Katelin Schutz

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Education Ph.D. in Physics, Berkeley May 2019 (Expected) GPA: 4.0/4.0 Coursework: I & II, Quantum Field Theory I & II, Order-of-Magnitude Physics, and Beyond I & II, Geometry and Topology of Gauge Theories and Gravitation

S.B. in Physics, MIT June 2014 GPA: 4.9/5.0 Graduate-Level Coursework: General Relativity, Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I, Astro- physics II, Cosmology, of the Early Universe Sigma Pi Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa Physics GRE: 990/990

Research Broad interests at the interface of particle physics, cosmology, and . Previous areas of research include instrumentation for 21 cm cosmology, observational signatures of novel inflationary models, primordial black holes, the astrophysical phenomenology of self-interacting , pulsar timing and gravitational wave signatures of black hole binaries, and understanding structure formation in the context of effective field theory.

Publications Major Contributing Author

7. Daniele Bertolini, Katelin Schutz, Mikhail Solon, Jonathan Walsh, and Kathryn Zurek (2016), The Trispectrum in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure, in preparation. 6. Daniele Bertolini, Katelin Schutz, Mikhail Solon, Jonathan Walsh, and Kathryn Zurek (2015), Non-Gaussian Covariance of the Matter Power Spectrum in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure, arXiv: 1512.07630. 5. Katelin Schutz & Chung-Pei Ma (2015), Constraints on Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from Pulsar Timing Array Limits on Continuous Gravitational Waves, submitted to MNRAS, arXiv: 1510.08472. 4. Katelin Schutz & Tracy R. Slatyer (2014), Self-Scattering for Dark Matter with an Excited State, JCAP 021 1501, arXiv: 1409.2867. 3. Katelin Schutz, Evangelos Sfakianakis, David Kaiser (2013), Multifield Inflation after Planck: Isocurvature Modes from Nonminimal Couplings, Phys. Rev. D 89 064044, arXiv: 1310.8285.

Author within Collaboration

2. Haoxuan Zheng, , et al. (2014), MITEoR: A Scalable Interferometer for Precision 21 cm Cosmology, MNRAS 445 1084, arXiv: 1405.5527. 1. Haoxuan Zheng, Max Tegmark, et al. (2013), Mapping our Universe in 3D with MITEoR, IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology, arXiv: 1309.2639.

Fellowships Hertz Fellow, The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation 2014

NSF Graduate Research Fellow, The National Science Foundation 2014

Berkeley Fellow, UC Berkeley 2014

Lord Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow, The Lord Foundation 2013 Honors LeRoy Apker Award Finalist, American Physical Society 2014

Award citation: “To recognize outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students, and thereby provide encouragement to young physicists who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment.”

Barrett Prize, MIT Department of Physics 2014

Award citation: “Awarded annually to a senior undergraduate or graduate in Astrophysics.”

Orloff Award, MIT Department of Physics 2013, 2014 Award citation: “Given to the student with the most outstanding service to the department, Institute, or community.”

Teaching Grader, Quantum Mechanics I Spring 2014 Grader, Classical Mechanics III Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant, Electricity & Magnetism Spring 2013

Community Berkeley Graduate Poster Session Coordinator October 2014

Berkeley Physics Social Hour Coordinator August 2014 - August 2015

President, MIT Society of Physics Students May 2013 - May 2014 Vice President, MIT Society of Physics Students May 2012 - May 2013 Treasurer, MIT Society of Physics Students May 2011 - May 2012

Planned community-building events such as retreat, dinners with faculty, mentorship programs with graduate students, outreach events, and mixers with other SPS chapters. Also planned SPS colloquium, journal club, mock GRE, and undergraduate research “Lightning Lectures”.

Head Coordinator, PhysPOP August 2012 and 2013 PhysPOP is a pre-orientation program for recruiting MIT freshmen to physics. It is a 5- day program packed with lab tours, faculty talks, physics-themed puzzles, liquid nitrogen ice cream, visits to the MIT Wallace Astrophysical Observatory and the MIT Nuclear Reactor, and more.

President, MIT Undergraduate Women in Physics January 2012 - May 2013 Planned community-building events for women in physics, including a mentorship program with MIT Graduate Women in Physics, health-oriented study breaks, dinner and teatime discussions with female faculty and postdocs, and networking events with alumnae in industry.

Selected Talks & 10. Caltech TAPIR Seminar (Invited Talk, March 2016) Presentations 9. Berkeley Department Lunch Talk (February 2016): Are there any nearby supermassive black hole binaries? 8. BCTP 4D Particle Physics Seminar (Invited Talk, January 2016): Extracting Large- Scale Cosmological Information using Effective Field Theory. 7. American Astronomical Society 227th Meeting, Relativistic Astrophysics Poster Session (January 2016): Black Hole Science using Current and Future Pulsar Timing Array Constraints on Continuous Gravitational Waves. 6. American Astronomical Society 225th Meeting, Session on Dark Matter & Dark Energy (January 2015): Self-Scattering for Dark Matter with an Excited State. 5. Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, General Meeting Poster Session (December 2014): Self-Scattering for Dark Matter with an Excited State. 4. American Physical Society LeRoy Apker Award Panel (September 2014): Our Universe as a Poor Man’s Accelerator. 3. DOE Presentation for the MIT CTP (February 2014): Structure in Our Universe from Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings. 2. Guth-Kaiser Group Meeting (January 2014): Dark Matter: Self-Scattering and Small Scale Structure. 1. Guth-Kaiser Group Meeting (August 2013): Explaining the Planck Low-` Anomaly with Nonminimally Coupled Multifield Inflation.

Unpublished 2. Katelin Schutz (2013), The Massive Cosmic Neutrino Background, Junior Term Paper 1. Katelin Schutz (2012), Applications of Observational Radio Astrophysics, 21 cm Galactic Structure and Dynamics Experiment