Curriculum Vita

Hume A. Feldman

Department of Physics & Astronomy

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045

(785) 864.4626  feldman@ku.edu

http://www.ku.edu/home/feldman

 

Appointments

Associate Professor Physics & Astronomy, Sep. 2002-Present

Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy, 1996-Aug. 2002

 

Professional Preparation

 

Institute                                   Subject                        Degree/Position           Year   

 

UC Santa Cruz                        Physics            BA with honors          1983

SUNY at Stony Brook            Physics            MA                             1986

ITP, SUNY at Stony Brook    Physics            Ph.D.                           1989

CITA, University of Toronto  Cosmology      Postdoctoral fellow     1989-1991

ITP, UC Santa Barbara           Cosmology      Visiting Postdoc          1992

University of Michigan           Cosmology      Research fellow           1991-1994

Princeton University               Cosmology      Prof. research              1994-1996

 

Graduate Advisors

Robert Brandenberger (Brown)

Jack Smith (ITP, SUNY at Stony Brook).

 

Ph.D. Dissertation: The Dynamics of Scalar Fields in the Early Universe.

Masters Thesis: Supersymmetric Calculations of QCD Interaction

Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Stony Brook, NY

 

Post Doctoral Sponsors

Dick Bond (CITA, University of Toronto)

Katherine Freese (University of Michigan)

Dave Wilkinson (Princeton University).

 

Short Term Appointments

 

Position                                               Institute                                   Year               

 

Visiting Scholar

Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland

June 2003

Schonbrunn Visiting Professor

Racah Institute of Physics

The Hebrew University

Jerusalem, Israel

February - June 2003

Visiting Scholar

The Technion Institute of

Theoretical Physics

Haifa, Israel

March, 2003

Visiting Scholar

Deparrtment de Physique Theoretique, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland

1998

 

Synergistic Activities

 

Public outreach:

 

á      Organizer and convener of  a  four part lecture series Science Education and the Public. A discussion of the emerging controversy regarding Intelligent Design and its place in science education. Spring 2006 at the Dole Center for Politics Sponsored by KU Departments, Centers, the College and the Provost Office. See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/Lecture-series/

á      Organizer and convener of Kansas Science Standards 2004: Will it be 1999 all over again. A talk sponsored by the science departments and the KU Chancellor's office, September 28, 2004. See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/standardstalk.html.

á      Organizer and originator of Science, Teaching and the Search for Origins.  2000, Conference sponsored by the University of Kansas and the AAAS to discuss the recent de-emphasis of science in Kansas's schools.  See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/KU-conf/

 

Teaching:

á      Web based Physics courses at the University of Kansas.  General Physics - 350 students a semester, once a year.  See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/Phsx114/. 

á      Cosmology for Poets. See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/Phsx112/.

á      Cosmology for upper division Physics Majors and graduate students. See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/Phsx593/ and http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/Phsx693/.

á      Classical Mechanics I and II, upper division physics majors See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/Phsx521/ and http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/Phsx621/ 

 

Conferences and Workshops:

á      Organizer and convener of Pairwise Velocities and Fundamental Plane Galaxies from the SDSS, Fermilab June 9-11, 2004 See at http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/ws2004/.

á      Organizer of Workshops in Kansas: Great Plains Cosmology Workshop, Lawrence, Kansas, Oct 26-27, 2001, http://tatania.phsx.ku.edu/GPCW/.

á      Midwest Cosmology Workshop, Lawrence, Kansas, May 15-16, 1998. 

á      Dynamics and Statistics of Large-Scale Structure in the Universe.  Lawrence, Kansas, May 8-12, 1997.

á      Originator and organizer of First Annual Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, April 1993 (going strong in its thirteenth year).

 

Membership in Learned Societies:

American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society, ADP, Sigma-Pi-Sigma.

 

Graduate Students Supervised

 

Thesis advisor and Chair

Shankar Agarwal (current Student)

Devdeep Sarkar (MS 2006)

S. Will Chambers (Ph.D. 2004, MS 2001)

Victor Andrade (Ph.D. 2002, MS 2000)

 

Committee member

Juthika Khargharia (MS 2006)

Brian Thomas (Ph.D.  2005)

Bahman Engheta (Ph.D. Math, 2005)

Nurur Rahman (Ph.D. 2004, MS 2001)

Ina Robertson (Ph.D. 2003)

Delores Tanner (MS Astronomy, 2003)

Jounghun Lee (Ph.D. 1999)

 

Funding History

2006 Research Corporation/ Research Opportunity Awards, $75,000 for two years.

2003 Schonbrunn Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Spring 2003, $10,000

2001 NSF/ Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology, Co-PI $110,000 per year for three years.

2001 Rose Morgan Visiting Professorship, University of Kansas. $24,000 to invite Prof. R. Juszkiewicz from Copernicus Center, Poland,  for a semester.

