Luna Zagorac portrait

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of research: Cosmologie Matière Quantique

https://lunazagor.github.io/

Awards
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships Seal fo Excellence, The European Comission, 2025
  • Leigh Page Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching, Yale University, 2023
  • Loyde and William C. G. Ortel Fellowship in Physics, Yale University, 2020
  • Franke Science & Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Award, The Franke Program in Science and the Humanitles at Yale, 2019-2023
Recent Publications
  • Mirasola, A. E., Musoke, N., Neyrinck, M. C., Prescod-Weinstein, C., & Zagorac, J. L. (2024). The three phases of self-gravitating scalar field ground states. arxiv:2410.02663v2
  • Robles, V. H., Zagorac, J. L., & Padmanabhan, N. (2024). Scalar field dark matter: impact of supernova-driven blowouts on the soliton structure of low-mass dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(2), 1980-1990. doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1544
  • Polzin, A., Asali, Y., Bhimani, S., Brady, M., Chen, M. C., DeMarchi, L., . . . Zhuravleva, I. (2023). Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists. arxiv:2312.04041v2
  • Gosenca, M., Eberhardt, A., Wang, Y., Eggemeier, B., Kendall, E., Zagorac, J. L., & Easther, R. (2023). Multifield ultralight dark matter. Physical Review D, 107(8), 083014. doi:10.1103/physrevd.107.083014
  • Zagorac, J. L., Kendall, E., Padmanabhan, N., & Easther, R. (2023). Soliton formation and the core-halo mass relation: An eigenstate perspective. Physical Review D, 107(8), 083513. doi:10.1103/physrevd.107.083513
  • Zagorac, J. L., Sands, I., Padmanabhan, N., & Easther, R. (2022). Schrödinger-Poisson solitons: Perturbation theory. Physical Review D, 105(10), 103506. doi:10.1103/physrevd.105.103506
Seminars
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How far can we get by treating a dark matter halo like an atom?, Bates College, Physics & Astronomy Department, Lewiston, ME, United States, 2024/12/03
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How far can we get by treating a dark matter halo like an atom?, Bard College, Physics Program, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States, 2024/11/25
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How far can we get by treating a dark matter halo like an atom?, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Kashiwa, Japan, 2024/11/11
  • On ground states of self-gravitating fields, Kashiwa-no-ha Dark Matter and Cosmology Symposium, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Kashiwa, Japan, 2024/10/31
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How far can we get by treating a dark matter halo like an atom?, COSMO'24, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2024/10/24
  • An UltraShort Introduction to UltraLight Dark Matter, Workshop on Defining New Simulation Frontiers for Dark Matter Discovery, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada, 2024/10/09, Video URL
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How far can we get by treating a dark matter halo like an atom?, McMaster University, Physics & Astronomy, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 2024/09/11
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How Far Can We Get by Treating a DM Halo Like an Atom?, Cosmic Signals of Dark Matter Physics: New Synergies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kohn Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States, 2024/06/04, Video URL
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How Far Can We Get by Treating a DM Halo Like an Atom?, 2024 CAP Congress DTP/DNP Symposium on "Computational Advances in Astrophysics and Cosmology", Western University, London, Canada, 2024/05/29
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How Far Can We Get by Treating a DM Halo Like an Atom?, University of Oxford, Physics Department, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2024/04/30
  • Not Really Quantum Cosmology: How Far Can We Get by Treating a DM Halo Like an Atom?, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States, 2024/02/13
  • Digital Skies for Ancient Contexts: Using Python to Investigate Stellar Data from Ramesside Star Clocks, Egyptian Cultural Heritage Now, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt; American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, 2023/11/11
  • UltraLight Dark Matter Dynamics in the Language of Eigenstates, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada, 2023/10/13
  • UltraLight Dark Matter Dynamics in the Language of Eigenstates, University of Southern California, Physics Department, Los Angeles, United States, 2023/09/28
  • UltraLight Dark Matter Dynamics in the Language of Eigenstates, Jet Propulsion Lab, La Cañada Flintridge, United States, 2023/09/26
  • Axions, TRISEP 2023, 2023/06/30, PIRSA:23060093
  • UltraLight Dark Matter Dynamics in the Language of Eigenstates, Testing Gravity 2023, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, 2023/06/21
  • Dark Matter and Particle Physics, Scicomm Collider, 2023/04/12, PIRSA:23040095
  • A Light in the Dark: UltraLight Dark Matter Phenomenology in Simulations, 240th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 2022/06/15
  • UltraLight Dark Matter in Simulations: A Chapel-Powered Eigenstate Perspective, Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop 2022, 2022/06/10, Video URL
  • UltraLight Dark Matter Dynamics in the Language of Eigenstates, Colgate University, Physics Department, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, United States, 2022/04/19