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Jason Rhodes

Education
  • B.S. in Physics,Harvey Mudd College Claremont, California (1994)
  • M.A. in Physics, Princeton, New Jersey (1996)
  • Ph.D. in Physics, Princeton, New Jersey (1999)
Research Interests
  • structure and evolution of the universe
  • weak gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter and dark energy
Projects

DUNE Icon DUNE
The purpose of the DUNE mission (Dark UNiverse Explorer) is to shed light on the dark components of the Universe with a wide field imager in space.

SNAP Icon SNAP
SNAP is a proposed optical/infrared mission that would detect thousands of Type Ia supernova plus conduct weak-lensing studies.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Scientist (2004 - present)
  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (2003 - present)
    • Visiting Scholar (2004 - present)
    • Project Scientist - SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) Weak Lensing (2003 - 2004)
  • Goddard Space Flight Center, National Research Council Research Associate (2000 - 2003)
  • Princeton University, Postdoctoral Researcher (1999)
Selected Awards
  • JPL Mariner Award (2007)
  • JPL Lew Allen Award for Outstanding Young Researcher (2007)
  • Walt Disney Corporation Graduate Fellowship (1994)
  • National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Graduate Fellowship (1994)
  • Alfred B. Focke Award for Outstanding Work in Experimental Physics (1994)
  • Vladimir Rojansky Award for Outstanding Modern Physics term paper (1992)
Selected Publications
  1. SNAP Collaboration, "Supernova/Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of the Dark Energy," PASP submitted, astro-ph405232.
  2. Rhodes, J., Refregier, A., Collins, N., Gardner, J. & Hill, B. & Groth, E. J. "Measurement of Cosmic Shear with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph," ApJ, 605, 29R, 2004.
  3. Rhodes, J. & the SNAP Collaboration, "Weak Lensing from Space I: Instrumentation and Survey Strategy," Astroparticle Physics, 20, 377, 2004.
  4. Massey, R., Rhodes, J., Refregier, A. & the SNAP Weak Lensing Working Group,"Weak Lensing from Space II: Dark Matter Mapping," AJ, 127, 3089, 2004.
  5. Refregier, A., Massey, R., Rhodes, J., Ellis, R., Albert, J., Bacon, D., Bernstein, G., McKay, T., and Perlmutter, S., "Weak Lensing from Space III: Cosmological Parameters," AJ, 127, 3102, 2004.
  6. Refregier A., Rhodes, J. & Groth, E.J., "Cosmic Shear and Power Spectrum Normalization with the Hubble Space Telescope," ApJL, 572, L131, 2002.
  7. Rhodes, J., Refregier, A. & Groth, E. J., "Detection of Cosmic Shear With the Hubble Space Telescope Survey Strip," ApJL, 552, L85, 2001.
  8. Rhodes, J., Refregier, A. & Groth, E. J., "Weak Lensing Measurements: A Revisited Method and Applications to Hubble Space Telescope Images," ApJ, 536, 79, 2000.

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