Alumni
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Alumni: Aparna Venkatesan, 2000 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000 Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of San Francisco Webpage Aparna Venkatesan is a cosmologist working on a number of research topics including studies of the first stars and quasars in the universe, cosmological reionization, the physical conditions in early-universe galaxies, cosmological element synthesis, and the cosmic microwave background. University Of Chicago' Class Of 2000 Ph.D. Thesis: "The optical depth to reionization as a probe of cosmological and astrophysical parameters"; Scientific Advisor: Angela V. Olinto |