Robert R Caldwell
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
"Robert Caldwell is a theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology. His research addresses questions about the basic properties of the Universe. What is its history and future? What is its composition? What are the fundamental laws that govern its behavior? He has written scientific articles on topics such as dark energy, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, gravitational waves, and the fate of the Universe. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1992, and has held research appointments at Fermilab, Cambridge University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University. He has been on the faculty of Dartmouth College since 2000. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at Dartmouth. His research students have gone on to become astronomers and physicists, professors and research scientists, doctors, bankers, and more. Off term, he gets to travel and do physics: in the photo, he’s taking a break from 2013 summer lectures to hike in the French Alps."
Research Interest
Cosmology, Gravitation
Publications
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Smith, T, and R R Caldwell, "Sensitivity to a frequency-dependent circular polarization in an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background," Physical Review D 95 (2017) 044036.
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Caldwell, R R, C Hirata, and M Kamionkowski, "Dust-polarization Maps and Interstellar Turbulence," Astrophysical Journal 839 (2017).
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Caldwell, R R, C Devulder, and N A Maksimova, "Gravitational Wave--Gauge Field Dynamics," International Journal of Modern Physics D (2017).
