Graham P. Smith

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I am a Royal Society Research Fellow and Reader in Cosmology in the Astrophysics and Space Research Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham. I'm also a Visiting Associate at Caltech.

My research interests include the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the assembly of cosmic structures including galaxy clusters, and the evolution of galaxies on cosmological timescales. I pursue research in many of these areas within the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS), of which I am the PI.

Much of my research relies on gravitational lensing, observations of galaxy clusters obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope, and large ground-based telescopes, including those of the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

Some interesting review articles on gravitational lensing, galaxy clusters and related topics can be found here.

PhD Opportunities

Click here for information about PhD projects available with me. If you would like to know more, then please email me directly. General admissions information can also be found here.

Recent Publications

Here are a few of my recent publications. Click here for my full publication list.
Optical and Infrared Non-detection of the z=10 Galaxy Behind Abell 1835
Smith G.P., Sand D.J., Egami E., Stern D., Eisenhardt P.R., 2006, ApJ, 636, 575-581
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Discovery of Multiply-imaged Galaxies Behind the Cluster and Lensed Quasar SDSSJ1004+4112
Sharon K., Ofek E.O., Smith G.P., Broadhurst T.J., Maoz D., Kochanek C.S., Oguri M., Suto Y., Inada N., Falco E.E., 2005, ApJL, 629, 73-76
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Evolution of the Morphology-density Relation of Galaxies Since z=1
Smith G.P., Treu T., Ellis R.S., Moran S.M., Dressler A., 2005, ApJ, 620, 78-87
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Mass, Structure and Thermodynamics of Cluster Cores at z=0.2
Smith G.P., Kneib J.-P., Smail I., Mazzotta P., Ebeling H., Czoske O., 2005, MNRAS, 359, 417-446
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GPS in the Press

Royal Astronomical Society: Fowler Astronomy Prize 2007 - www.ras.org.uk
Analysing Corporations ... and the Cosmos - ScienceCareers.org
Hubble images quintuple quasar - Astronomy.com
Scheme to bridge politics and science launches in Brussels - royalsoc.ac.uk cordis.europa.eu


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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, England.
Email: gps@star.sr.bham.ac.uk Tel: +44 121 414 4600 Fax: +44 121 414 3722