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Rennan Barkana
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Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics |
Contact Information:
Postal Address:
School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, 69978
ISRAEL
Phone: 972-3-6405993
Fax: 972-3-6408179
Secy: 972-3-6407413 (Margie)
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);
University of Pennsylvania
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Academic Positions:
2008 (Spring)
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech
2007 (Fall)
Visiting Associate Professor, ICRR,
University of Tokyo
2001 - present
Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
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
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
Interests |
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.
Recent (2009) news article in Science on 21-cm cosmology:
Link, PDF.
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Published Papers |
Selected Publications:
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"Detecting Early Galaxies Through Their 21-cm Signature", Smadar Naoz and
Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society Letters, accepted (2008).
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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).
- "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).
- "Unusually Large Fluctuations in the Statistics of Galaxy
Formation at High Redshift", Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb,
The Astrophysical Journal , 609, 474 (2004).
- "Spectral Signature of Cosmological Infall Around the First Quasars",
Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Nature , 421, 341 (2003).
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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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``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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"Analysis of Time Delays in the Gravitational Lens
PG 1115+080", Rennan Barkana, The Astrophysical Journal , 489, 21 (1997).
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You can find here the
full list of 46 refereed publications distributed within the following journals:
Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Reports on Progress in Physics, The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 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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