Research Interests

• Radio astronomy
• Active Galactic Nuclei
  • AGN and Relativistic Jets Journal Club
• Experimental cosmic microwave background (CMB) cosmology
• Supernova remnants

Experiments

• OVRO 40m Blazar Monitoring Program: High-cadence 15 GHz monitoring of > 1500 blazars (my thesis project)
• QUIET: Q/U Imaging ExperimenT, a polarimeter array camera designed to find CMB B-modes
• CBI: The Cosmic Background Imager, a 13-element interferometer for CMB studies

Publications

• My arXiv articles page
• Publications list (PDF)

Talks

• OVRO Blazar Monitoring, November 4, 2009: Overview of OVRO 40m and F-GAMMA projects, likelihood variability index method, and method for demonstrating significance of radio-gamma flux correlations. Presented at the Fermi Symposium in Washington D.C.
• OVRO Blazar Monitoring, June 8, 2009: Overview of OVRO 40m and F-GAMMA projects, data reduction, and very preliminary variability results. Presented at the 214th AAS meeting in Pasadena, CA.
• QUIET, May 15, 2008: Overview of QUIET project/status and a discussion of 1/f-noise measurement techniques. Presented at Andrew Lange's group seminar at Caltech.

Teaching

• Phy 003: Caltech freshman physics lab.