Joseph Silk
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Joseph Silk is the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. He came to the UK in 1999 to take up the position of chairman of the Oxford Astrophysics Department, following a nearly 30-year career at the University of California, Berkeley. He held distinguished positions in Munich, Paris, Groningen and Baltimore. Professor Silk, a graduate of Harvard, has given more than two hundred invited conference lectures, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology.
Ph.D. Students
Mihran Vardanyan (2006 - 2009)
Teeraparb Chantavat (2006 - 2009)
Daniel Timothy Cumberbatch (2005 - 2008)
Silk damping
The structure of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies is principally determined by two effects: acoustic oscillations and diffusion damping (also called collisionless damping or Silk damping).
This process is named Silk damping after the cosmologist Joseph Silk.
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Silk Damping
[edit] Books by Joseph Silk
- On the Shores of the Unknown: A Short History of the Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0521836271, Google Link
- The Big Bang , W.H. Freeman, 2005, ISBN 071671812X
- Cosmic Enigmas ,ISBN 1563960613, Google Link
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