Prof. Jacqueline N Hewitt

Professor Hewitt's research interests are focused upon applying the techniques of radio astronomy, interferometry, signal processing, and image processing to basic research in astrophysics and cosmology. Current topics of interest are observational signatures of the epoch of reionization, applications of gravitational lensing, and the detection of transient astronomical radio sources.

Professor Hewitt is also interested in the development of instrumentation for radio astronomy. She is currently involved in developing radio telescopes with large aperture, which represent the "next generation" in radio astronomical instrumentation. In particular, with the Haystack Observatory interferometry group she is part of a U. S. (MIT and the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Australian (University of Melbourne, Australia National University, Curtin University of Technology, and Australia Telescope National Facility) collaboration developing the Mileura Widefield Array, a low-frequency antenna array under construction in Western Australia.