Tim Bedding's Home Page

I am a professor in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), and the Head of the School of Physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.
My research interests include stellar oscillations and also optical interferometry.

• Until August 2012, I was the coordinator for Senior Physics.
• List of publications: refereed, non-refereed, all publications (including preprints that may still be in press) and all publications sorted by citation count (and as first author).
• Entry in Google scholar
• Interested in a PhD Project on stellar oscillations (asteroseismology)?
• Public outreach:
  • Measurement using NASA's Kepler Mission of rotation inside red giant stars, published as a Letter to Nature.
  • Discovery of Kepler-22b, a planet with a radius 2.4 times that of the Earth, in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star (paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal).
  • Results from Kepler on solar-like oscillations in a delta Scuti star, published as a Letter to Nature.
  • Results from Kepler on gravity modes in red giant stars, published as a Letter to Nature. Also see images and a sound file (March 2011).
  • Discovery of g-mode period spacings in a red giant with Kepler (March 2011).
  • Launch of NASA's Kepler mission (March 2009).
  • Vibrations reveal stars' inner secrets (May 2006). ABC News Online
  • Star near Southern Cross is 'ringing' (Dec 2005). See also the news article on Universe Today and the press release by the European Southern Observatory
  • Astronomers take the pulse of a Sun-like star (Jan 2001).
• Animations of stellar oscillations
• Introduction to Interferometry astro-ph/9609092
• Occasional address at a graduation ceremony (April 2011)
• Pictures of Max and Luca Bedding
• University Web mail
• School of Physics Web mail, IT support, admin helpdesk and booking calendar
• University web pages: AP&D, HR, Spendvision.

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Tim Bedding     School of Physics, University of Sydney 2006, AUSTRALIA
                Phone: +61 2 9351 2537         Fax:   +61 2 9351 7726
                E-mail: bedding at physics.usyd.edu.au