Associate Professor David Goldberg
Phone:(215) 895-2715

Fax:(215) 895-5934

Email:goldberg@drexel.edu

Office:Disque 810

Postal Address: Dept. of Physics, Drexel University


3141 Chestnut Street


Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Quick Bio:

I joined the Astrophysics Group in the Physics department at Drexel in the fall of 2001. I was extremely involved in the construction of the new Joseph R. Lynch Observatory. I am also very involved in teaching and curricular issues. I am currently chair of the Physics Department undergraduate curriculum committee and am director of undergraduate studies, so if you have any questions about your degree, please be sure to ask. Finally, I am a member of the faculty senate, so if you're a faculty member with a concern, let's see what we can do.

I am also very involved in research. Most of my work centers around cosmology in some way or another. I am interested in gravitational lensing, and, in particular, in extracting additional information out of weak lensing signals. I have also worked on high performance distributed computing. Upon arriving at Drexel, we acquired the "Thunderhead" cluster from Steve Curtis's group at NASA. These "Beowulf" machines are the development platform for BASIN (Beowulf Analysis Symbolic INterface), an NSF funded project aimed to enabling real-time parallel programming for non-experts.

Previously, I was a "Gibbs Lecturer" at Yale University with Priya Natarajan, and in the process, developing a cool little java program, the Yale Observatory iMAge Manipulation Application (YOMAMA) . Prior to that, I did my graduate work at Princeton University under David Spergel. I also came dangerously close to winning the departmental Table Tennis Tournament. Twice. Completing our trip back in time, I did my undergraduate work at Boston University, majoring in Astronomy and Physics, with minors in Math and Religion. My senior thesis work was with Tereasa Brainerd.

Teaching:

Physics 101 Fundamentals of Physics ISpring, 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009
Physics 111 Physics ISpring, 2004, Spring 2005
Physics 113 Contemporary Physics IFall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Physics 131 Survey of the UniverseFall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Spring 2005
Physics 231 Introductory Astrophysics Winter 2003, Winter 2005, Winter 2007, Winter 2009
Physics 431/731 Galactic Dynamics Winter 2002, Fall 2003
Physics 432/750-001 Cosmology Winter 2006, Winter 2008
Physics 511 E&M I Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2009
tDEC 113Physical Foundations of Engineering IIWinter 2004
tDEC 201Energy ISpring 2006
Honors 200-18Playing Dice with the Universe Fall 2005

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