Dr.
Craig J. Hogan
Professor
of Astronomy
Professor
of Physics
University of Washington
PO Box 351580
Seattle,
WA 98195
206-685-2112
voice
206-685-0403
fax
email:
hogan@u.washington.edu
Craig
Hogan graduated from Harvard College and went on to King's College, Cambridge,
where he earned his Ph.D. in 1980.
He held postdoctoral prize fellowships at the University of Chicago and
Caltech, and was on the faculty at the University of Arizona's Steward
Observatory before moving to Seattle in 1990. From 1995 to 2001 he served as
Chair of Astronomy and in 2001-2002 as Divisional Dean of Natural Sciences in
the College of Arts and Sciences. From 2002 to 2005 he served as UW's Vice
Provost for Research.
Hogan's
scholarship in cosmology has been recognized by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. As a member of the High-z Supernova Search Team he was a
co-discoverer of the cosmic "Dark Energy" causing the expansion of
the universe to accelerate. Currently, he is a member of the
International Science Team for LISA , a space mission under development
to detect gravitational radiation. Hogan's current theoretical research centers
on the astrophysical phenomenology of string theory and quantum gravity, for
example in the cosmic background radiation anisotropy, and the generation and
detection of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from cosmic strings, or
from events in the early universe such as phase transitions, the end of
inflation, and the formation of our 3-dimensional space. Recent technical
papers are posted at the astro-ph archive. His primer on
cosmology, "The Little Book of the Big Bang" , published by Springer-Verlag, has been translated
into Dutch, Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish, and Greek.