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Michael Seiffert

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 169-327

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.393.5252

Fax:

818.354.8895

Member of:

Origin of the Universe

Education

  • B.S. with Honors, Physics, Stanford University (1986)
  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (1994)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1998-Present)
    • Lead Scientist and Group Supervisor for Cosmology (2004-present)
    • Research Scientist (2002-Present)
    • Scientist (1998-2002)
  • NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission Scientific Definition Team (2004-present)
  • JPL Science Advisory Group (2003-present)
  • Cosmic Microwave Background Future Missions Working Group (1999)

Research Interests

  • Measurements of spatial anisotropy, polarization, and spectral deviations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to understand the geometry and content of the Universe
  • Development of approaches and techniques to measure Dark Energy, which is thought to dominate the energy density of our Universe
  • Development of detector technology and instruments for observational cosmology

Selected Awards

  • NASA Group Achievement Award Planck Data Analysis and Operations Support Team (2011)
  • Lew Allen Award for Excellence (2004)
  • NATO Advanced Studies Institute travel grant (1994)
  • Antarctic Service Medal of the United States of America (1991)
  • Dupont de Nemours Graduate Fellowship (1986)

Selected Publications

  1. "An upper limit to polarized submillimetre emission in Arp 220", Michael Seiffert, Colin Borys, Douglas Scott, Mark Halpern, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society accepted for publication (2006)
  2. "An Instrument to Measure the Temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation at Centimeter Wavelengths," A. Kogut, D. J. Fixsen, S. Levin, M. Limon, P. M. Lubin, P. Mirel, M. Seiffert, E. Wollack, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Astrophysical Journal, 154, 493 (2004).
  3. "The Temperature of the CMB at 10 GHz," D.J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. Levin, M. Limon, P. Lubin, P. Mirel, M. Seiffert, E. Wollack, Astrophysical Journal, accepted (2004)
  4. "Amplifier arrays for CMB polarization," Todd Gaier, Charles R. Lawrence, Michael D. Seiffert, Mary M. Wells, Pekka Kangaslahti, Douglas Dawson, New Astronomy Reviews, 47, 1167 (2003)
  5. "Offset Balancing in Pseudo-Correlation Radiometers for CMB Measurements," Aniello Mennella, Marco Bersanelli, Michael Seiffert, Danielle Kettle, Neil Roddis, Althea Wilkinson, Peter Meinhold, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 410, 1089 (2003)
  6. "1/f Noise and other Systematic Effects in the Planck-LFI Radiometers," Michael Seiffert, Aniello Mennella, Carlo Burigana, Nazzareno Mandolesi, Marco Bersanelli, Peter Meinhold, Phil Lubin, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 391, 1185 (2002)