| Contact Info | Cell: | (951) 581-7471 |
| E-mail (UCR) | [email protected] | |
| E-mail (LARGE) | [email protected] | |
| E-mail (NORMAL) | [email protected] | |
| Address (UC Riverside): | Dept. of Earth Sciences University of California Riverside, CA 92521 |
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| Personal: | Citizenship: | USA |
| Research Field: | Adaptive Optics + Extra-galactic Astronomy | |
| Specializations: | Instrumentation: | Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes |
| Observational: | Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) | |
| Degrees: | 2003 | B.S. Physics and Math, UC Riverside |
| Positions Held: | 2003-2005 | Graduate Student Research Assistant, IGPP, UC Riverside |
| 2004-2005 | Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside | |
| 2006-2007 | Graduate Student Research Assistant, Lab for Adaptive Optics, UC Santa Cruz | |
| Research Experience: | Instrumentation: | In 2006/2007 I worked on the multi-conjugate adaptive
optics (MCAO testbed in the Lab for Adaptive Optics (D. Gavel PI). I have been involved in system alignment, integrating the tomography engine software, writing MCAO control software and |
| Observation: | My experience includes working with AO data from the
Lick and Keck AO systems, working with spectra, and use of simulation codes. In addition I have observed at Lick and Keck, most recently using the Kast spectrograph on the Shane 3m telescope for 4 nights in fall 2005. |
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| Publications: | First: | " Adaptive
Optics Imaging Survey of Luminous Infrared Galaxies".
Laag, Edward A., Canalizo, G., van Breugel, W., Gates, E., de Vries, W., and S. A. Stanford, 2006, ApJ, 131 |
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"Multiconjugate adaptive optics results from the laboratory for adaptive optics MCAO/MOAO testbed ". Laag, Edward A., Ammons, S. Mark, Gavel, Donald T. and Kupke, Renate, 2008, JOSA-A, |
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"Open-Loop Woofer-Tweeter Control on the LAO Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Testbed ". Laag, Edward A., Gavel, Donald T, Ammons, S. Mark, 2007, arXiv:0710.0405 |
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| Co-Author: | "First results from the UCSC Laboratory for Adaptive Optics multi-conjugate and multi-object adaptive optics testbed". Ammons, S. Mark, Kupke, Renate;Laag, Edward A. ; Gavel, Donald T.; Dillon, Daren R.; Reinig, Marco R.; Bauman, Brian J.; Max, Claire E.; Johnson, Jess A., 2006, SPIE, 6272 |
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| "Enabling Laboratory demonstrations of multi-object adaptive optics with linearity calibrations ". Ammons, S. Mark,Laag, Edward A. Kupke, Renate; Gavel, Donald T.; Max, Claire E.; 2007, Proc. SPIE, 6691, 669108 |
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| Authored Proposals | observing time | 2005 Fall Shane Proposal, ULIRG environments (awarded) |
| Authored Proposals | 2007-08 Spitzer Proposal, ULIRGs (awarded) | |
| grant | 2006 IGPP Minigrant (awarded) | |
| Fellowship | 2003-2004 Dean's Fellowship | |
| 2008-09 Chancellor's Fellowship | ||
| Volunteer Work: | 2006 Akamai Maui Short Course in Optics | |
| Computer Skills: | Operating Systems: | UNIX, Mac OSX, Windows XP |
| Data Reduction: | IRAF | |
| Galaxy Modeling: | GALFIT | |
| Computer Language: | IDL, C++, JAVA | |
| Graphics: | Adobe Illustrator | |
| Typsetting: | TEX, Scientific Workplace | |
| Other: | Microsoft Office | |