Dimitar D. Sasselov

Phillips Professor of Astronomy
Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University, Department of Astronomy,
60 Garden Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138

MS 16, (room P-336)
Tel. 617-495-7451, Fax 617-495-7346
My E-mail address
Directions: MAP - Curriculum Vitae

Origins of Life Initiative

Book:

"The Life Of Super-Earths" (Basic Books, 2012).

New Online Course:

"Super-Earths and Life" (edX-HarvardX, starts on Feb 10, 2015).

General audience lectures:

View my TED talk on "Completing the Copernican Revolution (July 16, 2010).

View my TEDx talk on "Engagement & Feedback in Real Time" (2014).

View my lecture at the Crossroads Conference (May 1, 2009).

Projects:

Exoplanets - Nature & formation; MOST & Kepler missions; New discoveries
Kepler - NASA Kepler mission
RECFAST - Detailed calculation of how the Early Universe became neutral
DIRECT - Distance determination to nearby galaxies
MOST - Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars Microsatellite Mission
Parallels in Creativity - Symposium on Art and Science

Publications:

CLICK here for the list in the Astrophysics Data System.
Books: "Stellar Pulsation" (2001), "Pulsating Stars" (1998),

Courses:

Gen Ed Sci-PhysUniv 30, Life as a Planetary Phenomenon
IIA-Bangalore Lecture Course
Astronomy 1. The Astronomical Universe
Astronomy 201a. Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics
Astronomy 206. Stellar Physics
My.Harvard

Pointers:

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[Harvard-EPS] - [MIT astro] - [Princeton] - [ITC-Wiki] - [CITA] - [Carnegie] - [Caltech] - [STScI] - [ESO] - [CFHT] - [IRTF]

[HST Key P] - [DDO Cephs] - [Berd Cephs] - [EROS] - [PHOENIXSp] - [YaleIso] - [Atom Data] - [OPAL] - [Opac LANL] - [Dust] - [Nuclides] - [ASCIturb] - [FLASH] - [CONV] - [StatCodes] - [NIRVANA] - [MARCS] - [YaleEvol]

[Hpcos] - [SIM] - [KeckI] - [FUSE] - [HAT] - [Planets] - [FastLaneNSF] - [NASA-OSS] - [NASA-Prop] - [ASTROBIO]

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CONFERENCES:
Transiting Planets, IAU Symposium No. 253, Cambridge, MA: May 19-23, 2008