Sherwood Richers

Sherwood Richers

2017, NSFD Astronomy

Fellow

About

Sherwood completed his PhD in physics at the California Institute of Technology in 2017, where he was a DOE CSGF and a Blue Waters graduate fellow. He completed his undergraduate degree in Astronomy-Physics at the University of Virginia in 2012. Sherwood was a N3AS Fellow from 2017-2020 at North Carolina State University and UC Berkeley. He is currently a NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley.

Sherwood’s research is focused on numerical methods of neutrino transport and neutrino flavor transformation in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers.

Research Publications

Neutrino Fast Flavor Instability in Three Dimensions

Sherwood Richers, Donald Willcox, Nicole Ford.

2021.
Particle-in-cell Simulation of the Neutrino Fast Flavor Instability

Sherwood Richers, Don E. Willcox, Nicole M. Ford, Andrew Myers.

2021.
Rank-3 Moment Closures in General Relativistic Neutrino Transport

Sherwood Richers.

2020.
Neutrino Quantum Kinetics in Compact Objects

Sherwood A. Richers, Gail C. McLaughlin, James P. Kneller, Alexey Vlasenko.

2019.
Comparing Treatments of Weak Reactions with Nuclei in Simulations of Core-collapse Supernovae

Shun Furusawa, Hajime Togashi, Sherwood Richers, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada.

2018.
FRIB and the GW170817 Kilonova

Ani Aprahamian, et al. (multiple N3AS authors).

2018.
A Detailed Comparison of Multidimensional Boltzmann Neutrino Transport Methods in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Sherwood Richers, Hiroki Nagakura, Christian D. Ott, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada.

2017.

Research Themes

Astrophysical Simulations, Neutrino Physics