production Henry Tye Symposium Cornell University Oct 2017 Inflation and the CMB Nordic Institute for Theoretical July 2017 Physics, Stockholm, Sweden Foundations of String Cosmology U. Michigan April 2017 Methodology and Epistemology UC Irvine Feb 2017 in Cosmology Physics and Astrophysics Pennsylvania State University Dec 2016 at the eXtreme Cosmology with CMB S4 University of Chicago Sept 2016 Cosmology with CMB S4 University of Michigan Sept 2015 Cosmic Flows Perimeter Institute Aug 2015 General Relativity and Gravitation: Pennsylvania State U. June 2015 A Centennial Perspective (Panelist) Quantum Gravity Foundations: UV to IR KITP Santa Barbara April 2015 American Physical Society April Meeting Baltimore, MD April 2015 COSMO 2014 KICP Chicago Aug 2014 Cosmology After Planck U. of Michigan Sept 2013 New Challenges for Early Lorentz Center, Leiden Aug 2013 Universe Cosmologists Critical Tests of Inflation MPA-Garching Nov 2012 Using non-Gaussianity Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration Carnegie Mellon Aug 2012 Effective Field Theory in Inflation Lorentz Center, Leiden July 2012 Northeast Cosmology Workshop McGill University Oct 2011 DEUS: Current and Future Challenges University of Copenhagen Aug. 2011 of the Dark and Early Universes Challenges for Early Universe Cosmology Perimeter Institute July 2011 Cosmological Non-Gaussianity: U. of Michigan May 2011 Observations Confront Theory Aspects of Inflation Texas A&M University April 2011 Cosmological Backreaction Workshop McGill University Nov. 2010 Effective Field Theory in Cosmology Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics March 2010 New Paths in Cluster Physics MPE, Munich Sept. 2009 Effective Field Theories in Inflation Perimeter Institute May 2009 Non-Gaussianity from Fundamental University of Cambridge Sept. 2008 Physics Origins and Observations of Perimeter Institute March 2008 Primordial Non-Gaussianity Sarah E. Shandera p. 4/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Recent Invited Seminars or Colloquia

Los Alamos National Lab T2 group May 2018 Columbia University High Energy Theory Seminar Feb 2018 Case Western Reserve University Cosmology Seminar May 2017 Harvard Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and April 2017 Computation Lunch talk Pennsylvania State University Astronomy and Astrophysics Colloquium March 2017 Canadian Institute for Physics Seminar Oct 2016 Theoretical Astrophysics Harvard University Particle Physics Seminar Feb 2016 University of Waterloo Astrophysics Seminar Oct 2015 Perimeter Institute Cosmology Seminar Sept 2015 University of North Carolina, Physics Colloquium Oct 2014 Chapel Hill Princeton University Gravity Group Seminar April 2014 University of Maryland Astronomy Colloquium Feb 2014 Louisiana State University Physics Colloquium Oct 2013 Tufts/MIT Cosmology seminar Oct 2013 New York University CCPP Astro seminar April 2013 Columbia University ISCAP seminar April 2013 University of Minnesota Particle Theory/Cosmology Seminar Feb 2013 NY State University at Buﬀalo Physics Colloquium Nov 2012 Pennsylvania State University High Energy Physics Seminar Oct. 2012 Stanford University Astrophysics Colloquium Oct 2012 Virginia Tech Physics Colloquium Sept 2012 Aspen Center for Physics Program Colloquium May 2012 U. Chicago Astronomy Colloquium April 2012 Pennsylvania State University Astronomy Colloquium Feb 2012 Carnegie Mellon University Astrophysics Seminar Jan. 2012 Pennsylvania State University Cosmology Seminar Oct. 2011 Pennsylvania State University IGC Colloquium Oct. 2011 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Progress Meeting seminar Oct 2011 GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam Seminar April 2011 DESY, Hamburg, Germany Physics seminar March 2011 Case Western Reserve University Physics seminar March 2011 University of Waterloo Applied Math Seminar March 2011 Pennsylvania State University IGC colloquium Feb 2011 Cornell University Astrophysics seminar Nov 2010 Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Physics seminar April 2010 Leiden University Physics seminar March 2010 Sarah E. Shandera p. 5/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Current and past Funding sources (as PI or Co-I)

• Title: “Sub-Systems and Correlations in Cosmology and Particle Physics” Sponsor: National Science Foundation PI: Sarah Shandera Award Number: PHY-1719991 Period of Performance: 8/15/2017-7/31/2020 Total Budget Requested: $210,000

