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Catherine C. Espaillat Curriculum Vitae Department of Astronomy Office: CAS Room 404A Boston University Phone: (617) 358-3441 725 Commonwealth Avenue E-mail: [email protected] Boston, MA 02215 Website: http://sites.bu.edu/cce Education Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics 2009 University of Michigan M.S., Astronomy 2005 University of Michigan B.A., Astronomy 2003 Columbia University Positions Associate Professor 2020 - present Boston University Department of Astronomy Assistant Professor 2013 - 2020 Boston University Department of Astronomy NASA Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow 2012 - 2013 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow 2009 - 2012 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Honors Scialog Fellow 2019 Research Corporation for Science Advancement Kavli Fellow 2016 National Academy of Sciences Sloan Fellow 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Carl Sagan Fellow 2012 - 2013 NASA Curriculum Vitae 1 Espaillat Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow 2009 - 2012 NSF Mellon Mays University Fellow 2001 - 2009 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Rackham Merit Fellow 2003 - 2005 University of Michigan John W. Kluge Scholar 1999 - 2003 Columbia University Teaching AS203, Principles of Astronomy II Spring 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 Introductory undergraduate-level course for majors. AS850/851, Astrophysics Seminar Fall 2018, Spring 2019 Graduate-level course. AS101, The Solar System Fall 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 Introductory undergraduate-level course for non-majors. AS725, Gravitational Astrophysics Spring 2016 Graduate-level core course. AS791, Special Topics in Astrophysics Spring 2014 Graduate-level advanced course. Invited Scientific Talks Talks given at conferences are denoted with asterisks. Astronomy Colloquium, Missouri State, Springfield, MO, Dec 2 2020 Astronomy Colloquium, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Nov 10 Astronomy Colloquium, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA, Oct 27 Astronomy Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Oct 20 *Celebrating the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, CA, Feb 11 - 13 *Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Life, Galveston, TX, Jan 19 - 24 *Radio Science Symposium, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, Nov 1 2019 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, Tufts University, Medford, MA, Oct 25 Colloquium, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, Oct 23 Submillimeter Array Seminar, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, Oct 11 *Extreme Solar Systems IV, Reykjavik, IS, August 19 - 23 BU CAS Junior Faculty Colloquium, Boston U, Boston, MA, Feb 15 Astronomy Colloquium, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, Feb 7 *Plenary Lecture, American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA, Jan 6 - 10 Curriculum Vitae 2 Espaillat Astronomy Colloquium, SOFIA Science Center, Mountain View, CA, Oct 24 2018 *TMT Science Forum, Pasadena, CA, Dec 10 - 12 *Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics and Cosmology, Budapest, HU, Jul 1 - 7 Astronomy Colloquium, U Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, Apr 25 *SPHEREx Synergies Workshop, Cambridge, MA, Jan 30 - 31 *Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Shanghai, CN, Dec 11 - 15 2017 Astronomy Colloquium, U Rochester, Rochester, NY, Oct 23 Astronomy Colloquium, U Maryland, College Park, MD, Oct 11 Astrophysics Colloquium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Sep 26 *Chondrules as Astrophysical Objects, Vancouver, CAN, May 9 - 11 Colloquium, NRC Herzberg, Victoria, CAN, Mar 14 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, U British Columbia, Vancouver, CAN, Mar 13 Colloquium, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar 9 *Disks, Dynamos & Data, Santa Barbara, CA, Feb 6 - 10 Astronomy Department Colloquium, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, Jan 11 Astronomy Colloquium, Columbia U, New York, NY, Oct 5 2016 *Star Formation 2016, Exeter, UK, Aug 22 - 26 Astronomy Department Colloquium, Yale U, New Haven, CT, Feb 18 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, U Toledo, Toledo, OH, Dec 10 2015 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN, Nov 3 Astronomy & Astrophysics Colloquium, U Toronto, Toronto, CAN, Oct 9 Colloquium, European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, ES, Jul 23 Astronomy Department Colloquium, U Texas, Austin, TX, Apr 21 Astrophysics Colloquium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Mar 31 *Transition Disks and Planet Formation, Leiden, NL, Mar 2 - 6 Physics & Astronomy Department Colloquium, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, Feb 24 *Revealing the Structure of Protoplanetary Disks, Morelia, MX, Jan 25 - 28 Astronomy Department and IAS Colloquium, Princeton/IAS, Princeton, NJ, Nov 24 2014 *Circumstellar Disks and Planet Formation, U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Oct 12 - 14 *Observations and Modeling of Circumstellar Disks, Puebla, MX, Jun 30 - Jul 11 Planetary Science Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, May 29 Colloquium, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, Mar 