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Adam S. Bolton, Ph.D. |
| Beatrice Watson Parrent Postdoctoral Fellow | |
| Institute for Astronomy | |
| University of Hawai`i | |
| 2680 Woodlawn Dr. | |
| Honolulu, HI 96822 USA | |
| Office: B-202 | |
| Phone: 808-956-2416 | |
| Fax: 808-988-2790 | |
| Email: bolton at ifa dot hawaii dot edu |
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Welcome to the web page of Adam Bolton
(hereafter "me", "myself", or "I")
at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawai`i.
QUICK LINKS: Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey SLACS Paper 5, full-figured version (pdf) SLACS Paper 5, full-figured version (ps.gz) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Hubble Space Telescope (for astronomers) Hubble Space Telescope (for the public) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai`i Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics MIT Kavli Institue (formerly Center for Space Research) ABOUT ME AND MY RESEARCH: I am an astronomer-physicist, currently employed as the Beatrice Watson Parrent Postdoctoral Fellow at the IfA. Prior to my arrival in Hawai`i in 2007, I was a CfA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2005-2007). Before that, I was at MIT from 2000-2005, where I obtained my Ph.D. in physics under the supervision of Professor Scott Burles. My research is focused on measuring the distribution of mass within the universe, and its relation to the light that we see from distant galaxies and quasars. In addition to their intrinsic empirical value, such measurements can have implications for the astrophysics of galaxies, for cosmology, and for fundamental physics. My attention is generally focused on the scale of individual galaxies, but my interests range from sub-clumps within galaxies on up to the largest scales in the universe. Most significantly, I am one of the founders and main exponents of the SLACS Survey. The majority of my work makes use of the phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing, but I can be persuaded that other techniques are also worthwhile. My up-to-date scientific bibliography can be obtained through the following link to query the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System. MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL CONTENT: In collaboration with Scott Burles, I produced an integral-field unit data analysis package called kungifu, which may be of interest to other IFU users. While at MIT, I produced an admirable (imho) collection of problem set solutions and exam solutions for Professor Walter Lewin's 2002 Electricity and Magnetism course (8.02), which is now the definitive version of 8.02 hosted by MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative. A short talk about The Magic of B-Splines |
