Another summer, another young scientist is elevated from the ranks of Humble Seeker to Wizened Oracle. Or, in more familiar terms, someone successfully gets their Ph.D. The latest elevatee is Lotty Ackerman, my first student here at Caltech. Lotty’s work is well-known to CV readers; she and I collaborated with Mark Wise on the question of a preferred direction in inflation, which was featured in the series of Anatomy of a Paper posts. She also worked with Matt Buckley, Marc Kamionkowski and me on the Dark Photon idea. And she worked with other people on other things, including cosmological density perturbations from reheating and the more experimentally-oriented question of asymmetric beams in the WMAP satellite.
Today Lotty successfully defended her thesis, and we’ll be sad to see her go. But California’s loss is Texas’s gain, as she’ll be taking up a postdoc at the new Texas Cosmology Center in Austin. Best of luck!
August 13th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Congratulations Lotty! Looking forward to having you join us in Texas.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Congratulations!
August 13th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Congrats academic-sister!
August 13th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
August 14th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Congrats, Lotty! See you soon!
August 14th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Congrats!
Glad to see that some people still make it through.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Many thanks!
Thank you Sean. Thank you not only for the congratulations and very nice celebration, thank you for being a great advisor and mentor all these years.
Nav and Pearl, looking forward to seeing you soon!
Eugene, hope to meet my academic-brother in the near future!
September 15th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I write in Spanish because my English is very bad
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Muchas Felicidades mi queridisima amiga Lotty, Que bueno es enterarse de que te va bien. Te deseo muchísimos mas éxitos y prosperidad y alegrías en tu futuro.
Pedropi
September 18th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Mazel tov!
Congratulations!