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Portrait photo of Brian Keating
Portrait photo of Brian Keating

Awardee

Brian Keating, Ph.D.

Director, Simons Observatory

Co-Leader, Simons Array

Affiliations
  • University of California, San Diego

Brian Keating is a cosmologist at UCSD. He is the author of 100+ publications and two patents. He received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2000 and was an NSF fellow at Caltech. He received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at the White House. He co-leads the POLARBEAR/Simons Array collaborations in Chile. He is a private pilot with multi-engine turbine ratings and a trustee of MoMath and the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

Publications

Simons Observatory: Observatory Scheduler and Automated Data Processing

arxiv:2406.10905, June 16, 2024

Y. Guan, Kathleen Harrington, Jack Lashner, Sanah Bhimani, et al.

Projects

Simons Observatory

Awarded 2016

Featuring Brian Keating

Large white satellite dish in a snowy observatory, surrounded by curved metallic walls under a partly cloudy sky. A ladder and various equipment are visible on the snow-covered ground.

Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light

SDSC's data-intensive 'Gordon' supercomputer

Flatiron Institute To Repurpose ‘Gordon’ Supercomputer at UC San Diego

3.5-meter Huan Tran Telescope

Simons Observatory To Search for Origin of the Cosmos

Huan Tran Telescope with sunset behind it

New Telescopes Search for Origin of Universe

Events

Polarization Peregrinations: Using Cosmic Lampposts to Find Keys to Nature’s Laws

Lecture

January 27, 2021

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Brian Keating

Portrait photo of Brian Keating

The Twisted Universe: The Cosmic Quest to Reveal Which End Is Up

Lecture

February 3, 2016

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Brian Keating

Portrait photo of Brian Keating

By Brian Keating

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A Cosmic Merger Over Vegan Sprouts

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Avi Wigderson

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Mathematics & Physical Sciences

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