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Pia Mukherjee
Postdoctoral Researcher


Sussex Astronomy Centre
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Sussex
Falmer
BRIGHTON
BN1 9QH
England


phone: +44 (0)1273 873094
e-mail: p.mukherjee@sussex.ac.uk

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Education :
  • M.Sc. Physics 1997, University of Delhi, India
  • Ph.D. 2000, Cavendish Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge, U.K.
    Past positions :
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kansas State University (with Bharat Ratra), 2000-2002
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oklahoma (with Yun Wang), 2002- 2004
    Research Interests :
    Cosmology: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure, comparison of data with theory, parameters constraints, data analysis techniques, early universe reconstruction, nature of dark energy, non-Gaussianity studies, secondary anisotropies and Galactic foregrounds in the CMB
    Papers :
  • Supernova Simulations and Strategies For the Dark Energy Survey, (2011)
  • Optimizing future dark energy surveys for model selection goals, (2011)
  • A Comparative Study of Dark Energy Constraints from Current Observational Data, (2011)
  • COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) A White Paper, (2011)
  • Detecting and distinguishing topological defects in future data from the CMBPol satellite, (2010)
  • Designing a space-based galaxy redshift survey to probe dark energy, (2010)
  • Effects of cosmological model assumptions on galaxy redshift survey measurements, (2010)
  • WMAP 5-year constraints on fnl with wavelets (2008)
  • On the degeneracy between primordial tensor modes and cosmic strings in future CMB data from Planck, (2008)
  • Planck and reionization history: a model selection view, (2008)
  • Planck priors for dark energy surveys, (2008)
  • Observational Bounds on Modified Gravity Models, Phys. Rev. D 77, 024017 (2008)
  • Observational Constraints on Dark Energy and Cosmic Curvature, Phys. Rev. D 76, 103533 (2007)
  • On what scale should inflationary observables be constrained?, Phys.Rev.D75:083520 (2007)
  • When can the Planck satellite measure spectral index running?, Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 381 (2007) 489-493
  • Present and future evidence for evolving dark energy, Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 123506
  • The WMAP normalization of inflationary cosmologies, Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 083512
  • Model selection forecasts for the spectral index from the Planck satellite, Phys.Rev. D73, 123524 (2006)
  • A Bayesian model selection analysis of WMAP3, Phys.Rev. D73, 123523 (2006)
  • Robust Dark Energy Constraints from Supernovae, Galaxy Clustering, and Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations, ApJ, 650 (2006) 1
  • Model selection as a science driver for dark energy surveys, MNRAS in press (2006)
  • Cosmic microwave background multipole alignments in slab topologies, Phys.Rev. D73, 041302 (2006)
  • A Nested Sampling Algorithm for Cosmological Model Selection, ApJ, 638, L51 (2006)
  • Primordial Power Spectrum Reconstruction, JCAP, 0512, 007 (2005)
  • Looking for Cosmological Alfven Waves in WMAP Data, ApJ, 611, 655 (2004)
  • Wavelets and WMAP non-Gaussianity, ApJ, 613, 51 (2004)
  • Model-Independent Constraints on Dark Energy Density from Flux-averaging Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Data, ApJ, 606, 654 (2004)
  • COBE-DMR-Normalized Dark Energy Cosmogony, ApJ, 598, 767 (2003)
  • Model-Independent Reconstruction of the Primordial Power Spectrum from WMAP Data, ApJ, 599, 1 (2003)
  • Galactic Foreground Constraints from the Python V Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Data, ApJ, 592, 692 (2003)
  • Direct Wavelet Expansion of the Primordial Power Spectrum, ApJ, 598, 779 (2003)
  • Wavelet Band Powers of the Primordial Power Spectrum from CMB Data, ApJ, 593, 38 (2003)
  • CMB Anisotropy Constraints on Flat-Lambda and Open CDM Cosmogonies from DMR, UCSB South Pole, Python, ARGO, MAX, White Dish, OVRO, and SuZIE Data, MPLA, 18, 26 (2003)
  • OVRO CMB Anisotropy Measurement Constraints on Flat-Lambda and Open CDM Cosmogonies, MPLA, 18, 17 (2003)
  • Galactic Foregrounds in OVRO and UCSB South Pole 1994 Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Data, ApJ, 579, 83 (2002)
  • On dust-correlated Galactic emission in the Tenerife data, MNRAS, 320, 224 (2001)
  • Do wavelets really detect non-Gaussianity in the 4-year COBE data?, MNRAS 318, 1157 (2000)
  • A multifrequency maximum-entropy joint analysis of COBE and Tenerife data, MNRAS 310, 105 (1999)
  • The effect of a spatially varying Galactic spectral index on the maximum entropy reconstruction of Planck Surveyor satellite data, Astron. Comm. Lett. (1999)

    Other publications:
  • COSMOLOGICAL MODEL SELECTION, invited review, IJMPA, Volume: 23, Issue: 6 (10 March 2008)
  • Comment on `Tainted evidence: cosmological model selection versus fitting', by Eric V. Linder and Ramon Miquel (astro-ph/0702542v2), (2007)
  • Cosmological model selection, invited review, A&G 47 (2006) 4.30-4.33
    Links :
  • Astrophysics ePrint archive
  • ADS
  • ApJ
  • CMB Resources
  • Conferences
  • Talks from the Bayesian methods in Cosmology meeting (Sussex, June 2006)