Imaging Astronomical Icons in 3D: Radio and JWST Mapping of Planetary Nebulae
Joel Kastner, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Abstract
About the speaker
Joel Kastner is a Professor on the faculties of the Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics & Astronomy, both in the College of Science, at the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology. He was founding Director of RIT's Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics. Kastner has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from UCLA. Prior to arriving at RIT in 1999, Kastner spent nearly a decade at MIT, first as a postdoc at Haystack Radio Observatory and then as a staff scientist with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Science Center. He has authored or co-authored more than 220 refereed papers in the astronomical literature, and has been lead or co-organizer of several dozen topical meetings on astronomy and astronomical imaging. In 2020, he was among the roughly 200 U.S. astronomers named to the inaugural class of (Legacy) Fellows of the American Astronomical Society on the basis of scientific achievement and service to the field. He presently serves on the Users Committee of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
Parking and location
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