Amy J. Barger, Professor

Dept of Astronomy, UW-Madison
475 N. Charter Street, Madison WI 53706

Office: 6512 Sterling Hall
Email: barger at astro.wisc.edu
Telephone: 608-263-7106
Fax: 608-263-6386

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Observational cosmology, distant galaxies and supermassive black holes, observations at X-ray, optical, near-infrared, submillimeter, and radio wavelengths, star formation and accretion histories of the universe

HONORS AND AWARDS

American Physical Society Fellow, 2007

Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society, 2007
[APS talk (pdf)]

H. I. Romnes Faculty Research Fellow at UW-Madison, 2006

Phillip R. Certain College of Letters & Science Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award at UW-Madison, 2004

David and Lucile Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering, 2003

Newton Lacy Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society, 2002

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2002

Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy, 2001

Hubble Fellow, 1999

Chandra Fellow at Large, 1999

Marshall Scholar, 1993

PUBLICATIONS

All Non-Conference

All from NASA ADS

CURRENT UW GRADUATE STUDENTS DOING PHD THESIS RESEARCH WITH ME

Laura Trouille

Ryan Keenan

Isak Wold

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Joseph Martin (Summer 2009-present)

  • Tom Finzell (Summer 2008-present)

  • Kaitlyn "Abby" Cariker (Fall 2006-2008)

  • Tim Larsen (Fall 2006-2008)

  • Elizabeth (Beth) Fernandez (NSF REU at U. Hawaii in 2002, now postdoc at U. Colorado)

    GRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Aaron Steffen (PhD advisee, graduated 2004, now Assistant Professor at UW-Marathon County)

  • Brian Yencho (now doing phenomenology research in UW Physics Dept)

  • Elizabeth Wehner (graduated 2005, now postdoctoral fellow at Astronomical Institute Utrecht)

    POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

  • Elizabeth Stanway (2004-2006; now postdoctoral fellow at U. Bristol, U.K.)

    ASTRONOMY LINKS

  • UW-Madison Department of Astronomy Homepage

  • NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service

  • Astro-ph

  • Searchable electronic ApJ

  • Learn@UW website