Pietro N. Bernasconi
Senior Staff Physicist

Space Department

The Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099

Telephone :		240-228-8970 / 443-778-8970
FAX :		240-228-0386 / 443-778-0386
Email :		pietro.bernasconi@jhuapl.edu

Current Research Interests:
     Observation of Solar magnetic fields and their intrepretation
     Solar Irradiance
     Development of instrumentation for balloon and space borne solar observations
     High resoution polarimetry and vector polarimetry (instruments and observations)
     Development of techniques to forecast solar flares and coronal mass ejections

Research Projects:
     The Solar Bolometric Imager
     An Optical Investigation of the Origins of Solar Activity - The Flare Genesis Experiment
     Automated Detection and Characterization of Solar Filaments - Oral Talk given at the SIPII Workshop (Annapolis, MD) 2004 [6.9 MB]

Publications

Presentations

Dissertation (ETH No. 12 227, Zürich 1997)
     Stokes Vector-Polarimetry: Observation and Analysis of Solar Magnetic Fields [pdf 5 MB]