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lamb@oddjob.uchicago.edu

Professor Lamb's current research interests include high-energy-density physics, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and galaxy clusters. He is the author of more than 400 papers, and the co-editor of several books on theoretical astrophysics. He has made seminal contributions to supernovae, especially discovery of the gravitationally conned detonation mechanism for Type Ia supernovae, and neutrino transport and the equation of state of hot, dense matter in Type II supernovae; to gamma-ray bursts, especially the nature and properties of so-called \X-Ray Flashes," and the use of gamma-ray bursts as probes of the very high redshift universe and to determine the properties of dark energy; to stellar structure and evolution, especially the structure and evolution of white dwarfs and neutron stars; and to compact X-ray sources, especially magnetic white dwarfs and X-ray burst sources. He has developed powerful statistical methods based on Bayesian inference, and applied them to a variety of astrophysical problems. He played a key role in founding the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He was Mission Scientist for the NASA High Energy Transient Explorer-2 and is an Associate Scientist for the NASA Swift mission. He is Director of the DOE- and NSF-funded Flash Center for Computational Science. 

(Profile last updated in September 2011.)