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Ali Vanderveld

Education
  • B.S., Physics with Mathematics minor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Honors Program (2001)
  • M.S., Physics, Cornell University (2005)
  • Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University (2007)
Research Interests
  • Gravitational lensing
  • Cosmological distance measurements
  • Dark energy and modified gravity theories and their observational constraints
  • Observational signatures of dark matter
Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology (2007-Present)
    • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Engines, East Hartford, CT (2001)
    • Mechanical Engineer
Selected Awards
  • AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship (2006)
  • Cornell NASA Space Grant Fellowships (2001, 2005)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2001-2003)
  • GE Faculty of the Future Award (2001)
  • UIUC Excellence in Teaching Awards (2000, 2001)
Selected Publications
  1. R. A. Vanderveld, É. É. Flanagan, and I. Wasserman, "Luminosity distance in "Swiss cheese" cosmology with randomized voids: I. Single void size," Physical Review D 78, 083511 (2008)
  2. R. A. Vanderveld, "Quantifying parameter errors due to the peculiar velocities of type Ia supernovae," Astrophysical Journal 689, 49 (2008)
  3. R. A. Vanderveld, É. É. Flanagan, and I. Wasserman, "Systematic corrections to the measured cosmological constant as a result of local inhomogeneity," Physical Review D 76, 083504 (2007)
  4. R. A. Vanderveld, É. É. Flanagan, and I. Wasserman, "Mimicking dark energy with Lemaitre-Tomlan-Bondi models: Weak central singularities and critical points," Physical Review D 74, 023506 (2006)
  5. R. A. Vanderveld and I. Wasserman, "Spherical gravitational collapse of annihilating dark matter and the minimum mass of cold dark matter black holes," Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, November (2005)

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