Research Interests

Statistical Cosmology. Testing cosmological theories: Theory and analysis of fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave background; Large Scale Structure; Statistics of the galaxy distribution and large scale flows. Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics. Supermassive Black Holes in the centers of galaxies -- their detection and use as probes of the history of structure formation.

Projects

The Planck Surveyor Satellite .

Web pages

My somwewhat out-of-date astrophysics web page is here .

My blog is more up to date, but not entirely academic.

Teaching (2007-08)

• Fourier Series and Transforms for physicsts.
• First-year professional skills seminars
• Third-year professional skills: Presentations
• Second-year laboratory