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Kathryn Schaffer Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2005 Contact Information Research KICP Highlights & News Talks, Lectures, & Workshops KICP Publications Visitors   Contact Information Phone: (773) 834-2103 Location: LASR 122 Email: kschaf2artic.edu WWW: Web Site   Research Research Interests: Cosmic Background Radiations Ongoing Scientific Projects: South Pole Telescope (SPT) Interferometric Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Imaging Experiment (SZE)   KICP Highlights & News South Pole Telescope exhibit headed for Washington, New York, The University of Chicago News Office SPT/SAIC exhibit, KICP News The South Pole Telescope Measures Small-scale Structure of the Cosmic Microwave Background to Unprecedented Precision, KICP Highlight South Pole Telescope homes in on dark energy, neutrinos, The University of Chicago News Office Secondary anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background detected with the South Pole Telescope, KICP Highlight New Population of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies Discovered with the South Pole Telescope, KICP Highlight Galaxy clusters discovered with the South Pole Telescope, KICP Highlight Free lecture series to peer behind exotic claims about universe, The University of Chicago News Office South Pole Telescope to help astrophysicists learn what universe is made of, how it evolves, KICP Highlight First light for the South Pole Telescope!, SPT website Kathryn Miknaitis wins the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award, KICP News   Talks, Lectures, & Workshops KICP Talk, KICP @ 2012 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "At the Crossroads for Science Education" KICP Workshop, PFC3 Collaboration Meeting KICP Talk, KICP @ 2011 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "Celebrating the Joy of Science" KICP Workshop, 10th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop (organizer) KICP Lecture, 67th Compton Lectures: Kathryn Schaffer, "Seeing and Believing: Detection, Measurement, and Inference in Experimental Physics" KICP Seminar, SNO and Solar Neutrinos: Beyond the Solar Neutrino Problem KICP Yerkes Institute, Under Pressure, Yerkes Winter Institute (instructor)   KICP Publications 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 Latest Journal Publications "Galaxy clusters discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the first 720 square degrees of the South Pole Telescope survey", arXiv:1203.5775 (Mar 2012) "A Measurement of the Correlation of Galaxy Surveys with CMB Lensing Convergence Maps from the South Pole Telescope", arXiv:1203.4808 (Mar 2012) "A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data", arXiv:1202.0546 (Feb 2012) "Cosmological Constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-Selected Clusters with X-ray Observations in the First 178 Square Degrees of the South Pole Telescope Survey", arXiv:1112.5435 (Dec 2011) "Frequency Multiplexed SQUID Readout of Large Bolometer Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements", arXiv:1112.4215 (Dec 2011) "A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 743, Issue 1, article id. 28 (2011) (Dec 2011) "The First Public Release of South Pole Telescope Data: Maps of a 95 deg2 Field from 2008 Observations", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 743, Issue 1, article id. 90 (2011) (Dec 2011) "A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies with two years of South Pole Telescope observations", arXiv:1111.0932 (Nov 2011) "Cosmic microwave background constraints on the duration and timing of reionization from the South Pole Telescope", arXiv:1111.6386 (Nov 2011) "X-Ray Properties of the First Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Selected Galaxy Cluster Sample from the South Pole Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 738, Issue 1, article id. 48 (2011) (Sep 2011) "A Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected Sample of the Most Massive Galaxy Clusters in the 2500 deg2 South Pole Telescope Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 738, Issue 2, article id. 139 (2011) (Sep 2011) "Improved Constraints on Cosmic Microwave Background Secondary Anisotropies from the Complete 2008 South Pole Telescope Data", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 736, Issue 1, article id. 61 (2011) (Jul 2011) "South Pole Telescope Detections of the Previously Unconfirmed Planck Early Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters in the Southern Hemisphere", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 735, Issue 2, article id. L36 (2011) (Jul 2011) "The 10 Meter South Pole Telescope", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, issue 903, pp.568-581 (May 2011) "Discovery and Cosmological Implications of SPT-CL J2106-5844, the Most Massive Known Cluster at z>1", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 731, Issue 2, article id. 86 (2011) (Apr 2011) "Optical Redshift and Richness Estimates for Galaxy Clusters Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole Telescope Observations", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 723, Issue 2, pp. 1736-1747 (2010) (Nov 2010) "Galaxy Clusters Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole Telescope Observations", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 722, Issue 2, pp. 1180-1196 (2010) (Oct 2010) "SPT-CL J0546-5345: A Massive z>1 Galaxy Cluster Selected Via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with the South Pole Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 721, Issue 1, pp. 90-97 (2010) (Sep 2010) "Extragalactic Millimeter-wave Sources in South Pole Telescope Survey Data: Source Counts, Catalog, and Statistics for an 87 Square-degree Field", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 719, Issue 1, pp. 763-783 (2010) (Aug 2010) "Measurements of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with the South Pole Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 719, Issue 2, pp. 1045-1066 (2010) (Aug 2010) Latest Conference Proceedings "SPTpol: an instrument for CMB polarization", THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTORS-LTD13. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1185, pp. 511-514 (2009) (Dec 2009) "SPT-SZ: a Sunyaev-ZePdovich survey for galaxy clusters", THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTORS-LTD13. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1185, pp. 475-477 (2009) (Dec 2009)   Visitors Past Visitors: Gajus Miknaitis, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2007) Tom Murphy, University of California, San Diego (2006)