Larry Maddox - Astronomy Department, UIUC
Contact Information
Dr. Larry Maddox
122 Astronomy Bldg. (1002 West Green St.)
Email: lamaddox@astro.uiuc.edu
Phone: 217-244-4209
General Information
I am employed as a Postdoctoral Research Assosciate in the
Astronomy Department at the University of Illinois
at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), collaborating with
You-Hua Chu.
I received my Ph.D in Physics from the
Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University
of Oklahoma.
Research Interests
My recent work involved the study of the hot ionized medium (HIM) and
diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. This includes the study
of supernova remnants, superbubbles and supergiant shells. My work at
UIUC has been focused on the Magellanic Clouds, two of the Milky Way's
nearest neighbors. My studies are mainly confined to X-ray observations
obtained by Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku X-ray observatories.
I am also interested in the populations of compact source populations in
nearby (< 10 Mpc) spiral galaxies. My doctoral work consisted mainly of
radio observations obtained by the Very Large Array (VLA) in Socorro, NM.
Using a variety of other telescopes, I am interested in providing a
complete multiwavelength view (from radio to X-ray) of these sources.
These include supernovae, supernova remnants, H II regions, X-ray binaries,
and in many cases, background AGNs.
My CV can be viewed here(PDF), and here(HTML).
Teaching
Most of my teaching experience was in the from of recitation courses
at OU. In the summer sessions, I was given full adminstrative
resposibilities for the teaching of lecture courses in Physics.
General Physics Laboratory
Calculus-based Physics I (Mechanics)
Calculus-based Physics II (Electrodynamics, Optics)
Guest Lectures in Introductory Astronomy and Junior Level Observatory Methods
Public Outreach
Not much done in Illinois, yet. As a graduate student in Oklahoma, I did participate
in some outreach activities:
Assisted with public observing in the "Friday Night at the Observatory" series.
Delivered a Public Lecture on the history of Radio Astronomy in the same lecture series.
Public Lecture on Mars at Southern Oaks Library in Oklahoma City, OK.
Delivered a series of four lectures to Elementary School teachers as part of "We`ve Always Looked Up" by
the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education (OKAGE).
Collaborators (Past and Present)
John Cowan -- University of Oklahoma
Bryan Dunne -- University of Illinois
Roy Kilgard -- Wesleyan University
Christopher Stockdale -- Marquette University
Andrea Prestwich -- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Eva Schinnerer -- MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany
Chiho Matsumoto -- Nagoya University, Japan
Karen Leighly -- University of Oklahoma
Rosa Williams -- Columbus State University
You-Hua Chu -- University of Illinois
Steven Tingay -- Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Christina Lacey -- Furman University
Last updated:
Tue Sep 18 10:14:55 CDT 2007