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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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Conferences & Workshops Attended
12. RogerFest: A Festival of Cosmic Explosions, Caltech Cahill Center, Pasadena, CA, (Aug 21-23, 2009) 11. Stellar Death & Supernovae, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara CA (KITP), UCSB, (Aug 17-21, 2009) 10. American Astronomical Society Meeting 213, Long Beach, CA (Jan 9-14, 2009) 9. American Astronomical Society Meeting 211, Austin, TX, (Jan 7-11, 2008) 8. NASA GSRP Symposium, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, (Sep 19-21, 2007) 7. Accretion and Explosion: the Astrophysics of Degenerate Stars, Kavli Institute For Theoretical Physics (KITP), UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, (Jan 29-Feb 23, 2007) 6. American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, Seattle, WA, (Jan 5-10, 2007) 5. NASA GSRP Symposium, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, (Sep 18-22, 2006) 4. Penn State Summer School in Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, College Station, PA, (Jun 6-10, 2006) 3. American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, Washington, DC, (January 8-12, 2006) 2. American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, San Diego, CA, (Jan 9-13, 2005) 1. American Astronomical Society Meeting 201, Seattle, WA (January 2003) | ||||||||||
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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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