You have reached the homepage of Ben Williams.  I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington.

My research interests include the evolution of Galaxies as determined through stellar populations and X-ray source populations analysis.

I did my undergraduate work in physics at  Middlebury College with  Professor Frank Winkler .

I received my Ph. D. from the University of Washington in 2002, working with Paul Hodge.  Some highlights from that era are here.

Currently, I am playing a leading role in the implementation of the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey.  This project is going to measure the star formation history of nearly all known galaxies outside the Local Group but nearby enough to measure resolved stellar photometry with HST (~4 Mpc).

Here are some astronomical links that I find useful.

 The HST homepage

HST Archive Search

The Los Alamos Preprint Archive

The NASA Astrophysics Data System