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Philip Lubin
Professor
Physics
UCSB
CONTACT
Physics Dept. UCSB
Broida Hall, Room 2015C
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530
Tel: 805-893-8432
Fax: 805-893-3307
Email: lubin [at] cfi.ucsb.edu, lubin [at] deepspace.ucsb.edu
Web site: http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu
Research Interests
* Experimental cosmology
* Satellite, balloon-born and ground-based studies of the early universe
* Cosmic Background Radiation – spectrum, anisotropy and polarization
* Galaxy cluster cooling (Sunyaev-Zeldovich) measurements
A talk by Dr Lubin in KITP:
The next generation of CMB measurements promises to greatly increase our knowledge of the CMB angular power spectrum. This should enable us to determine many of the cosmological parameters that define our universe such as the overall mass and baryon density, if there is a significant vacuum energy component, the Hubble parameter, spectral tilt and reionization history, among others. Whether nature is kind to us or whether foreground contamination and systematics prevent the full realization of these goals remains to be seen.
See the full talk video / KITP online Colloquium for Dr Lubin
Peter Meinhold
Research Physicist
Physics
UCSB
CONTACT
Physics Dept. UCSB
Broida Hall, Room 2217
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530
Web site: http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu
Jatila van der Veen
Project Scientist, ITST and Department of Physics
Lecturer, College of Creative Studies
Education Project Manager for the Planck Mission
Research Interests
* Visualization, sonification, and arts-based practice in physics education
* Learning in Virtual Reality – increasing comprehension by interacting with data
* The role of discourse and narrative in physics education
* Folk dance as culturally-situated mathematics (not really physics, but FUN!)
Selected publications:
- van der Veen, J. (2012). Draw your physics homework? Art as a path to understanding in physics education. AERJ, April, 2012. link: http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~jatila/papers/AmEducResJ-2012-vanderVeen-356-407.pdf
- van der Veen, J., McGee, R., & Moreland, J. (2012). The Planck Visualization Project: Immersive and Interactive Software for Astronomy and Cosmology Education in Conference Proceedings of the International Dynamic, Interactive and Explorative Learning (IDEAL) Conference, Bayburt University, July 2-5, 2012
- McGee, R., van der Veen, J., Wright, M., Kuchera-Morin, J., Alper, B., Lubin, P. (2011). SONIFYING THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND, in Conference Proceedings of The 17th Annual International Conference on Auditory Display . Pre-print available HERE
Website
Webpage: web.physics.ucsb.edu/~jatila
Contact info:
2225 Broida Hall, x8418
email: jatila [at] physics [.] ucsb [.] edu