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Lars
Bildsten joined the Institute for Theoretical
Physics and the Physics Department at University
of California, Santa Barbara in July 1999. He received
his PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University
in 1991, where he held a Fannie and John Hertz
Graduate Fellowship. Dr. Bildsten was then at Caltech
for three years as the Lee A. DuBridge Research
Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics and received
a Compton Fellowship from NASA in spring 1994.
In
January 1995 Dr. Bildsten was appointed assistant
and associate professor in both the Physics and Astronomy
departments at University of California, Berkeley. While there
he was awarded an Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and a Hellman Family Faculty
Fund Award in 1997. The Research Corporation designated
him as a Cottrell Scholar in 1998. In 1999, he was awarded
the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society.
Dr. Bildsten was cited for his fundamental work on stellar
structure, including
nuclear burning on neutron stars, the role of
neutron stars as gravity wave sources, and the
theory of lithium depletion.
Professor Bildsten was awarded the Biermann Lectureship
at the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Munich
for Summer 2004.
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