Looking up at night, it is easy to get lost in the grandeur of the view. Space seems infinite and the myriad stars inspire a multitude of feelings. Ever since I can remember, I wanted to understand the great mysteries of the universe first getting excited via buzz words like “black holes” and “curved space time.” Such fascinating ideas easily captivated my childhood curiosity . . . My interest started to become more tangible in elementary school when the school’s librarian recommended me to read Stepehen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time.” With the help of my father I finished the book and became noticeably more interested in astrophysics. I began dreaming of becoming a research scientist much like Einstein and discovering how the universe “works.” . . . My research project looked at a mathematical function called the two-point correlation function and applied it to measure the clustering of galaxies in a radio survey of the sky. This is important because it was the first time such an analysis was done in a frequency relevant to a new area of astrophysics called 21 cm tomography which hopes to give us precise measurements of cosmological parameters and insight into the very early universe…

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