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He received his Ph.D. in Physics with a minor in Astronomy from the Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He then spent 4 years at the Univ. of California, San Diego and 2 years
at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before coming to Northwestern University in
1976. He has been Director of the Astrophysics Program at Northwestern University since 1983
and a Full Professor since 1987. He has published over 320 papers in professional journals and
proceedings cited over 4,100 times. He has published over 165 articles in refereed journals cited
over 3,800 times. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of SPIE and has
served on numerous NASA advisory and review panels.
He was a charter member and Co-I of the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment
(OSSE) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. It was a sad day when the Observatory
underwent a forced reentry to the atmosphere on June 3, 2000. He shares his time between instrumentation
development and astrophysical studies. His astrophysical studies have mainly centered
around clusters of galaxies. Ulmer’s studies of clusters of galaxies on topics ranging from low surface
brightness galaxies in Coma to multi-wavelength the studies of high redshift clusters. Shown
below is mosaic of the Coma cluster on which he is also working in collaboration with Adami,
Mazure (LAM) and Durret (IAP). He has also established a new program to study the nature of
Dark Energy (DE) using weak lensing and cluster of galaxies. For the DE study he is using both
HST archival data plus he has submitted a request for more HST observing time. His most recent
X-ray optics work is to apply the phenomenon of magnetostriction to the shaping of X-ray optics.
The technique promises to allow affordable X-ray missions with 10 times the area of Chandra with
comparable or better angular resolution. Also, he has been developing technology to extend the
operating range of Wolter-I X-ray mirrors up to 100 keV (the related articles are given below in
postscript format) as well as adaptive X-ray optics. He is also working on developing UV solar
blind detectors based on wide-band gap semiconductors made with GaN (see SPIE postscript). He
has organized a team which has developed an innovative and unique design for studying transient
phenomena in the hard X-ray sky. An example of this design can be found in the description of the
Midex project called ALLEGRO which we proposed to study gamma-ray bursts and the transient
hard X-ray sky。
Selected Publications:
Ulmer, M. P., Wessels, B. W., Han, B., Gregie, J., Tremsin, A., Siegmund, O. H. W. "Advances in wide-bandgap semiconductor based photocathode devices for low light level applications" Proc. of SPIE, 5164, 144, (2003), pdf File (692k)
Siegmund, O. H. W., Tremsin, A. S., Martin, A., Malloy, J., Ulmer, M. P., Wessels, B. "GaN photocathodes for UV detection and imaging" Proc. of SPIE, 5164, 134 (2003). pdf File (145k)
Norton, T. J., Woodgate, B. E., Stock, J., Hilton, G., Ulmer, M. P., Aslam, S., Vispute, R. D. "Results from Cs activated GaN photocathode development for MCP detector systems at NASA GSFC" Proc. of SPIE, 5164, 155 (2003). pdf File (478k)
Ulmer, M. P. , Altkorn, R. , Graham, M. E., Madan, A., Chu, Y. S. "Production and performance of multilayer coated conical mirrors", Revised manuscript submitted to Applied Optics 2003, pdf File (1.1M)
Ulmer, M. P. Wessels, B. W., and Siegmund, O. H. W., "Advances in Wide-Band Gap Semi-Conductor Based Photocathode Devices for Low Light Level Applications", Proc. of Spie, San Jose 2002, to be published, pdf File (3.4M)
Ulmer, M. P. Wessels, B. W., and Siegmund, O. H. W., "Advances in Wide-Band Gap Semi-Conductor Based Photocathode Devices for Low Light Level Applications" [Part II], Proc. of Spie, Hawaii, (2002), pdf File (222k)
Ulmer, M. P. Altkorn, R. I., and Kibblewhite, E. D., "Replication As An Alternative Approach For Large Segmented Telescopes", Proc. of Spie, Hawaii, 2002, to be published, pdf File (6.4M)
Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He then spent 4 years at the Univ. of California, San Diego and 2 years
at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before coming to Northwestern University in
1976. He has been Director of the Astrophysics Program at Northwestern University since 1983
and a Full Professor since 1987. He has published over 320 papers in professional journals and
proceedings cited over 4,100 times. He has published over 165 articles in refereed journals cited
over 3,800 times. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of SPIE and has
served on numerous NASA advisory and review panels.
