{"id":42,"date":"2008-08-19T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/08\/19\/brent-follin-09\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:47:35","slug":"brent-follin-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/08\/19\/brent-follin-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Follin &#8217;09: Research Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2008\/08\/brentt_follin.jpg\" title=\"brentt_follin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2008\/08\/brentt_follin.jpg\" alt=\"brentt_follin.jpg\" \/><\/a>Brent Follin has worked in Ted Bunn&#8217;s research group for the summers of 2007 and 2008, focusing on issues related to the construction of <a href=\"http:\/\/astro.physics.brown.edu\/mbi\/index.html\">MBI<\/a>, a new telescope being constructed for observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Along with Peter Hyland (U. Wisconsin and McGill U.), Brent and Ted solved an important problem related to finding the best possible design for this sort of telescope. Brent presented preliminary results in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2008\/06\/brent-aas-2008.pdf\">poster <\/a>at an American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis this summer, and we just submitted a<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0808.2403\"> paper<\/a> for publication. Ted wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/08\/19\/67\/\">bit more<\/a> about this in his blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Follin has worked in Ted Bunn&#8217;s research group for the summers of 2007 and 2008, focusing on issues related to the construction of MBI, a new telescope being constructed for observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Along with Peter Hyland (U. Wisconsin and McGill U.), Brent and Ted solved an important problem related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/08\/19\/brent-follin-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brent Follin &#8217;09: Research Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}