Homer L. Dodge Department
of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oklahoma

Dark energy, a mysterious energy component of the universe with negative pressure, has caused the observed acceleration of the expansion rate of the universe. Solving the mystery of the nature of dark energy is the most important problem in cosmology today. Dark energy can be probed using various techniques, most notably, using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological standard candles. I have done fundamental work in the use of supernovae to probe dark energy. My work has ranged from survey strategy, optimal data analysis, to the modeling of weak lensing effects.

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