Astronomy Wisconsin
Professor
Research Interests:
Structure, kinematics and dynamics of star clusters and star-forming regions; stellar binary populations; blue stragglers and other objects with alternative stellar evolution pathways; formation of binary stars; stellar angular momentum evolution.
Biography:
Robert Mathieu has been on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1987. He was educated at Princeton University (A.B. 1978) and the University of California-Berkeley (Ph.D. 1983), after which he became a Fellow of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He has received a Presidential Young Investigator award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Kellett Award and most recently the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship for his research into the dynamics of star clusters, the evolution of stars and binary star populations. He has served as President of the Board of Directors of the WIYN Observatory, chair of the University Committee of...read more
My Publications
- Ardila, D., Herczeg, G., Johns-Krull, C., Mathieu, R., Vodniza, A., Tofflemire, B., 2014
Conference Proceedings in "American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts" Pages
View in - Gosnell, N., Mathieu, R., Geller, A., Sills, A., Leigh, N., Knigge, C., 2014
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 783, Pages L8
View in - Geller, A., Meibom, S., Barnes, S., Mathieu, R., 2014
NOAO Proposal, Vol., Pages 128
View in - Tofflemire, B., Gosnell, N., Mathieu, R., Platais, I., 2014
The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 148, Pages 61
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