A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 
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Kevin C. Schlaufman
Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral ScholarI studied mathematics and astronomy and astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University as an undergraduate. I picked up a master's degree from Stanford University in a program called scientific computing and computational mathematics with a concentration in statistics. While there, I worked at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. I earned my PhD from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at UC Santa Cruz, where I studied exoplanets and planet formation as well as halo substructure and Milky Way formation. I've also worked at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and at LinkedIn.
I'm interested in exoplanets, planet formation, and the structure and formation of the Milky Way. I also like to think about the application of probability and statistics to theoretical and observational astrophysics, in particular stochastic modeling, multivariate analysis, and data mining.
"Evidence of Possible Spin-Orbit Misalignment Along the Line of Sight in Transiting Exoplanet Systems." K. C. Schlaufman 2010, Astrophysical Journal, 719, 602 astro-ph/1006.2851
“Insight Into the Formation of the Milky Way Through Cold Halo Substructure. III. Statistical Chemical Tagging in the Smooth Halo.” K. C. Schlaufman, C. M. Rockosi, Y. S. Lee, T. C. Beers, C. Allende Prieto, V. Rashkov, P. Madau, and D. Bizyaev 2012, Astrophysical Journal, 749, 77 astro-ph/1202.2360
Chancellor's Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010 - 2011; Whitford Prize, Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008; Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 2007 - 2010; Regent's Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007 - 2009; Marshal Award, Penn State Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, 2004; Evan Johnson Award, Penn State Mathematics Department, 2003 and 2004; Evan Pugh Scholar Award (Senior), Penn State, 2003; Kermit C. Anderson Scholarship, Penn State Mathematics Department, 2003; Phi Beta Kappa, 2003; National Merit Scholar, 2000
Contact Information
t: 617-324-3619
e: kschlauf@mit.edu
