I'm a KICP fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, at the University of Chicago. I did my PhD at the Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Dan Maoz. My research interests include strong lensing in clusters of galaxies, and Supernova rates in clusters -- please visit the projects links below for more info...


Projects --

A Survey for Supernovae
in Massive High-Redshift Clusters -
Ongoing project
Multiply imaged galaxies
behind the cluster and lensed quasar
SDSS J1004+4112

The lensing cluster Abell 1689.
Links to the paper and full resolution images
can be found here
WOOTS - Wise Observatory Optical Transient Search
  • Rates paper: Supernovae in Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: the Type-Ia Supernova Rate, Sharon et al. (2007) [ADS | astro-ph/0610228]
  • WOOTS SNe paper: Gal-Yam et al. 2007 [astro-ph]

    • My MSc thesis: SN Counts in Deep HST fields [ps]

    Links --

  • KICP
  • UChicago Astro Department
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Wise Observatory
  • Ben Koester
  • Avishay Gal Yam
  • Eran Ofek
  • Orly Gnat
  • Smadar Naoz
  • Assaf Horesh
  • Dalia Sharon's Art Gallery
  • Omer Sharon - multimedia production

    Outreach --

  • TAU Astronomy Club



    • CV
    Publications [ ADS | astro-ph ]
    FAQs

    Address --
    The University of Chicago,
    The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
    LASR 223
    5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
    office/ 773-702-7842 fax/ 773-702-8212
    E-Mail: kerens @ kicp.uchicago.edu