Dimitar D. Sasselov
Professor of Astronomy
Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
Senior Advisor in the sciences, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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
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Directions: MAP -
Curriculum Vitae
Origins/HAA Event: "The Future of Life" (Sat., March 7, 2009).
Projects:
Exoplanets -
Nature & formation; MOST & Kepler missions; New discoveries 
Kepler -
NASA Kepler mission - launch on March 5, 2009
RECFAST -
Detailed calculation of how the Early Universe became neutral
DIRECT -
Distance determination to nearby galaxies
MOST -
Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars Microsatellite Mission
Stellar Microscopy -
Imaging via Gravitational Microlensing
Parallels in Creativity - Symposium on Art and Science
Publications:
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in the Astrophysics Data System.
Books:
"Stellar Pulsation" (2001),
"Pulsating Stars" (1998),
Courses:
IIA-Bangalore Lecture Course
Core Science A-54. Life as a Planetary Phenomenon
Astronomy 1. The Astronomical Universe
Astronomy 201a. Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics
Astronomy 206. Stellar Physics
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CONFERENCES:
Transiting Planets,
IAU Symposium No. 253, Cambridge, MA: May 19-23, 2008