Jon Hakkila

Subgroups of GRBs PowerPoint presentation at the 2003 JENAM Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium in Budapest.

Dr. Hakkila's research interests include gamma-ray bursts, peculiar abundance stars, and multi-wavelength observational astronomy.

For the past ten years, Dr. Hakkila has worked in close collaboration with the science team of the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) studying gamma-ray bursts.This work has been supported by grants from the National Research Council (NRC) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and has funded many Mankato State University (MSU) undergraduate and graduate students. One of the highlights of this support has been the NASA JOVE (JOint VEnture) program, which culminated in nine presentations by Dr. Hakkila and his students at the Summer 1994 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Minneapolis, MN. NASA funding for continued investigations of the enigmatic gamma-ray bursts has also been obtained through the Compton Observatory Guest Investigator Program (Phase 3, Cycle 4, Cycle 5, Cycle 6, and Cycle 8) through the NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, and through the AISRP program. Most recently, Dr. Hakkila has teamed with Dr. David Haglin and Dr. Richard Roiger of MSU's Computer and Information Sciences Department and Dr. Geoffrey Pendleton and Dr. Robert Mallozzi of the University of Alabama in Huntsville's Physics Department to apply artificial intelligence techniques to the classification of gamma-ray bursts.

Dr. Hakkila also studies barium stars, metallic-lined A (Am) stars, stellar spatial distributions and luminosities, and infrared/visual photometry.