Mailing address
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- [alternately: PBSci Dean's Office for administrative contacts]
University of California
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Dean's office phone: 831-459-2931
Academic office phone: 831-459-5170 (forwards to above number)
Email: thorsett at ucolick.org
Employment
- 2006- Dean, Physical and Biological Sciences, UCSC
- 2005-2006 Acting Dean, Physical and Biological Sciences, UCSC
- 2003-2005 Chair, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCSC
- 2003- Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCSC
- 1999-2003 Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCSC
- 1994-1999 Assistant Professor, Physics, Princeton University
- 1991-1994 Millikan Research Fellow in Physics, Caltech
Education
- 1991 Princeton University, Ph.D. (Physics)
- 1989 Princeton University, M.A. (Physics)
- 1987 Carleton College, B.A. summa cum laude (Math, with honors)
Awards and Honors
- 1997 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
- 1994 Ernest F. Fullam Award, Dudley Observatory
- 1988 General Electric Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- 1987 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- 1987 Joseph Henry Prize, Princeton University
- 1987 Tektronix Foundation Award
Major Service Activities
UCSC
- 2008 Co-chair, Chancellor Inauguration Committee
- 2007- Chair, Council of Deans
- 2005-2006 Chair, UCSC Vice Chancellor for Research search committee
- 2004-2005 Associate Dean, Physical and Biological Sciences
- 2004 Member, UCSC Chancellor Selection Advisory Committee
- 2004 Chair, UCSC-LANL Cooperative Agreement working group
- 2003-2005 Parliamentarian, UCSC Academic Senate
- 2003-2005 Chair, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
- 2002-2004 UCSC representative, University Committee on Research Policy
- 2001-2004 Member (and Chair, 2001-2003) Senate Committee on Research
- 2001-2003 Member, Senate Advisory Committee
Meeting Organization
- 2007 Meeting Organizer, Extreme Solar Systems, Santorini
- 2004 Meeting Organizer, Binary Radio Pulsars, Aspen
- 2002 Meeting Co-Chair, Radio Pulsars, Chania, Crete
- 2001 Meeting Organizer, Pulsar Astronomy with GLAST, UCSC
- 1999 Member, Program Committee, XVIII Moriond Workshop
- 1998 Meeting Organizer, Physical Applications of Radio Pulsar Timing, Aspen
- 1992 Meeting Organizer, Planets around Pulsars, Pasadena
Other External
- 2007 External review panel, University of Arizona Physics
- 2007 External review panel, Paris Observatory
- 2002-2007 Member, Expanded VLA Advisory Panel
- 2002-2005 Member, NRAO Users Committee
- 2000-present Member, GLAST Science Working Group
- 1998-2001 Member, Arecibo Users and Scientific Advisory Committee
- 1997 Honors Examiner, Oberlin College
Publications
Over a hundred scientific publications, primarily on radio pulsars; the applications of radio pulsar timing to studies of general relativity, binary systems, neutron star masses, and planets around pulsars; astrometry using very long baseline interferometry; and gamma-ray bursts and their counterparts.
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- Search publications at the preprint Arxiv
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