Professor of Astronomy
Professor of Physics
PhD 1973 (Princeton University)
Campus address and phone:
517 Campbell Hall
Large-scale structure, cosmology, evolution of galaxies
My field is the study of large-scale structure.
In the past this has taken the form of large redshift surveys combined
with careful analysis of nbody simulations. We have used the Keck
telescope to obtain the world's largest sample of galaxies at redshift
one, which is extremely useful for study of evolution of galaxies and
the evolution of large-scale structure. For example, we can
measure the dark energy parameter w through careful study of our
data. The sample is equally useful to study the time evolution of
the fine structure constant, alpha.
For more details look at my web page: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~marc