EDUCATION:

B.A. 1995, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. 2000, Princeton University

Curriculum Vitae

RESEARCH:

Prof. Miller leads the Columbia University Experimental Cosmology group, dedicated to studying relic signatures from the Big Bang with the goal of understanding the origin and evolution of the universe. Specifically, the team studies the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) using sensitive centimeter and millimeter-wave instruments designed specifically for this work. The Columbia team designs, builds, deploys, and analyzes data from novel telescopes employing cutting edge technology, much of which is piloted and tested by the group. Columbia's current CMB projects, QUIET and EBEX are designed to probe detailed physics in the universe when it was much less than one second old. The QUIET instrument, observed the CMB from 17,000 ft. in the Atacama desert in Chile from 2008-2010. The EBEX experiment is has completed it's engineering flight and is currently in preparation for the long duration science flight from Antarctica.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

N. Hasler, E. Bulbul, M. Bonamente, J. E. Carlstrom, T. L. Culverhouse, M. Gralla, D. Hawkins, R. Hennessy, M. Joy, H. W. Lamb, D. Landry, E. M. Leitch, A. Mantz, D. P. Marrone, A. D. Miller, T. Mroczkowski, S. Muchovej, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, D. Woody, “Analytic Modeling of the Physical Properties of Galaxy Clusters: Joint Analysis of X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Observations, Submitted to ApJ, 2010.

N. N. Jetha, M. J. Hardcastle, M. Bonamente, E. M. Leitch, A. D. Miller, and S. Muchovej, “Constraints on Spectral Aging of Radio Galaxy Jets from High-Frequency Observations with CARMA, Submitted to ApJ, 2010.

QUIET Collaboration: C. Bischoff, A. Brizius, I. Buder, Y. Chinone, K. Cleary, R. N. Dumoulin, A. Kusaka, R. Monsalve, S. K. Næss, L. B. Newburgh, R. Reeves, K. M. Smith, I. K. Wehus, J. A. Zuntz, J. T. L. Zwart, L. Bronfman, R. Bustos, S. E. Church, C. Dickinson, H. K. Eriksen, P. G. Ferreira, T. Gaier, J. O. Gundersen, M. Hasegawa, M. Hazumi, K. M. Huffenberger, M. E. Jones, P. Kangaslahti, D. J. Kapner, C. R. Lawrence, M. Limon, J. May, J. J. McMahon, A. D. Miller, H. Nguyen, G. W. Nixon, T. J. Pearson, L. Piccirillo, S. J. E. Radford, A. C. S. Readhead, J. L. Richards, D. Samtleben, M. Seiffert, M. C. Shepherd, S. T. Staggs, O. Tajima, K. L. Thompson, K. Vanderlinde, R. Williamson, B. Winstein, First Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of CMB Polarization Power Spectra at 43 GHz in the Multipole Range 25 < l< 475, Submitted to ApJ, 2010 (arXiv:1012.3191).

Stephen Muchovej, Erik Leitch, John E Carlstrom, Thomas Culverhouse, Chris Greer, David Hawkins, Ryan Hennessy, Marshall Joy, James Lamb, Michael Loh, Daniel P Marrone, Amber Miller, Tony Mroczkowski, Clem Pryke, Matthew Sharp, David Woody, Cosmological Constraints from a 31 GHz Sky Survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array, ApJ, 716, Issue 1, pp. 521-529, 2010. (arXiv:1012.1610).

Megan B. Gralla, Keren Sharon, Michael D. Gladders, Daniel P. Marrone, L. Felipe Barrientos, Matthew Bayliss, Massimiliano Bonamente, Esra Bulbul, John E. Carlstrom, Thomas Culverhouse, David G. Gilbank, Christopher Greer, Nicole Hasler, David Hawkins, Ryan Hennessy, Marshall Joy, Benjamin Koester, James Lamb, Erik Leitch, Amber Miller, Tony Mroczkowski, Stephen Muchovej, Masamune Oguri, Tom Plagge, Clem Pryke, David Woody, Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect Observations of Strong Lensing Galaxy Clusters: Probing the Over-Concentration Problem, Submitted to ApJ, 2010 (arXiv:1011.6341).

Culverhouse, T. L.; Bonamente, M.; Bulbul, E.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Gralla, M. B.; Greer, C.; Hasler, N.; Hawkins, D.; Hennessy, R.; Jetha, N. N.; Joy, M.; Lamb, J. W.; Leitch, E. M.; Marrone, D. P.; Miller, A.; Mroczkowski, T.; Muchovej, S.; Pryke, C.; Sharp, M.; Woody, D.; Andreon, S.; Maughan, B.; Stanford, S. A., Galaxy Clusters at z >= 1: Gas Constraints from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array, ApJL, Volume 723, Issue 1, pp. L78-L83, 2010 (arXiv:1007.2853).

Stephen Muchovej, Erik Leitch, John E. Carlstrom, Thomas Culverhouse, Chris Greer, David Hawkins, Ryan Hennessy, Marshall Joy, James Lamb, Michael Loh, Daniel P. Marrone, Amber Miller, Tony Mroczkowski, Clem Pryke, Matthew Sharp, David Woody “Radio Sources from a 31 GHz Sky Survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array”,  ApJ Volume 716, Issue 1, pp. 521-529, 2010  (arXiv:0912.2335).

M. Sharp, D. P. Marrone, J. E. Carlstrom, T. Culverhouse, C. Greer, D. Hawkins, R. Hennessy, M. Joy, J. Lamb, E. M. Leitch, M. Loh, A. D. Miller, T. Mroczkowski, S. Muchovej, C. Pryke, and D. Woody, “A Measurement of Arcminute Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background with the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Array”, 713, Issue 1, pp. 82-89 2010 (astro-ph/0901.4342).

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