Brian Keating is an astrophysicist with the University of California, San Diego’s Department of Physics . He and his team  develop sensitive instrumentation to study the early universe in the radio-, microwave- and infrared-wavelength regimes of the electromagnetic spectrum. He is the author of over 100 scientific  publications and holds a U.S. Patent. Brian Keating received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2000. He did postdoctoral research at Stanford University and was an NSF Postdoctoral  Fellow at Caltech before coming to UCSD in 2004. In 2007 he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at the White House from President Bush for his work on a telescope he designed and fielded at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station called “BICEP". Professor Keating co-leads the POLARBEAR telescope collaboration in the Atacama Desert of Chile. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), the San Diego Air & Space Museum, Math for America, San Diego and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. He is a private pilot with single-engine, multi-engine, turbine and instrument ratings. He enjoys flying children throughout the West as a Command Pilot for http://www.angelflightwest.org