Peter Mészáros

Eberly Chair of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Professor of Physics

Director, Center for Particle Astrophysics

The Pennsylvania State University

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1972

Office: 508 Davey Lab;  Secretariat: 525 Davey Lab., 1-814-865-0418
Mailing Address: 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-0418; Fax: (814) 863-2842
Username: pmeszaros (email to username (at) astro.psu.edu).
Office Hours: By appointment. Courses: AST/PHY 585; AST 502; 597K, 440, 601

Cosmology with GRB Neutron Stars Gravitational Waves Cosmic Rays Neutrino Astrophysics GRB Physics
Research:
Gamma-ray bursts
Neutrino astrophysics
Cosmology
Cosmic Rays
Gravitational waves
Neutron stars
Sponsors: NSF; NASA
Thomson Reuters Science Watch citation analysis of the GRB work ranks it as #1 over the past ten years; here is the related interview. .
Affiliations, consortia:   Ctr. Particle Astrophysics;  Inst. Gravit. & Cosm. ;  Ctr. Gravit. Wave Phys. . SWIFT ;  ICECUBE ;   FERMI ;  
Postdoctoral associates:   Dr. Xuefeng Wu ; Dr. Kenji Toma ; Dr. Alessandra Corsi ; Graduate students:  Shan Gao; Xihao Deng; Xuesong Wang ;
Collaborations with: D. Fox ; E. Waxman; M.J. Rees; SWIFT team; ; ICECUBE team ; FERMI team
Some recent reviews & presentations:       Publications, Talks, CV:
GRB theory (Scholarpedia 08) ; GRB (RevProgPhys06) e-Preprints (arXiv),
UHE nus & GRB (Beijing08) ; Particle astrophys (KEK08) e-Reprints (ADS archive)
GRB prompt/VHE (Hunt08) ; GeV-TeV gammas (Heid08) Publications , Talks , C.V.
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