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I am a
sixth year Ph.D.
student in the Harvard University Department
of Astronomy. I received my B.A in Physics & Astrophysics from
UC Berkeley in 2001, and an A.M. in Astronomy
from Harvard in 2006. I am working
on my Ph.D. thesis project with Professor
Robert Kirshner on Infrared
Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae (expected graduation 2010). Type Ia Supernovae
can be used as standardizable
candles for cosmology
to measure the expansion
history of the universe and constrain the mysterious dark energy thought to be causing the acceleration of cosmic expansion. The supernova aspect of
the project uses infrared data obtained with the fully robotic 1.3 meter Peters
Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL)
at the Fred
Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona (P.I. Professor
Joshua Bloom, UC Berkeley).
My previous work with Professor
Ramesh Narayan and Professor
Joshua Bloom focused on testing the potential
applications of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) for cosmology by studying
GRB spectra and energetics. My work has been supported
in part by
a National Science
Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and
a NASA Graduate
Student Research Program Fellowship, where I collaborated
with researchers at the NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, including Dr.
Neil Gehrels, the Principal Investigator of the NASA
Swift Satellite, a space experiment that studies both GRBs and
supernovae.
-Andrew Samuel Friedman, 9/27/09
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Research Talks
6. “Infrared Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae from PAIRITEL”, Accretion and Explosion: The Astrophysics of Degenerate Stars, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, (Feb 20, 2007) [Movie Online Here] 5. “Selected PAIRITEL Data Analysis Issues”, 2nd Annual PAIRITEL Workshop, Harvard-CfA, (May 16, 2006) 4. “The Promise and Limitations of GRB Standard Candles”, Graduate Student Research Forum, Harvard University, (March 14, 2006) 2. “The Present and Future of GRB Cosmology”, Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) Science Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, California, (July 15, 2005) 3. “Toward a More Standardized Candle Using GRB Energetics and Spectra”, High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Lunch Talk, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, (Feb 9, 2005) 1. “The Present and Future of GRB Cosmography”, AAS Meeting #205, San Diego, CA, (Jan 9-13, 2005) Thesis Advisory Committee Meeting Talks 3. “Infrared Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae”, Thesis Advisory Committee Meeting, Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, (December 9, 2008) 2. “Cosmological Applications of Novel Standardized Candles: II”, Thesis Advisory Committee Meeting, Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, (November 27, 2007) 1. “Cosmological Applications of Novel Standardized Candles”, Thesis Advisory Committee Meeting, Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, (June 26, 2006) Graduate Astronomy Course Talks 4. “Cosmology & Strongly Lensed QSOs” Astronomy 200, Harvard University, Spring 2004 3. “A Short Talk on Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts”, Astronomy 219, Harvard University, Spring 2003 (Apr 24 2003) 2. “CMB Anisotropies Episode II: Approximation Methods and Cosmological Parameter Dependencies”, Astronomy 200, Harvard University, (Spring 2003) 1.“Primordial Helium Abundance and the Primordial Fireball”, Astronomy 200, Harvard University, (Fall 2002) | ||||||||||
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Ph.D. Research - Harvard University
Infrared Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae PAIRITEL Website Gamma-Ray Burst Energetics and Cosmology http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~afriedman/ Undergraduate Research - University of California, Berkeley Supernova Discoveries Page, The Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) IAU Circulars, Senior Thesis, Astro Labs, Andy's Cheat Sheets Berkeley Scientific Journal Graphics, Berkeley Scientific Journal |
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