Wide-ranging observations, experiments, and novel instrumentation give insights into cosmology, high-energy gamma-ray and cosmic ray astrophysics, the nature of dark matter, galaxy formation and evolution, and the intergalactic medium.
Some of the research projects and experiments in Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Experiment within SCIPP include:
Fermi-LAT
DES-Dark Energy Survey
HAWC
LSST
VERITAS
DESI
HSC
WFIRST
Keck
TMT
SCIPP members affiliated with Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Experiment within SCIPP include:
Faculty
- Tesla E. Jeltema
- Professor
- 831-459-2235
- Steven M Ritz
- Distinguished Professor
- 831-459-3018
831-459-2635
831-332-7764
- Robert P Johnson
- Distinguished Professor
- 831-459-2125
- David A Williams
- Adjunct Professor
- 831-459-3032
- David M Smith
- Professor
- 831-459-2183
- William Atwood
- Research Physicist
- 831-459-2202
- Alexie Leauthaud
- Assistant Professor
- 831-459-5891
- Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta
- Professor/Astronomer & Department Chair
- 408-455-3036 (cell)
831-459-5169 (office)
- Ryan J. Foley
- Assistant Professor
- 831-459-2835
- J. Xavier Prochaska
- Professor
- 831-459-2135
- Constance M Rockosi
- Professor/Astronomer
- 831-459-5246
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students