Date:
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
With Drs Julie Wardlow and Joseph Smidt from his research group, Professor Asantha Cooray describes
the areas of study by which they are seeking to expand knowledge of far distant galaxies and star formation
The Cooray Group at the University of California Irvine campus studies the signatures of ancient galaxies detected with near-infrared light and measures clustering in star-forming galaxies detected with far-infrared light: “We would like to understand how galaxies fi rst formed and what kind and amount of stars were present in those galaxies,” states Asantha Cooray, Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California and head and mentor of the Group.