Education:

  Ph.D. 1988 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Research Interests:

• Gamma-Ray Bursts
• Tidal disruption of stars by super-massive black holes
• Fast Radio Bursts
• Helioseismology
• Tidal Interactions & excitation of stellar modes

Teaching

Publications

Vita

Seminars:

Weekly Astronomy Colloquium

Gamma-Ray Burst Seminar

High Energy Astrophysics

Links to the Home Page of a few people I have worked with:

• Peter Goldreich - IAS Princeton
  
• Alin Panaitescu - Los Alamos National Lab
• Eliot Quataert - UC Berkeley
• Ramesh Narayan -Harvard
• Tsvi Piran -Hebrew University Jerusalem

Some Family Pictures

Links to Interesting Sites:

Swift Project	Solar & Heliospheric Observatory	Global Oscillation Network Group	Great Images In NASA	McDonald Observatory

September 2004
website comments/suggestions to
pk@astro.as.utexas.edu