YUKI D. TAKAHASHI

Physics Department, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300

+1-3105285560 - alumnus.caltech.edu/~yukimoon

OBJECTIVE

I'd like to make it possible for many people to go to the Moon soon.

EDUCATION

08/'02 - present	University of California, Berkeley, Physics, MA (2005)	Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300, USA

08/'01 - 07/'02	University of Glasgow, Physics & Astronomy, MSc	Glasgow, Scotland, UK

09/'97 - 06/'01	California Institute of Technology, Physics, BS w/ honors	Pasadena, CA, 91126, USA

09/'94 - 06/'97	Midland High School	Midland, MI, USA

EXPERIENCE

05/'03 - present	Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley Physics Department	Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300, USA
	Built a CMB polarization telescope at the South Pole to study cosmic inflation. Designed & constructed the telescope’s motion control system, star pointing telescope, calibrator, electronics, etc. Currently analyzing observational data.

AWARDS

NASA Student Ambassador to the International Astronautical Congress, Spain (2006)

Young Lunar Explorers Award, International Lunar Exploration Working Group (2003)

US-UK Fulbright Graduate Student Award (2001-2002)

National Security Education Program Scholarship (1999) to Russia

PUBLICATIONS

The Robinson Gravitational Wave Background Telescope (BICEP): a bolometric large angular scale CMB polarimeter, K.W. Yoon, J.J. Bock, W.L. Holzapfel, B.G. Keating, A.E. Lange, Y.D. Takahashi, et al., Proceedings of SPIE, 6275, 2006.

A Concept for a Simple Radio Observatory at the Lunar South Pole, Yuki D. Takahashi, Advances in Space Research 31, 11: 2473-2478, 2003.

REFERENCES

	William L. Holzapfel, Professor of Physics
	University of California, Berkeley