Telephone: 847-491-5633 Biographical sketch: He received his Ph.D. in Physics with
a minor in Astronomy from the Univ. of Wisconsin in 1970. He then
spent 4 years at the Univ. of California, San Diego and 2 years at
the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before coming to
Northwestern University in 1976. He has been Director of the
Astrophysics Program at Northwestern University since 1983 and a Full
Professor since 1987. He is member foo the AAS, IUA, RAS, and SPIE. He is a Fellow of the American
Physical Society, Fellow of SPIE, NIAC Fellow (twice), and he continues to serve on numerous NASA
advisory and review panels.
Research: He was a charter member and Co-I of the Oriented
Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE)
on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. Ulmer has published over 400 articles in journals and
conference proceeding. He was a charter member and Co-I of the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. One of his desired follow projects, if he can find the time, is
ALLEGRO
which we proposed to study gamma-ray bursts and the transient hard
X-ray sky. However he now divides his time between instrumentation
development and astrophysical studies.” His most recent technology development is directed toward deformable or deployable optics.
His astrophysics interest ranges from studies of AGNs, clusters of galaxies, and exoplanet archival data analysis His research philosophy is summed up in the following figure:
A few selected publications
2019ApPhL.114p1101R
InGaAs based
heterojunction phototransistors: Viable solution for high-speed and low-noise
short wave infrared imaging
arxiv.org/pdf/1903.07556.pdf
Astro2020 Science White Paper New Frontiers
for Terrestrial-sized to Neptune-sized Exoplanets
the Era of Extremely Large Telescopes
Melville P. Ulmer
Professor
Physics & Astronomy Dept
Assisant Telephones: 847-491-3685 or 3644
E-mail:m-ulmer2@northwestern.edu
mailing address:
2145 Sheridan
Road
Technological Insitute
Dept. of Physics and
Astronomy
Northwestern Univ.
Evanston, IL 60208-3100
Office:Dearborn
Observatory #3 (General Campus Interactive Map)
Ulmer, Melville P. ;
Quispe, Daniel ; Seals, Len ; De Vita, Giovanni ; Stagon, S. P. ; Asbury, Nicholas ; Buchholz, D. B. ; Cao, Jian ; Chung, Y. -W. ; Vaidyanathan, Raj
Ulmer, Melville P. ; Capoot, Connor J. ; Assoufid, Lahsen ; Quispe, Daniel ; Buchholz, Donald B. ; Chung, Yip-Wah ; Cao, Jian
Adami, C. , Parra Ramos, K. , Harry, J. T. ,Ulmer, M. P. , Lima Neto, G. B. , Amram, P.
Rezaei,
Mohsen; Park, Min-Su; Rabinowitz, Cobi; Tan, Chee Leong; Wheaton, Skylar; Ulmer, Melville; Mohseni,
Hooman
Wang, J; Meyer, M. Boss, Alan, and 20
more (including Ulmer)
2018SPIE10761E..0BU
Magnetostrictively deforming the surface of a silicon wafer
at two locations
Ulmer, M. P.; Coppejans, R.; Khreishi, M.
A.; Keely, K.; Buchholz, D. B.; Shiri, R.; Rodriguez, L. A.; O'Donnell, A. E.; Schonfeld Z. J.; Reinhardt, W. H.; Borgsmiller,
L. E.; Baturalp, T. B.; Coverstone,
V. L.; Cao, J.
2018SPIE10698E..1KB
Membrane
mirror evaluation of APERTURE: a precise extremely large reflective telescope
using re-configurable elements
Baturalp, Turgut B.;Coverstone, Victoria L.;Coppejans, Rocco;Cao, Jian;Chung, YipWah; Buchholz, David B.; Ulmer, M. P.;
2018MNRAS.475..523L
Star-formation rates of cluster galaxies: nature versus nurture
Laganá,
Tatiana F & Ulmer, M. P.
2017AAS...22923704M
Automated Census Of Variable X-Ray Objects in the
Direction of Clusters of Galaxies
MacIntosh, Lupe; Cunningham,
Elizabeth; & Ulmer, Melville P.
2016SMaS...25h5038W
Deformation
of rectangular thin glass plate coated with magnetostrictive
material
Wang, Xiaoli;
Yao, Youwei; Liu, Tianchen;
Liu, Chian; Ulmer,
M. P.; Cao, Jian
2016ApJ...825.Star
Formation Activity in a Young Galaxy Cluster at Z = 0.866
Laganá,
T. F.; Ulmer, M. P.; Martins, L. P.; da Cunha, E.
Deep
spectroscopy of the MV -14.8 host galaxy of a tidal
disruption flare in A1795
Maksym, W. P.; Ulmer, M. P.; Roth, K. C.; Irwin, J.
A.; Dupke, R.; Ho, L. C.; Keel, W. C.; Adami, C.
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