1996 NSF-EPSCoR, New faculty $120,000 for three years.

Publications

 

Refereed Journals

á   Joerg M. Colberg, Frazer Pearce, Caroline Foster, Erwin Platen, Riccardo Brunino, Mark Neyrinck, Spyros Basilakos, Anthony Fairall, Hume A. Feldman, Stefan Gottloeber, Oliver Hahn, Fiona Hoyle, Volker Mueller, Lorne Nelson, Manolis Plionis, Cristiano Porciaini, Sergei Shandarin, Michael S. Vogeley, Rien van de Weygaert The Aspen-Amsterdam Void Finder Comparison Project, arXiv:0803.0918 (2008)

á   Hume A. Feldman & Richard Watkins Bulk Flow and Shear Moments of the SFI++ Survey, arXiv:0802.2961 (2008)

á   Richard Watkins & Hume A. Feldman Power Spectrum Shape from Peculiar Velocity Data, MNRAS 379, 343-348 (2007)

á   Devdeep Sarkar, Hume A. Feldman & Richard Watkins Current Status Of Velocity Field Surveys: A Consistency Check , MNRAS 375 691-697, 2007

á   Sergei Shandarin, Hume A. Feldman, Katrin Heitmann and Salman Habib Shapes and Sizes of Voids in the LCDM Universe: Excursion Set Approach , MNRAS 367 1629-1640 (2006)

á   Pengjie Zhang, Albert Stebbins, Roman Juszkiewicz & Hume Feldman, A new method of measuring the peculiar velocity power spectrum, 2004, astro-ph/0410637

á   Hume A. Feldman, Richard Watkins, Adrian L. Melott & Scott W. Chambers; Optimal Moments for the Analysis of Peculiar Velocity Surveys II: Testing. 2003, ApJ 599 820-828

á   Hume A. Feldman, Roman Juszkiewicz, Pedro Ferreira, Marc Davis, Enrique Gaztanaga, James N. Fry, Andrew Jaffe, Scott W. Chambers, Luiz da Costa, Mariangela Bernardi, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes, Gary Wegner. An estimate of Omega_m without priors, 2003, ApJ 596 L131-L134

á   Brian C. Thomas, Adrian L. Melott, Hume A. Feldman, Sergei F. Shandarin; Quantifying the Bull's Eye Effect, 2004, ApJ 601 28-36

á   Sergei F. Shandarin, Hume A. Feldman, Yongzhong Xu & Max Tegmark, Gaussianity of the QMASK Map, 2002, ApJS 141 1-11

á   Richard Watkins, Hume A. Feldman, Scott W. Chambers, Patrick Gorman & Adrian L. Melott, Optimal Moments for the Analysis of Peculiar Velocity Surveys. 2002, ApJ 564 534

á   Hume A. Feldman, Joshua A. Frieman, J. N. Fry & Roman Scoccimarro Constraints on Galaxy Bias, , and Primordial Non-Gaussianity from the IRAS-PSCz Survey Bispectrum. 2001, PRL 86, 1434-1437.

á   Rom‡n Scoccimarro, Hume A. Feldman, Joshua Frieman & Jim Fry. The Bispectrum of  Redshift Catalogs. 2001, ApJ 546 652-664.

á   R. Juszkiewicz ,P. G. Ferreira, Hume A. Feldman, A. H. Jaffe, M. Davis,  Relative Velocities of Galaxies Suggest a Low Density Universe, 2000  Science, 287, 109-112.

á   D. Novikov, Hume A. Feldman & Sergei F. Shandarin.  Minkowski Functionals and Cluster Analysis for CMB Maps.  Int. Jou. of Mod. Phys. D, 8, 291-306, 1999.

á   P. D. Ferreira, R. Juszkiewicz, Hume A. Feldman, M. Davis & A. H. Jaffe  Streaming Velocities as a Dynamical Estimator of W.  ApJL 515 L1-4, 1999.

á   Adrian L. Melott, Peter Coles, Hume A. Feldman, & Brian Wilhite  The Bull's-Eye Effect as a Probe of W.  ApJL. 496 L85-88, 1998.

á   Hume A. Feldman & Richard Watkins  A New Approach to Probing Large Scale Power with Peculiar Velocities.  ApJL. 494 L129-132, 1998.

