The 18th annual conference on microlensing was held in Santa Barbara in January. The main topic was of course planetary microlensing, with a great deal of discussion centred on getting results of new planetary systems out quickly.

Three-lens systems are also of particular interest for many people in the field, especially as the power of microlensing to detect multiple-planet systems has been demonstrated.

And there was a great day out at the California Science Centre:

I have a number of research interests, but my main field of work is in the discovery of extra-solar planets using the technique of gravitational microlensing.

My other research interests include Galactic structure, machine learning, genetic algorithms and massive dataset mining.

If you’ve got any questions about my research topics, feel free to contact me.