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Lyman Laboratory, room 128 Harvard University 17 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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| Email: | andrew at alum dot mit dot edu |
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In August, 2007 I will start a Townes Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Space Science Laboratory (SSL) at UC Berkeley. My primary research will be with Geoff Marcy on extrasolar planets using the new Automated Planet Finder telescope. I also plan to collaborate with Dan Werthimer on optical SETI.
I'm currently a post-doctoral fellow in Paul Horowitz's group in the Harvard Physics Department. I've worked on many aspects of optical SETI, including the first all-sky survey for nanosecond optical pulses, and a targeted search of ~5000 Sun-like stars for such signals.
I designed PulseNet, a full-custom integrated circuit with 250,000 transistors that digitizes and processes 32 analog inputs at up to 1 giga-sample per second. Thirty-two PulseNets form the computing core of the all-sky optical SETI experiment with a total data rate of 3.5 terabits per second, or roughly the contents of all books in print, every second.
I'm also an avid photographer with a particular interest in landscape and nature photography, as well as digital manipulation and large-format printing. My photographs can be found at Eigenphoto.com and in the galleries linked in the Photo menu at the top of this page.
Most of the content in my web space is linked through the menus at the top of this page.
A few items of interest are listed here: