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Frieman, Joshua A., 1959-
Oral history interview with Joshua Frieman, 2020 October 6.
Interview with Joshua Frieman, head of the Particle Physics Division at Fermilab, and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He recounts his childhood in Princeton as the son of a physicist and his decision to attend Stanford as an undergraduate, where his interests in cosmology developed. Frieman explains that his options for graduate research in cosmology were narrow and his reasons for going to the University of Washington to work with Jim Bardeen before moving to Chicago to be Michael Turners first graduate student. He discusses his interest in approaching cosmology from the perspective of particle theory and his thesis focus on curved space time within a cosmological context. Frieman describes his postdoctoral work at SLAC and his first position at Fermilab in the theory group that Dave Schramm had started. He discusses his work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and then the Dark Energy Survey. Frieman explains what might be needed to understand dark energy, he describes his appointment at Chicago, and he explains the origins of the Magellan Telescopes project. He discusses the value of the Aspen summer sessions and his involvement with P5, and explains the value of the 2010 Decadal Survey. At the end of the interview, Frieman surveys the current slate of project at Fermilab and emphasizes the value of incorporating cosmological perspectives to high-energy and particle physics.
Joshua Frieman is the head of the Particle Physics Division at Fermilab, and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Chicago and a postdoctoral appointment at SLAC.
Frieman, Joshua A., 1959-
Schramm, David N.
Turner, Michael Stanley
Aspen Center for Physics
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
University of Chicago
University of Washington
Astrophysics
Cosmology
Dark energy (Astronomy)
Inflationary universe.
Large scale structure (Astronomy)
Particle theory.
Space-time.
Supernovae
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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