Edmund Bertschinger Explained

Edmund Bertschinger
Nationality:	American
Field:	Physics, Astronomy
Work Institution:	University of VirginiaUC BerkeleyMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma Mater:	Caltech Princeton University
Doctoral Advisor:	Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Doctoral Students:	Chung-Pei Ma Uros Seljak Matias Zaldarriaga

Edmund Bertschinger (born 1958) is an American theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist and professor of physics at MIT.^[1]

Career

Bertschinger received his bachelor's degree in physics from Caltech in 1979, and his Ph.D. degree in astrophysical science from Princeton University in 1984. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Virginia and UC Berkeley, then went to MIT as an assistant professor of physics in 1986 becoming a full professor in 1996.^[1] He served as head of the physics department from 2007 to 2013 and currently serves as the Institute Community and Equity Officer.^[2] He has served on various committees promoting women and minorities in astronomy and physics.^[3] He has received numerous fellowships and awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015^[4] and the American Physical Society in 1996.^[5]

Research

Bertschinger is known for his work on large-scale simulations of galaxy formation (N-body simulation), the study of galaxy velocity fields (Peculiar velocity), and various problems in relativistic astrophysics. He has made substantial contributions to cosmological perturbation theory and structure formation in the universe.

Selected publications

• Bertschinger. Edmund. Zukin. Phillip. Distinguishing Modified Gravity from Dark Energy. Physical Review D. July 2008. 78. 2. 024015. 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.024015. 0801.2431. 2008PhRvD..78b4015B. 119192486.
• Bertschinger. Edmund. Multiscale Gaussian Random Fields and Their Application to Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. November 2001. 137. 1. 1–20. 10.1086/322526. astro-ph/0103301. 2001ApJS..137....1B. 118811357.
• Bertschinger. Edmund. Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. September 1998. 36. 599–654. 10.1146/annurev.astro.36.1.599. 1998ARA&A..36..599B.
• Bertschinger. Edmund. Cosmological Dynamics. NASA Sti/Recon Technical Report N. April 1995. 96. 22249. astro-ph/9503125. 1995STIN...9622249B.
• Ma. Chung-Pei. Bertschinger. Edmund. Cosmological Perturbation Theory in the Synchronous and Conformal Newtonian Gauges. The Astrophysical Journal. December 1995. 455. 7–25. 10.1086/176550. astro-ph/9506072. 1995ApJ...455....7M. 14570491.
• Bertschinger. Edmund. Dekel. Avishai. Recovering the Full Velocity and Density Fields from Large-scale Redshift-distance Samples. Astrophysical Journal Letters. December 1989. 336. L5–L8. 10.1086/185348. 1989ApJ...336L...5B.
• Bertschinger. Edmund. Self-similar Secondary Infall and Accretion in an Einstein-de Sitter Universe. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. May 1985. 58. 39–65. 10.1086/191028. 1985ApJS...58...39B. free.

Notes and References

1. MIT Faculty Profile at http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/bertschinger_edmund.html
2. Web site: Institute Community and Equity Officer | MIT Organization Chart.
3. Web site: Edmund Bertschinger . 2015-12-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222131330/http://www.aps.org/about/governance/election/bertschinger.cfm . 2015-12-22 . dead .
4. Web site: Historic Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
5. Web site: APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society.