M E	Stephanie Morris Gogarten stephanie -at- astro.washington.edu		I am a graduate student in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. I am studying galaxies with Dr. Julianne Dalcanton. Previously I was a nerdy undergraduate at the University of Chicago. I am also the instructor for Astronomy 101 A in Summer 2007.
S C I E N C E	"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." -Henri Poincare	ANGST: ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury Press Release My thesis project will be studying star formation in nearby spiral galaxies observed as part of ANGST.	EDisCS: the ESO Distant Cluster Survey First project: classification of early-type galaxies My current EDisCS project is the size-luminosity relation in disk galaxies. How does the average surface brightness of disk galaxies change over time? We can determine this by looking at a succession of ever more distant galaxy clusters, which we are seeing at ever younger ages. But we must be careful that the effects we observe are not a result of only being able to detect the brightest galaxies. Does a galaxy's environment affect its surface brightness? We can compare galaxies in clusters and the field and look for differences in the size-luminosity relation. Poster at IAU Symposium 235: jpg - pdf (big!)
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"It comes to this," Tarrou said almost casually; "what interests me is learning how to become a saint."

...the doctor answered. "But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man."

"Yes, we're both after the same thing, but I'm less ambitious."

-Albert Camus, The Plague