Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
209 S. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396
Office: (215) 898-5942
FAX: (412) 898-2010
e-mail: shethrk@physics.upenn.edu
Professional Preparation
| ICTP | Senior Research Scientist | January 2011 - present |
| University of Pennsylvania | Professor | July 2009 - present |
| University of Pennsylvania | Associate Professor | July 2007 - June 2009 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Assistant Professor | January 2005 - June 2007 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Assistant Professor | January 2002 - December 2004 |
| Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | Research Associate | October 1999 - December 2001 |
| Max-Planck Institut fuer Astrophysik | Post-doctoral Researcher | October 1996 - October 1999 |
| University of California, Berkeley | Post-doctoral Teaching Assistant | April 1994 - October 1996 |
| Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University | Ph.D. in Astrophysics | September 1990 - April 1994 |
| (Marshall Scholar) | Thesis: ``Gravitational clustering of galaxies'' | Adviser: Prof. W. C. Saslaw |
| Haverford College | B.Sc. in Physics (High Honors) | September 1986 - May 1990 |
| Kodaikanal International School | Four Higher Level I.B. certificates | July 1983 - May 1986 |
Grants and Awards
| NASA-ATP 2011-2014 (with G. Bernstein) | Galaxies, halos and mass as cosmological tests | $417k |
| NSF Theory 2009-2012 | Stochastic bias and ellipsoidal collapse | $407k |
| Westerbork Radio Telescope (PI M. Aragon) | The gas content of void galaxies | 195 hours (2006-2007) |
| NSF Theory 2005-2008 | Accounting for Distance Errors in Cosmology | $295k |
| HST Cycle 14 Archival (with A. Connolly) | Marked correlations and galaxy evolution | $80k |
| HST Cycle 13 Snapshot Survey (with M. Bernardi) | The most massive galaxies in the Universe: Double Trouble? | $110k |
| NASA ADP 2003-2006 (with M. Takada) | Hot and cold spots in the WMAP sky | $130k |
| NSF Theory 2003-2007 (with B. Jain) | Substructure and galaxy formation | $235k |
| NCSA-PSC TCS1 (with J. Colberg, R. Thacker and H. Couchman) | Numerical simulations of self-similar gravitational clustering | 35k units |
| US-Israel BSF (with A. Nusser) | Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha forest | $36k |
| NASA ATP 2002-2006 (with A. Connolly) | Marked Correlation functions and the evolution of galaxy biasing | $290k |
| UPitt FRG II | Ellipsoidal collapse and the shapes of the largest gravitationally bound objects | $3k |
Students and Postdocs
Teaching
Organization of International Conferences
Editorial Work, Review Articles and Books
Work in Progress
Primary Refereed Publications