Welcome to the IMPS Webpage!
The Inter[Stellar+Galactic] Medium Program of Studies (IMPS) at UC Santa Cruz is a research collaboration with focus on the gas in and outside of galaxies in both the local and distant universe. The program brings together cutting-edge observational projects on the Keck, Lick, and Hubble Space Telescope Observatories and theoretical studies of hydrodynamics and radiative transfer with emphasis on large-scale numerical simulations. The group consists of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and undergraduate researchers from the UCSC Physics Department, Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, and the UCO/Lick Observatory. The program also has established collaborations with similar international groups. This website provides an overview of the program, our research interests, publications, data products, and current research opportunities.
The IMPS program will be hiring at least one and as many
as three postdocs for 2015. Please spread the word.
IMPS collaborators team led by Khee-Gan Lee, a post-doc
at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (Germany), has
managed to create a three-dimensional map of a large
region of the far-flung cosmic web nearly 11 billion
light years away, when the Universe was just a quarter of
its current age.
Astrophysicist Douglas Lin wins 2014 Brouwer Award
Douglas N. C. Lin earns recognition for outstanding
contributions to the field of dynamical
astronomy.
Professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz at IMPS is among a select
group of fifty artists and scholars chosen for the
Radcliffe Fellows Program.
IMPS astronomers
discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula
of diffuse gas, revealing part of the cosmic web.
Piero Madau, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at
IMPS, has been chosen to receive the 2014 Dannie
Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.