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[ PDF version ] [ LaTeX source for PDF ] Education: BS Astrophysics, Rice University, May 2006 University of Colorado Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, August 2007-present: Passed comprehensive exam January 2009. Passed comprehensive exam II (oral masters defense) June 12 2009. M.S. Astrophysics September 2009 Refereed Publications: [ arXiv listing ] [ ADS search ] 
A summary of these publications and my contributions to them is on adamginsburg.blogspot.com
Public Code Projects: pyspeckit, a spectroscopic plotting and fitting tool written in Python agpy, a collection of mostly standalone python and IDL codes. The BGPS pipeline, the pipeline for the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (IDL) casaradio Codes generated by the radio astronomers at my institution aposoftware Reduction codes and observing scripts for the APO 3.5m telescope astroquery Querying tools for catalogs and image archives image_registration Image Registration tools in python (primarily using cross-correlation) Uninvited talks: Labyrinth of Star Formation, June 21, 2012: Surveying pre-stellar gas with the BGPS MW2011 conference, September 19th, 2011: The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey and Formaldehyde Follow-up JILA seminar: The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey Summer Schools: IRAM single-dish, Granada, Spain, September 2009 NRAO VLA Synthesis Imaging, Socorro, New Mexico, July 2006 Teaching: Taught ASTR 1120: Stars and Galaxies with Devin Silvia during Summer term B, 2010 TA for ASTR 3520, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2010 TA for ASTR 3510, Spring 2008, Fall 2009 , Fall 2011 Outreach: Judge for Denver Metro Science Fair, 2/27/2008 Volunteer for middle school science day at the University of Denver, May 2007 Volunteer for University of Colorado Astronomy Day, 2008-2011 Volunteer for Sommers-Bausch Observatory Open Houses, 2007- Vail Nature Center presentation 7/19/2008 Judge at Boulder Country Day science fair 12/10/2008 Judge at Centennial Middle School science fair 1/30/2009 Public presentations at REI September 2008, 2009 Presentation to Boulder Astronomical Society 1/16/2010 Winter Park Star Safari, July 2011 Awards / Honors: 2011 CU APS department Chance Irick Cooke Graduate Fellowship recipient 2010 NRAO Student Observing Support 2009 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 2008 NRAO Photo Contest First Prize 2008 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 2008 University of Colorado Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Excellence in Teaching award 2006 National Radio Astronomy Observatory - summer REU with David Meiers Large Collaborations: 2007-2008 SAGE: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution: A Spitzer Space Telescope survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud PI: Margaret Meixner // Advisor: Toshiya Ueta 2008-present BGPS: Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey PI: John Bally // Advisor: John Bally, James Aguirre 2010-present Hi-Gal: Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey PI: Sergio Molinari Programming: Fluent in: Python, IDL, HTML, LaTeX, IRAF, Unix Shell, Mathematica Less fluent in: PHP, SQL, Fortran Past experience with: Perl, PDL, CGI, C++ Data Reduction / Processing: Optical, Near-IR with IRAF/pyRAF Optical, UV with Python Near-IR with SPEXTOOL Sub-mm,mm,cm Spectroscopy with the Starlink package, CLASS, GBTIDL mm continuum for Bolocam with custom IDL Photometric Database Analysis with PDL, Python, SQL, PHP VLA with AIPS, CASA EVLA with CASA CARMA with CASA, MIRIAD Observing: [see my observing page for details ] Apache Point Optical and Near-IR EVLA, VLA and VLA archival JCMT HARP-B, A3 GBT spectrometer CSO heterodyne (Frank's Receiver), SHARC, Bolocam Arecibo Mock Spectrometer CARMA Refereeing: Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica: 2010 - present Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: 2010 - present Service Activities: 2010-2012 Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty 2009-2010 Graduate Student Representative on the Admissions Committee 2008-2009, 2011-2012 Observatories Committee 2007-2009 Colloquium Comittee |