I am an assistant professor at OU Department of Physics and Astronomy. I enjoy observing the Universe from quiet places on top of 7-14 thousand feet high mountains in Arizona, Chile, Hawaii, and Texas. I received a PhD in Astronomy from UT Austin with a university-wide outstanding dissertation award. I worked as a Columbus Fellow at the Ohio State University and Spitzer Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In 2011, I was awarded the Paul Hertelendy prize for my work on short period binary white dwarf stars. I am a member of the LSST Science Collaboration (Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume) and the eLISA Ultra-Compact Binaries Working Group. I thank the NSF and NASA for supporting my research.

Teaching: AST 5473 - Stellar Interiors - Fall 2014

Evolution and energy balance of stars including gravitational attraction, nucleosynthesis, radiative and convective energy transport and equilibrium, construction of stellar models for pre-main sequence and main sequence stars, and the theory of giants and white dwarfs.

Public Star Party

Every Wednesday night while the university is in session, we are hosting a Free Public Star Party at OU's campus telescope. Here is the information on the Star Party.

Preprints

White Dwarfs     Planets     Supernovae

News

	Gemini Reveals a Gravitational Wave Source in Hiding
	Doubling Down With Rare White Dwarf Systems
	Kepler Can Still Hunt For Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Researchers Suggest
	Elderly Couple Kicked Out of the Galaxy
	Astronomers Test Einstein in a New Regime Using Pair of Burnt-Out Stars
	University of Oklahoma Astronomer and Colleagues Identify 12 Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf Stars Only 100 Light Years Away
	Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance
	Two Dying Stars Reborn as One
	Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems that Might Explode
	"Death Star" Shreds, Swallows Dwarf Planet
	Cosmic Weight Loss: The Lowest Mass White Dwarf
	Texas Astronomers, Others Find Dead Stars Collecting Dust