Faculty Profile

Degrees

PHD, Mass Institute Technology; BS, California Institute of Tech

Bio

Selected Publications:

• B. Bochner, “Cosmic Acceleration and Concordance from Causal Backreaction with Recursive Nonlinearities”, International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD) Vol. 22, No. 13, 1330026 (2013); e-print (arXiv:1206.5056)

• B. Bochner, D. Pappas, and M. Dong, "Testing Lambda and the Limits of Cosmography with the Union2.1 Supernova Compilation", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 814:7 (2015)

• B. Abbott et al., “Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data”, Physical Review D, Vol. 73, 062001 (2006)

Research Interests

• Very Early Universe Cosmology
• The Observed Acceleration of the Universe, Dark Energy, and Large-Scale Structure Formation
• Gravitational Wave Generation and Detection

Recent Courses Taught