• Title: “Mode-coupling Cosmic Variance and Tests of Inﬂation” Sponsor: National Science Foundation PI: Sarah Shandera Award Number: PHY-1417385 Period of Performance: 7/1/2014-6/30/2017 Total Budget Requested: $105,000

• Title: “CosmoArcheology: Digging for the Initial State” Program: New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation; The University of Chicago PI: Richard Holman (Carnegie Mellon) Co-I: Sarah Shandera, Shirley Ho Period of Performance: 10/1/2012 - 9/30/2014 Total Budget: $104,209

• Title: “Testing Early Universe Theories Using Large Scale Structure: Moving Beyond Phenomenology” Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration PI: Sarah Shandera Co-I: Neal Dalal (U. Illinois) Period of Performance: Jan 3, 2012 - Jan 2 2015 Total Budget: $424, 317 Sarah E. Shandera p. 6/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Teaching Experience

The Pennsylvania State University Graduate cosmology (PHYS 545) Fall 2011, Spring 2016, 2018 Undergraduate Classical Mechanics (PHYS 419) Spring 2013, 2014, 2015 Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics I (PHYS 410) Fall 2016, Spring 2017 Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics II (PHYS 411) Fall 2017, Fall 2018 (Both semesters of QM are “ﬂipped”, active learning classes) Undergraduate nuclear and particle physics (PHYS 406) Fall 2012, Fall 2013 Perimeter Institute PSI program (master’s level), theoretical cosmology 2010, 2011

Student and Postdoc Supervision

Former Postdoctoral fellows: Sohyun Park (2012-2015) Current Graduate students: Michael Ryan Former Graduate students: Saroj Adhikari (PhD 2016, currently postdoc U. Michigan) Elliot Nelson (PhD 2015, currently postdoc Perimeter Institute) Bekir Baytas (PhD 2018) Anne-Sylvie Deutsch (PhD 2018) Current Undergraduate students: Sebastian Rauch, Matthew Weiss (Entropy in quantum resource theories) Former Undergraduate students: Daniel Abercrombie (BSc 2014, currently grad MIT) co-supervised undergraduate thesis, “A search for dark matter via higgs decay using quark jet substructure” Jhon Yana Galarza (summer 2011, current grad U. Sao Paulo) “Number Counts and non-Gaussianity”, arXiv:1211.7361 Tomas Galvez Ghersi (summer 2010, current grad Simon Fraser) “Eternal inﬂation and a thermodynamic treatment of Einstein’s equations”, arXiv:1103.0783 Sarah E. Shandera p. 7/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Outreach Activities

Faculty assistant for Physics and Astronomy Women group at PSU Fall 2012 - present Mentor for the Supernova Foundation (previously Mauritian mentoring program) Fall 2015 - present “Astronomy in the Pub” talk May 15, 2017 Presentation for high school teacher workshop July 21, 2016 Expanding Your Horizons Workshop Group Leader Jan 2015 Faculty Organizer, Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics Jan 2014 Science and Art Cabaret, Buﬀalo, NY Nov 2012 Panelist, Women in Physics Canada Conference, Perimeter Institute July 2011 Contributed to ‘Hawking at the Perimeter’ documentary 2010 Volunteer tutor for incarcerated teenagers 2003-2006 Expanding Your Horizons Workshop Group Leader Spring 2003, 2004, (Developed 50 min. math and physics workshops for junior high girls.) 2005 Sarah E. Shandera p. 8/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Submitted for Publication

1. R. Magee, A.S. Deutsch, P. McClincy, C. Horst, D. Meacher, C. Messick, S. Shandera, M. Wade, “Methods for the detection of gravitational waves from sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries”, arXiv:1808.04772, submitted to Physical Review D.

2. The LIGO Scientiﬁc Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, and S. Shandera, “Search for sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO’s ﬁrst observing run”, arXiv:1808.04771, submitted to Physical Review Letters.

3. S. Shandera, N. Agarwal, A. Kamal, “A cosmological open quantum system,” arXiv:1708.00493, under revision for Physical Review D.

Refereed Publications

4. S. Adhikari, A.S. Deutsch, S. Shandera, “Statistical anisotropies in temperature and polarization ﬂuctuations from a scale-dependent trispectrum,” Phys. Rev. D 98, 023520 (2018) (arXiv:1805.00037).

5. S. Shandera, D. Jeong, H.S.G. Gebhardt, “Gravitational waves from binary mergers of sub- solar mass dark black holes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 no. 24, 241101 (2018) (arXiv:1802.08206).

6. P. Adshead, C. Burgess, R. Holman, S. Shandera, “Power-counting during single-ﬁeld slow- roll inﬂation,” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1802, no.02, 016 (2018) (arXiv:1708.07443).

