{"id":526,"date":"2018-12-06T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/?page_id=526"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:38:16","slug":"research-in-the-csp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/research-in-the-csp\/","title":{"rendered":"Research in the CSP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty within the Astronomy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering Departments here at Boston University work with research scientists, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students to pursue unique research within their distinctive research fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Research Newsletter<\/h3>\n

Every month the Center releases a newsletter which details recent events, presentations, publications, and personnel news. The December 2018 and January 2019 Newsletter can be viewed and downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Faculty Research Interests<\/h3>\n

Department of Astronomy<\/h4>\n

<\/strong>Professor John Clarke<\/strong><\/a> – Planetary atmospheres; UV astrophysics; FUV instruments for remote observations<\/em><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor Wen Li<\/strong><\/a> – Space plasma waves; Earth\u2019s radiation belt physics; solar-wind magnetosphere coupling; energetic particle precipitation; Jovian magnetosphere and aurora<\/em><\/p>\n

Research Assistant Professor Carlos Martinis<\/strong><\/a> – Ionospheric Physics, Space Physics, Thermosphere\/Ionosphere plasma irregularities<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Michael Mendillo<\/strong><\/a> – Space physics; planetary atmospheres; observations and models<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Merav Opher<\/strong><\/a> – Computational and theoretical plasma physics in space and astrophysics; Interaction of the solar system with the interstellar medium; solar wind; shocks in the lower corona, T-Tauri and Solar-Like Stars<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Meers Oppenheim<\/strong><\/a> – Computational and theoretical space plasma physics; dynamics of the ionosphere and solar atmosphere; particle-wave interactions in plasmas; physics of meteor trails<\/em><\/p>\n

Associate Professor Paul Withers<\/strong><\/a> – Planetary atmospheres and ionospheres; radio science instruments; accelerometer instruments<\/em><\/p>\n

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/h4>\n

Professor W. Clem Karl<\/strong><\/a> – Statistical signal processing, Inverse problems, Biomedical signal and image processing, Multidimensional signal and image processing, Synthetic Aperture Radar<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Ronald Knepper<\/strong><\/a> – VLSI integrated circuit technology, SiGe BICMOS device and circuit modeling, Silicon CMOS and bipolar devices, Numerical device simulation, RF\/analog IC design<\/em><\/p>\n

Research Associate Professor Toshi Nishimura<\/strong><\/a> – Aurora, Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interaction, Ionosphere-Thermosphere Interaction at Earth, Optical and Radar Imaging, Space Weather<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Joshua Semeter<\/strong><\/a> – Ionospheric and space-plasma physics; radar signal processing; spectroscopy of atmospheric airglow and aurora; optical sensors; image reconstruction and tomography<\/em><\/p>\n

Department of Mechanical Engineering<\/h4>\n

Professor Thomas Bifano <\/a><\/strong> – Deformable Mirrors, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Adaptive Optics, Biphotonic Microscopy, Astronomical Telescope Instrumentation, Laser Wavefront Control<\/em><\/p>\n

Associate Professor Ray Nagem<\/strong><\/a> – Structural dynamics, Random vibration, Wave propagation, Inverse problems<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Brain Walsh<\/strong><\/a> – Space Plasmas, magnetic reconnection, X-ray imaging, cubesats, spacecraft instrumentation, and space technology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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