Alex S. Hill

Contact Information

Alex S. Hill
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Astronomy
475 N. Charter St.
Madison, WI 53706

Office: 3405 Sterling Hall
Email: hill [at] astro.wisc.edu
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About me

I am a fifth year graduate student in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I work with Matt Haffner and Ron Reynolds. I use the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM), a spectroscopic telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. WHAM was designed and built at UW (before my time) and is remotely operable. The instrument spent 12 years at Kitt Peak in Arizona before we moved it to Chile. My research interests include observational studies of the warm, ionized component of the interstellar medium; and pulsars and pulsar scintillation.

As an undergraduate at Oberlin College, I studied physics and astronomy and worked with Dan Stinebring, using pulsar scintillation to study the ISM.

See my or publications page for copies of most of my papers. My CV and calendar are also available here.

I have a separate personal page.

Teaching

In the fall of 2006, I TAed for Astronomy 103, taught by Prof. Sparke.