{"id":76,"date":"2010-08-23T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2017-11-15T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:18:00","slug":"faculty-researchers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/people\/faculty-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Faculty, Research, and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Philip Lubin
\nDirector, Experimental Cosmology Laboratory, Space Research Laboratory, Interstellar Center<\/h4>\n

CONTACT:
\nPhysics Department, UCSB
\nBroida Hall, Rm. 2015C
\nSanta Barbara, CA 93106-9530
\nTel: 1.805.893.8432
\nFax: 1.805.893.3307
\nEmail: lubin [at] deepspace.ucsb.edu<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h4>\n
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  • Directed Energy Systems<\/li>\n
  • Experimental cosmology<\/li>\n
  • Cosmic Background Radiation \u2013 spectrum, anisotropy and polarization<\/li>\n
  • Satellite, balloon-born and ground-based studies of the early universe<\/li>\n
  • Fundamental Limits of Detection<\/li>\n
  • IR and FIR Astrophysics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Peter Meinhold<\/h4>\n

Research Physicist
\nResearch interests: Experimental Cosmology, Directed Energy Systems, Detectors
\nProjects worked on:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Jatila van der Veen<\/h4>\n

Project Scientist
\nResearch Interests: Interstellar Center, Experimental Cosmology, Physics and Astronomy Education Research, Learning in Virtual Reality
\nProjects worked on:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Peter R. Krogen<\/h4>\n

Post Doctoral Scholar
\nResearch Interests: Ultra-fast optics and X-rays, laser phased arrays, directed energy
\nProjects worked on:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Prashant Srinivasan<\/h4>\n

Post Doctoral Scholar
\nResearch Interests: Quantum optics, laser phased arrays, directed energy
\nProjects worked on:<\/p>\n

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Graduate Student Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ari Kaplan<\/h4>\n

Research interests: Experimental Cosmology<\/p>\n

Current project: Greenland Polarization Experiment <\/a><\/td>\n

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Staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Nic Rupert, Senior Engineer<\/h4>\n

Chief Engineer, Laboratory Head,
\nSpace Systems Research Laboratory,
\nElectronic & Advanced Systems Division,
\nExperimental Cosmology Group
\nDepartment of Physics.
\nB.S. Physics, UCSB
\nSatellite design and construction; in charge of everything to do with the wafer sats, on-board electronics, micro-imaging devices, laser comm, wafer design, materials, etc.
\nSee Wafer Scale Spacecraft <\/a><\/td>\n

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Yu “John” Wang<\/h4>\n

B.S. Physics, UCSB (2017)
\nResearch: FT-IR, spectroscopic analysis of vaporized material, WaferSat launcher design, how to fix a random lab problem.<\/td>\n

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Will Hettel<\/h4>\n

B.S. Physics, UCSB (2017)
\nResearch: Phased laser array development, WaferSat launcher design and construction, FPGA programming, data acquisition, wafer fabrication<\/td>\n

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Faculty Professor Philip Lubin Director, Experimental Cosmology Laboratory, Space Research Laboratory, Interstellar Center CONTACT: Physics Department, UCSB Broida Hall, Rm. 2015C Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530 Tel: 1.805.893.8432 Fax: 1.805.893.3307 Email: lubin [at] deepspace.ucsb.edu Research Interests Directed Energy Systems Experimental cosmology Cosmic Background Radiation \u2013 spectrum, anisotropy and polarization Satellite, balloon-born and ground-based studies of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}