Contact
- nemiroff@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2198
- Fisher 114
Professor, Physics
Adjunct Professor, Cognitive and Learning Sciences
- PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Pennsylvania
Biography
What is our universe made out of? Modern astrophysics has realized only recently that we have little idea. Part of my research is focused on finding this out, or at the least using observations of distant powerful gamma ray bursts (GRBs) to limit possible attributes of currently mysterious dark matter and dark energy. I also study the phenomenological attributes of GRBs more generally, as well as an intriguing occurrence known as gravitational lensing—the deflection of light by gravity. Finally, I try to work at the boundary between the digital and scientific worlds, writing many of the entries for the Astronomy Picture of the Day website and as an editor of the online Astrophysics Source Code Library.
Links of Interest
- Visual Distortions Near Black Holes and Neutron Stars
- Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
- Former Ph D. Students
Research Interests
- Investigation of gamma-ray bursts
- Gravitational lensing
- Sky monitoring
- Cosmology
- Gravitation