I work for the Transients Key Project of LOFAR.

You can find my publications on astro-ph or ADS.

My dissertation from Northwestern University is available as a pdf or on astro-ph.

My CV is available as a pdf or ps (updated 3 November 2007).

I organize the local Pizza Lunch Talks.

Interests

Radio Transients --- The recent development of phased-array telescopes (like LOFAR) will soon enable large-area surveys of the radio sky. The high sensitivity, wide coverage, and high cadence of these surveys will make it possible to study a wide variety of weak and rare transient phenomena. Furthermore, the radio sky at frequencies below a few hudred MHz is relatively unexplored, which suggests that new phenomena may be found there.

Galactic Center Lobe --- A shell-like structure that rises about 150 parsecs above the Galactic plane, spanning the central parsecs. My thesis work uses radio and IR observations to understand its nature, and if it is caused by energetic activity in our Galactic nucleus.

Radio continuum surveys --- We have conducted multiwavelength surveys of the central degrees (few hundred parsecs) of the galaxy with the GBT and VLA. These surveys have provided the most sensitive measures of this region, which is filled with ionized gas, magnetized filaments, and star-forming complexes.