Laura Spitler

Research area:

Radio Astronomy

Research projects:

Arecibo

Biography:

My focus is on time-domain radio astronomy, which covers everything from misbehaving pulsars to SETI. I've developed digital spectrometers and signal processing techniques to search for time-variable signals in radio surveys such as the Pulsar ALFA survey currently operating at the Arecibo Observatory. In my free time I like to cycle, hike, cook and play with my cat. I also played double bass in the Cornell Symphony Orchestra for seven semesters.

Publications:

G. Spitler, J. M. Cordes, S. Chatterjee, and J. Stone. Multimoment Radio Transient Detection. ApJ, 748:73, April 2012.