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Current Projects:
  SO
  MKID Development
  AME/GBT
  Spectral Distortions
  CMB-S4
  Systematic Errors

Design Studies:
  PICO
  CMB-S4
  EPIC-IM

Past Projects:
  CalSat
  Cryogenic Motor
  PICO Optics
  EBEX
  CPR (BCP)
  GLP (arXiv)
  SKIP (arXiv)
  PIPER (arXiv)
  APEX-SZ
  EPIC-IM Optics
  Systematic Errors
  Map Making
  CLOVER
  Achromatic HWP
  MAXIPOL
  MAXIMA

Research Support:
  NSF
  NASA
  Columbia RISE
  ONR

Professional Links:
  UVA Astronomy
  Columbia Physics
  NASA/GSFC
  Berkeley
  Oxford
  Cardiff AIG
  U of M Physics

Photos and Video:
  Balloon Flight
  EBEX-NA
  MAXIPOL
  MAXIMA-2

Brad Johnson
Dissertations from students I advised:

Dr. Heather McCarrick, "Design and performance of kinetic inductance detectors for cosmic microwave background polarimetry", Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2018.

Dr. Maximilian Abitbol, "Studying the Effects of Galactic and Extragalactic Foregrounds on Cosmic Microwave Background Observations", Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2018.

Dr. Daniel Flanigan, "Kinetic inductance detectors for measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave background", Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2018.

Dissertations from students I co-advised:

Dr. Derek Araujo, "Data Analysis for the E and B EXperiment and Instrumentation Development for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry", Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2017.

Dr. Joy Didier, "Construction, Deployment and Data Analysis of the E and B EXperiment: A Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter", Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2016.

Dr. Justin Lazear, "Developing the Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) Microwave Polarimeter for Constraining Inflation", Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2015.

Dr. Benjamin Westbrook, "Studies of the Cosmos Using Spiderweb Absorber Transition Edge Sensor Bolometers", Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2014.

Dr. Chris North, "Observation of the cosmic microwave background polarization with Clover", DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010.

Dr. David Sutton, "Map-making Algorithms for Future CMB Polarisation Experiments", DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010.

My Dissertation:

Dr. Bradley R. Johnson, "MAXIPOL: A Bolometric, Balloon-Borne Experiment for Measuring the Polarization Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota, 2004.