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Andrea M. Ghez Andrea M. Ghez Office: Home: Department of Physics and Astronomy 224 Barlock Avenue 430 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90049 University of California Los Angeles (310)440-3972 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 (310)206-0420, [email protected] http://www.astro.ucla.edu/∼ghez Education: Ph.D., Physics Sep 1992 California Institute of Technology B.S., Physics Jun 1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Experience: Full Professor of Physics & Astronomy Jul 2000 - present University of California Los Angeles Member of Inst. of Geophys. & Planetary Physics Jul 1999 - Sep 2009 University of California Los Angeles Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy Jul 1997 - Jun 2000 University of California Los Angeles Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy Jan 1994 - Jun 1997 University of California Los Angeles Visiting Research Scholar Jan 1994 - Mar 1994 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK Hubble Postdoctoral Research Fellow Oct 1992 - Dec 1993 University of Arizona, Steward Observatory Awards and Honors: Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine Endowed Chair 2009- MacArthur Fellowship 2008 Helen Hogg Distinguished Vistorship 2008 UCLA Acad. Adv. Program Faculty Recognition Award 2007 Aaronson Award, University of Arizona 2006 National Academy of Sciences, elected 2004 American Academy of Arts & Sciences, elected 2004 Sackler Prize, University of Tel Aviv 2004 UCLA Gold Shield Prize 2004 UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer Award 2003 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, American Physical Society 1999 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, American Astronomical Society 1998 Outstanding Teaching Award, UCLA Physics Department 1997,1998,2005 Packard Fellowship 1996 Sloan Fellowship 1996 Fullam/Dudley Award 1995 NSF Young Investigator Award 1994 Annie Jump Cannon Award, AAS & AAUW 1994 Recent National Review Committees (post 1/07) NRC Astro2010 Optical/IR from the Ground Committe, member 2009-2010 Service: NAS James Craig Watson Medal Selection, member 2009 AAS Henry Norris Russell Lectureship Selection, member 2009 AAS Henry Norris Russell Lectureship Selection, chair 2010-2011 NAS Henry Draper Medal Selection, member 2008 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing Selection, member 2007 NRC Board on Physics and Astronomy, member 2004 - 2010 Telescope Committees Thirty Meter Telescope Science Advisory Committee, member 1999 - present IRIS Instrument Working Group, member 2008 - present Keck Telescope Science Steering Committee, member 2010 - present University of California Time Allocation, member 1999 - 2008 Strategic Planning Committee 2008 Scientific Meeting Organizing Committees “The Central Kiloparcsec in Galactic Nuclei” Aug 2011 Physics Center in Bad Honnef, Germany “Dynamics from the Galactic Center to the Milky-Way Halo” May 2010 Sackler Conference, Harvard University “Formation and Evolution of Black Holes,” Aspen Workshop Feb 2010 “The Galactic Center: A Window to the Nuclear Oct 2009 Environment of Disc Galaxies,” Shanghai, China “Back to the Galaxy II”, KITP Oct 2008 “Science with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics,” Ringberg Nov 2007 “Science in the Era of TMT” Irvine, CA July 2007 “Celebrating 15 years of precision astronomy in the Galactic Center: Hot topics & observational challenges,” Ringberg June 2007 “Multiplicity in Star Formation” Toronto CA May 2007 Other Astronomy Community National Acad. of Sciences Astro. Nominating Comm., co-chair 2007-2010 National Acad. of Sciences Class Membership Committee, member 2010-2011 Am. Acad. of Arts & Science Astro. Nominating Comm., member 2004-5, 2007, 2009 NRC, Astronomy Decadal Survey Chair Search, member 2008 NAS representive member of USNC-IAU Committee, member 2005 - 2007 General Member of the Aspen Center for Physics 2004 - 2008 Aspen Center for Physics Colloquium Committee, member 2008 NSF Science & Technology Center (CfAO) Associate Director for Astronomical Science Nov 1999 - 2009 Recent Department of Physics and Astronomy Service Astronomy Colloquium Committee 2008-2011 (con’t): Physics Colloquium Committee 2010-2011 Policy & Appointments Committee, member 2000 - 2004, 2007, 2010 Faculty Search Committees Extra-galactic Search, co-chair 2006-2007 Saxon Chair Search, chair 2006-2007 Computing Resources Manager Interview Committee, member 2006-7 Computer Committee, member 2007, 2009-2010 Graduate Recruitment Committee, member 2004-2005, 2007 Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Sciences Futures Committee 2007 (chair), 2008 Education & Fellowship Committee, member 2003 - 2004, 2008 Education & Fellowship Committee, chair 2005 - 2007 Faculty Search (G1), member 2008 Other UCLA Committees EVC & Provost Advisory Search Committee 2008 Provost’s Committee on Facult Work/Life Issues 2008-2009 Dissertation Year Fellowship Faculty Review Committee, member 2007 Faculty