Education:

PhD Candidate in Astrophysics, UCLA, since March 2001
MS in Astrophysics, UCLA, June 1998
BA in Physics, Brandeis University, May 1996

Research:

I am currently a sixth-year graduate student at UCLA. My dissertation research focuses on infrared, Adaptive Optics observations of a photometric sample of distant galaxies. The project involves selecting the galaxy sample, developing methods of data reduction and analysis specific to AO and faint galaxies, and creating models of galaxy evolution and applying them to the data.

Publications:

Exploring the Structure of Distant Galaxies with Adaptive Optics on the Keck-II Telescope, J.E. Larkin, T.M. Glasman, P. Wizinowich, D.S. Acton, O. Lai, A.V. Filippenko, A.L. Coil, & T. Matheson, 2000, PASP, 112, 1526

Morphologies of Distant Galaxies at the Diffraction Limit of the Keck Telescope, T.M. Glassman & J.E. Larkin, 2000, AAS, 197, 6501

Infrared Observations of Three Extremely Red Objects, T.M. Glassman & J.E. Larkin, 2000, ApJ, 539, 570

Discovery of an Obscured Broad Line Region in the High Redshift Radio Galaxy MRC 2025-218, J.E. Larkin, I.S. McLean, J.R. Graham, E. E. Becklin, D.F. Figer, A.M. Gilbert, N. A. Levenson, H.I. Teplitz, M.K. Wilcox, & T.M. Glassman 2000, ApJ, 533L, 61L

Diffraction Limited Images of Faint Field Galaxies, J.E. Larkin, T.M. Glassman, P. Wizinowich, & O. Lai, 1999, AAS, 195, 9305

Faint Field Galaxies around Bright Stars: A New Strategy for Imaging at the Diffraction Limit, J.E. Larkin & T.M. Glassman, 1999, PASP, 111, 1410

Ionized Gas Structures in the Centers of Nearby Early-Type Galaxies, T.M. Glassman & M. Malkan 1998, AAS, 192, 3612

Misc:

The NSF Center for Adaptive Optics

My udergraduate research group at Brandeis University

My Resume

A Community Education Poster that I created for the CfAO's 2001 Integrating Research and Education Conference can be seen here

Press Release:

View Press Release for the January 2002 AAS Meeting in Washington, DC