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Information: Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California Irvine, CA 92697-4575 +1 (609) 306-9749 annika.peter [at] uci.edu |
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Welcome to my homepage! I am currently a McCue Fellow at UC Irvine. My primary scientific interests are dark-matter phenomenology; precision estimates of the dark-matter distribution in the Solar System; "astrophysical" systematics in dark-matter experiments; solar-system and galactic dynamics; and galaxy evolution. I think the Milky Way is an incredibly interesting laboratory for dark-matter and galaxy-evolution physics. Prior to my employment at UCI, I was a postdoc at Caltech and a graduate student in the Physics Department at Princeton University, where I wrote my thesis on "Particle Dark Matter in the Solar System" under the supervision of Scott Tremaine (now at the Institute for Advanced Study). Prior to that, I was an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle, my hometown.
The UCI astrophysics seminar calendar may be found here, and the Joint Particle Seminar calendar is here.
If you happen to find yourself in Pasadena and are looking to learn some interesting astrophysics, a good place to start would be the astronomy events calendar, where you will find a listing of the week's astro talks in town.
If you happen to find yourself in Princeton, you can find a list of interesting talks to attend on the IAS Astrophysics Seminar Calendar.
When I am not doing science, I enjoy playing with my cats Neville and Bellatrix, traveling with my husband Chris (most recently to New Zealand's lovely North Island), reading up on anything and everything (recent books: Charles Mann's 1493 and Jo Nesbo's Nemesis), and hitting up local restaurants. Unlike many Seattle natives, I actually quite like living in southern California. My only gripes are that I haven't found a decent hoagie yet (although perhaps the lack of hoagies is correlated to an abrupt 10-lb. weight loss when I moved here from New Jersey), and that it is only a matter of time before a massive earthquake hits. If you know where to find a good cheesesteak, please let me know!