Risa
Risa Wechsler is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Stanford University and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and is afflilated with the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. She works on topics in theoretical cosmology and astrophysics, and is primarily interested in galaxy formation and the development of structure in the universe, and in how astronomical observations can constrain the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Long a sought-after guest-blogger, this is her first regular blogging gig. She lives in San Francisco and is a big fan of good cheese.
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- Beer Magnet
- I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, spammers like me.
- Props to Mitt Romney
- We’re Back
- My New Favorite Conference Title
- All Those Facts and Knowledge Just Get in the Way
- Proposals and Framing
- The McNair Program
- Teeny-Weenie Massive Galaxies
- The Physics of Chocolate
- Vacation
- Wishes of the Dead
- Public Intellectuals
- Weighty Spin
- Guest Post: Juan Collar on Dark Matter Detection
- Sixers!!!!
- Influence
- When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced
- Q Score
- What Should I Say if Someone Asks Me, “Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World?”
- On Choosing a Graduate School: A Dialogue
- Goodbye.
- The Truth, Respectfully
- Energy Doesn’t Grow on Trees
- You Would Have to Be Destroyed
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