YUKI D. TAKAHASHI

Physics Department, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300

+1-5106848898 - alumnus.caltech.edu/~yukimoon

OBJECTIVE

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

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.

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

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