Research
Amber Miller leads the Columbia University Experimental Cosmology group dedicated to studying relic signatures
from the Big Bang with the goal of understanding the origin and evolution of the universe. Specifically, the
team studies the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and
the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) using sensitive
centimeter and millimeter-wave instruments designed specifically for this work. The Columbia
team designs, builds, deploys, and analyzes data from novel telescopes employing cutting edge technology, much
of which is piloted and tested by the group. The QUIET and EBEX experiments - currently under development in
close collaboration with teams at other universities - are designed to probe detailed physics in the universe
when it was much less than one second old. These new instruments will both be deployed for the first
time in the summer of 2008 - on a telescope in Atacama desert in Chile, and on a high altitude scientific
balloon respectively.
Prof. Miller has also long held an interest in issues on the interface between science and policy. She worked
at Princeton University on issues related to satellite verification of nuclear non-proliferation agreements,
organized a round table meeting at Columbia with the Union of Concerned Scientists, and has participated
in several conferences on science and politics. Prof. Miller developed and piloted a seminar at Columbia
entitled "Science, Politics, and Critical Thinking", and is teaching a lecture course entitled
"Weapons of Mass Destruction" this spring. She is currently a Columbia University Committee on Global Thought Fellow.
Research Group Website

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Current Experiments
SZA
(Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array)
QUIET (Q U
Imaging ExperimenT)
EBEX
(E B EXperiment)
Technology Development
Metal
Mesh Filters
Completed Experiments
QMAP
MAT-Toco
(Mobile Anisotropy Telescope).
OVRO and BIMA
imaging experiment
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Ph.D.
Thesis
Teaching
Past Courses
Physics C1601 (Introduction to Mechanics and Relativity)
Physics C1602 (Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism)
Physics V1900 (Seminar on Contemporary Cosmology)
Physics V1900 (Physics, Politics, and Critical Thinking)
Current
Courses (Spring 2008)
Physics V1900 (Seminar on Contemporary Cosmology)
EES/Physics W3018 (Weapons of Mass Destruction)
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