Summary
I am a cosmologist, and currently head of the Astrophysics Group in the Department of Physics.
Research Interests
Statistical Cosmology. Testing cosmological theories: Bayesian probability; Theory and analysis of fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave background; Large Scale Structure; Statistics of the galaxy distribution and large scale flows. Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics. Supermassive Black Holes in the centers of galaxies -- their detection and use as probes of the history of structure formation.
Projects
The Planck Surveyor Satellite .
Web pages
My blog is more up to date, but not entirely academic.
Teaching
2012-17
- Second-year Quantum Mechanics.
2008-11
- Undergraduate Cosmology
2007-08
- Fourier Series and Transforms for physicsts.
- First-year professional skills seminars
- Third-year professional skills: Presentations
- Second-year laboratory
Publications
Journals
Collaboration TEBEX, Abitbol M, Aboobaker AM, et al., The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout
Collaboration TEBEX, Aboobaker AM, Ade P, et al., The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Optics, Receiver, and Polarimetry
Conneely C, Jaffe AH, Mingarelli CMF, On the Amplitude and Stokes Parameters of a Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
Didier J, Miller AD, Araujo D, et al., Intensity-Coupled-Polarization in Instruments with a Continuously Rotating Half-Wave Plate
Sellentin E, Jaffe AH, Heavens AF, On the use of the Edgeworth expansion in cosmology I: how to foresee and evade its pitfalls