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Faculty and Researchers

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Faculty and researchers from several departments (e.g., Physics, ECE, Chemistry, and others) lead cutting edge research efforts in the diverse fields of astronomy and astrophysics. CASS researchers seek to understand the events and processes that shape our universe: the origins of structure and the elements, the nature of space and time, the formation of stars and galaxies, and supernova explosions.



Professors

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Abarbanel, Henry D.

Professor, Physics
BCI, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGCC, MPL
Email: habarbanel@ucsd.edu
Office: Urey Hall, Room 7258
Phone: (858) 534-5590
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Arnold, Kam

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: ksarnold@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 404
Lab: SERF 460
Phone: (510) 717-2321 cell
Kam's research focuses on measurement of the intensity and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). His future plans include developing technology for the next generation of detectors/telescopes.

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Barreiro, Julio

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: jubarreiro@ucsd.edu
Office: Mayer Hall Addition 4531
Lab: Mayer Hall 3318-22
Phone: (858) 246-0108
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Beg, Farhat

Professor, MAE
Email: fbeg@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU II, Room 471
Phone: (858) 822-1266
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Boggs, Steven

Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences

       Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair in Physics
       Professor, Physics

Email: seboggs@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 412
Lab: SERF 462
Phone: (858) 534-8016
Experimental high energy astrophysics
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Burgasser, Adam

Professor, Physics
Director of the Cool Star Lab
Email: aburgasser@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 340
Phone: (858) 822-6958
Observational astrophysics, focusing on very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs; low-temperature stellar and planetary atmospheres; stellar multiplicity; Galactic stellar populations; Physics & Astronomy education; Equity & Inclusion in the physical sciences
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Coil, Alison

Professor, Physics
Ingrid and Joseph W. Hibben Chair
Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
& Faculty Equity Advisor, Division of Physical Sciences
Email: acoil@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 424
Phone: (858) 822-3940
Observational astrophysics, with a focus on galaxy evolution, observational cosmology, and large-scale structure
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Day, James

Associate Professor, Geosciences Research Division,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
Email: jmdday@ucsd.edu
Office: Vaughan Hall 306
Phone: (858) 534-5431
Research themes: Earth and Planetary Chemistry, Earth through Space and time. Research topics: High Temperature Geochemistry, Isotopic Geochemistry, Planetary Sciences and Meteoritics, Volcanology.
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Diamond, Patrick H.

Distinguished Professor, Physics
Email: pdiamond@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 436
Phone: (858) 534-4025
UC San Diego Fusion and Astrophysical Plasma Physics Group
GPS-TTBP
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Driver, Bruce

Professor, Mathematics
Email: bdriver@ucsd.edu
Office: AP&M 5260
Phone: (858) 534-2648
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Flauger, Raphael

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: flauger@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 335
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Fuller, George

Distinguished Professor, Physics
Director of CASS
Email: gfuller@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 409
Phone: (858) 534-9085
Theoretical Astrophysics. Theoretical Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics. Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics. General relativity, especially as regards instability in massive objects. Physics of the early universe; gravitational collapse and supernovae, compact objects; nuclear and quark matter; the origin of nuclei, especially the light elements in the Big Bang and the heavy elements in supernovae; the weak interaction and neutrinos. A common theme running through much of Professor Fuller's work is the interplay of the weak interaction, nuclei, and gravitation.
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Green, Daniel

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: drgreen@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: MH 5206
Cosmology and its intersection with particle physics and quantum field theory
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Holst, Michael

Professor, Mathematics and Physics
Co-Director, Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM)
within the Mathematics Department
Email: mholst@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 405
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Keating, Brian

Professor, Physics
Email: bkeating@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 327
Lab: SERF 375
Phone: (858) 534-7930
Observational and experimental cosmology, polarization and temperature measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), near-infrared background measurements and cosmological reionization. Low noise detector and modulation mechanisms, microwave and infrared optics.

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Keres, Dusan

Associate Professor, Physics
Email: dkeres@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 427
Phone: (858) 822-1214
Astrophysics/Astronomy


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Konopacky, Quinn

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: qkonopacky@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 338
Phone: (858) 246-0241
Planet formation and evolution; high contrast imaging; star formation; stellar and substellar evolution; orbital dynamics; high angular resolution imaging and spectroscopy; adaptive optics; astrometry; speckle interferometry; optical and infrared astronomy.

