On May 12, 2010 Professor Amber Miller will visit Houston.

Details of the event will be announced as soon as they are available.

 

Amber Miller is an Associate Professor of physics at Columbia University
where she developed and currently leads the Columbia University
Experimental Cosmology group. Prof. Miller's team studies relic
signatures from the Big Bang with the goal of understanding the origin
and evolution of the universe. The Columbia team designs, builds,
deploys, and analyzes data from novel telescopes employing cutting edge
technology much of which is piloted and tested by the group. The QUIET
and EBEX experiments - currently under development in close
collaboration with teams at other universities - are designed to probe
detailed physics in the universe when it was much less than one second
old. These new instruments will both be deployed for the first time in
the summer of 2008 - on a telescope in Atacama desert in Chile, and on
a high altitude scientific balloon respectively.

Prof. Miller has also long held an interest in issues on the interface
between science and policy. She worked at Princeton University on issues
related to satellite verification of nuclear non-proliferation agreements,
organized a round table meeting at Columbia with the Union of
Concerned Scientists, and has participated in several conferences on
science and politics. Prof. Miller developed and piloted a seminar at
Columbia entitled "Science, Politics, and Critical Thinking", and is
teaching a lecture course entitled "Weapons of Mass Destruction" this
spring. She is currently a Columbia University Committee on Global
Thought Fellow.

Prof. Miller graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1995 with a B.A. in physics
and astronomy and completed her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2000.
Following a Hubble Fellowship at the University of Chicago from 2000-
2002, she joined the faculty at Columbia University. She is the recent
recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the National Science
Foundation CAREER award, and the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty award.