Ian Dell'Antonio
Assistant Professor of Physics
Astrophysics and Observational Cosmology
A member of the Brown faculty since 1999, Professor Dell'Antonio is a graduate of Haverford College and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has worked at Bell Laboratories and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories before coming to Brown. His research is focused on using observational techniques, in particular gravitational lensing, to determine the distribution of dark matter in the Universe.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Observational cosmology; gravitational lensing; formation and growth of galaxy systems; dark matter; wide-field optical imaging.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

"Peculiar Velocities for Galaxies in the Great Wall (I and II)," with G. Bothun and M. Geller, AJ, 112, 1759 and 1780 (1996)

"Galaxy Dark Matter: Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in the Hubble Deep Field," with J.A. Tyson, ApJL, 473, 17 (1996)

"Morphology of Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies," with J.A. Tyson and G. Kochanski, uulh. conf. 204 (1997)

"Detailed Mass Map of CL0024+1654 from Strong Lensing," with J.A. Tyson and G. Kochanski, ApJL, 498, 107 (1998)

"Big Throughput Camera: The First Year," with D. Wittman et al., SPIE, 3355, 626 (1998)