Research Groups 2009-10 [
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Planetary Systems
Name
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Title & Research
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Benedict, G. Fritz
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Senior Research Scientist
Space astrometry; search for extrasolar planetary systems; surface photometry of galaxies; barred galaxies.
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Cochran, Anita
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Assistant Director
Primitive bodies in the solar system; chemical composition of comets; the Kuiper belt, CONTOUR Mission Science Team.
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Cochran, William
(Chair)
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Senior Research Scientist
Searches for extrasolar planetary systems; high-precision measurements of stellar radial velocity variations; variable stars; planetary atmospheres; comets; asteroids.
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Dodson-Robinson, Sarah
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Assistant Professor
Planet formation, planet host composition, protostellar disk chemistry, Galactic chemical evolution, debris disks and brown dwarfs.
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Endl, Michael
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Research Scientist
Detection of extrasolar planets and brown dwarf companions. Search for extremely low-mass planets around M dwarf stars. High precision stellar radial velocity measurements. Astrobiology.
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McArthur, Barbara
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Research Scientist
HST Astrometry; search for extrasolar planets.
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Ries, Judit Gyorgyey
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Research Associate
Planetary Astronomy, Astrometry and physical characterization of Near Earth Objects, especially Earth-crossing asteroids. Also works as Lunar Data Analyst for the McDonald Laser Ranging Station.
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Roman, Brian
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Research Engineer/Scientist Associate III
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Scalo, John
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Professor
Star formation; interstellar medium; turbulence; galaxy evolution; complex systems; astrobiology.
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Shelus, Peter J
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Senior Research Scientist
Small Solar System body motions; time: laser ranging; Earth and lunar dynamics; stellar astrometry.
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Trafton, Laurence M
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Senior Research Scientist
Planetary atmospheres; volatile transport; evolution of the solar system.
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Brugamyer, Erik
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Graduate Student
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Gray, Candace
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Graduate Student
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Hermes, James
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Graduate Student
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Robertson, Paul
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Graduate Student
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Sluder, Alan
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Graduate Student
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Stars
Name
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Title & Research
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Barnes III, Thomas G
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Senior Research Scientist
Observational aspects of variable stars, particularly distance scale issues for Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables.
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Benedict, G. Fritz
(Chair)
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Senior Research Scientist
Space astrometry; search for extrasolar planetary systems; surface photometry of galaxies; barred galaxies.
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Breger, Michel
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Adjunct Professor
Stellar astrophysics: the formation, structure and evolution of stars;
asteroseismology; photometry and polarimetry.
Theory and Observations of Pulsating Stars
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Dinerstein, Harriet
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Professor
Planetary nebulae; abundances in gaseous nebulae; infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy of emission lines; extragalactic H II regions and star formation in disk galaxies; classical novae.
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Hemenway, Mary Kay
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Senior Lecturer
Astronomy education.
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Lambert, David
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Professor
Stellar atmospheres; chemical composition of stars; chemical evolution of the universe.
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MacQueen, Phillip
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Senior Research Scientist
Instrumentation, CCD detectors; stellar abundances.
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McArthur, Barbara
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Research Scientist
HST Astrometry; search for extrasolar planets.
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Montgomery, Mike
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Research Scientist
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Nather, Edward
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Professor Emeritus
Observational studies of interacting binary collapsed stars; asteroseismology of white dwarfs; the Whole Earth Telescope.
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Robinson, Edward L
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Professor
Observational studies of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; cataclysmic variables, low-mass X-ray binaries, X-ray transients; pulsating white dwarfs.
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Shetrone, Matthew
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Senior Research Scientist
Observational techniques; queue scheduled telescopes; galactic nucleosynthesis; stellar evolution.
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Sneden, Chris
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Professor
Chemical composition of stars; stellar evolution; galactic nucleosynthesis.
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Tomkin, Jocelyn
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Research Scientist
High-resolution stellar spectroscopy.
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Winget, Don
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Professor
Theory and observation: cosmochronology; evolution of the Milky Way; late stages of stellar evolution; stellar pulsations; white dwarf stars as dark matter detectors; the Whole Earth Telescope.
