Luke Keller, Ph.D.
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Luke Keller, Ph.D.
Luke Keller is an assistant professor of physics at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He loves to teach physics to people of all ages. His research interests are optics, optical engineering, and astrophysics. Luke is very interested in how planetary systems form around stars other than the Sun. He and his students use telescopes on the Earth and space telescopes to study the material orbiting distant stars to see if planets may be forming there. He is also helping build a new camera for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a large telescope that will fly in a 747 aircraft beginning in 2007. He is also interested in the physics of music and is an avid hiker and mountaineer. He lives in Etna, New York, with his wife, Sheri Englund, and their daughter Amelia.