á   Hume A. Feldman & Rick Watkins,  Interpreting New Data on Large Scale Bulk Flows.  ApJL. 453 L72-76, 1995.

á   Hume A. Feldman & Richard Watkins  Theoretical Expectations for Bulk Flows in Large Scale Surveys.  ApJL. 430 L17-20, 1994.

á   Hume A. Feldman, Nick Kaiser & John Peacock,  Power Spectrum Analysis of Three-Dimensional Redshift Surveys.  ApJ 426 23-37, 1994.

á   M. Alford, Hume A. Feldman & M. Gleiser,  Thermal Activation of Metastable Decay: Testing Nucleation Theory,  Phys. Rev. D47 R2168 (1993).

á   Hume A. Feldman & August E. Evrard,  Structure in  a Loitering Universe,  Int. J. Mod. Phys.  D2 113-122 (1993).

á   Mark Alford, Hume A. Feldman & Marcelo Gleiser,  Thermal Nucleation of Kink-Antikink Pairs,  Phys. Rev. Lett.,  68 1645-1648 (1992).

á   Hume A. Feldman, A. Yu. Kamenshchik & A. Zelnikov  Gravitons as Environment in Quantum Cosmology.  Class. & Quan. Grav.  9, L1-L6 (1992).

á   Mark Alford, Hume Feldman & Marcelo Gleiser Testing Classical Nucleation Theory., Zvenigorod Quarks 1992, 424-436.

á   Varun Sahni, Hume A. Feldman & Albert Stebbins,  Loitering Universes.  ApJ  385, 1-8 1992.

á   R. Brandenberger, Hume A. Feldman & V.F. Mukhanov,  Theory of Cosmological Perturbations. Part I: Classical Perturbations.  Phys. Rep. 215, 206-256 (1992).

á   V.F. Mukhanov, Hume A. Feldman & R. Brandenberger  Theory of Cosmological Perturbations. Part II: Quantum Perturbations.  Phys. Rep. 215, 257-295 (1992).

á   V.F. Mukhanov, Hume A. Feldman & R. Brandenberger  Theory of Cosmological Perturbations. Part III: Extensions.  Phys. Rep. 215, 296-328 (1992).

á   Hume A. Feldman & A.C. Raga  Simulated Images of Stellar Jets  ApJ,  102 2049-2053 (1991).

á   Hume A. Feldman, A. Yu. Kamenshchik,  Decoherence of Scalar Field Perturbations.  Class. & Quan. Grav.  8, L65-L71 1991

á   R. Brandenberger, H. Feldman & J. Kung,  Initial Conditions for Chaotic Inflation.  Phys. Scripta  T36, 64 (1991).

á   Hume A. Feldman,  Stability of Inflation in Fourth Order Gravity.  Phys. Lett.  B249, 200-207 1990.

á   Robert H. Brandenberger, Hume A. Feldman,  The Dynamics of Scalar Fields in the Inflationary Universe.  Physica  A158, 343 (1989).

á   Hume A. Feldman,  The Dynamics of Scalar Fields in the Early Universe. Ph.D. Thesis, UMI-89-26323-mc, SUNY at Stony Brook, March 1989.

á   Hume A. Feldman, Robert H. Brandenberger, Chaotic Inflation with Metric and Matter Perturbations. Phys. Lett.  B227, 359 (1989)

á   Robert H. Brandenberger, Hume A. Feldman,  Effects of Gravitational Perturbations on the Evolution of Scalar Fields in the Early Universe.  Phys. Lett.  B220, 361 (1989)

á   Hume A. Feldman,  Numerical Analyses of Thermal Fluctuations in New Inflation, PRD 38, 459 (1988).

á   Robert H. Brandenberger, Hume A. Feldman & Jane H. MacGibbon,  Thermal Fluctuations in New Inflation,  PRD 37, 2071 (1988).

á   Hume A. Feldman,  Supersymmetric Calculations of QCD Interactions  PRD 35, 3283 (1987).

á   Hume A. Feldman,  A Complete, Non-Relativistic Calculation of the Proton Lifetime. UC Santa Cruz Preprint (1984).

