Adam Kowalski's Homepage

3rd-year Graduate Student
The University of Washington Astronomy Department
kowalski@astro.washington.edu

~Overview of Research~
I am interested in many areas of Astrophysics, from cosmology to stellar structure and evolution. Specific topics and projects that I am or have been involved in are the following:
- The cause, nature, and time evolution of optical continuum emission during stellar flares (Thesis project, Advisor Suzanne Hawley)
- Coronagraphic imaging and polarimetry of a protoplanetary disk around the Herbig Ae star HD 163296 (Advisor John Wisniewski; link to pictures of the observing run at Mauna Kea)
- Characterization of the velocity distribution of red stars in the Milky Way (Advisor Zeljko Ivezic)
- Finding candidate active stars in the Kepler field using Galex, 2MASS, and HST Guide Star Catalog (Advisors Graham Harper, Alex Brown, Suzanne Hawley)
- Finding and characterizing M dwarf flares in repeat photometry of SDSS Stripe 82 (Advisor Suzanne Hawley, submitted to AJ)
- A study of Be star emission lines from circumstellar disks (Advisor Karen Bjorkman; Summer REU project)

~Cool Images & Movies ~
'Orange Sun Oozing' (APOD 4-5-09)