7. S. Adhikari, D. Jeong and S. Shandera, “Constraining primordial and gravitational mode coupling with the position-dependent bispectrum of the large-scale structure,” Phys. Rev. D 94, no. 8, 083528 (2016) (arXiv:1608.05139).

8. B. Baytas and S. Shandera, “Space of non-Gaussian ﬁelds with single-clock bispectra,” Phys. Rev. D 94 (2016) no.4, 043510 (arXiv:1605.07206).

9. B. Bonga, S. Brahma, A.-S. Deutsch, S. Shandera, “Cosmic variance in inﬂation with two light scalars”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1605, no. 05, 018 (2016) (arXiv:1512.05365).

10. G.-B. Zhao, Y .Wang, A. Ross, S. Shandera, et al, “The extended Baryon Oscillation Spec- troscopic Survey (eBOSS): a cosmological forecast”, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 457, no. 3, 2377 (2016) (arXiv:1510.08216).

11. S. Adhikari, S. Shandera, A. Erickcek, “Large-scale anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background as signatures of non-Gaussianity”, Phys. Rev. D 93, no. 2, 023524 (2016) (arXiv:1508.06489) Sarah E. Shandera p. 9/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

12. K.S. Dawson et al (including S. Shandera), “The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spec- troscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data”, Astron. J. 151, 44 (2016) (arXiv:1508.04473).

13. B. Baytas, A. Kesavan, E. Nelson, S. Park, S. Shandera, “Non-local bispectra from super cosmic variance”, Phys. Rev. D 91, no. 8, 083518 (2015) (arXiv:1502.01009).

14. A. Mantz, A. von der Linden, S. Allen, D. Applegate, P. Kelly, R. Morris, D. Rapetti, R. Schmidt, S. Adhikari, M. Allen, P. Burchat, D. Burke, M. Cataneo, D. Donovon, H. Ebeling, S. Shandera, “Weighing the Giants IV: Cosmology and Neutrino Mass”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 446, 2205 (2015) (arXiv:1407.4516).

15. S. Adhikari, S. Shandera, N. Dalal, “Higher Moments of Primordial non-Gaussianity and N- body Simulations, ” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 06(2014)052 (arXiv:1402.2336).

16. N. Agarwal, S. Ho, S. Shandera, “Constraining the initial conditions of the Universe using large scale structure”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 02(2014)038 (arXiv:1311.2606).

17. S. Brahma, E. Nelson, S. Shandera, “Fossilized Relics and Primordial Clocks”, Physical Review D 89 (2014) 023507 (arXiv:1310.0471).

18. J. Bramante, J. Kumar, E. Nelson, S. Shandera, “Cosmic Variance of the Spectral In- dex from Mode Coupling”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 11(2013)021 (arXiv:1307.5083).

19. S. Shandera, A. Erickcek, P. Scott, J. Yana Galarza, “Number Counts and non-Gaussianity”, Phys. Rev. D 88 103506 (2013) (arXiv:1211.7361).

20. S. Shandera, A. Mantz, D. Rapetti, S. Allen, “ X-ray Cluster Constraints on Non-Gaussianity”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 08(2013)004 (arXiv:1304.1216).

21. M. LoVerde, E. Nelson, S. Shandera, “Non-Gaussian Mode Coupling and the Statistical Cos- mological Principle”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 06(2013)024 (arXiv:1303.3549).

22. E. Nelson and S. Shandera, “Statistical Naturalness and non-Gaussianity in a Finite Universe”, Physical Review Letters 110, 131301(2013) (arXiv:1212.4550).

23. I. Agullo, S. Shandera, “Large non-Gaussian Halo Bias from Single Field Inﬂation”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 09(2012)007 (arXiv:1204.4409).

24. N. Barnaby, S. Shandera, “Feeding your inﬂaton: Non-Gaussian Signatures of Interaction Structure”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 01(2012)034 (arXiv:1109.2985).

25. J.T. Galvez Ghersi, G. Geshnizjani, F. Piazza, S. Shandera, “Eternal inﬂation and a thermodynamic treatment of Einstein’s equations”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 06(2011)005 (arXiv:1103.0783). Sarah E. Shandera p. 10/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