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Kuti, Julius

Professor, Physics
Email: jkuti@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: MH 5410
Phone: (858) 534-6096
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Lin, Tongyan

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: tongyan@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: MH 5210
The existence of dark matter is the most striking evidence of physics beyond the standard model, yet the properties of dark matter are unknown. My research aims to address basic questions about dark matter, such as what kinds of non-gravitational interactions it has.
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Michelsen, Eric L.

Physics Lecturer
Email: emichels@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 317
Phone: (858) 822-2018
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Minster, Jean-Bernard

Professor/Director, IGPP
Email: jbminster@ucsd.edu
Office: IGPP II/1000
Phone: (858) 534-5650
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Murphy, Thomas

Professor, Physics
Associate Director of CASS
Email: tmurphy@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 336
Lab: SERF 464
Phone: (858) 534-1844
Solar-system tests of general relativity; Energy and the environment
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Norman, Michael

Distinguished Professor, Physics
Director of SDSC
Email: mlnorman@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 423
Phone: (858) 822-4194
Computational Astrophysics: Cosmology, galaxy formation, star formation, high-energy astrophysics.

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Quest, Kevin

Professor, ECE
Email: kquest@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU-I 2404
Phone: (858) 534-4676
Space plasma physics
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Rebeiz, Gabriel

Professor, ECE
Email: grebeiz@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU-I 5608
Phone: (858) 534-8001
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for microwave applications, design of radio frequency/microwave/millimeter-wave systems with radio-astronomical applications.
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Rosengren, Aaron

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: ajrosengren@eng.ucsd.edu
Office: EBUII, Room 377
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Sandstrom, Karin

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: kmsandstrom@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 426
Phone: (858) 246-0552
Interstellar medium: the gas and dust between the stars in a galaxy, particularly the properties of interstellar dust - how dust properties evolve over time, vary within and among galaxies, and how they influence the physics of the interstellar medium.
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Serra, Mattia

Assistant Professor, Physics
Email: mserra@ucsd.edu
Office: Urey Hall 7218
Phone: (858) 534-0524
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Modeling, Theoretical Biophysics
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Sievenpiper, Dan

Professor, ECE
Email: dsievenpiper@eng.ucsd.edu
Office: Jacobs Hall 3209
Phone: (858) 822-6678
Periodic structures, artificial impedance surfaces, metamaterials and metasurfaces, antennas, integration of active electronics with electromagnetic structures, active impedance matching, high power microwave generation or mitigation, biological applications of electromagnetics.
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Stegman, David (Dave)

Associate Professor of Geophysics, SIO
Email: dstegman@ucsd.edu
Office: IGPP II/1000
Phone: (858) 822-0767
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Thiemens, Mark

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dean, Division of Physical Sciences
Email: mthiemens@ucsd.edu
Office: UH 2040
Phone: (858) 534-6732
Cosmochemistry
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Tynan, George

Professor, MAE
Email: gtynan@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU II, Room 456
Phone: (858) 534-9724
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Tytler, David

Professor, Physics
Email: dtytler@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 428
Phone: (858) 534-7670
Optical/UV Astronomy
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Wright, Shelley

Associate Professor, Physics
Email: saw@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 414
Lab: SERF 463-463A
Phone: (858) 534-3316
Experimental and observational astrophysics, optical and infrared instrumentation, adaptive optics, galaxy formation and evolution, and SETI.
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Wuerthwein, Frank

Professor, Physics
Email: fwuerthwein@ucsd.edu
Office: MH 5515
Phone: (858) 822-3219

Researchers

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Buffington, Andrew

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: abuffington@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 381A
Phone: (858) 534-6630
Heliospheric Physics
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Chandler, John

Project Scientist, CASS
Email: jfchandler@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 464
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Harker, David

Associate Research Scientist, CASS
Email: dharker@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 333B
Phone: (858) 822-4893
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Hick, Paul

