Andrew Benson

Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Cosmology
Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity
(TAPIR)
California Institute of Technology

Theoretical
AstroPhysics
Including
Relativity


I am a Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Cosmology within the TAPIR group at Caltech and a member of the Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics. My research is described in more detail here and my publications are available here. I'm actively looking for graduate and undergraduate students to work on galaxy formation-related projects. Current projects on which I'm working, together with available projects for prospective students and postdocs are listed here.
My research program centers around the process of galaxy formation, with a particular emphasis on formlating a coherent picture of the many different aspects of this problem. In my research, I frequently utilize the Galform semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, which has been developed extensively at Caltech. The approach blends both analytic understanding and significant number-crunching utilizing distributed resources such as TeraGrid and Amazon''s Elastic Compute Cloud.

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