Kim
Coble (PhD, UChicago 1999) shown at right working hard on a CMB experiment
at the South Pole, was my first official student. Kim was awarded a
NASA Graduate Student Research Prize for 3 years, and she worked
with me on analyzing the Python CMB experiment. She then was a
post-doc at Santa Barbara where she worked on the Boomerang experiment.
She then received a prestigious NSF
postdoctoral award, which she used to rejoin the CMB community in Chicago.
In 2005, she accepted a Faculty position at Chicago State University.
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is my second.
He analyzed early Sloan
Digital Sky Survey data and has been so impressive that he has
already been awarded the Harper Fellowship, given annually to
the best theses at UC. His
thesis is on extracting information
from the Sloan Survey about galaxies, their profiles, and their
clustering properties. He was offered a number of multi-year post-doc
positions and eventually decided to accept a 5-year offer with the Pittsburgh
cosmology group at
Carnegie-Mellon/Pitt. |
Eduardo Rozo (PhD, UChicago 2006) graduated in 2006. Eduardo worked first on the possibility
of detecting primordial gravity waves with the B- mode of cosmic shear, on a variety of strong lensing
problems, and extracting cosmological information from galaxy clusters. For his work, he was awarded the
Nathan
Sugarman Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research. Eduardo's thesis analyzed the
cluster catalogue of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He accepted a postdoctoral position at
Ohio State's
Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics .
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Sara Burtwell (BA, UChicago 2002)graduated from the University of
Chicago in 2002. She did her senior thesis with me
on clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In 2006, she accepted a job teaching astronomy at
Otero Junior College in La Junta, Co. |
Matt Billmire (BA, UChicago 2003)did his senior thesis with me
on gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by
clusters of galaxies. |
I've worked less formally with many other students.
Below is a list of the projects I worked on with students
during the years 1997-2005.
| Project (Click to get paper) | Year | Authors (Student in blue) |
| Learning from the Scatter in Type Ia Supernovae
. The scatter in Supernovae brightnesses caused by lensing could be mined to learn about the amplitude of
the lensing signal.
| 2005 | Dodelson and
Vallinotto |
| Reduced Shear Power Spectrum
. The power spectrum of cosmic shear including the effects of reduced shear (observed
ellipticities are not exactly equal to cosmic shear) and the impact of these
effects on cosmological parameters.
| 2005 | Dodelson,
Shapiro, and White |
| The Nonlinear Cosmological Matter Power Spectrum with Massive Neutrinos I: The Halo Model
. The power spectrum including massive neutrinos using the halo model
| 2004 | Abazajian,
Switzer, Dodelson, Heitmann, and Habib |
| Halo Model Analysis of Cluster Statistics
. A careful analysis of what can be extracted from galaxy clusters within the framework of the halo model
| 2004 |
Rozo, Dodelson, and Frieman |
| Primordial
Gravity Waves and Weak Lensing. Can inflation-produced gravity
waves, and the B-modes they generate, be detected in a large weak lensing
survey? | 2003 |
Dodelson,
Rozo, Stebbins |
| Everpresent
Lambda. An idea for the dark energy based on quantum gravity | 2002 |
Ahmed, Dodelson, Greene, and Sorkin |
| Stellar-Mass
Black Holes in the Solar Neightborhood. Looking for black holes in the Sloan
survey. | 2002 |
Chisholm, Dodelson, and Kolb |
| Analysis of Systematic Effects and Statistical Uncertainties in Angular Clustering of
Galaxies from Early SDSS Data. The first of a series of
6 papers extracting large scale structure results from SDSS. | 2001 |
Scranton, Johnston,, Dodelson, et al. |
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The 3D Power Spectrum from Angular Clustering of Galaxies in Early SDSS Data
. Based on Scranton et al. Ryan and I also contributed to the
other 4 papers; Ryan especially since Scranton et al. is the basis
for all the results. | 2001 |
Dodelson, Narayanan, Tegmark,
Scranton, et al |
| Non-Linear Effects
on the Angular Correlation Function. | 2000 |
Scranton and Dodelson |
| Hydro/N-Body code for
cosmology. We combined Paul Ricker's PPM Hydro code with my N-Body
code and put it through a set of tests. This took a long time; by the time we were
finished Paul was no longer a grad student. He currently works for ASCI, and we
chat from time to time about what to do with the code. | 1999 |
Ricker, Dodelson, and Lamb |
| Effects of a decaying
neutrino on CMB anisotropies . The CMB is a good way to constrain
neutrino propoerties. | 1999 |
Kaplinghat, Lopez, Dodelson, and Scherrer |
| Kim's thesis.
An exhaustive analysis of the Python data. | 1999 |
Coble |
| Initial Python results
in the form of a short letter | 1999 |
Coble , Dragovan, Kovac, Halverson, Holzapfel, Knox, Dodelson, Ganga, Alvarez, Peterson,
Griffin, Newcomb, Miller, Platt, and Novak |
| Analysis of MSAM anisotropy
experiment, including all flights. Puts remarkably strong constraints on the power spectrum.
| 1999 | Wilson, Knox, Dodelson, Coble , Cheng, Cottingham,
Fixsen, Goldin, Inman, Kowitt, Meyer, Page,
Puchalla, Ruhl, and Silverberg
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| Unstable neutrinos and
their effect on the CMB . We neglected an effect here, which was rectified above. |
1998 |
Lopez, Dodelson, Scherrer, and Turner |
| Detecting
neutrinos with the CMB . The idea was to see whether small deviations from
the canonical prediction of 3 neutrinos could be detected with the CMB. |
1998 |
Lopez, Dodelson, Heckler, and Turner |
| Vector perturbations
to the metric; can they be detected? To be perfectly honest, I'm still not sure.
That's why we decided not to publish. | 1997 | Dodelson and
Wiegert |
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Power spectra in quintessence models. This may have been the first paper to
do this calculation, which was later generalized and popularized by a number of other
groups. | 1997 | Coble,
Dodelson, and Frieman |