 

Conference Proceedings

 

Hume A. Feldman,  Velocity Fields as a Probe of Cosmology. Invited talk at the XVth Rencontres De Blois, Physical Cosmology: New Results in Cosmology and the Coherence of the Standard Model, June 2003, to be published in the proceedings

Hume A. Feldman, Richard Watkins, Adrian L. Melott & Will Chambers,  Optimal Moments for Velocity Fields Analysis. Presented at the XVth Rencontres De Blois, Physical Cosmology: New Results in Cosmology and the Coherence of the Standard Model, June 2003, to be published in the proceedings

Hume A. Feldman, Richard Watkins, Adrian L. Melott & Patrick Gorman,  Peculiar Velocity Surveys: Optimal Moments Analysis Presented at the AAS 198th Meeting, Pasadena, CA, June 8-11, 2001  Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 2001,  33.

Hume A. Feldman, Richard Watkins, Adrian L. Melott & Patrick Gorman,  Peculiar Velocity Surveys: Optimal Moments Analysis. Invited Lecture at the  15th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy & Physics: The Onset of Nonlinearity 17-19 Feb. 2000. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 927. Eds. Fry, J.N., Buchler,J.R. & Kandrup, H.

R. Juszkiewicz, Hume A. Feldman, P. D. Ferreira, A. H. Jaffe,  Estimating W Dynamically, In the proceedings of the Cosmic Flows Workshop, Victoria, Canada, 2000,ed. S. Courteau, M. Strauss & J. Willick, ASP series.

Hume A. Feldman & Adrian L. Melott,  Redshift Surveys and the Value of W, Proceedings of the Cosmic Flows Workshop, Victoria, Canada, 2000,ed. S. Courteau, M. Strauss & J. Willick, ASP series.

J. Fry,  Hume A. Feldman, J. Frieman, Bias and the Bispectrum Presented at the  Texas Symposium for Relativistic Astrophysics, Paris December 1998, to be published in the Proceeding.

R. Juszkiewicz,  Hume A. Feldman, P. D. Ferreira, A. H. Jaffe,  Estimating W Dynamically Presented at the  Texas Symposium for Relativistic Astrophysics Paris December 1998, published in the Proceeding.

R. Juszkiewicz, M. Davis, R. Durrer, Hume A. Feldman, P. D. Ferreira, A. H. Jaffe & V. Springer,  A New Dynamical Estimator of W Presented at the  Wide Field Surveys conference at IAP in Paris June 1998, to be published in the Proceedings.

Hume A. Feldman & R. Watkins,  The Power Spectrum and Velocity Fields Presented at the APS Meeting, Columbus, April 6-8, 1998  Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 1998.Hume A. Feldman & R. Watkins,  1-D Velocity Surveys as aprobe of Large Scale Structure Presented at the AAS 191st Meeting,Washington DC, January 6-8, 1998  Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 1997,  28.

Kelly Minske, Hume A. Feldman, R. Watkins & K. Freese Wavelet Analysis of Large Scale Structure Presented at the AAS 187th Meeting, San Antonio, TX. January 14-18, 1996 Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 1997.

Hume A. Feldman  Seeming Disagreements Between Large Scale Velocity Field Observations Presented at the AAS 187th Meeting, SanAntonio, TX. January 14-18, 1996 Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 1996.

Hume A. Feldman Large Scale Velocity Fields Present and Future: Making Sense of the data. An invited Lecture at the ASP: Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe Ed. V. Trimble & A. Reisenegger, 1996, ASP Conference Series V. 88, 29-36

Hume A. Feldman, Richard Watkins  Measuring Bulk Flows in Large Scale Surveys. Lecture at the  IAP Cosmic Velocity Fields, Paris, July 12-17, 1993, 167-175 Ed. F. Bouchet & M. Lacheieze-Rey.(Editions FrontiÂŽres, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex France 1993).

R. Brandenberger, H.A. Feldman & V. Mukhanov, Classical and Quantum Theory of Perturbations in Inflationary Universe Models.  Invited Lecture at the 37th Yamada Conference  Evolution of the Universe and its Observational Quest. Published in the proceeding, Ed. K. Sato (Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, 1993).

Hume A. Feldman, Power Spectrum Analysis of Deep, Whole-Sky Redshift Surveys. Lecture at The Texas/PASCOS 1992, Berkeley, CA. December 13-18, 1992. Ed. C.W. Akerlof & M.A. Srednicki, Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, v. 688 p. 519-522, 1993.

R. Brandenberger, H.A. Feldman, V. Mukhanov & T. Prokopec  Guage Invariant Cosmological Perturbations: Theory and Applications. Invited Lecture at the Pont d'Oye  Workshop  The Origin of Structure in the Universe, April 26 - May 2, 1992. Published in the proceeding.

