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Researcher's Profile

Last Name

Mathieu 

First Name

Robert 

Middle Initial

Areas of Research Expertise

* Observational study of star formation, binary stars, and open star clusters
* High-resolution optical and infrared spectroscopy, optical, infrared and submm (submillimeter) imaging and photometry
* Stellar angular momentum evolution
* Formation of binary stars
* Stellar binary populations
* Structure, kinematics and dynamics of star clusters and star-forming regions
* Science, technology, engineering and mathematics education
* Classroom assessment
* Faculty preparation and development
* Institutional change and higher education

Web site

Robert Mathieu's University Web Page 

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

 

Current/Active Funding

  • Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 2009-2012, Supplemental Support for Delta Program
  • NSF, 2008-2010, The Cirtl Network: Shaping, Connecting, and Supporting the Future National Stem Faculty
  • NSF, 2006-2010, Building Capacity for Course, Program, and Department Evaluation: Improving and Expanding the Student Assessment of Learning Gains Site

Issued Patent(s)

 

USPTO Published Applications

Recent Publication(s)

  • "WIYN open cluster study. XXXVIII. Stellar radual velocities in the young open cluster M35 (NGC 2168)"

Geller AM, Mathieu RD, Braden EK, et al., Astronomical Journal 139 (4): 1383-1393 Apr 2010. We present 5201 radial-velocity (RV) measurements of 1144 stars as part of an ongoing study of the young (150 Myr) open cluster M35 (NGC 2168).

  • "SOCED 12-teaching-teaching-as-research: a concept for change at research universities"

Mathieu RD, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 236: 12-SOCED Aug 2008. Meeting abstract.

  • "A binary star fraction of 76 per cent and unusual orbit parameters for the blue stragglers of NGC 188"

Matheiu RD, Geller AM, Nature 462 (7276): 1032-1035 Dec 2009. Here we report that 16 of the 21 blue stragglers ( 76 per cent) in the old (7-Gyr; ref. 2) open cluster NGC188 are currently in binary systems, a frequency three times that found among normal solar-type main-sequence stars.

  • "NEAR-INFRARED LIGHT CURVES OF THE BROWN DWARF ECLIPSING BINARY 2MASS J05352184-0546085: CAN SPOTS EXPLAIN THE TEMPERATURE REVERSAL?"

Chew YGM, Stassun KG, Mathieu RD. Astophysical Journal 699(2): 1196-1208. July 2009.  We present near-infrared JHK(S) light curves for the double-lined eclipsing binary system Two Micron All Sky Survey J05352184-0546085, in which both components have been shown to be brown dwarfs with an age of similar to 1 Myr.
 

Recent Artistic Works

 

Collaboration

  • University of Colorado-Boulder
  • Howard University
  • Michigan State University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Texas A&M University
  • Vanderbilt University, Physics & Astronomy
  • St Andrews University
  • Harvard Smithsonian Center, Astrophysics

Research Tools

 

Research Facilities

  • WIYN Observatory

E-mail Address

mathieu@astro.wisc.edu 

Phone Number

(608) 262-8689 

Current University

UW- Madison 

Department

Astronomy 

Title

Professor 

Other Appointments

Director, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching
and Learning

Address Line 1

5534 Sterling Hall 

Address Line 2

475 North Charter Street 

City

Madison 

State

WI 

Zip Code

53706 

Bachelor's Degree

BS, Princeton University, 1978

Master's Degree

MS, University of California-Berkeley, 1980

PhD

PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1983

Other Degrees

 

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