{"id":2484,"date":"2009-08-13T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/08\/13\/congratulations-to-lotty\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:34:22","slug":"congratulations-to-lotty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/congratulations-to-lotty\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Lotty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another summer, another young scientist is elevated from the ranks of Humble Seeker to Wizened Oracle.  Or, in more familiar terms, someone successfully gets their Ph.D.  The latest elevatee is Lotty Ackerman, my first student here at Caltech.  Lotty&#8217;s work is well-known to CV readers; she and I collaborated with Mark Wise on the question of a preferred direction in inflation, which was featured in the series of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/07\/30\/anatomy-of-a-paper-part-i-inspiration\/\">Anatomy of a Paper<\/a> posts.  She also worked with Matt Buckley, Marc Kamionkowski and me on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/10\/29\/dark-photons\/\">Dark Photon<\/a> idea.  And she worked with other people on other things, including cosmological <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/astro-ph\/0412007\">density perturbations from reheating<\/a> and the more experimentally-oriented question of <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0904.3998\">asymmetric beams<\/a> in the WMAP satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Today Lotty successfully defended her thesis, and we&#8217;ll be sad to see her go.  But California&#8217;s loss is Texas&#8217;s gain, as she&#8217;ll be taking up a postdoc at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcc.utexas.edu\/\">Texas Cosmology Center<\/a> in Austin.  Best of luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another summer, another young scientist is elevated from the ranks of Humble Seeker to Wizened Oracle. Or, in more familiar terms, someone successfully gets their Ph.D. The latest elevatee is Lotty Ackerman, my first student here at Caltech. Lotty&#8217;s work is well-known to CV readers; she and I collaborated with Mark Wise on the question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}