R. Brandenberger, H.A. Feldman & V. Mukhanov, Gauge Invariant Cosmological Perturbations. Invited Lecture at the ICGC-91 Dec. 1991 Ahmedabad, India. Published in the proceeding (Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1992.)

Hume A. Feldman, Small Old Universes. A lecture presented  in  Trends in Astroparticle Physics, UCLA Nov. 1990. Ed. D. Cline & R. Peccei, p. 200-204, World Scientific (1992).

R. Brandenberger, Hume A. Feldman, Perturbations in  Chaotic Inflation.  Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 35, No. 4, p. 1067, 1990.

Hume A. Feldman, Temperature Dependent  Fluctuations in the Pre Inflationary Phase, 1989 A lecture presented at the  International School of  Particle Astrophysics, Erice, Italy. Published in the proceedings (Editors: P. Galeoti & D. Schramm,  Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989).

 

Seminars and Invited Talks

 

Scholarly Presentations

 

á      External Correlations of the CMB Conference, Fermilab, Invited speaker and session chair, May 25-27, 2006

á      Mathematics Awareness Month , KU, Lawrence April 12, 2005

á      Santa Fe 2004, Cosmology Summer Workshop, Invited Talk, July 16, 2004

á      Pairwise Velocities and Fundamental Plane Galaxies from the SDSS, Fermilab June 9, 2004

á      Aspen Center of Physics Workshop on Precision Cosmology, Jan. 22, 2004

á      Galaxy Formation Workshop Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, June 5, 2003

á      XVth Recontres de Blois: Physical Cosmology, Blois, France Invited Speaker, June 15--20, 2003.

á      Workshop on Structure Formation and Dark Matter Halos Fermilab, Batavia, IL    Invited speaker  May 12, 2001

á      Kingston 2000 CITA, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Invited speaker Aug. 28, 2000

á      The Onset of Nonlinearity University of Florida, Gainesville, FL    Invited speaker  Feb 18, 2000

á      Cosmic Flows Conference Victoria, Canada    Invited speaker  Jul. 17, 1999

á      Structure Formation Workshop Santa Fe, NM.   Jul.  5, 1999

á      Inner Space - Outer Space Fermilab, IL.   May 17, 1999

á      Pritzker Symposium Chicago, IL.    Invited speaker  Feb.  2, 1999

á      Texas Symposium for Relativistic Astrophysics, Geneva, Switzerland, December, 1998.

á      AAPT Lincoln NE.    Invited speaker  Aug.  5, 1998

á      Symposium on Gauge Theories, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics London, UK.   Jul. 1998

á      Capp98 Geneva, Switzerland.    Invited speaker  Jun. 10, 1998

á      Missing Energy in the Universe Fermilab, IL.   Invited speaker May  2, 1998

á      APS/AAPT Conference Columbus OH.   Apr. 20, 1998

á      191st AAS Washington DC.   Jan.  7, 1998

á      Precision Measurement in LSS Workshop Aspen, CO.    Session Chair Jun. 20, 1997

á      Dynamics and Statistics of LSS Lawrence, KS.     Invited speaker May 11, 1997

á      Lawrence Cosmology Workshop Lawrence, KS.     Invited speaker May  9, 1997

á      MidAmerica Astrophysics Conf. Kansas City, MO.   Keynote speech Mar. 16, 1997

á      Texas Symposium Chicago, IL.   Dec. 18, 1996

á      Theory and Experiments in LSS Imperial College, London, UK.     Nov.  8, 1996

á      Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO.  Aug. 25, 1995

á      ASP: Clusters, Lenses ..., College Park, MD.     Invited speaker Jun. 28, 1995

á      APS: Future of Astrophysics, Snowmass, CO.  Jul.  3, 1994

á      2nd Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop, Lake Geneva, WI.   Invited speaker May  8, 1994

á      IAP: Cosmic Velocity Fields, Paris, France.  Jul. 14, 1993

á      Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI.    Organizer Apr.  3, 1993

á      Texas/PASCOS, Berkeley, CA.  Dec. 14, 1992

á      Trends in Astroparticle Physics UCLA, Santa Monica, CA.  Nov. 30, 1990

á      TASI--88, Brown University, Providence, RI.  Jun. 27, 1988

á      International School for Particle Astrophysics Erice, Italy.    Session Chair May  8, 1988

á      Brown University, Providence, RI.  Oct. 29, 1990

á      Landau Institute, Chernegalovka, USSR.  Jun. 21, 1990

á      IKI, Institute for Space Research, Tarusa, USSR.  Jun.  6, 1990

á      Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada.  Oct.  9,1989

á       CITA University of Toronto, Canada.