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Articles 1–20. Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis - Cited by 10,192 - astrophysics.
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Professor Wittman has discovered millions of galaxies as co-PI of the Deep Lens Survey, which was awarded over 100 nights on 4-m telescopes to study a representative sample of the universe. But discovering millions of galaxies was the easy part. He analyzed the galaxies' shapes to reveal subtle distortions caused by the gravitational fields of fore...
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1997Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies from 1997-2004Assistant Research Physicist, University of California, Davis, May, 2004Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, 2006Fulbright Scholar, 2015SPIE Scholarship in Optical Engineering, 1993David Wittman is an award winning musician, composer, and creative director from Berkeley, California. He began playing drums and DJing at the age of 10, and moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to attend UCLA earning a degree in economics and musicology.
I developed a passion for bringing relativity to thinkers who happen to have no physics background. This book includes all the best thinking tools I developed over a decade of teaching this topic as a Topics in Physics course as well as through the University Honors Program. Research Articles.
Prof. David Wittman was awarded 8 orbits of Hubble Space Telescope time to study collisions of galaxy clusters. These are the largest masses in the universe and a large fraction of their mass is dark matter.
David Wittman at UC Davis. High-redshift cluster of galaxies discovered through its gravitational effects alone, in the Deep Lens Survey.
Professor David Wittman was selected as a recipient of the 2023 Chancellor's Fellowship for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This fellowship recognizes exceptional contributions in supporting, tutoring, mentoring, and advising underrepresented students and/or students from underserved communities and comes with a $5,000 award.
