Astronomy and Astrophysics

201 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
(831) 459-2844
http://www.astro.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor/Astronomer

Peter H. Bodenheimer
Stellar structure, star formation

Michael J. Bolte
Dynamics of star clusters, ages of star clusters, chemical enrichment history of the galaxy, observations of interacting galaxies

Jean P. Brodie
Galaxies, instrumentation

Harland W. Epps
Astronomical optics and instrumentation

Sandra M. Faber
Galaxies, stellar populations, cosmology, instrumentation

Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta
Faint blue galaxies, study of faint stars using multicolor CCD data, search for Kuiper belt comets, gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters, HST studies of dense globular cluster cores, near infrared Tully-Fisher diagram, galactic "cirrus" clouds, interacting galaxies, dwarf galaxies

Garth D. Illingworth
Stellar and galaxy dynamics, instrumentation

Burton F. Jones, Emeritus

David C. Koo
Cosmology, birth and evolution of galaxies and quasars

Robert P. Kraft, Emeritus

Claire Max
Adaptive optics, planetary science

Joseph S. Miller
Active galaxies, quasi-stellar objects

Jerry E. Nelson
Design and construction of large telescopes; project scientist for the two Keck telescope and Thirty Meter telescope

Donald E. Osterbrock, Emeritus

David M. Rank, Emeritus

Graeme H. Smith
Stellar populations, chromospheric activity among late-type stars

Steven S. Vogt
Stellar spectroscopy, instrumentation

Merle F. Walker, Emeritus

Astronomer

Lloyd B. Robinson, Emeritus

Assistant Professor/Assistant Astronomer

Constance Rockosi
Galactic structure, stellar populations, CCD detectors, astronomical instrumentation

Professor

George R. Blumenthal
Cosmology, galaxy formation, high-energy astrophysics

Frank D. Drake, Emeritus

John Faulkner, Emeritus

Douglas N. C. Lin
Fluid dynamics, star formation, galactic structure, planetary systems, accretion disks

Piero Madau
Cosmology, high-energy astrophysics

William G. Mathews
Galaxies, high-energy astrophysics, gaseous nebulae; cornetto (music)

Stephen E. Thorsett
Radio astronomy, high-energy astrophysics, compact objects, relativity

Stanford E. Woosley
Nuclear astrophysics, stellar structure

Associate Professor

Gregory Laughlin
Extra-solar planets, numerical astrophysics, astrophysical phenomena of the extremely distant future

Jason Prochaska
Damped Lya systems in quasars, Lyman limit systems, stellar abundances, thick disk imaging of our galaxy

Assistant Professor

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Stellar explosions, gamme-ray bursts accretion physics, nearcompact stars

Associate Adjunct Professor

Rachel J. Dewey
Radio astronomy, pulsar astrophysics, VLBI astrometry

Alexander Heger
Stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis

Stephen Murray
Formation of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies and the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium in young galaxies

Professor

Joel R. Primack (Physics)
Theory of fundamental particles, cosmology, astrophysics

Gary A. Glatzmaier (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Computer simulation of geodynamics and planetary dynamics

Assistant Professor

Anthony Aguirre (Physics)
Cosmology of the early and late universe: inflation and the global structure of cosmological models; the intergalactic medium and its enrichment with heavy elements; galaxy formation, evolution, and feedback processes; dark matter; theories of modified gravity

Pascale Garaud (Applied Mathematics)
Astrophysics, geophysics, fluid dynamics, numerical resolutions of differential equations, and mathematical modeling of natural flows

David M. Smith (Physics)
High-energy astrophysics; X-ray and gamma-ray detectors and instrumentation; solar, terrestrial, and planetary sources of gamma radiation

Research Astronomer

Donald Gavel
Adaptive optics

Robert B. Hanson
Astrometry, galactic structure, and statistical astronomy

Robert Kibrick
Development of computer software and wide-area networks in support of remote control and data-acquisition systems for telescopes and astronomical instruments

Remington Stone
Photometry, spectrophotometry, spectrophotometric standard stars, optical SETI

Richard Stover
Instrumentation, cataclysmic variables

Mingzhi Wei
Development of astronomical CCD detectors and CCD controllers

Associate Research Astronomer

Drew Phillips
Extragalactic star-formation, gas-phase abundances, galaxy kinematics, and galaxy formation and evolutions; development of astronomical optics and instrumentation

Scott Severson
Astronomical instrumentation, adaptive optics, near-infrared astronomy

Research Physicist

Terry Mast
Astronomical instrumentation