Fred Moolekamp Post Doctoral Research Associate

244 Guyot Ave • Princeton, NJ 08540 (585) 210-2469 • [email protected] http://www.astro.princeton.edu/∼fredem

Education

• Rochester, NY Department of Physics and Astronomy, PhD. in Physics and Astronomy 2011 – 2016 Department of Physics, M.A. Physics 2009 – 2011

• New Orleans, LA Department of Physics, B.S. Physics 2005 – 2008

Teaching Experience • Princeton University Princeton, NJ Physics I Instructor Fall 2016 – Conducted lectures and review sessions for physics 101, Introductory Physics I – Worked as a team of instructors to create homework, quizzes, and exams – Graded quizzes and exams and held office hours • University of Rochester Rochester, NY Physics I Instructor Summer 2013 – Created self-paced (Keller Plan/Mastery) physics class – Created online video lectures – Divided the class into 21 modules and created 4-5 exams for each module – Met with students every day to grade and review exams – UR Physics dept. used my class as a model to remake freshman physics Coursera Assistant Instructor Spring 2014 – Assisted Prof. Adam Frank in creating Highlights of Modern Astronomy – Created all of the video and lecture notes, exams, and assignments – Gathered and created video, images, and animations for video content – Helped direct and fact check each video lecture

Undergraduate Mentor Experience • Princeton University Princeton, NJ Mentor for Carlos Anicetti Summer 2017 – Spring 2018

– PI for successful observing proposal to collect 3 nights of ARCoIRIS data on the Blanco 4-m telescope in 2017A to follow up on Moolekamp et. al. 2017 – Created a summer project for Princeton undergraduate student (Carlos) to analyze the data – Met severa times per week with student to assess progress and assist with research – Student successfully classified more than 30 new members of Sco-Cen, the first population of substellar objects in the UCL and LCC subgroups – I am currently working on a paper with Carlos to publish the results from his summer work • University of Rochester Rochester, NY

Mentor for Sara Denbo Summer 2015 – Designed a project for a summer undergraduate research student (Sara) – Met with student daily to assess progress and assist with research – Students work led to improved method for calculating proper motions using DECam data, which is used in the paper Moolekamp et. al. 2017

Teaching Assistant Experience • University of Rochester Rochester, NY Head Teaching Assistant: Physics I for Engineering Majors Spring 2012, Spring 2013 – Head TA for freshman mechanics class (300+ students, 4 graduate TA’s, 8 undergraduate TA’s) – Assumed all roles of the professor other than lecturing and writing exams. Duties included responding to all student emails, TA conflicts, grading, weekly TA meetings, disciplinary action, holding review sessions, etc. – Held weekly workshops to guide students working through problems on each chapter – Held office hours to meet with students individually Teaching Assistant: Graduate Quantum Mechanics Fall 2012 – Grader for Graduate Quantum Mechanics class taught by John Howell – Held office hours to meet with students individually Teaching Assistant: General Physics II Fall Spring 2010 – Held weekly workshops to guide students working through problems on each chapter – Held office hours to meet with students individually Teaching Assistant: Honors Physics I Fall 2009 – Held weekly recitations for physics majors and advanced engineering students – Held office hours to meet with students individually

Outreach Experience • Princeton University Princeton, NJ Outreach Coordinator for dept of Astrophysical Sciences 2016 – Present – Responsible for scheduling faculty/post docs to lecture at local schools, scout troops, etc. – Given several public talks – Organized monthly public lectures to accompany public observing nights run by Jim Gunn – Partnered with the local public library to organize ab eclipse viewing event in town, attended by 2000-3000 people – Created demos for eclipse viewing party and future outreach events

Research Experience • Princeton University Princeton, NJ Postdoctoral Research Associate 2016 – Present – Working with Robert Lupton, Jim Gunn, and Michael Strauss to develop LSST Data Pipeline – Created new machine learning algorithms to expand ADMM to multiple variables and constraints – Working with Peter Melchior to develop state of the art multiband star/galaxy deblender – Joined Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) to continue work on the deblender, including using it for scientific measurements used to better understand dark energy – Assisted with software development tasks such as porting the stack to python 3, implementing pytest, and porting the C++ code to pybind11 • University of Rochester Rochester, NY Graduate Research Assistant in Astrophysics 2010 – 2011, 2013 – 2016 – Investigated star formation and the IMF by studying the nearest star forming region to the solar system (Scorpius- Centaurus, or Sco-Cen) – Wrote kinematic and photometric pipeline to reduce over 11 million point sources – Used pipeline to identify the first population of substellar objects in the UCL and LCC subgroups of Sco-Cen by cross-matching our DECam observations with several all-sky surveys (Moolekamp et. al. 2017) – Created several python packages for data visualization and analysis including toyz, astro-toyz, datapyp, and astropyp – Created simulation to model stellar eclipses by planets and substellar objects with large ring systems Graduate Research Assistant in Theoretical High Energy Physics 2011 – 2013 – Analyzed a general version of the Rabi model to study the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum chaos – Investigated quantum field theory on fractals that might approximate to Euclidean space – Improved theoretical understanding of methods to stabilize the Raleigh-Taylor Instability • University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA Undergraduate Researcher in condensed matter physics 2006 – 2008 – Investigated the interaction of magnetite nano-particles bonded to gold and silver nano-particles. – Demonstrated a new near-field effect generated by the interaction between the particles

