RJN's Bio Page

Name: Robert J. Nemiroff
Employer: Michigan Technological University, Department of Physics, Houghton, Michigan, 49931
MTU Email Address: nemiroff .at. mtu .dot. edu.nospam (please delete the ".nospam" before sending email)

Education:

• B.S. from Lehigh University, Engineering Physics, 1982
  
• Ph D. from University of Pennsylvania, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1987
  

Currently he is:

• creating the Night Sky Live project.
• researching aspects of gamma ray bursts,
• researching aspects of gravitational lensing,
• researching aspects of dark energy,
• writing and editing APODs,
• teaching at Michigan Tech,
• popularizing virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars,
• computing digits of irrational numbers, searching for non-randomness, and using these digits as pseudo-random numbers,
• a basketball, volleyball and comedy writing hack,
• occasionally modest.

Once favorite phrase: "Oh Pooh!" The idea is to say this like a spoiled rich kid who didn't get his or her way. It is to be said in place of a curse when something that could have happened and would have been nice (but not essential) did not happen. To say it right usually requires practice.

Bonus phrase Jerry Bonnell and I sometimes use:
"Everything is chaos and the possibilities are excellent." We think this is an ancient Chinese war proverb although neither of us actually lived in ancient China. To be said after yet another factor seems to complicated things when this factor should really have no overall effect.