{"id":11134,"date":"2023-07-05T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11134"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:35:25","slug":"dillon-brout","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/profile\/dillon-brout\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/files\/2025\/07\/Faculty_CV_Brout.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Research Interests:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Cosmology, Cosmological Distance Indicators, Type Ia Supernovae, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, The Hubble Constant.<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nProfessor Brout&#8217;s research group ties together cosmological distance and velocity measurements of the universe with the fundamental physical properties such as dark energy, dark matter, ordinary matter, and Einstein&#8217;s general relativity. <\/p>\n<p>Professor Brout is currently leading several major cosmological experiments (SH0ES, Pantheon+, DES, DESI, and DECAT). These extremely large datasets cataloging the universe employ state of the art machine learning, statistical, data processing, and modeling techniques on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Brout is also leading an effort to validate in-flight calibration of the upcoming NASA Roman Space Telescope.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Interdisciplinary Cosmology Group at Boston University<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cosmology\/\">BU Cosmology Group<\/a><\/strong> &mdash; Members from departments of Astronomy, Physics, and Data Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Committee Participation<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DESI Time Domain and Low Redshift Cosmology Working Group Chair<\/li>\n<li>LSST DESC Time Domain Cosmology Working Group Chair<\/li>\n<li>NASA Roman Space Telescope Supernova Project Infrastructure Team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":7810,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11793,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11134\/revisions\/11793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}