| Mark Keremedjiev Graduate Student MS 2008 (University of Florida) www.astro.ufl.edu/~msk/ 319 Bryant Space Science Center (352) 392 2052 (281)  |
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Areas of Specialty
Optical/IR Instrumentation, Super Massive Black Holes, Intermediate Mass Black Holes, and Young Stellar Objects.
Research Interests
My thesis work is primarily centered on designing, building, and testing a prototype instrument called the Stabilized sPeckle Integral Field Spectrograph (SPIFS). When completed, this far-optical instrument will be able to acquire data at diffraction-limited spatial resolutions on 8-10 meter class telescopes. Related to my interests, these resolutions will allow for probing the masses of super-massive black holes, finding intermediate mass black holes, characterizing x-ray binary systems, and observing young stellar objects in unprecedented ways.
Biography
I am currently a graduate student under the supervision of Professor Stephen Eikenberry and passed my oral candidacy exam in February 2009. I received a BA with honors from Cornell University in 2006. At Cornell, I worked with Professor Jim Houck and Dr. Lei Hao on AGN with the Spitzer Space Telescope and in 2006, received the Cranson W. and Edna B. Shelley Award for Undergraduate Research in Astronomy. Prior to that, I grew up under the mountains and stars of Montana.
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