Welcome. I am James Battat, a graduate student in the Astronomy Department at Harvard University, working with Prof. Christopher Stubbs on tests of fundamental physics using astrophysical objects. Check out my Research page for a description of how and why I measure the Earth-Moon distance to a precision of a millimeter (that's nearly a part in a trillion of the 384,000 km distance).

I've had the opportunity to be a Teaching Fellow in several courses at Harvard (undergraduate and graduate, for both majors and non). I developed and co-taught a sophomore tutorial for astronomy majors and have lectured in the advanced undergraduate astrophysics course. Please see Teaching for details.

In addition, I have worked extensively with the Harvard Instructional Computing Group to develop software and applications to enrich classroom learning in both science and non-science courses.

Based on design by Andres Viklund. See http://andreasviklund.com