UCLA faculty of interest

• Michael Rich is a member of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer science team, a UV sky survey satellite. Rich's research on GALEX addresses the study of star formation in the 0<1 range, as well as the UV properties of early-type galaxies. Rich also works on the kinematics and composition of stars in the bulge and halo of M31, and on the search for black holes in globular clusters.
• Shoko Sakai's research focuses on two areas: (1) determining the star formation rate in the current universe and examining the star formation properties of various morphological types of galaxies by imaging nearby clusters of galaxies, and (2) investigating the three-dimentional structure of the local universe by measuring accurate distances to galaxies, in order to find out how much dark matter exists on scales of a few Mpcs.
• Alice Shapley uses optical and infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of high-redshift galaxies to understand how galaxies form, evolve, and affect their intergalactic environments. Specifically of interest are the star-formation and metal-enrichment histories of galaxies, the development of galaxy structure, and the important process of "feedback."
• Jean Turner uses the Keck, the VLA, infrared, millimeter, and sub-millimeter telescopes to study star formation in starbursts, especially super star cluster formation.