I have taken up an associate professorship in the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Louisville .
My new e-mail address is williger (-at-) physics dot louisville dot edu
My office is Natural Sciences Bldg #206 - tel. 502/852-0821, fax 502/852-0742.
Here are driving directions and a map of main campus
(on which we are in Bldg 34). I also am a visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins U, and a member of the
Institute for Computational and Astrophysical Sciences at the
Catholic University of America.
I am organizing the 2008 Bullitt Lecture, to be held on Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 7:00pm or 7:30pm (time to be confirmed) in
the Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium. Caty Pilachowski of Indiana University will be our featured speaker.
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Main Interests:
- Large Scale Structure
- Quasar Absorption Lines
- HeII Gunn-Peterson Effect
- D/H in the interstellar medium
- Proto-planetary Disks
- Data Mining (SDSS and other ground-based/space-based)
Outside Research Groups:
Louisville Research Group:
- Large Quasar Groups (public page)
- Large Quasar Groups (collaborator page, password-protected)
- Large Quasar Groups (team page)
- Lyman Alpha Blobs and their Filaments
- Proto-Planetary Disks
Jim Lauroesch, Assistant Professor (collaborator)
Lutz Haberzettl, post-doc
Karen Collins, graduate student - publications
Wes Miller, undergraduate student - publications
Former students:
Brian Carpenter, graduate student 2005-2007
Louisville fortnightly Astro-Lunch, every other Thursday at noon
Short CV
A popular description of some of what I doFUSE links:
D/H team page
D/H target index
postscript spectral plots for D/H FUSE programs
Teaching/Summer Internship Suggestions/Career Advice
Publications/Conference proceedings/Press Releases
Popular Topics/Links/Popular Press Articles (including on our research)
Portal to the Universe: International Year of Astronomy 2009 (400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope)
Popular Astronomy Talks and Talk Archive at U. Louisville
Regional Astronomy-related Seminars
Physics/Astronomy Departments in Big East/U Louisville Benchmark Institutions
Journal/Preprint Links
I am also the Louisville chapter advisor for Mortar Board
Observatories
Useful data
Computer tools
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