University of Maryland Department of Astronomy
	SPECTRAL SYNTHESIS GROUP

Current Members:

• Dr. R. A. Bell
  
• Dr. Suchitra Balachandran
  
• Dr. Mark L. Houdashelt
  
• Rob Cavallo
  

Recent Alumni:

• Dr. Michael M. Briley (U. Wisconsin Oshkosh)
  
• Dr. R. Paul Butler (UC Berkeley)
  
• Dr. Ben Dorman (NASA GSFC)
  
• Dr. Michael J. Tripicco (NASA GSFC)
  

Collaborators:

• Dr. Allen V. Sweigart (NASA GSFC)
  

Research Specialities:

• Population Synthesis of Galaxies
  
• Abundance Analysis of Individual Stars
  
• Color-Magnitude Diagrams of Globular Clusters
  
• Nucleosynthesis in Globular Cluster Giants
  

Recent Publications:

• A New Effective Temperature Scale for M Giants?
  Bell, R. A. & Houdashelt, M. L. 1997, BAAS, 29, 1283
• Improved Color-Temperature Relations for Cool Stars
  Houdashelt, M. L. & Bell, R. A. 1997, BAAS, 29, 1283
• Synthetic Spectra of Elliptical Galaxies
  Houdashelt, Mark L., Bell, Roger A. & Sweigart, Allen V. 1997, BAAS, 28, 1323 .
• Near-Infrared Synthetic Spectra of Elliptical Galaxies
  Houdashelt, Mark L. & Bell, Roger A. 1997, in The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies, Eds. M Arnaboldi, G.S. Da Costa and P. Saha, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 116, p. 213.
• Optical Synthetic Spectra of Elliptical Galaxies
  Bell, Roger A. & Houdashelt, Mark L. 1997, in The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies, Eds. M Arnaboldi, G.S. Da Costa and P. Saha, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 116, p. 218.
• Synthetic Spectra of M Giants
  Houdashelt, Mark L. & Bell, Roger A. 1996, BAAS, 28, 915.