Dr. Christopher O'Dea Professor odea at cis.rit.edu x5-7493

Teaching:

• University Physics 311
• University Physics 313
• Frontiers of Science 1055-359
• I tutor in the College of Science Study Center

Professional Interests: I am an astronomer. I carry out research on (1) Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei and (2) Clusters of Galaxies.

• Bibliography
• Curriculum Vitae

Current Undergraduate Research Students:

Karla Hatfield 
Zachary Lawrence
Bryan Rague
Ramakant Sharma
Jeffrey Smith
Brad Snios
Melissa Trempanier

Current High School Research Students

Tom Colosky
Kevin McCabe

I organize the Astrophysics Seminars.

RIT has a new PhD program in Astrophysical Sciences and Technology (AST). I'm the chair of the graduate admissions committee for the new AST PhD.

And I'm organizing meetings on

• compact radio galaxies
• cooling flow clusters.

Recent Preprints and Papers:

• WFPC2 LRF Imaging of Emission-Line Nebulae in 3CR Radio Galaxies
• An Infrared Survey of Brightest Cluster Galaxies. II: Why are Some Brightest Cluster Galaxies Forming Stars?
• A Study of 13 Powerful Classical Double Radio Galaxies
• Star formation in the hosts of GHz peaked spectrum and compact steep spectrum radio galaxies
• GPS Radio Sources: New Optical Observations and an Updated Master List
• The GPS/CSS Master List in ascii text and latex and PDF
• Emission-Line Gas Kinematics in the Vicinity of the Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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