These are the sixth Years. They started their journey through grad school in Fall 2002.
[ Hélène Marie Flohic | Kim Herrmann | Ken Moody | David Morris | Anand Narayanan ]
Hélène Marie FlohicEmail: flohic @ astro.psu.eduURL: N/A |
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Research Interests:
high energy astrophysics, binaries (especially XRBs), accretion disks (around supermassive black holes, binaries and/or young stars), star formation
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
parties, scrabble, movies, pool, reading
Birthday:
August 15
Favorite Color:
green
Alma Mater:
University of Florida
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
I wanted to be in a big university with a not so big department with a lot of observing facilities.
Kim HerrmannEmail: herrmann @ astro.psu.eduURL: N/A |
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Research Interests:
Gravitational Lensing, Distance Scale, Planetary Nebulae, Galaxies, and more ...
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
Outreach, Reading, Hiking, Singing, Playing the violin, Writing Poetry (especially constellation riddles), Traveling, Photography, Learning to play the piano, Watching movies (especially Sci Fi), Acting
Birthday:
March 31
Favorite Color:
??? (The whole rainbow?)
Alma Mater:
Penn State University-Erie Campus, The Behrend College
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Alumni Recommendation, Exciting Research Opportunities, Friendly People (Perhaps the last being the most important!)
Ken MoodyEmail: moody @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/moody/ |
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Research Interests:
those interesting corners of the universe that are beyond bizarre (i.e. black holes, neutron stars)
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
science fiction books (Larry Niven in particular) or movies, meterorology, navigation
Birthday:
July 2
Favorite Color:
the color of the eastern sky about one hour after sunset
Alma Mater:
Indiana University
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Penn State people is my kind of people
David MorrisEmail: morris @ astro.psu.eduURL: N/A |
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Research Interests:
galactic evolution, AGN, GRB
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
other stuff I do
Birthday:
January 24
Favorite Color:
green
Alma Mater:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
be all I can be
Anand NarayananEmail: anand @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/anand/ |
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Research Interests:
Currently my research is towards understanding the structure and
phases of galaxies by studying chemical species at different
ionization levels that generate distinct intervening absorption
features in quasar spectrum. The work with
QAL group that I did
the last couple of months has two phases: 1) identifying
absorption lines in selected STIS and FUSE archived quasar
spectra 2) Generate model spectrum to predict the nature and
derive helpful physical constraints regarding the absorber.
My more specific interest, which is yet to manifest in the form
of research, is to learn about the composition and dynamics of
planetary atmospheres. Remote sensing of planetary atmospheres
and spotting spectral fingerprints of biomarkers on Extrasolar
Planets, is something that I am planning to get involved in the
coming years.
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
Rock..heavy rock - to be more specific the sedimentary & igneous ones!! :-)
Birthday:
June 4
Favorite Color:
Red
Alma Mater:
University of Kerala, India
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
Diverse research with instrumentation development and science. An avenue to get involved with astrobiology work through PSARC (PennState Astrobiology Research Center).
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