These are the fifth Years. They started their journey through grad school in Fall 2003.
[ Emily Alicea-Muñoz | Brendan Miller | Steven Movit | Judith Racusin | Cristian Saez | Manodeep Sinha ]
Emily Alicea-MuñozEmail: ealicea @ astro.psu.edu(currently at NASA/GSFC)URL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/ealicea/ |
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Research Interests:
Black hole mergers as probes of structure formation; SMBH assembly and growth; gravitational waves; compact objects; early-universe cosmology; dark matter and dark energy.
Research Advisor:
Cole Miller (UMD), Joan Centrella (NASA/GSFC, Code 663), Pablo Laguna
Other Interests:
Blogs (science, technology, political, feminist); TV (Friends, Scrubs, Sex and the City, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Death Note, Cardcaptor Sakura, The Simpsons, Futurama); Video games (Wii, DS, N64, PS2); HTML/CSS web design; music, dancing, reading, sleeping, pizza, tropical beaches; my boyfriend, John
Birthday:
June 18
Favorite Color:
Wine color (a dark purple-red, somewhere between burgundy and crimson). Pink to a lesser extent (as long as it's not *too* pink). Various shades of blue, when combined together.
Alma Mater:
University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez Campus
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
A wide variety of research; very different weather from what I'm used to; friendly atmosphere...
Brendan MillerEmail: bmiller @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/bmiller/ |
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Research Interests:
high-energy astrophysics, AGNs, quasar lines, close binaries
Research Advisor:
Mercedes Richards (formal), Niel Brandt
Other Interests:
teaching, cello, basketball, reading, bridge
Birthday:
July 13
Favorite Color:
green
Alma Mater:
M.I.T.
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Growing, energetic department; cutting edge instruments (and the data they provide) like Chandra and Swift; friendly and fun people; next year the football team is gonna be awesome.
Steven MovitEmail: movit @ astro.psu.eduURL: N/A |
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Research Interests:
Particle astrophysics, GRB's, Cerenkov detectors
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
College radio, music, reading, bad movies
Birthday:
May 7
Favorite Color:
Black
Alma Mater:
Rice University
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Reputation, diverse research opportunities, low cost of living, fresh air
Judith RacusinEmail: racusin @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/racusin/ |
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Research Interests:
GRBs, galaxy formation/evolution, large-scale structure, gravitational lensing
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
Music, reading, dumb little addictive computer games, tv, sleep, cooking
Birthday:
August 31
Favorite Color:
Green
Alma Mater:
University of Michigan
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
I liked the diversity of research and friendliness of the department.
Cristian SaezEmail: saez @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/saez/ |
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Research Interests:
gravitational waves and cosmology.
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
spend time with my wife, asian philosophy, martial arts and life in nature (I want to be a "gaucho" (argentinian cowboy) when I get old).
Birthday:
December 1
Favorite Color:
Blue and green.
Alma Mater:
Universidad de Chile
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
The astrophysics research and the link of our department with the gravitational center.
Manodeep SinhaEmail: msinha @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/msinha/Moved to: Vanderbilt University AstronomyGraduated in: Fall 2007 (transfer) |
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Research Interests:
Theoretical stuff.. as long as i dont have to go on the roof of anything to observe something that is way too distant. These days am working on Clusters - Beowulf clusters.
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
Soccer, Tennis, Ping pong, Beer, Smoking (the right or the wrong kind depending on when you were born), Cracking, Mersenne, Battleship ....phew.
Birthday:
October 12
Favorite Color:
Blue
Alma Mater:
I.I.T., Kharagpur
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Mistake.. Big Mistake. Irregularites in the space-time continuum coupled with Vogon poetry and the Improbability drive made me land up here ;-)
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