My research interests are primarily in the area of cosmology, including large-scale structure, dark matter, dark energy, and gravitational lensing.
Positions Held
2011-2017 Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois
Professor
2005 - 2011 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Senior research associate
2002 - 2005 Institute for Advanced Study
Postdoctoral researcher
Recent Publications
Andrej Obuljen, Will J. Percival, Neal Dalal, "Detection of anisotropic galaxy assembly bias in BOSS DR12", submitted to Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, arXiv: 2004.07240
Elena Massara, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho, Neal Dalal, David N. Spergel,
"Using the Marked Power Spectrum to Detect the Signature of Neutrinos in Large-Scale Structure", submitted to Physical Review Letters,
arXiv: 2001.11024
Arka Banerjee, Susmita Adhikari, Neal Dalal, Surhud More, Andrey Kravtsov,
"Signatures of Self-Interacting dark matter on cluster density profile and subhalo distributions", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics in press,
arXiv: 1906.12026
Andrej Obuljen, Neal Dalal, Will J. Percival,
"Anisotropic halo assembly bias and redshift-space distortions",
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 10, 20
arXiv: 1906.11823
Selim C. Hotinli, Joel Meyers, Neal Dalal, Andrew H. Jaffe, Matthew C. Johnson, James B. Mertens, Moritz Münchmeyer, Kendrick M. Smith, Alexander van Engelen,
"Transverse Velocities with the Moving Lens Effect",
Physical Review Letters 123, 061301,
arXiv: 1812.03167
Chun Yin Ricky Chue, Neal Dalal, Martin White,
"Some assembly required: assembly bias in massive dark matter halos",
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, in press,
arXiv: 1804.04055
Susmita Adhikari, Neal Dalal, Surhud More, Andrew Wetzel,
"Kinematics of cluster galaxies and their relation to galaxy evolution",
Astrophysical Journal, 878, 9,
arXiv: 1806.09672
Lucas F. Secco, Amanda Farah, Bhuvnesh Jain, Susmita Adhikari, Arka Banerjee, Neal Dalal,
"Probing Self-interacting Dark Matter with Disk Galaxies in Cluster Environments",
Astrophysical Journal, 860, 32
arXiv: 1712.04841
Susmita Adhikari, Jeremy Sakstein, Bhuvnesh Jain, Neal Dalal, Baojiu Li,
"Splashback in galaxy clusters as a probe of cosmic expansion and gravity",
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 11, 33
arXiv: 1806.04302
"Fundamental Physics with the Hubble Space Telescope",
Neal Dalal, Cora Dvorkin, Jeremy Heyl, Bhuvnesh Jain, Marc Kamionkowski, Phil Marshall, David Weinberg,
arXiv: 1712.04928
Seminars
"Standard sirens without counterparts", colloquium at Texas A&M university.
"Lensing of gravitational wave sources", conference on "Gravitational Wave Probes of Fundamental Physics", Amsterdam.
"Standard Siren Cosmology without Counterparts", cosmology seminar, Center for Computational Astrophysics (Flatiron Institute), New York
"Probing dark matter with dusty galaxies", Workshop on New Theories and Probes of Dark Matter, Columbia University
"New directions in cosmology", workshop at PDT Partners, New York