Rutgers Astrophysics People

Name
and web page
Office
Phone
(732-445-xxxx)
Email Address
(xxxx@physics.rutgers.edu)
Professors

Andrew Baker

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Eric Gawiser

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Jack Hughes

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Saurabh Jha

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Chuck Keeton

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Terry Matilsky

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Tad Pryor

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Jerry Sellwood

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Ted Williams

Serin 306
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Harold Zapolsky (Emeritus)

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Research Professor

Chuck Joseph

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Assistant Lecturer

Slawomir Piatek

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Nick Bond

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Gamil Cassam-Chenai

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Felipe Menanteau

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Current Thesis Students

Ross Fadely

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Dusan Maletic

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Naseem Rangwala

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Ricardo Sanchez

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Graduate Students with interests in Astronomy

Saquib Ahmed

 
 
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Amruta Deshpande

 
 
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Luke Hovey

 
 
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Matthew Klimek

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Jeffrey Nick

ARC 217
 
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Alan Richards

 
 
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Chelsea Sharon

 
 
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Roberto Sepulveda

 
 
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Michael Solway

 
 
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Administration

Nancy DeHaan

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Astrophysics Graduates
Name
Thesis Title
Date Awarded
Subsequent Positions

Neelima Sehgal

 
May 2008
 

Arthur Congdon

Probing Small-Scale Structure in Galaxies With Strong Gravitational Lensing
May 2008
 

Ioana Monica Hasegan

Faint Stellar Systems in the Virgo Cluster: The Connection betwwen Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters
January 2007
 

Jessica Sawyer Warren

X-Ray Spectral Variations in Supernova Remnants
October 2006
Purdue University - North Central

Juntai Shen

Dynamical Studies of Two Common Features in Spiral Galaxies: Bars and Warps
October 2005
Harlan J. Smith Fellow, University of Texas

Matthew Francis

From Structure Evolution to Gauge Theories: Topics in Gravitational and Cosmological Physics
May 2005
Assistant Prof. Lambuth University, Tennessee

Jianxiang Wang

Steady State and Time-dependent Loss Cones in Galactic Nuclei
October 2004
Private scctor

Vincent Jacobs

Long-lived lopsided modes of annular disks orbiting a central mass

October 2004
Private sector

Andrés Jordán

Studies of Extragalactic Globular Clusters

October 2004
ESO Postdoctoral Fellow

Clay Fellow, Harvard

Faculty, P.U. Catolica de Chile

Arend Sluis

Planetary Nebulae and the Dynamics of Early-Type Galaxies

January 2004

2MASS Postdoc,
U Mass, Amherst

Private sector

Bingrong Xie

Studies of the Central Regions in Globular Clusters: Kinematics Mass Modeling, and a Search for Binary Stars

October 2003

Visitor, MPI, Munich

Cara Rakowski

X-ray Studies of Supernova Remnants

October 2003

Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow

Naval Research Lab, Washington DC

Milos Milosavljevic

Dynamics of Massive Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclei

October 2002
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, CalTech

Hubble Fellow, CalTech

Faculty U Texas, Austin

Andrew Mack

Topics in Early Universe Cosmology

October 2002

Private sector

Mingyan Poon

A Self-consistent Study of Triaxial Black Hole Nuclei

October 2002

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Victor Debattista

The Interaction of Dark Matter with Galaxy Disks: Bars and Warps

October 1998

Postdocs at
U Basel then U Zurich

Brooks Fellow, U Washington, Seattle

Faculty University of Central Lancashire

Benjamin Weiner

The Dynamics of Barred Spiral Galaxies: Masses and Pattern Speeds

January 1998
Postdoc: Obs. Carnegie Inst. Wash

Postdoc: UC Santa Cruz

Postdoc: U Maryland, College Park

Staff: Tuscon

Tema Fridman

Dynamics of Triaxial Elliptical Galaxies with Cusps

January 1997

Research Asst. Rutgers Chemistry

Benoit Tremblay

Structure and Dynamics of Early-type Galaxies

January 1997

Medical Image processing, U. Penn

Povilas Palunas

The Distribution of Mass and Light in Spiral Galaxies and the Maximum Disk Hypothesis

October 1996
Postdoc, GSFC

now Research Associate, McDonald Observatory

Roy Jones

Structural Parameters and Stellar Populations of the Galactic Globular Clusters M13 and NGC 6535

May 1995

Private sector

Slawomir Piatek

Mass-to-light Ratios in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies and Globular Clusters

October 1994

Asst. Professor at New Jersey Inst. Tech.

Karl Gebhardt

Dynamics of Globular Clusters

October 1994

Postdoc, U Michigan

Hubble Fellow, UCSC

Faculty U Texas at Austin

Paul Papenhausen

The Search for Mass Segregation in Star Clusters of the Magellanic Clouds

Jan 1994

Adjunct professor at St John's University

 

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