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and have worked with in the past:
Ph.D. Thesis students:
  
Research project advisees:
 
At the Department of
Astronomy of The Ohio State
University we offer a unique PhD program with a very strong
emphasis on research.
Our graduating
students have typically authored or co-authored 7-12 refereed
journal articles by the time they complete the program, in addition to
numerous conference papers and abstracts. Our 1st- and
2nd-year students are already active researchers, publishing
papers, attending conferences, giving talks, going on observing runs, and
working in the instrument
lab. Click here for more
information.
Watch the OSU Astronomy "Coffee
Briefs" videos made by our students.
Tharindu Jayasinghe
  
Patrick Vallely
Jon Brown
  
Tom Holoien
  
Rubab Khan
  
Jose Luis Prieto
  
Ben Shappee
Jonathan
Bird
 
Bianca Danilet
 
Diego Godoy-Rivera
 
Calen Henderson
 
Jacob Jencson
       
       
       
       
       
  
 Dale Mudd
 
David Nataf
 
Molly Peeples
 
Ondrej Pejcha
 
Josh
Pepper
 
Rebecca Stoll
My Research:
See my CV (likely a bit outdated).
See all my papers or
papers since 2005 (new ADS).
All-Sky Automated
Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN or "Assassin").
See my Research Map (outdated).
See also the Research Map of OSU astronomy faculty
(outdated).
PhD Program in Astronomy
at the Ohio State University
Some of the press releases based on my and my collaborators research:
Many of these press releases have generated a good amount
of press coverage, too much to list here, but if interested, you
should be able to find some of these press stories (like this one or this
one) using Google. OSU press release on a likely
``mass gap'' black hole paper (October 2019).
OSU and NASA press releases about our TDE ASASSN-19bt paper (September 2019).
Ohio State University press release about our ASASSN-18tb paper (July 2019).
The big star that couldn’t become a supernova (May 2017).
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $2.4 Million to Ohio State University astronomers (January
2017).
ASASSN-15lh: The Most Powerful Supernova Ever Discovered! (January
2016).
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find "Twins" of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other
Galaxies (January 2016).
``Assassin'' Targets Supernovae in Our Neighborhood of the
Universe (January 2015).
Lucky Star Escapes Black Hole With Minor Damage (October 2014).
Could a
Milky Way Supernova Be Visible from Earth in Next 50 Years?
(November 2013).
Astronomers Pin
Down Origins of "Mile Markers" for Expansion of Universe (November
2012).
In a Star's
Final Days, Astronomers Hunt "Signal of Impending Doom" (November
2011).
Giant Star Goes
Supernova -- And Is Smothered By Its Own Dust (October 2010).
To 300 Million
Light Years, And Beyond! A New Way To Measure Cosmic Distances
(June 2009).
Two New Star
Systems Are First Of Their Kind Ever Found (March 2008).
Astronomers Crunch
Numbers, Universe Gets Bigger (August 2006).
Deadly
Astronomical Event Not Likely To Happen In Our Galaxy, Study Finds
(April 2006).
Case of
Sedna's Missing Moon Solved (April 2005).
Double Stars
Emerge As New Heavyweight Champions (May 2004).
Historic GRB
Discovery (June 2003).
Culprit
Caught in Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery (May 2002).
Little
Giants Create A Big Cosmic Controversy (January 2000).
Teaching:
Astronomy
5830: - Observed Properties of Astronomical Systems (most recent: Autumn 2019)
Astronomy
1140: - Planets and the Solar System (most recent: Autumn 2018)
Astronomy
8873: - Cosmology (Spring 2014)
Astronomy A292:
- Stellar, Galactic, & Extragalactic Astronomy
(Winter 2012)
Astronomy
A350: - Methods of Astronomical Observation & Data Analysis
(Winter 2011)
Astronomy
A161: - Introduction to the Solar System
(Autumn 2009)
Astronomy
H162: - Introduction to Stellar, Galactic, & Extragalactic Astronomy
(Spring 2009)
Selected astronomical links:
Astronomy Picture of the Day
       
Astrophysics Job Rumor Mill
Hubble
Fellowship: my second postdoc (1999-2000).
Harvard-Smithsonian
CfA Fellowship:
my first postdoc (1996-99).
Princeton University
Observatory, where I went to the grad school (1992-96).
This homepage is maintained by Krzysztof Z. Stanek.
January 2020