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
Akrami Y, Anselmi S, Copi CJ, et al., 2024, Promise of Future Searches for Cosmic Topology, Physical Review Letters, Vol:132, ISSN:0031-9007
Eskilt JR, Akrami Y, Anselmi S, et al., 2024, Cosmic topology. Part IIa. Eigenmodes, correlation matrices, and detectability of orientable Euclidean manifolds, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol:2024
Dachlythra N, Duivenvoorden AJ, Gudmundsson JE, et al., 2024, The Simons Observatory: Beam Characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes, Astrophysical Journal, Vol:961, ISSN:0004-637X
Li Z, Louis T, Calabrese E, et al., 2023, The Simons Observatory: a new open-source power spectrum pipeline applied to the Planck legacy data, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol:2023, Pages:048-048
Heavens A, Heavens A, Jaffe A, et al., 2023, Almanac: MCMC-based signal extraction of power spectra and maps on the sphere, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Vol:6, ISSN:2565-6120