spencer_circle Makana Silva Native Hawaiian astrophysicist studying gravity on extreme physical scales

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Aloha mai kākou!

ʻO Makana Silva koʻu inoa. No Mākaha mai au. ʻOiai ua hana au ma ke kula nui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa no ke kēkelē laeʻula o ke kālaikūlohea, ua noho au i Kailua. Ma ka 06 ʻAukake 2023, loaʻa mai iaʻu ka palapala laeʻula o ke kālaikūlohea mai ke kula nui o Ohio State! I kēia manawa, naʻu e hana nei ma ke keʻena ʻimi naʻauao aupuni o Los Alamos. Makemake au e hoʻi mai i kuʻu home me kaʻu palapala laeʻula, naʻu e kilo ana i ka hulahula ʻana o nā hōkū make, ʻimi naʻauao au e pili ana ke kilo hōkū o Hawaiʻi, a naʻu e mālama ana no ko kākou Lāhui.

My name is Makana Silva, I am from Mākaha on the island of Oʻahu. While I was going to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for my B.S in physics, I was living in Kailua, Oʻahu. On 06 August 2023, I recevied my PhD in physics from the Ohio State University! Currently, I am working at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My goals are to return to Hawaiʻi with my graduate degree and study the dynamics of black holes, learn about astronomy in Hawaiʻi, and grow and tend to our local communities.

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Makana Silva ( right ) working with undergraduate researchers Arijit Das ( left ) and Harrison Blake ( middle )

Featured Projects

Corrections to Hawking Radiation from Asteroid Mass Primordial Black Holes: Numerical evaluation of dissipative effects

Numerically evaluated the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ correction to Hawking radiation from asteroid mass primordial black holes (PBHs $10^{17}{\rm g}-10^{22}{\rm g}$) from dissipative interactions from electron/positron interactions.

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Corrections to Hawking Radiation from Asteroid Mass Primordial Black Holes: description of the stochastic charge effect in quantum electrodynamics

Develop the formalism for understanding the stochastic nature of the electron-positron plasma to $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ correction from Hawking radiation from asteroid mass primordial black holes (PBHs $10^{17}{\rm g}-10^{22}{\rm g}$).

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Corrections to Hawking Radiation from Asteroid Mass Primordial Black Holes: I. Formalism of Dissipative Interactions in Quantum Electrodynamics

Computed the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ correction to Hawking radiation from asteroid mass primordial black holes (PBHs $10^{17}{\rm g}-10^{22}{\rm g}$) from dissipative interactions from electron/positron interactions.

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Dynamical perturbations around an extreme mass ratio inspiral near resonance

Developed a general method for tracking the evolution of orbital quantities of an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) during a resonant interaction with a dynamic external perturbation around a spinning black hole.

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Effect of dust in circumgalactic haloes on the cosmic shear power spectrum

Analyzed the systematic effects of circumgalactic dust in a weak lensing survey.

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