My name is Dan Reichart and I am a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am the Director of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network, of Skynet’s PROMPT telescopes in Chile, Australia, and Canada, and of Morehead Observatory in Chapel Hill. My research includes developing systems to make both optical and radio telescopes widely accessible; developing new statistical techniques, for fitting models to data and for rejecting outlying/contaminated data; and time-do
July 2019: Funded by North Carolina Space Grant’s Minority Serving Institution Collaborative Research Program : Our Place In Space! A Collaborative Research and Research Training Partnership in Astronomy between Winston-Salem State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($20K)
June 2019: Presented Two Ways to Make a Black Hole — and See It! at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina