These are the Fourth Years. They started their journey through grad school in Fall 2004.
[ Peter Brown | Antonino Cucchiara | Jian Wu ]
Peter BrownEmail: pbrown @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/p/j/pjb932/ |
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Research Interests:
Ultraviolet lightcurves of Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts
Research Advisor:
Pete Roming
Other Interests:
Loving my wife and two kids
Birthday:
April 20
Favorite Color:
Medium-Quasar-Blue-Metallic (I once heard it on a car commercial)
Alma Mater:
Brigham Young U.
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
The dark horse candidate that rose quickly on my list when I thought of when else in my life I would get to work with a satellite (Swift) being launched to study the same thing I want to study (Gamma Ray Bursts). I was also impressed by the large but friendly department with lots of different research
Antonino CucchiaraEmail: cucchiara@astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.astro.psu.edu/~cucchiara |
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Research Interests:
Spectroscopic studies of GRB afterglows. With particular interests in using GRB as probe of the high redshift Univers through DLA systems, Ly-alpha forest and dynamical studies of absorption features. GRB environment and progenitor.
Research Advisor:
Other Interests:
interests: playing volleyball, beachvolley, soccer and dancing, Cooking.
Birthday:
secret
Favorite Color:
green
Alma Mater:
Universita' Statale di Milano
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
secret
Jian WuEmail: jwu @ astro.psu.eduURL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxw394/ |
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Research Interests:
Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasar Intrinsic Absorption Lines, Quasar UV/Optical Emission Lines from SLoad Digital Sky Survey
Research Advisor:
Jane Charlton (formal), Donald Schneider, Daniel Vanden Berk
Other Interests:
Movies, TV series, Soft Music, Basketball, Boating
Birthday:
July 12
Favorite Color:
Light Blue and Light Green
Alma Mater:
U. of Science & Technology of China
Reasons for Choosing Penn State:
First, Penn State has a good fame in Astronomy and Astrophysics research. It has a large group in X-Ray Obervation and Analysis which just fits my interest in this field. Second, Penn State is a pushing university. It has a history for 150 years. It is also growing up very quickly. Hundreds of young scientists and engineers come here to join the big family and make it active and lively. Third, it locates in a quite and, more important, safe place. That is quite benifitial to student. Finally, we have a lot of Chinese friends here.
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