He was a charter member and Co-I of the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment
(OSSE) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. It was a sad day when the Observatory
underwent a forced reentry to the atmosphere on June 3, 2000. He shares his time between instrumentation
development and astrophysical studies. His astrophysical studies have mainly centered
around clusters of galaxies. Ulmer’s studies of clusters of galaxies on topics ranging from low surface
brightness galaxies in Coma to multi-wavelength the studies of high redshift clusters. Shown
below is mosaic of the Coma cluster on which he is also working in collaboration with Adami,
Mazure (LAM) and Durret (IAP). He has also established a new program to study the nature of
Dark Energy (DE) using weak lensing and cluster of galaxies. For the DE study he is using both
HST archival data plus he has submitted a request for more HST observing time. His most recent
X-ray optics work is to apply the phenomenon of magnetostriction to the shaping of X-ray optics.
The technique promises to allow affordable X-ray missions with 10 times the area of Chandra with
comparable or better angular resolution. Also, he has been developing technology to extend the
operating range of Wolter-I X-ray mirrors up to 100 keV (the related articles are given below in
postscript format) as well as adaptive X-ray optics. He is also working on developing UV solar
blind detectors based on wide-band gap semiconductors made with GaN (see SPIE postscript). He
has organized a team which has developed an innovative and unique design for studying transient
phenomena in the hard X-ray sky. An example of this design can be found in the description of the
Midex project called ALLEGRO which we proposed to study gamma-ray bursts and the transient
hard X-ray sky。
Selected Publications:
Ulmer, M. P., Wessels, B. W., Han, B., Gregie, J., Tremsin, A., Siegmund, O. H. W. "Advances in wide-bandgap semiconductor based photocathode devices for low light level applications" Proc. of SPIE, 5164, 144, (2003), pdf File (692k)
Siegmund, O. H. W., Tremsin, A. S., Martin, A., Malloy, J., Ulmer, M. P., Wessels, B. "GaN photocathodes for UV detection and imaging" Proc. of SPIE, 5164, 134 (2003). pdf File (145k)
Norton, T. J., Woodgate, B. E., Stock, J., Hilton, G., Ulmer, M. P., Aslam, S., Vispute, R. D. "Results from Cs activated GaN photocathode development for MCP detector systems at NASA GSFC" Proc. of SPIE, 5164, 155 (2003). pdf File (478k)
Ulmer, M. P. , Altkorn, R. , Graham, M. E., Madan, A., Chu, Y. S. "Production and performance of multilayer coated conical mirrors", Revised manuscript submitted to Applied Optics 2003, pdf File (1.1M)
Ulmer, M. P. Wessels, B. W., and Siegmund, O. H. W., "Advances in Wide-Band Gap Semi-Conductor Based Photocathode Devices for Low Light Level Applications", Proc. of Spie, San Jose 2002, to be published, pdf File (3.4M)
Ulmer, M. P. Wessels, B. W., and Siegmund, O. H. W., "Advances in Wide-Band Gap Semi-Conductor Based Photocathode Devices for Low Light Level Applications" [Part II], Proc. of Spie, Hawaii, (2002), pdf File (222k)
Ulmer, M. P. Altkorn, R. I., and Kibblewhite, E. D., "Replication As An Alternative Approach For Large Segmented Telescopes", Proc. of Spie, Hawaii, 2002, to be published, pdf File (6.4M)
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Advances in X-Ray/EUV Optics and Components XVII (2022)
SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2022: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY (2022)
Melville P. Ulmer,Mohammadreza Jalilvand, Nicholas Marks,Donald B. Buchholz, Brooke Fujishima,Nicolas Guerra,Jian Cao,Yip-Wah Chung,Batu Baturalp,Victoria Coverstone,Stephen P. Stagon,Giovanni De Vita,
Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV (2020): 393-404
M. P. Ulmer,M. Jalilvand,D. B. Buchholz, D. J. Matthews, Jonathan Cao, B. Fujishima, N. Marks,Jian Cao,Y-W. Chung
Proceedings of SPIE (2019)
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