The Teaching

• A link to my current course can be found here (ASTR340: Origin of the Universe).

The Science

• A summary of some of my current research projects.
• My vita.
• A more formal, generally up-to-date, complete PDF CV .
• The S³MC web page: the Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud
• The DGACP meeting web page: the Ringberg Workshop on Dwarf Galaxies as Astrophysical and Cosmological Probes
• CARMA is moving forward!
  • The first three 6m antennas are reconstructed at the new site
  • The final six 6m antennas are put together: CARMA has 15 dishes
  • First fringes with the new interferometer
• A press release for our SNR result
• Some of my latest papers,
  • The Resolved Properties of Extragalactic Giant Molecular Clouds by Bolatto, Leroy, Rosolowsky, Walter, and Blitz
  • The Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud: S3MC Imaging and Photometry in the Mid- and Far-Infrared Wavebands, by Bolatto et al.
  • Spitzer Space Telescope Detection of the Young Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2-7219, by Stanimirovic, Bolatto, et al.
  • High Excitation Molecular Gas in the Magellanic Clouds, by Bolatto, Israel, and Martin
  • The Molecular ISM of Dwarf Galaxies on Kiloparsec Scales: A New Survey for CO in Northern, IRAS-detected Dwarf Galaxies , by Leroy, Bolatto, Simon, and Blitz
  • Warm Molecular Gas Traced with CO J=7->6 in the Galaxy's Central 2 Parsecs: Dynamical Heating of the Circumnuclear Disk , by Bradford, Stacey, Nikola, Bolatto, Jackson, Savage, and Davidson
  • High-Resolution Measurements of the Halos of Four Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxies: Deviations from a Universal Density Profile , by Simon, Bolatto, Leroy, and Blitz
  • The Faintness of the 158 um [C II] Transition in the z=6.42 Quasar SDSS J1148+5251, by Bolatto, di Francesco, and Willott.
  • High-Resolution Measurements of the Dark Matter Halo of NGC2976: Evidence for a Shallow Density Profile, by Simon, Bolatto, Leroy, and Blitz.
• The single-spaced, double-sided postscript version of my dissertation, The Interstellar Medium in Low Metallicity Environments (202 pages, several color figures).
• The first light of the South Pole Fabry-Perot Interferometer (SPIFI) at the JCMT.
• The SPIFI House & Mount for the South Pole, 3-D rendering (as seen from atop the AST/RO primary).
• For Thomas, here is the AST/RO Autocad Model

The Family

• The Nicolás Umberto web page.
• The Sebastián Marcelo web page.

The Galleries

• The South Pole experience.
• The advent of Comet Hyakutake.
• The PhD Defense Party.
• The HI Survival Conference and subsequent sightseeing.

  Useful Resources/Fun/Procrastination

• Some of my favorite castilian verses, including my own english translations
• Is that acronym taken? Check out DOOFAAS, the Dumb Or Overly Forced Astronomical Acronyms Site
• Whatever happened to Planet X?
• Borrowed wisdom
• That malevolent literary device
• The Steve Dawson web page
• Coordinate Converter
• NASA Extragalactic Database
• Astrophysical Data System
• The CDS databases
• Astro-ph at LANL

Alberto D. Bolatto September 2007
University of Maryland at College Park, Department of Astronomy
bolatto at astro.umd.edu