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Department of Astronomy Department of Astronomy


Ben Nelson
Graduate Student
 
BS 2009 (UC Santa Cruz)

www.astro.ufl.edu/~benelson/

309 Bryant Space Science Center
(352) 392 2052 (253)

Ben

Areas of Specialty

Extrasolar Planet Theory, Planetary Dynamics, Astrobiology.

Research Interests

My current research utilizes differential evolution Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to model exoplanetary systems near mean motion resonance.

Biography

I am currently a first-year graduate student in the Astronomy Department at the University of Florida. I received my B.S. in Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I worked under the supervision of Dr. Greg Laughlin. I currently work under Dr. Eric Ford here at UF.




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