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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to theoretical and observational cosmology, including the theory of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background gravitational lensing, galaxy formation and inflation
  • 2001 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Uroš Seljak is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily focusing on Physics and Astronomy as well as Computer Science. Within these, notable subfields include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Instrumentation.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference
  • Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
  • Scientific Research and Discoveries
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Statistical Methods and Inference

Uroš Seljak has published extensively in several venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Uroš Seljak demonstrate applications ranging from cosmology to epidemiology. Selected recent publications include:

  • Estimating COVID-19 mortality in Italy early in the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Nature Communications
  • How deadly is COVID-19? A rigorous analysis of excess mortality and age-dependent fatality rates in Italy, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Accelerating astronomical and cosmological inference with preconditioned Monte Carlo, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Translation and rotation equivariant normalizing flow (TRENF) for optimal cosmological analysis, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • FlowPM: Distributed TensorFlow Implementation of the FastPM Cosmological N-body Solver, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Minas Karamanis
  • Jakob Robnik
  • Biwei Dai
  • Chirag Modi
  • James Sullivan

Uroš Seljak has been recognized by several honors, including being a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2019. They were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013, with a citation highlighting contributions to theoretical and observational cosmology, including cosmic microwave background anisotropies, gravitational lensing, galaxy formation, and inflation. Additionally, they have been a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 2001.

Best Publications

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • A Line of sight integration approach to cosmic microwave background anisotropies

    Uros Seljak;Matias Zaldarriaga

  • A line of sight approach to cosmic microwave background anisotropies

    Uros Seljak;Matias Zaldarriaga

  • THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

    Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

  • The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

    M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

  • Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Max Tegmark;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg

  • The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam

  • An all sky analysis of polarization in the microwave background

    Matias Zaldarriaga;Uros Seljak

  • The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Lyα forest and galaxy bias: Constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy

    Uroš Seljak;Alexey Makarov;Patrick McDonald;Scott F. Anderson

  • The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey

    Kevork Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam

  • Analytic model for galaxy and dark matter clustering

    Uroš Seljak

  • The Simons Observatory : Science goals and forecasts

    Peter Ade;James Aguirre;Zeeshan Ahmed;Simone Aiola;Simone Aiola

  • Signature of Gravity Waves in the Polarization of the Microwave Background

    Uros̆ Seljak;Matias Zaldarriaga

  • The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

    Amir Aghamousa;Jessica Aguilar;Steve Ahlen

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Mandelbaum
Rachel Mandelbaum Carnegie Mellon University
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christopher M. Hirata
Christopher M. Hirata The Ohio State University
Nikhil Padmanabhan
Nikhil Padmanabhan Yale University
David H. Weinberg
David H. Weinberg The Ohio State University
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Neta A. Bahcall
Neta A. Bahcall Princeton University
Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago
Robert H. Lupton
Robert H. Lupton Princeton University

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