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Castanheira, Barbara
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Sahin, Timur
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Stanford, Laura
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Williams, Kurtis
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Bayless, Amanda
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Graduate Student
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DeGennaro, Steve
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Graduate Student
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Falcon, Ross
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Graduate Student
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For, Bi Qing
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Graduate Student
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Hermes, James
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Graduate Student
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Hollek, Julie
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Graduate Student
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Roederer, Ian
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Graduate Student
Stellar nucleosynthesis, Galactic chemical evolution, the Milky Way
stellar halo.
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Extragalactic
Name
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Title & Research
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Cornell, Mark
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Research Scientist
Structure and dynamics of galaxies; galaxy formation and evolution; pseudobulges in disk galaxies; surface photometry; wide-field imaging surveys and virtual observatories; applications software for astronomical image processing.
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Gaskell, Martin
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Research Fellow
Theory and observations of processes around supermassive black holes, nature of the energy source in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), modeling
polarization, multi-wavelength observations of AGNs, use of variability to probe structure, kinematics, and energy generation, black hole mass
determination, cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes and their co-relationships with their host galaxies.
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Gebhardt, Karl
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Professor
Formation and evolution of galaxies; dynamics of stellar systems; study of supermassive black holes.
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Hao, Lei
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Research Associate
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Hill, Gary
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Senior Research Scientist
Observational cosmology; radio galaxies and quasars; astronomical instrumentation.
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Jogee, Shardha
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Associate Professor
Formation, Evolution, Dynamics of Galaxies. Member of GEMS, GOODS, and HUDF science teams. Bars and Mergers. Starbursts and AGN.
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Kormendy, John
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Professor
Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei; structure and dynamics of galaxies; secular evolution of galaxies; dark matter; galaxy formation and evolution.
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Milosavljevic, Milos
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Assistant Professor
Massive black holes; the Galactic center; galaxy formation; galaxy
clusters; plasma astrophysics.
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Odewahn, Stephen
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Research Scientist
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Shen, Juntai
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Research Fellow
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Shields, Gregory
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Professor
Active galactic nuclei; supermassive black holes; chemical evolution of galaxies.
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Wills, Beverly
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Research Scientist
Active galactic nuclei from radio to x-ray wavelengths.
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Wills, Derek
(Chair)
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Professor
Statistical properties of quasars.
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van den Bosch, Remco
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Yoachim, Peter
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Adams, Joshua
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Graduate Student
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Barentine, John
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Graduate Student
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Blanc, Guillermo
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Graduate Student
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Chonis, Taylor
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Graduate Student
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Fisher, David
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Graduate Student
Structure and dynamics of galaxies; secular evolution of galaxies; galaxy formation and evolution.
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Heiderman, Amanda
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Graduate Student
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Jardel, John
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Graduate Student
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Jeon, Myoungwon
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Graduate Student
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Ludwig, Randi
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Graduate Student
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Marinova, Irina
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Graduate Student
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Murphy, Jeremy
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Graduate Student
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Song, Mimi
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Graduate Student
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Stacy, Athena
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Graduate Student
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Vutisalchavakul, Nalin
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Graduate Student
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Weinzirl, Tim
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Graduate Student
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Interstellar
Name
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Title & Research
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Bash, Frank
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Professor Emeritus
Large-scale structure of spiral galaxies; star formation on large scales.
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Dinerstein, Harriet
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Professor
Planetary nebulae; abundances in gaseous nebulae; infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy of emission lines; extragalactic H II regions and star formation in disk galaxies; classical novae.
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Evans, Neal
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Professor
Molecular clouds; star formation; millimeter, submillimeter, and infrared astronomy.
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Jaffe, Daniel
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Professor
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.
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Lacy, John
(Chair)
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Professor
Infrared astronomical spectroscopy; infrared studies of interstellar molecules; studies of ionized gas in the Galactic Center; development of high- resolution infrared spectrographs.
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Lee, Sungho
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Research Fellow
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Lester, Daniel
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Research Scientist
Infrared emission lines; abundances in H II regions; infrared studies of star formation; starburst galaxies.