Researcher/Data Administrator, SDSC
Email: pphick@ucsd.edu
Office: SDSC 308
Phone: (858) 822-3674
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Jackson, Bernard

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: bvjackson@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 303
Phone: (858) 534-3358
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Johnson, Calvin

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: cajohnson@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 406
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Kishimoto, Chad

Assistant Project Scientist, CASS
Lecturer, Physics
Email: ckishimo@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 439
Phone: (858) 822-4463
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Kritsuk, Alexei

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: akritsuk@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 333A
Phone: (858) 534-2943
Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics: Physics of the multiphase interstellar medium, molecular clouds, star formation, and feedback processes. Intracluster medium, AGN feedback,and turbulence in clusters of galaxies. Compressible magnetized turbulence in astrophysical systems and beyond.
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Lindblom, Lee

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: llindblom@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 403
Phone: (858) 534-8991
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Lubin, Dan

Researcher, CASPO-SIO
Email: dlubin@ucsd.edu
Office: Nierenberg Hall, Room 339
Phone: (858) 534-6369
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Maire, Jerome

Assistant Project Scientist, CASS
Email: jmaire@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 463
Interested in developing high-angular resolution instrumentation, high-contrast imaging techniques and high-time resolution astronomy.

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Malkov, Mikhail

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: mmalkov@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 306
Phone: (858) 534-7275
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Markowitz, Alex

Associate Research Scientist, CASS
Email: almarkowitz@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 438 (4th floor visitor office)
Exploring accretion mechanisms in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), mainly via X-ray spectroscopy and variability. Exploring the geometry and accretion behavior of circumnuclear material around supermassive black holes across a range of length scales, from the region of extreme gravity to parsec scales. Connections between AGN and stellar-mass accreting compact objects. Links between black hole mass, luminosity, and continuum variability. Links between accretion disks and relativistic jets.
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Melis, Carl

Associate Research Scientist, CASS
Email: cmelis@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 339
Phone: (858) 534-6627
Debris disks around nearby main sequence stars, ancient planetary systems and their composition through the study of white dwarf stars, actively accreting dusty first-ascent giant stars, radio interferometric imaging of protoplanetary disks, very-long baseline imaging astrometry, cool brown dwarfs as companions to nearby stars.

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Puetter, Richard

Recalled: Research Physicist, CASS
Founder and Chief Science Officer, Pixon Imaging
Email: rpuetter@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 438 (4th floor visitor office)
Quasars/AGN, IR astronomy, interstellar medium, radiative transfer, computational physics, inverse problems, image reconstruction, complexity theory, image compression
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Reasenberg, Robert

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: rreasenberg@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 438 (4th floor visitor office)
Experimental gravitation and relativity
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Rephaeli, Yoel

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: yrephaeli@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 437
Phone: (858) 534-1151 Office; (650) 439-8651 Cell
Cosmology and high energy astrophysics, with main current foci on CMB cosmology, astrophysics of galaxy clusters, and high energy emission from starburst galaxies
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Rosenberg, Marlene

Research Scientist, ECE
Email: mrosenberg@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU-I 2408
Phone: (858) 534-4509
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Rothschild, Richard

Research Scientist, CASS
Adjunct Lecturer, Physics
Lead Scientist of the High Energy Astrophysics group in CASS
Email: rrothschild@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 413
Phone: (858) 534-3462
High energy astrophysics, including but not limited to accreting X-ray pulsars, active galactic nuclei, high energy emission from clusters of galaxies; nuclear astrophysics, including the 511 keV positron annihilation radiation, and other line radiation (Al-26, Ti-44, etc.); high energy astrophysics instrumentation, including coded mask imaging and hard X-ray imaging telescopes; mission development, such as the MIRAX concept to monitor X-ray temporal variability for the central region of the Galaxy, hard X-ray telescope missions such as Nustar, Astro-H, and the International X-ray Observatory; humanitarian demining; and detection/monitoring of radionuclides at a distance.
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Rubin, Kate

Assistant Research Scientist, CASS
Email: khrubin@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 330A
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Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste

Assistant Research Scientist, CASS
Email: jruffio@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 334
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Shevchenko, Valentin

