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Prof. Rennan Barkana
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[Hebrew link]
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School of Physics and Astronomy |
Contact Information:
Postal Address:
School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, 69978
ISRAEL
Office: Kaplun 111
Phone: 972-3-6405993
Fax: 972-3-6408179
Secy: 972-3-6407414 (Daniella)
email: barkana@wise.tau.ac.il
[send]
Currently Looking for Students and Postdocs!
[details]
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Curriculum
Vitae
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Education:
1997
Ph.D. in Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
1993
B.A. in Math and Physics (Summa Cum Laude, with Honors in both majors);
University of Pennsylvania
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Academic Positions:
2009 - present
Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University
2008 (Spring)
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech
2007 (Fall)
Visiting Associate Professor, ICRR,
University of Tokyo
2001 - 2009
Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
(2006: Tenured)
2000 - 2001
Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical
Astrophysics (Toronto)
1997 - 2000
Postdoctoral Member, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
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Post-Ph.D. Awards:
2007 - 2008
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
[link]
2008
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech
2007 - 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Harvard (declined)
[link]
2001 - 2004
Alon Fellowship, Israeli Council of Higher Education
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Major external activities and grants:
2012 - 2014
Israel Space Agency grant (PIs: Yoel Rephaeli and myself)
2010
Principal organizer, Aspen Winter Astrophysics Conference on
"The High Redshift Universe: A Multi-Wavelength View"
[link]
2009 - 2012
U.S. National Science Foundation Grant (PI: Judd
Bowman)
2009 - 2013
Israel Science Foundation Grant
2008
Scientific Organizing Committee, 23'rd IAP (Paris) Colloquium
2007
Space Telescope Science Institute, Review Panel of
Hubble Space Telescope proposals
2006
Principal organizer, John Bahcall Physics Day (Tel Aviv University)
[link]
2006
Principal organizer, Aspen Winter Astrophysics Conference on
"Cosmological Probes of Baryons and Dark Matter"
[link]
2005 - 2010 (frozen 2007/8)
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant
(with Avi Loeb)
2005 - 2008
Israel Science Foundation Grant
2002 - 2005
Israel Science Foundation Grant
2002 - 2005
U.S. National Science Foundation Grant (PI: Avi
Loeb)
2003
NATO Grant (with Avi Loeb)
2000
Harvard-Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor Award
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Personal Information:
1973
Born in Haifa, Israel
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U.S. Citizen
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Married to Riki and father to Or (Dec. 12'th, 2006) and Ariel (Oct. 7'th, 2009)
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Research
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Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology
Current research topics: 21-cm cosmology, formation of the first
stars and quasars, cosmic reionization, galaxy formation, large-scale
structure, and gravitational lensing.
Students and Postdocs:
Ph.D.
Anastasia Fialkov: 21-cm Cosmology, 2011 - 2013 (Ph.D. jointly advised with Nissan Itzhaki)
Postdoc
Andrea Morandi: 21-cm Cosmology, 2010 - 2012
Ph.D.
Doron Lemze (jointly advised with Tom Broadhurst and Yoel Rephaeli):
"Modeling clusters and starburst galaxies", 2010. Postdoc:
Johns Hopkins University.
Ph.D. Smadar Naoz: "The First
Generation of Galaxies and 21-cm Fluctuations", 2009. Postdoc
positions: Northwestern University; Harvard ITC Fellow;
Einstein Fellow. [website]
M.Sc.
Shay Noter: "Halo Statistics - A New Alternative to Simulations", M.Sc., 2007.
M.Sc.
Oren Zoran: "A Cosmic Relation between Extinction and Star Formation", M.Sc., 2006.
Links:
Research highlight (2012): The First Stars at Redshift 20 (Nature):
Link.
A news article (2009) in Science on 21-cm cosmology:
Link, PDF.
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Published Papers |
Selected Publications:
- "The signature of the first stars in atomic hydrogen at redshift 20",
Eli Visbal, Rennan Barkana, Anastasia Fialkov, Dmitriy Tseliakhovich,
and Chris Hirata, Nature (2012)
[link].
- "Unusually Large Fluctuations in the Statistics of Galaxy
Formation at High Redshift", Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb,
The Astrophysical Journal , 609, 474 (2004).
- "Detecting the Earliest Galaxies Through
Two New Sources of 21cm Fluctuations", Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb,
The Astrophysical Journal , 626, 1 (2005).
- "A Method for Separating the Physics from the Astrophysics of
High-Redshift 21cm Fluctuations", Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb,
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 624, 65 (2005).
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``In the Beginning: The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of
the Universe'', Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Physics
Reports , 349, 125 (2001)
[link] .
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"Large Einstein Radii: A Problem
for ΛCDM", Tom Broadhurst and Rennan Barkana,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, 390, 1647 (2008).
- "Spectral Signature of Cosmological Infall Around the First Quasars",
Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Nature , 421, 341 (2003)
[link] .
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"The First Stars in the Universe", Smadar Naoz, Shay Noter, and
Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society Letters, 373, 98 (2006).
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"The First Stars in the Universe and Cosmic Reionization", Rennan Barkana,
Science , 313, 931 (2006).
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``Fuzzy Cold Dark Matter: The Wave Properties of Ultralight
Particles'', Wayne Hu, Rennan Barkana and Andrei Gruzinov,
Physical Review Letters , 85, 1158 (2000).
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The most up-to-date listing of my publications in ADS, including citations, is
here.
You can also find here the
list of my 57 refereed publications distributed within the following journals:
Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Reports on Progress in Physics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review D, and New Astronomy.
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Teaching
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Physics and Astronomy courses:
Full details available here.
Radio Interview in Hebrew on the Cosmic Microwave Background
(4.38 MB, 6:23 min, MP3).
Popular Lecture in Hebrew on Cosmology
(81 min video + power point lecture).
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