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Green, Joel
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Salyk, Colette
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Chen, Jo-hsin
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Graduate Student
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Deen, Casey
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Graduate Student
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Dunham, Mike
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Graduate Student
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Dunham, Miranda
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Graduate Student
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Gully-Santiago, Michael
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Graduate Student
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Harrold, Sam
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Graduate Student
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Hwang, Sehyun
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Graduate Student
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Kim, Hyo Jeong
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Graduate Student
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Merello, Manuel
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Graduate Student
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Rand, Jared
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Graduate Student
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Theory
Name
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Title & Research
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Bromm, Volker
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Associate Professor
Formation of the first stars and quasars; high-redshift supernovae and metal enrichment; supermassive black hole formation; gamma-ray bursts; reionization of the intergalactic medium; present-day star formation; computational astrophysics.
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Dodson-Robinson, Sarah
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Assistant Professor
Planet formation, planet host composition, protostellar disk chemistry, Galactic chemical evolution, debris disks and brown dwarfs.
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Duncan, Rob
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Senior Research Scientist
Magnetars (ultra-magnetized neutron stars) and their possible observable consequences for soft gamma repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, cosmic rays, and old galactic neutron stars.
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Gaskell, Martin
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Research Fellow
Theory and observations of processes around supermassive black holes, nature of the energy source in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), modeling
polarization, multi-wavelength observations of AGNs, use of variability to probe structure, kinematics, and energy generation, black hole mass
determination, cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes and their co-relationships with their host galaxies.
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Komatsu, Eiichiro
(Chair)
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Associate Professor
Cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and polarization; inflationary scenarios of the early universe; alternative theories of gravity; radio band observational cosmology.
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Kumar, Pawan
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Professor
Gamma-ray bursts; helioseismology; binary stars; tidal interaction; accretion disks; cosmology.
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Milosavljevic, Milos
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Assistant Professor
Massive black holes; the Galactic center; galaxy formation; galaxy
clusters; plasma astrophysics.
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Montgomery, Mike
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Research Scientist
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Pooley, Dave
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Research Fellow
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Scalo, John
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Professor
Star formation; interstellar medium; turbulence; galaxy evolution; complex systems; astrobiology.
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Shapiro, Paul
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Professor
Theoretical astrophysics: cosmology, galaxy formation, the interstellar medium, the intergalactic medium, interstellar dust grains, astrophysical hydrodynamics.
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Shen, Juntai
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Research Fellow
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Shields, Gregory
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Professor
Active galactic nuclei; supermassive black holes; chemical evolution of galaxies.
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Vinko, Jozsef
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Research Fellow
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Weinberg, Steven
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Professor
Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology.
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Wheeler, J. Craig
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Professor
Stellar evolution; supernovae; accretion discs; gamma-ray bursts, astrobiology.
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Winget, Don
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Professor
Theory and observation: cosmochronology; evolution of the Milky Way; late stages of stellar evolution; stellar pulsations; white dwarf stars as dark matter detectors; the Whole Earth Telescope.
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Koda, Jun
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Cosmology, the nature of dark matter, structure formation.
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Mao, Yi
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Marion, Howie
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Supernovae: Evolution and Physics from Near Infrared Spectra; Cosmology.
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Pawlik, Andreas
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Zhang, Jun
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TCC Fellow
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Agarwal, Meghann
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Akcay, Sarp
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Barniol Duran, Rodolfo
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Chatzopoulos, Emmanouil
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Graduate Student
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Chiang, Chi-Ting
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Graduate Student
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Couch, Sean
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Graduate Student
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DeGennaro, Steve
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Graduate Student
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Falcon, Ross
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Graduate Student
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Ganc, Jonathan
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Graduate Student
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Hummel, Jacob
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Graduate Student
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Jeong, Donghui
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Graduate Student
Cosmological perturbation theory, Large-scale structure of the universe
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Johnson, Vincent
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Undergraduate Student
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Kagan, Daniel
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Graduate Student
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Lindner, Chris
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Graduate Student
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Meyers, Joel
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Graduate Student - Physics
Early universe cosmology, inflation, and non-Gaussianities.
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Safranek-Shrader, Chalence
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Graduate Student
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Santana, Rodolfo
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Graduate Student
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Shen, Rongfeng
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Graduate Student
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Shoji, Masatoshi
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Graduate Student
Large-Scale Structure of the universe, Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations.
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Stacy, Athena
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Graduate Student
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Watanabe, Yuki
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Graduate Student
Early universe, cosmology,
gravitational waves.
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