Research Scientist, ECE
Email: vshevchenko@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU-I 2406
Phone: (858) 534-8547
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Singh, Rameswar

Assistant Project Scientist, CASS
Email: rsingh@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 435
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Tinto, Massimo

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: mtinto@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 406
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Weber, Fridolin

Research Scientist, CASS
Email: fweber@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 406

Professors Emeriti & Retired Researchers

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Arnold, James

Professor Arnold passed away January 6, 2012
Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
Cosmochemistry
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Burbidge, Geoffrey

Professor Geoff Burbidge passed away January 26, 2010
Professor Emeritus, Physics
Theoretical astrophysics: Physics of active galaxies & quasi-stellar objects, nonthermal radiation processes, cosmology
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Burbidge, Margaret

Professor E. Margaret Burbidge passed away April 5, 2020
Professor Emeritus, Physics
Theoretical astrophysics: Physics of active galaxies & quasi-stellar objects, nonthermal radiation processes, cosmology
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Coles, William

Professor Emeritus, ECE
Email: bcoles@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU-I 2407
Phone: (858) 534-2703
Solar Space Physics: Structure & turbulence in the solar wind; interstellar & interplanetary scintillation, theory of wave propagation.
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Friedman, Andrew

Dr. Andrew Friedman passed away July 10, 2020
Assistant Research Scientist
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Griest, Kim

Professor Emeritus, Physics
Email: kgriest@ucsd.edu
Office: MH 3206 / SERF 337
Phone: (858) 534-0924/8914
Particle astrophysics/MACHO Project
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Lingenfelter, Richard

Dr. Lingenfelter passed away March 20, 2021
Research Physicist Emeritus, CASS
Email: rlingenfelter@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 402
Phone: (858) 534-2464
His research interests ranged broadly from high-energy astrophysics theory in the origin and interactions of cosmic rays and the sources of gamma rays, through solar flare physics of neutron and gamma-ray emission, meteoritic isotope production, water on the Moon and Mars, and geophysics in radiocarbon and atmospheric neutron production, radiation belt sources, river flood flows, cloud formation and volcanoes, all the way to the history of the American West and Pacific Islands, mining labor and finance, and folk songs.
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Marti, Kurt

Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
Email: kmarti@ucsd.edu
Office: MH 5330
Phone: (858) 534-2939
Cosmochemistry
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Matteson, James

Research Scientist-Retired, CASS
Email: jmatteson@ucsd.edu
X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. Interactions and background effects of photon and particle radiation. Design and experimental characterization of position-sensitive solid-state detectors. Design and performance-modeling of X-ray and gamma-ray imaging instruments.
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McIlwain, Carl

Professor Emeritus, Physics
Email: cmcilwain@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 307
Phone: (858) 534-3314
Magnetospheric physics
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Mendis, Asoka

Professor Emeritus, ECE
Email: amendis@ece.ucsd.edu
Office: EBU-I 2409
Phone: (858) 534-2719
Space plasma physics
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Paar, Hans

Professor Hans Paar passed away June 17, 2018
Professor Emeritus, Physics
Experimental cosmology, in particular the experimental study of the properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background with emphasis on its polarization.
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Peterson, Laurence

Professor Emeritus, Physics
Email: lepeterson@ucsd.edu
Office: SERF 401
Phone: (858) 534-3461
High energy astronomy
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Rickett, Barnaby (Barney)

Professor Emeritus, ECE
Email: bjrickett@ucsd.edu
Office: EBU-1 2405
Phone: (858) 534-2731
Radio astronomy
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Ride, Sally

Professor Ride passed away July 23, 2012
Professor Emeritus, Physics
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Shu, Frank

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics
University Professor Emeritus
Email: fhshu@ucsd.edu
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Tucker, Wallace

Research Physicist, CASS (retired)
Email: wktucker@sd.znet.com
Office: SERF 438 (CASS Visitor Office)
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Vernon, Wayne

Professor Vernon passed away February 22, 2015
Research Professor Emeritus, Physics
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Wolfe, Arthur

Professor Wolfe passed away February 17, 2014
Professor Emeritus, Physics and Endowed Chair
Former Chancellor's Associates Chair IV
Galaxy formation - observation and theory