Field-Of-Study: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Edmund Bertschinger is a Professor of Physics, former Division Head of Astrophysics, and, as of January 1, 2008, Department Head of Physics at MIT. He is a theoretical astrophysicist whose research interests focus in cosmology and relativistic astrophysics. A native of California, he received his B.S. in physics from Caltech in 1979 and his Ph.D. in

Rennan Barkana has been a Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University since 2001, and in 2008 was named a Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech.  He has published over forty articles in journals including Science and Nature, focusing on understanding the properties of the stars and galaxies that formed in the early universe and predicting observational signatures of the