David W. Hogg

My main research interest is in the formation of galaxies in a cosmological context. Currently I am working on observational evidence for the fundamental processes of cosmogony at late epochs: clustering, accretion, and merging.

CV — refereed publications — recently posted preprints — research diary

I use data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Spitzer Space Telescope, Galaxy Evolution Explorer, and other large projects. My group maintains and uses more than 30 Tb of astronomical data. We do science with, and create new data analysis techniques for, data sets of non-trivial size and complexity.

We have started a big project on automating astrometry, which creates entirely new opportunities for enormous astrophysics projects.

I am teaching NYU Physics 1. Recently, I have taught Observational Astronomy, General Physics 1, Engineering Physics 1, Physics 2, and Mathematical Physics.

I have written a short instruction manual on cosmological distance measures, co-written a description of K corrections, and the occasional pedagogical item.

Long ago, I wrote some lecture notes on special relativity.