FORA.tv Speaker - Jeff Scargle

Jeff Scargle graduated from Pomona College, Summa Cum Laude, majoring in astronomy, and received a Ph. D. in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology. Following research and teaching positions in the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses, he joined the Space Science Division of the NASA Ames Research Center.

He is currently a member of the international collaboration behind the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope, and has developed time series and other data analysis methods in wide use in high-energy (x-ray and gamma-ray) astronomy, extra-solar planetary detection, and elsewhere.