Angela Speck's Research Page
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Full Curriculum Vitae
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Statement of Research Interests
Teaching Statement
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Doctoral Thesis:
"The Mineralogy of Dust Around Evolved Stars"
Thesis Abstract
Chapter 1: Introduction and summary
Chapter 2: Element/Isotope Production in AGB stars
Chapter 3: Meteorites & Cosmic Chemical Memory
Chapter 4: Optical Properties of Solids
Chapter 5: Catalogue of mineral spectra
Chapter 6: Carbon Stars I - the nature of the silicon carbide around C-rich AGB stars
Chapter 7: Carbon Stars II - PAHs, carbon dust and diamonds
Chapter 8: Oxygen-rich Stars
Chapter 9: Summary and conclusions
Whole Thesis - pdf (~24Mbytes)
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speckan@missouri.edu