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What And Where I Am
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Chuck after a verrrry loooong observing run...
Chuck after getting some rest... (Click on the image to see my 2003 CUNY PR bio)
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Museum Contact Information
Hayden Planetarium and Department of Astrophysics
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
voice: +1 212 496 3579
fax: +1 212 769 5007
email: cliu at amnh dot org
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Research
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Research Interests
I work primarily on observational galaxy evolution, primarily the star formation
histories of field galaxies. This includes the spectrophotometric study
of starburst galaxies, post-starburst objects, and colliding, merging, and interacting
galaxies. I've also dabbled in quasar-hunting, strictly avocationally.
Two large projects I'm part of are
an international multi-wavelength observing collaboration called
MUSYC
and a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury Program called
COSMOS.
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Click on NGC 7727 above to
get some beautiful images from
our National Observatories.
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Curriculum Vitae
To find my CV, publications list, and so forth, please visit my
Personal Home Page.
Here's a sampling:
Abstract of a paper published in the
Astrophysical Journal.
(You're also welcome to the full 0.5-megabyte
PDF version.)
Abstract of another paper published in the
Astrophysical Journal.
(You're also welcome to the full 0.7-megabyte
PDF version.)
Abstract of a paper in the Astrophysical
Journal Supplements.
(You're also welcome to the full 1.7-megabyte
PDF version.)
Abstract of a paper in the Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society.
(You're also welcome to the full 400-kilobyte
PDF version.)
A poster presented at an American Astronomical
Society meeting. (It's a 6.2-megabyte PDF file.)
Transcript
of a television interview. I'm
on TV
occasionally, for example
here
on
CNN
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Lecture
announcement for a public event. I tend to give
give a number of such lectures every year.
A fun Internet article
with Brian Greene, Rich Gott, Michio Kaku,
and me talkin' turkey 'bout time travel.
One of my columns
in Natural History. I'm a contributing editor of
that magazine.
(This particular article received an
award
from the
Solar Physics Division
of the
AAS.)
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Teaching
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Courses
Please see my Personal Home Page
for a list of courses I have taught and developed.
Here is a few-year-old
newspaper article
that describes, mostly correctly, some of my teaching efforts and philosophies.
Here is an
interview
about education and science, from a wonderful former student of mine.
(You can also look here.)
For General Audiences
The Handy Astronomy
Answer Book (2008)
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This book was released in October 2008. Here is a
very good description
of this book, published in Kirkus Reviews.
Click the image to take a look at
a bookseller's perspective of the book, or click
here.
Enjoy!
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One Universe: At Home
In The Cosmos (2000)
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This book, which I co-wrote with
Neil Tyson and
Robert Irion,
was awarded the 2001
American Institute of Physics
Science Writing Award
in Physics and Astronomy in the scientist category. Thanks to the
wonderful people of Joseph Henry Press (part of the
National Academies Press),
a FREE online edition was created, with supplemental material,
formulae, and over 100 exercises and solutions. Now, thanks to a
former student of mine in the CUNY/Hayden Intro To Space Science class,
you can view it today! Click the image to take a look.
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Outreach
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Student Advising
Please see my Personal Home Page
for details about my non-classroom teaching activities.
Here is a recent
web article
that describes a portion of the AMNH Physical Sciences Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU) program that I help supervise.
(
Here's
the link to that program's webpage.)
Hayden Planetarium
The Hayden Sphere, in the Rose
Center, weighs 4,000,000 pounds.
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It was a privilege for me to be one of the scientists who helped put this place together - it seems so long ago now.
This place is, however, far more than just the world's leading planetarium.
Behind its glass walls is a world-class staff of scientists and researchers,
interpreting the science of the universe and bringing it to the public.
Click on the image to see some of those efforts in action.
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Please send any comments or questions to cliu at amnh.org
© 1998-2009 by Charles Liu. All Rights Reserved - Every Single One!
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