Alice C. Quillen Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy Observational Astronomy office: phone: Bausch & Lomb 453 (585) 275-9625 fax: email: (585) 273-2813 aquillen@pas.rochester.edu home page: http://astro.pas.rochester.edu/~aquillen/

Biographical Sketch

Prof. Quillen received her B.A. in Physics from Harvard/Radcliffe University and her Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech (1993). She did postoctoral work at The Ohio-State University where she received Columbus Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ohio State (1993-1996), and also at the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona. Prof. Quillen joined the University of Rochester in 2002 as Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, whe was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006.

Research

Prof. Quillen's research in Astronomy focuses on the dynamics of gas and stars in galaxies, the astrophysics of active galactic nuclei, and the dynamics of planetesimals in young planetary systems. She will be using observations from NASA Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), a satellite observatory scheduled to be launched in July 2002, to construct models for the emission, growth and evolution of massive black holes and to search for evidence of resonant dynamics caused by planets in dusty debris disks surrounding nearby stars.

Recent Publications

1. Chaos caused by resonance overlap in the solar neighborhood -- Spiral structure at the Bar's 2:1 outer Lindblad resonance
   A.C. Quillen
   submitted to the Astronomical Journal
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2. Prospecting for spiral structure in the flocculent outer Milky Way Disk with color magnitude star counts from the 2 Micron All Sky Survey
   A.C. Quillen
   accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal (2002)
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3. The Variability of Seyfert 1.8 and 1.9 Galaxies at 1.6 Microns
   Quillen, A. C.; Shaked, Shanna; Alonso-Herrero, A.; McDonald, Colleen; Lee, Ariane; Rieke, M. J.; Rieke, G. H.
   Astrophysical Journal Letters 532, L17 (2000)
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4. Production of Star-grazing and Star-impacting Planetesimals via Orbital Migration of Extrasolar Planets
   Quillen, A. C.; Holman, M.
   Astronomical Journal 119, 397 (2000)
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5. A Wind-driven Warping Instability in Accretion Disks
   Quillen, A. C.
   Astrophysical Journal 563, 313 (2001)
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For further details, go to Prof. Quillen's home page at: http://astro.pas.rochester.edu/~aquillen/

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