Welfare Subcommittee on Childcare, member 2006-2008 Gold Shield Faculty Prize Selection Commitee, member 2006 - 2007 Committee on Faculty Research Lectureship, chair 2007-2008 Early Care and Education Advisory Board, member 2005-present UCLA Lab School Advisory Board, member 2010 - present UC-wide Committees Research Strategies WG of UC Commission on the Future 2009 - 2010 Research Advising: Post Doctoral Researchers Will Clarkson 2008 - 2010 Nate McCrady 2008 - 2009 Leo Meyer (DFG Fellow) 2008 - 2009 J¨org-Uwe Pott (Keck/UCLA) 2007 - 2009 Marshall Perrin (NSF Fellow) 2007 - 2010 Elise Furlan (Astrobio/NRC Fellow) 2006 - 2008 Andrea Stolte 2006 - 2008 Gaspard Duchene 2000 - 2004 Lisa Prato 1998 - 2000 Research Advising (con’t): Graduate Students Jennifer Patience, Astronomy MS 1995, PhD 1999 Russel White, Astronomy MS 1995, PhD 1999 Beth Klein, Physics MS 1995 Mike Berkovitch, Astronomy MS 1996 Angelle Tanner, Astronomy MS 1998, PhD 2004 Caer McCabe , Astronomy MS 1999, PhD 2004 Suvi Gezari, Astronomy MS 2001 Seth Hornstein, Astronomy MS 2002, PhD 2006 Shelley Wright, Astronomy MS 2004 Jessica Lu, Astronomy MS 2005, PhD 2009 Quinn Konopacky, Astronomy MS 2005, PhD 2009 Marc Rafelski, Astronomy MS 2006 Tuan Do, Astronomy PhD 2010 Sylvana Yelda, Astronomy MS 2008, (PhD 2012) Undergraduate Students Tracy Beck, Astronomy Apr 1994 - Aug 1995 Marlon Jimenez, Civil Engineering Apr 1996 - Aug 1996 Mia Smith, Civil Engineering Apr 1996 - Jun 1996 Jason Weis, Astronomy Jan 1997 - Jun 1997 Nairn Baliber, Astronomy Jan 1997 - Jun 1998 Whitney Raas, Astronomy Sep 1998 - Jun 2000 David Sand, Physics Apr 1997 - Sep 2000 Ted Kremenek, Computer Science Sep 1998 - Sep 2001 Louis Levenson, Astronomy Aug 2000 - Sep 2001 Michele Carpenter, Astronomy Jan 2002 - Jun 2002 Amanda Young, Astronomy (UCSC) Jun 2002 - Aug 2002 Priya Sheth, Aeronautical Engineering Oct 2002 - Mar 2003 Hamadi Macintosh, Astronomy Jun 2003 - Aug 2003 Fabio Altenbach, Astronomy Apr 2003 - June 2005 Javiera Guedes, Astronomy (UCB) Jun 2004 - Aug 2004 Lia Corrales, Astronomy (Harvey Mudd) Jun 2005 - Aug 2005 Jill Naiman, Astronomy Jul 2005 - July 2006 James Dunn, Astronomy May 2006 - May 2008 Hal Cambier, Physics (University of Oregon) Jun 2006 - Aug 2006 Ryan Trainor, Physics (UC Irvine) June 2007 - Aug 2007 Claire Dorman, Physics (UC Berkeley) June 2008 - Aug 2008 Kim Phifer, Physics (Butler University) June 2009 - Aug 2009 Josefa Baker, Astronomy April 2010 - present Anna Boehle, Physics (Smith) June 2010 - Aug 2010 High School Students Simone Kleine, (Marlborough High School) Jun 2002 - Aug 2002 Katie Love-Cooksey, (Marlborough High School) Jul 2005 - Apr 2006 Christopher Ballard, (Harvard-Westlake School) Jun 2007 - Aug 2007 Ryan Yoo Jun 2010 - present Invited Lectures (post Jan 2007): Scientific Meetings: 03/27/07 Center for Adaptive Optics Spring Retreat (plenary session), Santa Cruz, CA 06/18/07 Celebrating 15 years of precision astronomy in the Galactic Center - Hot topics and observational challenges, Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, Germany 07/24/07 Science in the Era of TMT, Irvine, CA 10/15/07 IAU Symposium No.248. A Giant Step:from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry, Shang- hai, China 10/29/07 Astronomy with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics, Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, Germany 06/23/08 Adaptive Optics Instrumentaion, SPIE, Marseilles France 07/31/08 Central Mass Concentrations in Galaxies, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, Netherlands 10/03/08 Back to the Galaxy II, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA 01/06/09 American Astronomical Society Meeting, Plenary Talk, Long Beach, CA 03/13/09 Royal Astronomical Society Meeting, London, UK 04/03/09 Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: Fro First Light to Galactic Nuclei, Irvine, CA 06/10/09 American Astronomical Society Special Session, “Stellar Populations and the Galactic Center with AO,” Pasadena, CA 7/17/09 Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, “On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Ex- perimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories,” Plenary Talk, Paris, France 10/12/09 Optical Society of America Frontiers in Optics Meeting, Plenary Talk, San Jose, CA 11/08/09 NRC, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA 10/12/09 Stars and Singularities, Physics and dense cusps and massive black holes, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 02/16/10 Formation and Evolution of Black Holes, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO 05/10/10 Dynamics from the Galactic Center to the Milky Way Halo, 6th Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysic, Cambridge, MA 06/28/10 8th International LISA Symposium opening session talk, Stanford, CA 07/07/10 19th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Plenary talk, Mexio City, Mexico Departmental Colloquia: 02/22/07 Univeristy of Arizona, Department of Astronomy
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