Professor

Telephone: 847-491-5633
Fax: 847-491-3135
Dearborn Dept Assisant Telephone: 847-491-7650
Electroforming Facility Telephones: 847-491-7705 and 7115
E-mail:m-ulmer2@northwestern.edu
mailing address:
2131 Tech Drive
Dearborn Observatory
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Northwestern Univ.
Evanston, IL 60208-2900
Office:Dearborn Observatory #3 (General Campus Interactive Map)

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 a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of SPIE, NIAC Fellow, and he has served 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. His research philosophy is summed up in the following figure: