Charmaine Armitage-Caplan Research Page

Office
Loomis 241
217-333-2807
Email: carmitag@uiuc.edu Mailing Address
Department of Physics
UIUC
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3080 USA

PUBLICATIONS

Armitage-Caplan, C. and Wandelt, B. (2008) PReBeaM for Planck: A Polarized Regularized Beam Deconvolution Map-Making Method, submitted to ApJS.
A link to full resolution figures
Armitage, C. and Wandelt, B. (2004) Deconvolution Map-Making for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations, accepted for publication in Physical Review D.
A link to full resolution figures

PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS

UIUC Center for Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar (Urbana, IL, 10/18/2006). Probing the Early Universe through CMB Polarization Maps. Slides for seminar.
2006 American Physical Society April Meeting (Dallas, TX, 04/23/2006). In Search of B-modes. Slides for presentation.
Preliminary Examination (Urbana, IL, 04/10/2006) Slides for presentation. Full prelim paper
2005 American Physical Society April Meeting (Tampa, FL, 04/16/2005). Deconvolution Map-Making for CMB Observations. Slides for presentation.
Planck HFI/LFI Joint Consortium Meeting (01/2005). Deconvolution Map-Making for CMB Observations. Poster [pdf] [ps].
US Planck Algorithm Development Group Meeting (Pasadena, CA, 10/27/2004). Deconvolution Map-Making for CMB Observations. Slides for presentation.

Appearances in the media

Interviewed on Channel 15 Sunrise This Morning News (Champaign, IL, 01/24/2007) to advertise the Saturday Astrophysics Honors Program.

EDUCATION

2003 - present		PhD candidate in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MSc in Finance (December 2007) MSc in Physics (August 2005)
1997 - 2003		BSc in Combined Honours Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

January 2007 - present		Searching for anomalies in CMB data on all scales. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Physics (Urbana, IL).
May 2003 - present		Deconvolution map-making for CMB observations. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Physics (Urbana, IL).
Sept. 2002 - May 2003		Studied correlations in the far-infrared background radiation. University of British Columbia - Department of Physics (Vancouver, BC).
May 2002 - Aug. 2002		Studied constraints on cosmology from the latest CMB datasets. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (Toronto, ON).
May 2001 - Aug. 2001		Investigated non-Gaussian features in CMB datasets. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (Toronto, ON).

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