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Prof. Andrew Gould, Guest Lecturer at the Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics Endowed by Raymond and Beverly Sackler for the academic year 2012/2013, is Thomas Jefferson Professor for Discovery and Space Exploration in the Department of Astronomy and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Ohio State University.
Prof. Gould received his Ph.D. in physics from the Stanford University and completed his post-doctoral training at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He joined the Ohio State faculty in 1993.
Prof. Gould has been awarded the University Distinguished Scholar award in 2002. He received the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship in 1994 and has since mentored doctoral students who have achieved prominent distinctions.
Prof. Gould’s research has ranged from gravitational microlensing to the dynamics of dark matter capture in the solar system, the physics of Lyman-alpha fluorescence in the intergalactic medium, and the demography of ultra-wide stellar binaries. He has written foundational works in each of these fields. His research focus is on the characterization of extrasolar planet systems using gravitational microlensing. In addition, Prof. Gould has a long standing interest in graduate astrophysics pedagogy. He was a primary developer of Astronomy Morning Coffee, the Order-of-Magnitude Astrophysics graduate course, and a novel graduate student training program known informally as “Andy Camp.