26. S. Shandera, N. Dalal, D. Huterer, “A generalized local ansatz and its effect on halo bias”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 1103:017, 2011 (arXiv:1010.3722). 27. C.P. Burgess, R. Holman, L. Leblond, S. Shandera, “Breakdown of Semiclassical Meth- ods in de Sitter Space”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 1010:017, 2010 (arXiv:1005.3551). 28. C.P. Burgess, R. Holman, L. Leblond, S. Shandera, “Super-Hubble de Sitter Fluctuations and the Dynamical RG”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 1003:033, 2010 (arXiv:0912.1608). 29. S. Shandera, “The Structure of Correlation Functions in Single Field Inflation”, Phys. Rev. D, 79:123518, 2009 (arXiv:0812.0818). 30. L. Leblond, S. Shandera, “Simple Bounds from the Perturbative Regime of Inflation”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0808:007, 2008 (arXiv:0802.2290). 31. M. LoVerde, A. Miller, S. Shandera, L. Verde, “Effects of Scale-Dependent Non-Gaussianity on Cosmological Structures”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0804:014, 2008 (arXiv:0711.4126). 32. M. Becker, L. Leblond, S. Shandera, “Inflation from Wrapped Branes”, Phys. Rev. D, 76:123516, 2007 (arXiv:0709.1170). 33. R. Bean, S. Shandera, S.H.H. Tye, J. Xu, “Comparing Brane Inflation to WMAP”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0705:004, 2007 (hep-th/0702107). 34. L. Leblond, S. Shandera, “Cosmology of the Tachyon in Brane Inflation”, Journal of Cosmol- ogy and Astroparticle Physics, 0701:009, 2007 (hep-th/0610321). 35. S. Shandera, S.H.H. Tye, “Observing Brane Inflation”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0605:007, 2006 (hep-th/0601099). 36. S. Shandera, “Slow Roll in Brane Inflation”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0504:011, 2005 (hep-th/0412077). 37. S. Shandera, B. Shlaer, H. Stoica, S.H.H. Tye, “Interbrane Interactions in Compact Spaces and Brane Inflation”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0402:013, 2004 (hep- th/0311207). 38. R.D. Lorenz, S. Shandera, “Target Effects During Penetrator Emplacement: Crushing, Heat- ing and Triboelectric Charging”, Planetary and Space Science, vol.50, 141-157 (2002). 39. R.D. Lorenz, S. Shandera, “Physical Properties of Ammonia-Rich Ice: Application to Titan”, Geophysical Research Letters 28, 215-218 (2001). 40. R.D. Lorenz, S. Shandera, “Penetrator Launch Diagnostics from Pressure Measurements on an Air Cannon” Measurement Science and Technology, 11, 1819-1823 (2000). Sarah E. Shandera p. 11/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Working Group Papers and Editorial Service

41. Abazajian et al, “CMB-S4 Science Book, First Edition”, (arXiv:1610.02743)

42. D. Huterer, S. Shandera, E. Komatsu, “Testing the Gaussianity and Statistical Isotropy of the Universe”, Editorial foreword for the Special Issue on Statistical Isotropy and Gaussianity published in Advances in Astronomy, (arXiv:1012.3744).

43. J. Aguirre et al, “Observing the Evolution of the Universe”, White Paper organized by NASA’s Primordial Polarization Program Deﬁnition Team, (arXiv:0903.0902).

44. E. Komatsu et al, “Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of the Physics of the Primordial Universe and the Astrophysics of the Low Redshift Universe”, 2010 Decadal White Paper, (arXiv:0902.4759).

45. S. Dodelson et al, “The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background”, 2010 Decadal White Paper, (arXiv:0902.3796).

Conference Proceedings, Workshop Contributions

46. M. Alvarez, et al., “Testing Inﬂation with Large Scale Structure: Connecting Hopes with Reality,” arXiv:1412.4671.

47. D. Baumann et al, “CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inﬂation with CMB Polariza- tion”, AIP Conf. Proc. 1141:10-120, 2009 (arXiv:0811.3919).

48. S. Shandera, “Constraints on Scale-Dependent Non-Gaussianity”, AIP Conf. Proc. 957:437- 440 (2007) Contribution to PASCOS 2007, London.

49. S. Shandera, R.D. Lorenz, “Experiments on Low Speed Penetration into Granular Materials of Varying Size, Shape and Density”, (2002) Contribution to 33rd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

50. S. Shandera, R.D Lorenz, “Basic Physical Properties of Ammonia-Rich Ice”, (2000) Contribution to American Astronomical Society DPS Meeting. Sarah E. Shandera p. 12/11 [email protected] The Pennsylvania State University

Thesis and Internal Reports

51. S. Shandera, “Brane Inﬂation: Mechanisms and Observational Status”, Ph.D. Thesis at Cornell University (advisor S.H.H. Tye), August, 2006.

52. D. Rubin, S. Shandera, “Eﬀects of Parasitic Crossings on Tune”, Colliding Beam Notes, Cornell Electron Storage Ring, October 2001.