Rogers, Alan Ernest Exel, 1941-
Oral history interview with Alan E.E. Rogers, 2021 July 13.
Interview with Alan Rogers, Research Affiliate and retired as Associate Director of the MIT Haystack Observatory. Rogers discusses his current work on the EDGES project and he suggests the possibility that this research will yield insights on the nature of dark energy. He recounts the circumstances of his birth in Rhodesia and the opportunities that led his family to the United States. Rogers discusses his education at MIT, his interest in radio astronomy, and his research under the direction of Alan Barrett. He narrates the origins of Very Long Baseline Interferometry and its application at the Haystack Observatory. Rogers explains geodesy and why the Mansfield Amendment changed the funding structure at Haystack. He describes becoming Associate Director of Haystack and how he became involved in cell phone infrastructure projects in the 1990s. Rogers explains how EDGES started, its value for measuring ozone concentrations, and he discusses his work for the Event Horizon Telescope. He explains his research contributions for the discovery of hydrogen in the early, cold universe and the value he places on the SRT telescope for educational purposes. At the end of the interview, Rogers explains his desire to expand understanding of low-frequency arrays, particularly in the SKA.
Alan E.E. Rogers is a Research Affiliate and former Associate Director of the MIT Haystack Observatory. Rogers completed his graduate studies in electrical engineering and radio astronomy at MIT.
Barrett, Alan H. (Alan Hildreth)
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Melia, Fulvio.
Rogers, Alan Ernest Exel, 1941-
Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016
Shapiro, Irwin I.
Event Horizon Telescope
Haystack Observatory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Square Kilometer Array (Spacecraft)
Big bang theory
Cosmology
Holography
Interferometry.
Paleomagnetism
Radio astronomy
Very long baseline interferometry
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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