Gary Kilper

"Astrophysicist to the Star"

  

Welcome to a half-hearted effort to make information about myself readily available to the multitude.

Contact Info:garyk @ rice.edu
Campus
address:
Physics and Astronomy Department – MS 108
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251
(campus mailbox in HBH 202)		 Herman Brown Hall 344
(713) 348-3514
Fax: (713) 348-5143

Basic Info:
Fourth-Year Graduate Student
M.S. thesis defended & Ph.D. candidacy passed (Nov. 2006)
Physics and Astronomy Department
Rice University

Research:
Subject: Solar Astrophysics
Topic: Composition and dynamics of mass in solar filaments (and prominences), and the relationship to coronal mass ejections
Advisor: Dr. David Alexander
Research supervisor: Dr. Holly Gilbert
Group website: Rice Solar Physics

Research papers, publications, seminars, theses, grocery lists, etc.

Recent travel:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via the GSRP fellowship, Greenbelt, Maryland
NAOJ Hinode Science Center via the EAPSI fellowship, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan


My Google Page
History of April 20th

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others, who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso

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