Awards and Honors • University of Rochester Rochester, NY Edward Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student 2014 Meliora Award for work as a Head TA 2012 AAPT Teaching Award 2010 • University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA Chemistry Award 2009 Bill J. Goode Award for undergraduate research 2008 Max Herzburger Scholarship for scholarship in undergraduate physics 2007 Physics faculty award for scholarship in undergraduate physics 2006

Graduate School Classes • Physics 401: Mathematical Methods of Physics and Optics • Physics 402: Probability • Physics 404: Linear Spaces • Physics 405: Geometrical Methods • Physics 407: Quantum Mechanics I • Physics 408: Quantum Mechanics II • Physics 411: Mechanics and Chaotic Dynamics • Physics 413: Gravitation • Physics 415: Electromagnetic Theory I • Physics 418: Statistical Mechanics • Physics 492: Certification in Teaching College Physics • Physics 493: Asymptotic Methods • Physics 511: Field Theory • Physics 597: Teaching and Research Seminar • Physics 598: Teaching Workshop Leader Pedagogy • Astronomy 417: Physics of Astrophysics I • Astronomy 565: Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems • Astronomy 570: Solar System Dynamics

Relevant Work Experience • enerSave Canandaigua, NY Software Engineer 2008 – 2009 – Designed wireless protocol as a lightweight version of Zigbee to interface with controls – 8 month project resulted in a demo bought by several lighting manufacturers

• Harahan, LA NOC Technician 2005 – 2008 – Nightly help desk support for offshore cellular and satellite communications – Modified internal MS Access client to track work orders and incidents

• New Orleans, LA Systems Analyst and Help Desk Support 2003 – 2004 – Wrote applications and Crystal reports to interface with SQL server and Oracle database – Part of weekly rotation of company wide help desk support Core Technical Skills Languages: Python, HTML5, javascript, CSS, SQL, C, C++, R (currently learning), julia (currently learning) Statistical Modeling : Time series, Bayesian Techniques, MCMC, Missing Data, Cleaning and Matching Data, Clus- tering, Proximal Operators, NMF Tools: Unix/Linux, Mathematica, LATEX, Git, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, pandas

Publications • Moolekamp, Fred; Melchior, Peter. "Block-Simultaneous Direction Method of Multipliers: A proximal primal-dual splitting algorithm for nonconvex problems with multiple constraints".(in Press) • Moolekamp, Fred; Mamajek, Eric; James, David; Luhman, Kevin; Pecaut, Mark; Metchev, Stanmir; Denbo, Sara; Bell, Cameron. "DECam Survey for Low-Mass Stars and Substellar Objects in the UCL and LCC Subgroups of the Sco-Cen OB Association (SCOCENSUS)". (in Press) • Moolekamp, Fred; Mamajek, Eric. "Toyz: A Framework for Scientific Analysis of Large Datasets and Astronomical Images". Astronomy and Computing, Volume 13, p. 50, 2015. arxiv:1506.08930. doi:j.ascom.2015.10.001 • Scott, Erin; Mamajek, Eric; Pecaut, Mark; Quillen, Alice; Moolekamp, Fred; Bell, Cameron "Modeling Transit- ing Circumstellar Disks: Characterizing the Newly Discovered Eclipsing Disk System OGLE LMC-ECL-11893" The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 797, Issue 1, December 2014, Page 6 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/6 • Kar, Arnab; Moolekamp, Fred, Rajeev, S.G. "A Hierarchical Finite Element Method For Quantum Field Theory" Mod. Phys. Lett. A 28, 1350139 (2013) [11 pages] doi:10.1142/S0217732313501393 • Moolekamp, Fred. "An Exact Solution of a Generalization of the Rabi Model". arXiv:1201.3843 (unpublished) • Mamajek,E; Quillen, A; Pecaut, M; Moolekamp, F; Scott, E; Kenworthy, M; Cameron, A; Parley, N. "Planetary Construction Zones in Occultation: Discovery of an Extrasolar Ring System Transiting a Young Sun-like Star and Future Prospects for Detecting Eclipses by Circumsecondary and Circumplanetary Disks" The Astronomical Journal, vol 143, no. 3, p.72, 2012 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/3/72 • Moolekamp, Fred; Stokes, Kevin. "Magnetooptical Response of Gold-Magnetite Nanocomposite Films" Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.45, no.10, pp.4888-4891, Oct. 2009 doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024884