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Hart Hancock
  • Title
    • Computing Director, Physical and Biological Sciences
  • Division Information Technology Services, Physical & Biological Sciences Division
  • Department
    • ITS-Technology & Services
  • Affiliations UC Observatories, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5354
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Nat Sci 2 Main Building, 179
  • Mail Stop UCO / Lick Observatory
  • Mailing Address
    • Thimann Receiving/PBSci ITS
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064

Summary of Expertise

UNIX Systems Engineering and Architecture, Storage Systems & IT Infrastructure, Scientific Computing, High Performance Computing, Configuration Management

Research Interests

The Early Solar System, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Kuiper Belt, Scattered Disc and Detached Objects, Early Universe Cosmology, Minkowski Spaces, Compact Lie Algebras, Topological Quantum Field Theory, Symplectic Geometry.

Biography, Education and Training

My academic background is in astronomy and mathematical physics, specifically the early/outer solar system, planetary formation, small bodies, their composition and orbital characteristics.  I've worked in higher education IT since 2001 in both K-14 and university spheres.