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Flávio S Azevedo

Flávio S Azevedo

Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
flavio@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Investigates the nature of STEM interests and interest-driven participation and learning, foundations of cognition in STEM disciplines, and learning out of schools.

Thomas G Barnes

Thomas G Barnes

Research Affiliate - Research Fellow, McDonald Observatory, College of Natural Sciences
tgb@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1301

Expertise: Astronomy; variable stars; stellar distance scales; Cepheid variable stars; observatory management; National Science Foundation; optical and infrared astronomy; extraterrestrial life

Anita L Cochran

Anita L Cochran

A&P (Part-Time), McDonald Observatory, College of Natural Sciences
anita@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1471

Expertise: Astronomy, our solar system (particularly comets, asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects); origins of planetary systems; optical spectroscopy; McDonald Observatory

Keely D Finkelstein

Keely D Finkelstein

Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
keelyf@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3339

Niall Gaffney

Niall Gaffney

Director for Data Intensive Computing, Texas Advanced Computing Center
ngaffney@tacc.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9504

Expertise: Design of data workflows in parallel computing systems; Data discovery systems; Data preservation; Astronomical data reduction and analysis

Karl  Gebhardt

Karl Gebhardt

Department Chair, Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
gebhardt@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 590 5206

Expertise: Astronomy, black holes, globular clusters, elliptical galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark energy, HETDEX, Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Keith  Hawkins

Keith Hawkins

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
keithhawkins@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1309

Expertise: Galactic & stellar archaeology; Chemical composition of stars; stellar spectroscopy; Galactic structure

Shardha  Jogee

Shardha Jogee

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, CNS Faculty Affairs
sj@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1395

Expertise: Astronomy, galaxy evolution, Hubble Space Telescope, galaxy surveys (GEMS, GOODS, Hubble Ultra Deep Field, STAGES), ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array)

Alison  Maggart

Alison Maggart

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
alison.maggart@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: western art music of the United States, academic music, serialism/formalism, Cold War culture, New Age, sound and meditation

Richard A Matzner

Richard A Matzner

Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
matzner2@physics.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5062

Expertise: Cosmology; general relativity; computational astrophysics; satellite dynamics; large-scale computation

Julian B Munoz

Julian B Munoz

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
julianmunoz@austin.utexas.edu

Stella S Offner

Stella S Offner

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
soffner@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3853

Expertise: star formation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, numerical simulations, computational methods & hydrodynamics, astrostatistics, astrochemistry

Deirdre  Shoemaker

Deirdre Shoemaker

Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
deirdre.shoemaker@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Her research interests center on black holes and gravitational waves, understanding these and other aspects of strong gravity and how it reveals itself in the universe. To that end, Prof. Shoemaker works with gravitational wave detector teams to work toward understanding gravitational physics.