Research Interests Physical cosmology: Galaxy clusters, mergers, galaxy evolution, analytic models of structure formation, reionization, strong lensing Positions held 2008-present Senior Fellow and Associate Researcher, Space Sciences Lab., TAC member, UC Berkeley 2002-2008 Senior Fellow and Assistant Researcher, Space Sciences Lab., TAC member, UC Berkeley 2002-2004 Lecturer, Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley 2000-2001 Research Associate in the Harvard College Observatory 1999-2000 Associate of the Harvard College Observatory 1997-1999 Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy and Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1996-1997 Bunting Fellow (Radcliffe College, Harvard University) Visiting Researcher, Tufts Institute of Cosmology, MA 1993-1996 Postgraduate Research Physicist X, U of California, Berkeley 1991-93 Research Associate, Fermilab Particle Theory Group 1988-91 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1984-88 Research Assistant, University of Chicago, with D. Friedan and S.H. Shenker string theory 1983 Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago 1981,82 Summer Research Assistant with W.T. Ford and J.G. Smith, University of Colorado, MAC ee detector at PEP(SLAC) 1980 Summer Research Assistant with D. Winn, Harvard University, Harvard-Wisconsin-Purdue proton decay experiment-- construction Education 1988 Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago Thesis advisors: D. Friedan and S.H. Shenker (superstring theory) 1984 M.S., Physics, University of Chicago 1983 A.B. summa cum laude, Physics, Harvard University Fellowships, Grants and Awards 2013-2015 DOE Research grant 2012-2014 DOE Research grant 2008-2009 DOE Research grant 2007-2008 DOE Research grant 2002-2005 NSF EXC Research grant 2000 NSF POWRE Award 1997 NSF Career Advancement Award 1996 Bunting Fellow of Radcliffe College 1989,1990 Claire Booth Luce Fellow 1985,86,87 Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowship 1983-86 University of Chicago McCormick Fellowship 1982 Junior Phi Beta Kappa 1981,1983 John Harvard Scholarship, Elizabeth Carey Agassiz Scholar(honorary) Conference and School Presentations 2012 Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop on Surveys and Simulations ICTP Workshop on Large Scale Structure, Trieste 2011 Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation, Puerto Vallarta Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Meeting, Portsmouth Santa Fe Cosmology School/Workshop 2010 Snowcluster galaxy cluster meeting, Snowbird, Utah NAOC workshop on Redshifts Surveys and Large Scale Structure, Beijing Santa Fe Cosmology School/Workshop ICTP Summer School in Cosmology, Trieste 2009 DES Cluster Workshop Santa Fe Cosmology School 2008 IUCAA summer school and workshop on Cosmology, Pune 2007 Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop 2006 Cosmological Probes of Baryons and Dark Matter Galaxy Evolution and Large Surveys (Aspen) Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (Florence) Astroparticle and Cosmology Workshop 2005 Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop The Future of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters, Kona AAS January meeting 2002 Aspen Meeting on Large Scale Structure 2001 AAS January meeting 2000 ITP miniprogram on the CMB 1999 Santa Fe Workshop on Structure Formation Aspen Meeting on the Cosmological Constant APS Division of Particle and Fields, UCLA 1998 COSMO-98, Monterey Weighing the Universe with Galaxy Clusters, Aspen From Recombination to Garching, Aug 1998 CAPP, Cosmology and particle physics meeting, CERN, Jun 1998 Fermilab Missing Matter Meeting, May 1998 1997 COSMO-97, Ambleside UK Aspen Workshop on Precision measurements in cosmology Boston Area Cosmology Meeting Aspen Winter Cosmology Conference 1996 XXXIth Moriond Meeting (Microwave Background Anisotropies) 1993 Strings '93 1992 TASI Summer School, guest lecturer 1988 XVII Int. Conf. on Group Theor. Methods in Physics (Montreal) 1987 Cambridge Post-Newtonian String Workshop Cargese Institute on Non-Perturbative Methods in Field Theory Ecole Normale Summer Workshop Students/Postdocs Advised or Mentored Past: Kenji Kadota (thesis adviser, now at Nagoya) Tzu-Ching Chang (postdoc, now at Taiwan) Andrew Wetzel (student, now at Yale) Renske Smit (student, now at Leiden) Reiko Nakajima (postdoc, now at Bonn) Current: Yookyung Noh (student, thesis adviser) Service, Other 2001-present organizer/host, Berkeley Cosmology Group seminar 2008-present Santa Fe Cosmology School/workshop co-organizer 2007 organizer, CCAPP workshop on AGN in the cosmological context organizer, Aspen workshop on modelling galaxy clustering 2001-2008 Theoretical Astrophysics Center co-webmaster 2004,2005 organizer, LBNL summer cosmology workshops 2003-2005 organizer, Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars 2003 organizer, Aspen workshop on cosmology and astrophysics with galaxy clusters 1999-2001 organizer, Theoretical Astrophysics group lunch seminar (CfA) 1999-2000 Director, NSF Chautauqua course on the cosmological constant Harvard Astronomy Department web page upgrade (adding over 100 pages) and maintenance 1997-1999 guest lectures in Astronomy 250, 199, 396; Physics 480 introductory talks on various current areas of cosmology cosmology in the news and related web pages 1996 Bunting Institute Public Lecture 1996-present jobs resources web site: Center for Particle Astrophysics, Berkeley 1995 organizer, reading group on superstrings and cosmology, Berkeley 1991-1993 organizer, particle theory group seminars, Fermilab 1992 organizer, summer reading group on black holes and information loss, MIT 1989-1991 created and ran e-mail string theory preprint distribution list (which grew to ~>180 people in several institutions and countries); automated by P. Ginsparg to begin xxx.lanl.gov (now arXiv.org) distribution system, summer of 1991 1984-1988 started and ran journal club for graduate students, U Chicago 1986 organizer, reading group on topology and geometry in field theory, U Chicago 1984 graduate student adviser on graduate student admissions, U Chicago