Ryan Yamada
My love, in the darkest
hour your laughter
opens, and if suddenly
you see my blood staining
the stones of the street,
laugh, because your laughter
will be for my hands
like a fresh sword.
- Pablo Neruda, "Tu Risa"
Welcome
Welcome! My name is Ryan Yamada. I'm a graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. Currently I am working for James P. Lloyd on detecting brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets around M-dwarfs using non-redundant aperture masking (NRM) interferometry. Our primary collaborators are Frantz Martinache (Cornell), Mike Ireland (Caltech), and Peter Tuthill (University of Sydney). My committee members are Jim Cordes, Martha Haynes, and Judith Reppy (Science and Technology Studies/Peace Studies Program).
I am very interested in public speaking, behavioral economics, and scientific literacy in America.