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JOSEPH MILLER
Office: 375 ISB Phone: 459-2991 Email: miller@ucolick.org
Observational studies of AGNs. Also: astronomical instrumentation and
telescopes.
JERRY NELSON
Office: 215 CfAO Phone: 459-5132 Email: jnelson@ucolick.org
Design and construction of large telescopes, project Scientist for Keck telescope
and Thirty Meter telescope, development of adaptive optics systems. Jerry is on
leave this year working on the Thirty Meter Telescope project.
FRANCIS NIMMO (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Office number: A219 E&MS Bldg. Phone: 459-1783 Email: fnimmo@es.ucsc.edu
Mars, icy satellites, planetary geophysics
JOEL PRIMACK (Physics)
Office: 322 ISB Phone: 459-2580 Email: joel@ucolick.org
Theoretical cosmology, including: nature and composition of dark matter; galaxy
formation and evolution by analytic and semi-analytic methods; N-body and
hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation and galaxy interactions.
JASON X. PROCHASKA
Office: 333 ISB Phone: 459-2135; Email: xavier@ucolick.org
Observational cosmology and galaxy formation, including: quasar absorption line
systems, chemical abundances at high-z and in the Galaxy, missing baryons,
high-z galaxy dynamics, star formation. Also: ISM, cosmological simulations,
metal-poor stars.
ENRICO RAMIREZ-RUIZ
(Will arrive on campus January 2007)
Studies the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions, gamma-ray
bursts, and accretion phenomena near compact objects.
CONSTANCE ROCKOSI
Office: 261 ISB Phone: 459-5246 Email: crockosi@ucolick.org
Galactic structure, stellar, populations, CCD detectors, astronomical
instrumentation.
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