Astrophysics

Faculty

Dr. David Goldberg
Dr. Steve McMillan
Dr. Gordon T. Richards
Dr. Michael S. Vogeley

Research Faculty

Dr. Kevin Olson

Graduate Students

Justin Bird
Kelly Douglass
Austen Groener
Vishal Kasliwal
Rachael Kratzer
Coleman Krawczyk
Sean Lynch
Ernest Mamikonyan
Crystal Moorman
Tina Peters
Alf Whitehead

Undergraduate Students

Wendy Harris
Michael Jewell
Nick Kruczek
Sajjan Mehta

Research Areas

active galactic nuclei/quasars
compact binary stars
cosmology
large-scale structure
numerical hydrodynamics
parallel computing
rotational instabilities
star clusters and stellar dynamics
designing the "petaflops" computer

Projects

BASIN
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
LSST
Starlab
GRAPE