Daniel Jaffe

Professor

ADS | astro-ph

Infrared spectroscopy of protostars and star forming clouds; submillimeter observations of interstellar gas, star formation regions, and protostars; physics of the dense interstellar medium; instrumentation for infrared spectroscopy.

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, Spitzer Legacy Project: c2d, HII Regions & Planetary Nebulae, IGRINS, Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, GMTNIRS, EXES: mid-IR spectrograph

Address

The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Astronomy

RLM 15.214

Austin, TX 78712

(512) 471-3302

chair@astro.as.utexas.edu

CV [pdf]

Research

Star Formation: From the Massive to the Minute
Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics
IGRINS
GMTNIRS

Instruction

AST 351: Astronomical Instrumentation (Spring 2012)
AST 392J: Astronomical Instrumentation (Spring 2012)
AST 351/392J: Astronomical Instrumentation (Spring 2011)
AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy (Fall 2009)
AST 398T: Supervised Teaching in Astronomy (Fall 2009)
AST 393S: Seminar in Interstellar Matter (Spring 2009)
AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy (Fall 2008)
AST 351: Astronomical Instrumentation (Fall 2008)
AST 307: Introductory Astronomy (Spring 2008)
AST 393S: Seminar in Interstellar Matter (Spring 2008)
AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy (Fall 2007)
AST 104: Undergrad Astronomy Seminar (Fall 2007)
AST 393F: Survey of the Interstellar Medium (Spring 2007)
AST 351: Astronomical Instrumentation (Fall 2006)
AST 101L: Astronomy Discovery Lab (Fall 2006)
AST 392J: Astronomical Instrumentation (Fall 2006)
AST 392J: Astronomical Instrumentation (Spring 2006)
AST 393S: Seminar in Interstellar Matter (Spring 2006)
AST 352K: Stellar Astronomy (Fall 2005)
AST 152M: Stellar Astronomy Lab (Fall 2005)
AST 351: Astronomical lnstrumentation (Spring 2005)
AST 307: Introductory Astronomy (Fall 2004)
AST 307: Introductory Astronomy (Spring 2004)
AST 392J: Astronomical Instrumentation (Fall 2003)
AST 351: Astronomical lnstrumentation (Spring 2003)
AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy (Fall 2002)
AST 393S: Seminar in Interstellar Matter
AST 351: Astronomical Instrumentation (Spring 2001)
AST 309: Invisible Universe
AST 307: Introductory Astronomy - for Science and Engineering Majors (Spring 2000)
AST 302: Self-Paced Introduction to Astronomy
AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy (Spring 1999)

Education

B.A., Harvard University, 1975
M.A., Harvard University, 1978
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1981

Awards

1989 Packard Foundation Fellowship

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