Brief Biographical Sketch
Hello, and welcome to my website. I'm a theoretical astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the TAPIR group at Caltech. My research is focused on gravitational waves — ripples in the gravitational field that propagate through space and time — and the sources that produce them: colliding black holes, neutron stars, supernovae, and other exotic phenomena. You can read more about my research on my research page.
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Updates
Here are some recent changes/additions to this website, or things that I've been up to lately:- [21-Oct-09] I've decided to restart "Favata's 'Best' of the arXiv" — my picks of articles from arXiv.org and other sources. This time I'm using a Firefox extension called Zotero. This extension let's you easily organize and notate papers on your computer, automatically produces bibtex of selected papers, and allows you to access your collection of papers from any computer. You can also organize papers into "groups" that are posted online (similar to a blog). "Favata's 'Best' of the arXiv" is one such group. Feel free to join the group or leave comments. You can also subscribe to the group via an RSS feed.
For reference you can find my older versions of "Best" of the arXiv here and here. - [19-Oct-09] After putting it off for over a year, I've finally gotten around to updating this website. Enjoy.
- [Sept-09] I recently moved down to Pasadena — it's nice to be back! I'm now a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow. You can find me either at JPL (building 169) or on the 3rd floor of Cahill, the new astrophysics building on the Caltech campus.
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Last updated on November 3, 2009