13 Astronomy Department Colloquium, Penn State, State College, PA, Feb 19 Astronomy Department Colloquium, Wesleyan U, Middletown, CT, Apr 24 2013 *Transformational Science with ALMA, NAASC, Hilo, HI, Apr 8 - 12 Astronomy Department Colloquium, Boston U, Boston, MA, Mar 18 Physics & Astronomy Department Colloquium, Rice U, Houston, TX, Mar 13 Astronomy Department Colloquium, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA, Mar 1 Physics Department Colloquium, U California, San Diego, CA, Feb 27 Joint U Virginia and NRAO Astronomy Colloquium, NRAO, Charlottesville, VA, Feb 21 Astronomy Department Colloquium, U Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Jan 31 Star Formation Seminar, Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN, Dec 7 2012 Curriculum Vitae 3 Espaillat Rackham Distinguished Alumni Lecture, U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Oct 18 Astronomy Department Colloquium, U Florida, Gainesville, FL, Sep 5 Astronomy Department Colloquium, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico, Mar 20 *New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics III, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Mar 12 - 16 Department of Astrophysics Seminar, AMNH, New York, NY, Jan 31 Astronomy Department Colloquium, Boston U, Boston, MA, Nov 7 2011 Astronomy Department Colloquium, Yale U, New Haven, CT, Oct 27 *Signposts of Planets, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, Oct 18 - 20 *National Society of Black/Hispanic Physicists, Austin, TX, Sep 21 – 25 Invited Scientific Workshops Conferences and workshops where all participants were invited. Provenances of the Solar System 2020 International Space Science Institute, Bern, CHE, Feb 16 - 21 Time-Domain Astrophysics Scialog 2019 Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Tucson, AZ, May 9-12 29th Symposium on Kavli Frontiers of Science 2018 National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA, Feb 15 – 17 Confronting MHD Theories of Accretion Disks with Observations 2017 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, Feb 6 - Mar 17 28th Symposium on Kavli Frontiers of Science 2016 National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA, Nov 4 – 6 Invited Outreach Talks Public Talk, Central Florida Astronomical Society, Orlando, FL, Nov 11 2020 Public Talk, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, Oct 23 Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lecture, CA Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, Jan 13 Institute of Theory & Computation Colloquium, CfA, Cambridge, MA, Feb 7 2019 Northeast Graduate Women in Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA, Aug 17 2018 Latino Initiative Summer Seminar, Cambridge, MA, Aug 13 Graduate Women in Science and Engineering Mentoring Program, BU, Oct 27 2015 NSF AGEP Symposium Keynote Address, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Mar 20 Graduate Women in Science and Engineering Mentoring Program, BU Oct 27 2014 Science Engineering and Technology in the City, Boston University Apr 12 Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Dec 6 2012 Curriculum Vitae 4 Espaillat Latina Empowerment and Development Conference, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA, Nov 14 2010 Contributed Scientific Talks Talks given at conferences are denoted with asterisks. *5th Network for UV Astronomy Workshop, Vitoria, Spain, Oct 27 - 29 2020 *MA-CT Regional Star Formation Meeting, New Haven, CT, Jan 27 2017 *Frontiers in Star Formation, Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 18 - 19 2015 *International Astronomical Union Symposium 299, Victoria, BC, Jun 2 - 7 2013 *From Stars to Life, Gainesville, FL, Apr 3 - 6 *American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA, Jan 6 - 10 Seminar, Princeton U, Princeton, NJ, Nov 28 2012 *Sagan/Michelson Fellows Symposium, Pasadena, CA, Nov 8 - 9 *American Astronomical Society, Anchorage, AK, Jun 10 - 14 Seminar, U Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada, May 30 Seminar, Arcetri Observatory, Florence, Italy, May 15 Astrophysics Brown Bag Lunch Talk, MIT, Boston, MA, Nov 21 2011 Seminar, Cerro Tololo International Observatory, La Serena, Chile, Jun 16 FOST Seminar, Observatoire de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, May 13 *Transport Processes in YSOs, Ringberg, Germany, Feb 7 - 11 *American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA, Jan 9 - 13 *NSF AAPF Symposium, Seattle, WA, Jan 8 - 9 *American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C, Jan 3 - 7 2010 *NSF AAPF Symposium, Washington, D.C, Jan 2 - 3 Radio & Geoastronomy Division Lunch Talk, CfA, Cambridge, MA, Nov 20 2009 *Postdoc Symposium, CfA, Cambridge, MA, Oct 14 *American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA, Jan 4 - 8 Graduate Student Colloquium, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico, Mar 11 2008 *National Society of Black/Hispanic Physicists, Washington, D.C., Feb 20 - 23 *American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX, Jan 7 - 11 Seminar, Cerro Tololo International Observatory, La Serena, Chile, Feb 1 2007 Research Mentoring Postdoctoral Researchers Enrique Macias 2016 - 2019 Alvaro Ribas 2015 - 2018 Curriculum Vitae 5 Espaillat Laura Ingleby 2014 - 2015 Graduate Students Caeley
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