UC Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Professor George Smoot's group conducts research on the early Universe using the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) and other astrophysical sources. These investigations are directed towards realizing a variety of science goals regarding CMB. Post doctoral, Graduate and undergraduate student, and other job opportunities, pending funding, are available in the various research projects.

Projects:

COBE: satellite data analysis on the anisotropy and spectrum of the cosmic microwave background and on infrared emission from Galactic and extragalactic sources.

MAX, MAXIMA and BOOMERANG: balloon-borne CMB anisotropy mapping experiment.

Planck Surveyor : formerly called COBRAS/SAMBA is a satellite proposed to extend the COBE DMR work.
It completed Phase A feasibility study in May 1996, and has been selected for a mission by ESA (European Space Agency) in July 1996.

CMB Data Processing, Analysis and Computing: is a major effort in collaboration with COMBAT and work work utilizing the NERSC Supercomputer Center.

GEM: the Galactic Emission Mapping project. A radio survey of Galactic emission.

Neutrino Astrophysics Projects designed to detect high energy neutrinos.

Former Projects such as the U2 jet aircraft borne experiment that detected the CMB dipole anisotropy and this one to measure the long wavelength spectrum of the cosmic microwave background. This was done at a number of sites including the South Pole pictured there.

• LBL (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
• Physics Department of the University of California, Berkeley
• CfPA (Center for Particle Astrophysics, an NSF Center for Science & Technology)
• INPA (Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics at LBL)
• SSL (Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California)