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Antonella Palmese

Assistant Professor

Carnegie Mellon UniversityUSPhysics

Antonella Palmese is an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Her research group focuses on multi-messenger analyses, primarily involving optical and near-infrared observations of transients and...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
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24.8K
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Paul Ricker

Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUSAstronomy

Paul Ricker is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His research interests focus on computational astrophysics, with applications to binary stars, galaxy clusters,...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
82
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50.5K
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317
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Felipe Menanteau

Research Associate Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUSAstronomy

Felipe Menanteau is a Research Associate Professor in Astronomy and the Assistant Director of Data Stewardship and Computing at the Prairie Research Institute. He is also an affiliate of the National Center for...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
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48.2K
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924
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Risa Wechsler

Humanities and Sciences Professor and the Director of the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Professor of Physics (H&S), Professor of Particle Physics & Astrophysics (SLAC), Director of the Center for Decoding the Universe, and an Associate Director at Stanford Data Science

Stanford UniversityUSPhysics

Risa Wechsler is the Humanities and Sciences Professor and the Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University. She is also a Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
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126.1K
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Shami Chatterjee

Associate Professor Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute, CCAPS

Cornell UniversityUSAstronomy

Shami Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, affiliated with the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and the Carl Sagan Institute. He earned his...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
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35.9K
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Kent Irwin

Professor

Stanford UniversityUSPhysics

Kent Irwin is the Director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) and a Professor of Physics, specializing in Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Photon Science at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. and...

PhysicsOpticsAstrophysicsAstronomy
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76.7K
citations
1.2K
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Janet Conrad

Professor of Physics

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUSPhysics

Janet Conrad is a Professor of Physics at MIT with a research focus on neutrinos, the lightest known matter particles, which outnumber atoms in the universe. Her work explores the properties of neutrinos, including...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyParticle physics
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164.7K
citations
2.2K
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Matias Carrasco Kind

Research Assistant Professor of Accountancy and Director of Data Science Research Services and DPI Faculty in Residence and Deloitte Scholar

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUSAccountancy

Matias Carrasco Kind is a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with positions including Faculty in Residence at the Gies College of Business and Affiliate Professor at the National Center...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
102
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51K
citations
911
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Deep Jariwala

Associate Professor Peter and Susanne Armstrong Distinguished Scholar

University of PennsylvaniaUSMaterials Science
Materials scienceOptoelectronicsNanotechnologyPhysics
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28K
citations
324
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John Carlstrom

Professor

University of ChicagoUSPhysics

John E. Carlstrom is a Professor and the Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics at The University of Chicago. He is associated with the...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyOptics
136
h-index
70.9K
citations
811
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Daniel M. Scolnic

Associate Professor of Physics

Duke UniversityUSPhysics

Daniel M. Scolnic is an Associate Professor of Physics at Duke University, affiliated with the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, and also holds a position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
65
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30K
citations
469
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Dee Hibbert Jones

Professor

University of California, Santa CruzUSVisual Arts

Dee Hibbert Jones is a Professor in the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz, affiliated with the Digital Arts and New Media, Film and Digital Media Department, and Legal Studies. Her areas of...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
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10.7K
citations
228
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Ramesh Narayan

Professor

Harvard UniversityUSAstronomy

Ramesh Narayan is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University. He is affiliated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, located at 60 Garden Street, MS-51, Cambridge,...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyClassical mechanics
141
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85.2K
citations
872
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Charles F. Gammie

Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUSAstronomy

Charles F. Gammie is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His research interests include black holes, the formation of the Moon, planet formation, star...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyClassical mechanics
81
h-index
31.7K
citations
328
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Cholik Chan

Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Member of the Graduate Faculty

University of ArizonaUSAerospace Engineering

Cholik Chan is a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona and a member of the Graduate Faculty. His research focuses on various aspects of thermal and fluid dynamics, including...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyComputer science
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16.9K
citations
169
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Charles Baltay

Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy

Yale UniversityUSAeronautics and Astronautics

Charles Baltay is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy at Yale University. His professional affiliation is with the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, located at 217 Prospect St,...

PhysicsAstrophysicsParticle physicsAstronomy
57
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13.3K
citations
690
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Alberto Daniel Bolatto

Professor

University of Maryland, College ParkUSAstronomy

Alberto Daniel Bolatto is an observational astronomer specializing in the study of galaxies and their evolution through cosmic time. His main research interests include star formation and its self-regulation,...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyAstrobiology
77
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25.1K
citations
672
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Frank Geurts

Professor

Rice UniversityUSPhysics

Frank Geurts is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 1998, working on light meson production in ultrarelativistic...

PhysicsParticle physicsNuclear physicsAlgorithm
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127.6K
citations
2.5K
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Karl Ecklund

Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Rice UniversityUSPhysics

Professor Karl Ecklund is associated with the T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory at Rice University, where research addresses fundamental questions in nuclear and particle physics. The laboratory's work contributes to...

PhysicsParticle physicsNuclear physicsAlgorithm
142
h-index
111.5K
citations
2.4K
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Matthew Caesar

Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUSComputer Science

Matthew Caesar is a professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, obtained...

Computer scienceComputer networkDistributed computingComputer security
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h-index
11.3K
citations
191
papers
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