Current Students:
Graduate PhD students:
Devdeep Sarkar (2006-graduating June 2009)
Shahab Joudaki (2007- )
Jospeh Schmidt (2007-)
Sam Kim (2008-)
Undergraduate Students:
Seniors: Justin Feng, Paul Gebhardt
Ali Khostovan
Visiting Graduate Students (Summer 2009):
Yan Gong (from Beijing Observatory), Francesco De Bernardis (Rome-La Sapienza), Erminia Calabrese (Rome-La Sapienza)
Projects we are currently involved with:
Studies of the Infrared background, it's sources and cosmology and astrophysics through resolved and unresolved source clustering with:
Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) || Herschel SPIRE Instrument Science Team's HerMES GTO Survey || Herschel ATLAS Survey
Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC), which is a concept study for the NASA's Inflation Probe and CMBpol Science Definition Study
Dark energy studies and connections to cosmological measurements (A Joint project with LANL Cosmology group).
Gravitational waves from both inflation and binary sources for LISA, BBO etc
Outer Solar system, Kuiper Belt Objects, Oort cloud, occultations
Current Students:
Graduate PhD students:
Devdeep Sarkar
Shahab Joudaki
Undergraduate Students:
Thong Nguyen, Randolph Anderson, Justin Feng, Paul Gebhardt
Visiting Students from Italy:
Marcella Veneziani, Francesco De Bernardis, Davide Pietrobon (summer 2008)
from Berkeley, Olivia Ta (summer 2008)
Past Graduate Students:
Daniel Tierney (MSc Student; 2005-2006) MSc Thesis: The Oort Cloud Under the Influence of Dark Matter Halos
Past Undergraduates:
Academic year 2007:
Brett Friedmann (UCI Physics -> UCLA Physics Grad/Outstanding Physics Senior 2007) Senior Thesis: Inflation and Search for Primordial Gravitational Waves (Published in Phys. Rev. D and a second submitted to PRD)
Scott Sullivan (UCI Physics -> UCLA Physics Grad) Senior Thesis: Evolution of Dark Energy Equation of State: Narrowing Constraints with Type Ia Supernovae (To appear in JCAP)
Jordan Levy (UCI Physics) Senior Thesis: Detection and Analysis of Galaxy Clusters in SDSS
David Weiler (UCI Physics) Senior Thesis: Upper Limit for Number Density of Comets Near Pluto
Wesley Fong (UCI Physics) KBO/Oort Cloud Occultations
Amber Martin (UCI Physics) Quantum Corrections and Modified Gravity
Jingxuan Wang (UCI Physics) IR Background
Academic year 2006:
Evan Dowling (Physics Senior, 2005-2006) Senior Thesis: Perturbative Effects of Extra-Solar Matter on Oort Cloud Orbits
Zach Tellman (Computer Science Senior, 2005-2006)
Brian Lowe (Physics Junior)
Steve Ngos