BADGrad Student Directory

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Once students graduate, their info should be moved to the alumni page.

Research Interests: early star-formation, AGNs, quasars (so old AGNs), high energy phenomena, cosmology, large scale structure, galaxies (present, past and their journeys)

Current Projects: FORMER: Realtime GRB analysis and follow-up (mainly using the PAIRITEL instrument). CURRENT: Mapping galaxies using mainly CARMA (radio), but also overlapping it with the DEEP data.

Other Interests or Activities: football, tennis, running, hiking, cruising down the coast, music, FOOD, painting, sleep, traveling (in Italy if at all possible), comedy, movies, cooking, getting into the City, lounging on the beach, reading

Last modified 01 Aug 2005

Research Interests:

Current Projects: spectropolarimetry of AGN with double-peaked Balmer lines, measuring the equation of state of the dark energy, follow-up of gamma-ray bursts, studying supernovae at low redshift, searching for flares from tidal disruptions of stars by black holes, finding black holes in x-ray binaries, finding black holes in other galaxies, looking for variations in the fine-structure constant, finding a thesis topic that doesn't suck.

Other Interests or Activities: hiking, reading, finding solitude in the great outdoors, not sleeping, sleeping, antithesis.

Last modified 26 Feb 2004

Research Interests: Lensing, quasars, black holes

Current Projects: Simulating black hole velocity kicks

Other Interests or Activities: Travel, hiking, orchestra concerts, and doing random new things (carillon, monster truck rallies, cake eating contests)

Last modified 17 May 2004

Research Interests: Star Clusters, Star Formation, N-Body Dynamics, and more

Current Projects: Dynamical Evolution and Origins of the Pleiades

Other Interests or Activities: Games (video, board, card, and outdoor varieties), music, hanging out with friends

Last modified 14 Oct 2009

Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, black holes and AGN

Current Projects: Quantifying luminosity dependence in fundamental plane projections for elliptical galaxies

Past Projects: Reverberation mapping (or lack thereof) of NGC 4395

Other Interests or Activities: Understanding US immigration law, filling out paperwork from US immigration, finding enough funds to send to US immigration, waiting patiently for US immigration to respond, travelling to faraway cities to complete US immigration process, occasionally travelling back to Berkeley to reclaim my room.

Last modified 15 August 2006

Research Interests: Just about anything. Right now I'd like to do something computational, or something related to gravitational lensing.

Current Projects: Converting my Senior thesis into publishable papers.

Other Interests or Activities: Games!! (Board games, card games (poker! spades!), computer games) Singing! Food (both consuming and preparing), volleyball, soccer, computer graphics, and, of course, FOOSBALL!

Last modified 18 Jun 2004

Past Research Advisors: Arons

Research Interests: cosmology; extragalactic

Current Projects: stuff

Other Interests or Activities: stuff

Last modified 14 Jun 2005

Past Research Advisors: Genzel, Marcy

Research Interests: Debris Disks, Galactic Center, Exoplanets

Current Projects: Specification of polarizing components for GPI, resolved debris and protoplanetary disks with CARMA

Other Interests or Activities: Music, Theatre, Existentialism

Last modified 26 Jul 2005

Research Advisor: De Pater

Research Interests: Planetary atmospheric modelling= thermodynamics, dynamics, chemistry, cloud physics, radiative transfer. Planetary ring and satellite dynamics. Planet formation. Exobiology.

Current Projects: Atmospheric dynamics of Neptune via Adaptive Optics imaging, near infrared spectra and microwave observations. Astrometry of the inner satellites of Neptune. Near-infrared observations of Saturn F-ring.

Other Interests or Activities: Outdoor stuff (hiking, camping, canoeing), cooking, music, folk dancing, spending time with my husband and kids and sharing their interests and hobbies (that means dance recitals, swim meets, diving lessons, tumbling classes, gardening, remodelling, going to the park, playing frisbee with our dog Cody and watching our pet chicken Vanilla scratch, eat, drink and roost - chickens don't do much else!)

Last modified 22 Jun 2003

Research Interests: Super-massive black holes, SMBH and galaxy co-evolution, star clusters, adaptive optics

Current Projects: Measuring SMBH masses in Brightest Cluster Galaxies with OSIRIS, discovering and characterizing Galactic star clusters

Other Interests or Activities: Running, cycling, frisbee, ranting about crazy West Coast politics

Last modified 15 Dec 2008

Research Interests:

Current Projects: Massive star formation

Other Interests or Activities:

Last modified 16 Jun 2004

Past Research Advisors: Backer

Research Interests: Stars, stellar spectroscopy, planets.

Current Projects: Observing r-process elements in nearby solar-type stars, with the goal of determining the feasibility of radiometric age-dating of said stars.

Other Interests or Activities: Knitting, gardening, and general craftiness; also hiking, climbing, and correcting the world's grammar.

Last modified 12 May 2006

Research Interests: Shiney things

Current Projects: Characterizing GRBs via near-infrared and optical photometry, Studies of GRB hosts and looking for possible unusual subpopulations, developing web resources for GRB astronomy.

Other Interests or Activities: Hiking, skiing, wilderness, evolutionary biology, natural history, video games

Last modified 29 Aug 2007

Research Interests: dust in SMC, PAHs, the ISM, white dwarfs

Current Projects: Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud, far-IR radio continuum correlation, IRS spectral maps of star-forming regions in the SMC

Other Interests or Activities: curating my itunes library, driving on California's beautiful highways, knitting, tomatoes & their cultivation, concerts, the Berkeley Public LIbrary, coffee

Last modified 16 Jun 2004

Past Research Advisors: Blitz

Research Interests: The fireflies that got stuck up in that big bluish-black thing

Current Projects: The life and times of massive galaxies

Other Interests or Activities: Skiing, beaching, dancing, yoga, traveling

Last modified 06 Jun 2008

Research Interests: Big things that go boom.

Current Projects: Looking at big things that go boom.

Other Interests or Activities: Movies, music, monkeys, rocking hard and taking names.

Last modified 31 Aug 2006

Research Interests: feeding black holes, galactic dynamics and structure, debris disks

Current Projects: tidal disruption of stars

Other Interests or Activities: ultimate frisbee, sailing/windsurfing, skiing

Last modified 27 Jul 2006

Research Interests: Cosmology, Large-Scale Structure, Galaxy Clusters, Galaxy Evolution, Mergers

Current Projects: Galaxy evolution and its connection to halo substructure

Other Interests or Activities: Ringing the big bells

Last modified: April 6 2009

Research Interests: black holes

Current Projects: ultra-luminous x-ray sources

Other Interests or Activities: reading, athletic conditioning, volunteering

Last modified 26 Feb 2007