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Name: William H. Waller
Title: Research Associate Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Physics & Astronomy Department
Degrees: B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Arizona (1974); M.S. in Optical Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1981); Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Massachusetts (1990)
Expertise: Observational astronomy and astrophysics
Evolution of galaxies over cosmic time, starbirth and starburst activity in nearby galaxies, interstellar processes in the Milky Way, UV/Optical/IR imaging of nebulae and galaxies, education and public outreach in astronomy and space science.
E-mail: waller@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu

Other websites: http://www.tufts.edu/as/astronomy/
http://www.mos.org/nessie/
http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/cosmicfrontier/
Scholarship & Research: Waller, W. H., 1991, “Relics of an Eruptive Starburst in NGC 1569,” ApJ, vol. 370, p. 144.

Malumuth, E. M., Waller, W. H., and Parker, E. M. 1996, "The Stellar Initial Mass Function in the Giant HII Region NGC 595, AJ, vol. 111, p. 1128.

Waller, W. H., et al. (eds.) 1997, The Ultraviolet Universe at Low and High Redshift: Probing the Progress of Galaxy Evolution, (New York: American Institute of Physics).

Waller, W. H., et al. 2001, “Ultraviolet Signposts of Resonant Dynamics in the Starburst-Ringed Sab Galaxy M94 (NGC 4736), AJ, vol. 121, p. 1395.

Waller, W. H., et al. 2002, "Starburst Anatomy: Surprising Results from HST Photometry of Ionizing Stellar Populations in M33," BAAS, vol. 34, p. 1239.

Waller, W. H. 2003, "The Space Infrared Telescope Facility -- Seeking Warmth in the Cosmos," Sky & Telescope, vol. 105 (February), p. 42

Waller, W. H. and Hodge, P. W. 2003, Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).

Waller, W. H. 2004, “Redesigning the Milky Way,” Sky & Telescope, vol. 108 (September), p. 51

Full list of publications are listed at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html. Enter Waller, W. with dates of 1980 to 2004.

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