JACQUELINE N. HEWITT, Professor
of Physics; Director, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Research Interests
Professor Hewitt's research interests are focused upon applying
the techniques of radio astronomy, interferometry, signal processing,
and image processing to basic research in astrophysics and cosmology.
Current topics of interest are observational signatures of the epoch
of reionization, applications of gravitational lensing, and the
detection of transient astronomical radio sources.
Professor Hewitt is also interested in the development of instrumentation
for radio astronomy. She is currently involved in developing radio
telescopes with large aperture, which represent the "next generation"
in radio astronomical instrumentation. In particular, with the Haystack
Observatory interferometry group she is part of a U. S. (MIT and
the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Australian
(University of Melbourne, Australia National University, Curtin
University of Technology, and Australia Telescope National Facility)
collaboration developing the Mileura Widefield Array, a low-frequency
antenna array under construction in Western Australia.
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Biographical Sketch
Appointed Director of MIT's Kavli Institute
for Astrophysics and Space Research in January 2002, Professor Hewitt began her
career at MIT in 1986 as a postdoctoral associate in the Very Long
Baseline Interferometry group at the MIT
Haystack Observatory. After a one-year sojourn as a research
staff member in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton
University, she returned to MIT in 1989 as an Assistant Professor
of physics.
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Selected Publications
List of Professor
Hewitt's recent publications, available in PDF, PostScript, and
other formats.
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