Mmt Observatory
Staff Scientist
Steward Observatory
Associate Astronomer
University of Maryland 2004 - 2006
Postdoctoral Researcher
Uc Santa Cruz 2000 - 2004
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution For Science 1997 - 2000
Barbara Mcclintock Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Rutgers University 1992 - 1998
Doctorates, Doctor of Philosophy, Astrophysics, Philosophy
Swarthmore College 1985 - 1989
Bachelors, English Literature, Physics
Taylor Allderdice High School
Skills:
Image Processing Data Science Scientific Data Management Programming Python Unix Instrumentation Idl Proposal Generation Pi Mitigation Fortran For Giant Robots
6 Aug 2011 Benjamin Weiner - we need to recruit more defectors from fb. in the mean time i' ll try to come up with something interesting to post lol ...
News
A Monster Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe Discovered by Accident [Video]
eference: Discovery of a Dark, Massive, ALMA-only Galaxy at z ~ 56 in a Tiny 3 mm Survey by Christina C. Williams, Ivo Labbe, Justin Spilker, Mauro Stefanon, Joel Leja, Katherine Whitaker, Rachel Bezanson, Desika Narayanan, Pascal Oesch and Benjamin Weiner, 22 October 2019, Astrophysical Journal.DOI: 1
Date: Oct 22, 2019
Category: Science
Source: Google
As Galaxies Eclipse Youth, They Steadily Organize and Increase Rotation ...
Assistant Astronomer at the UA Steward Observatory and study co-author Benjamin Weiner states, "When we look back very far into the distant past of the universe, we find star-forming galaxies, but they don't look like our Milky Way, with its slowly rotating, orderly spiral disk-shape. Instead, those
Date: Oct 20, 2012
Source: Google
Galaxies are in no hurry to grow up, say astronomers
When we look back very far into the distant past of the universe, we find star-forming galaxies, but they dont look like our Milky Way, with its slowly rotating, orderly spiral disk-shape, said Benjamin Weiner, assistant astronomer at the University of Arizonas Steward Observatory. Instead, tho
Date: Oct 20, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Disk galaxies formed gradually, astronomers find from images, computer ...
One important key to the discovery was how the 14 collaboratorssix from the University of Californiaselected the galaxies to study. "Sample selection can be quite insidious," co-author Benjamin Weiner of the University of Arizona explained. In past studies of galaxy evolution, researchers typicall
Date: Oct 19, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Surprise! Galaxies Still Evolving in Present Universe
Previous studies removed galaxies that did not look like the well-ordered rotating disks now common in the universe today, said co-author Benjamin Weiner, an astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson. By neglecting them, these studies examined only those rare galaxies in the distant unive