Curriculum Vitae
Hola!! Me iamo Denis
Barkats. Ich can speak English,
Deutsch, and of course Francais, ma
langue natale. I went to high-school in Grasse, in the South-Eastern
coast of France.
Grasse is famous worlwide for its perfumes.
After my French high-school diploma,
I
came to the US, and received a Bachelor degree in Physics
at Stanford University,
in
California. I just (June 2003) finished a Ph.D
in
Astrophysics at Princeton
University,
in "lovely New Joisey, the garden state".
I have started a Post-Doc at Caltech working on the BICEP
experiment.
My thesis consisted in the
experimental observation of the Cosmic
Microwave Background Radiation (or CMBR), the relic radiation
from the early hot stage of the Universe. The photons we observe
come directly to us from a time when the Universe was only ~300 000
years old. With a team of a
douzain researchers, we built state of the art microwave
detectors which allow us to observe the fluctuations on the sky
of the polarization polarization of this background radiation. At
awavelegth of 3 mm wavelength, we borrow many of our observationnal
techniques to
radio-astronomy. To learn more about our experiemnt, follow this
link: CAPMAP, or
the ones below, describing other experiments.
Here's my CV
(pdf version) (
as of April 2003)
For more info contact me here: dbarkats at caltech dot edu