Director:

Dr. Joel R. Primack specializes in the formation and evolution of galaxies and the nature of the dark matter that makes up most of the matter in the universe. He is one of the principal originators and developers of the theory of Cold Dark Matter, which has become the basis for the standard modern picture of structure formation in the universe. With support from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Energy, he is currently using supercomputers to simulate and visualize the evolution of the universe and the formation of galaxies under various assumptions, and comparing the predictions of these theories to the latest observational data. He is also the author, with Nancy Abrams, of popular books on modern cosmology: The View from the Center of the Universe (2006) and The New Universe and the Human Future (2011)

More background: http://scipp.ucsc.edu/
personnel/profiles/
primack.html

Watch Joel explain dark matter in excerpts from National Geographic's "Inside the Milky Way"

Office: Room 318 Interdisciplinary Science Building (ISB)
Phone: (831) 459-2580
Fax: (831) 459-3043
e-mail: joel@ucsc.edu

Senior Writer:

Trudy E. Bell, M.A., a former editor for Scientific American and IEEE Spectrum magazines, is a science and technology journalist whose 19 top awards include the David N. Schramm Award of the American Astronomical Society (2006). She has written or co-authored a dozen books, including the Smithsonian Science 101 volume Weather (2007), the IEEE’s millennium book Engineering Tomorrow (IEEE Press, 2000), and four books for middle-school ages about astronomy and space. In 2010 and 2011 she was a Presidential Fellow in the SAGES Program of Case Western Reserve University.

More background: www.trudyebell.com

Phone: (216) 221-5008
t.e.bell@ieee.org or tebell@ucsc.edu

Administrative Assistant:

Coral Connor is the Office Manager for UC-HiPACC. She handles purchases and payments, travel reimbursements and correspondence with vendors, and she assists with event coordination, budgetary calculations, and database maintenance. Coral gained organizational proficiency from being an assistant for a Sacramento non-profit specializing in association management. Coral is currently in her last year at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she will receive her bachelor's degree in psychology.

Office: Physics Department, UCSC
Phone: (831) 459-1531
Fax: (831) 459-5777
e-mail: hipacc@ucsc.edu

Public Outreach and Scientific Visualization
/Webmaster:

Nina McCurdy is the Public Outreach and Scientific Visualization Coordinator for UC HiPACC, creating scientific visualizations and acting as a liaison between the scientific, artistic, and planetarium communities. She is also UC HiPACC's website developer/ webmaster. Nina graduated from UCSC in 2009 where she received her B.S. in Applied Physics with highest honors. Her senior thesis focused on scientific visualization for the purposes of public outreach. In 2008, she received the The Ronald H. Ruby Memorial Scholarship for "promising young physicists" in 2008.

phone: (415) 375-0779
e-mail: nmccurdy@ucsc.edu