Research

  Current projects in galaxy formation and evolution

Detailed chemical abundances of extragalactic globular clusters with Andrew McWilliam (Carnegie), Scott Cameron & Janet Colucci (UM) Measurements of the flux and color of diffuse intraclutser light with Jessica Krick (UM) Dynamics, structure, and star formation processes of disk galaxies with Julianne Dalcanton (UW) Detecting the re-ionization edge at high redshift with Windhorst (ASU) et al.

  Optical Instrumentation

In the works: Folded-port near-IR Echellette (FIRE) for Magellan with Rob Simcoe, Adam Burgasser, Paul Schechter (MIT), Mario Mateo (UM) DECam, a prime focus camera for the Blanco 4m Telescope at CTIO for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) DES collaborators include Fermilab, U.Illinois, U.Chicago, NOAO, LBL, NCSA, Barcelona. Commissioned (Nov 2002): Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) with Stephen Shectman (Carnegie Obs.) Proposed: Magellan II High Efficiency Spectrograph (M2HES) with Gary Bernstein (UMich) & Stephen Shectman (Carnegie)

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