Here is a summary of
the talk I gave at the Star Formation 2000 conference in Ringberg,
Germany. Second page is here.
I am a third-year grad student here at Lick Observatory. My undergraduate degree is from the Princeton University Physics Department, although I spent most of my time in Peyton Hall (the Astrophysics Department) anyway. Before that I was at Hunter College High School, where at some point I decided I was interested in astronomy, and things just snowballed from there. Here are a few of my current and past projects:
I'm currently working with Peter Bodenheimer and Doug Lin on planet simulations. This is super-cool stuff. Click here for a neat picture, on Geoff Bryden's homepage (he also works with Doug).
A paper on the stellar populations of globular cluster M13 with Raja Guhathakurta et al. Click here to see the paper.
I did my thesis work with Bohdan Paczynski. I evaluated the practicality/desirability of widening the OGLE search for microlensing events to include lensing of "invisible stars" (i.e., stars which are below detection thresholds until their magnitudes are increased temporarily by lensing). Bohdan doesn't have a web page, but you can check out his debate with don lamb about the origin of gamma ray bursts .
I also worked with Lyman Page in the Physics Department at Princeton characterizing and modifying BigPlate, a CMBR anisotropy detection instrument.
Here are some useful astronomy links from U Chicago. Also, for lots of pretty pictures, check out this nifty Galaxy catalogue. And of course, no graduate student's homepage would be complete without a link to the nasa astrophysics data system abstract service and the CADC HST data archive.
If you have any questions, comments, or criticisms,
click here to send me email.
To
check out my personal (non-astronomical) stuff, click here.