William H. Kinney

University at Buffalo
Department of Physics
239 Fronczak Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260-1500

Phone: (716) 645-2017x111
Fax: (716) 645-2507

Citizenship: United States

Publications

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO (1996)
B.A. in Physics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ (1986)

Employment

2003 - present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

2007: Long Term Visitor, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario

2000 - 2003: Research Scientist, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY

1998 - 2000: HET postdoc, Dept. of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville FL

Research in particle astrophysics and cosmology. Research topics include galactic halo structure, the cosmological lepton asymmetry, and cosmic microwave background physics.

1996 - 1998: Research associate, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL

Research in particle astrophysics and cosmology. Research topics included inflationary cosmology and cosmic microwave background physics. Lecturer, Saturday Morning Physics, a curriculum for high school seniors.

Research Interests

Inflationary cosmology
Cosmic microwave background physics
Accelerating Universe
Dark matter / Dark Energy

Misc

Lecturer, The Dirac Lectures, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (2008).
Lecturer, Perimeter Institute Summer School on Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Strings, Waterloo, ON (2007)
Lecturer NATO Advanced Study Institute on Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics, St. Croix, USVI (2002)
Organizer, P4.1 Dark matter session, Snowmass 2001, Snowmass, CO (2001)
German-American Young Scholars' Institute on Astroparticle Physics (1998 - 1999)