TEACHING

Although I spend most of my time doing research, I do occasionally get a chance to teach. Listed below are courses I have taught.

•Supernova, Supernova Remnants, gamma-ray and X-ray section (6 lectures) of the Graduate course on “High Energy Astrophysics”. To 1st and 2nd year Astronomy graduate students at University of Chicago
•One day course titled “Searching for Life in the Universe” October 17 2015, at the Graham school of Continuing Education, University of Chicago
• One-day course titled “Astrophysics 101” in April 2015, at the Graham School of Continuing Education, University of Chicago.
•School of the Art Institute of Chicago, titled “Searching for Life in the Universe”, Fall 2007.
•Part of an introductory Astronomy class at DePaul University, Chicago, Fall 2008.
•U Chicago, Feb 2009. 4-lecture mini-course to graduate students on “The Interaction of Massive Stars with the Interstellar Medium”.
•“Massive Stars and their Effects on the Interstellar Medium” , Graduate Course, UPC, Barcelona, Spain. Daily 2 hrs for 3 weeks. Several students, some faculty attended
•I have also delivered lectures for Al Harper and Andrey Kravtsov classes at U Chicago.

•I enjoy giving lectures to the general public and to undergraduate students. I have given several public-level talks, including at the Chicago Astronomical Society (twice), the Ryerson Astronomical Society, Marquette University in Wisconsin (Simulcast to Creighton University), and Joliet Junior College, IL (twice).
•Approximately once a month from Aug 2008 to Feb 2011 I delivered a talk at the Adler Planetarium, as part of the Astro Conversations Series. This is held at the Science Visualization Lab at Adler, with its tiled wall and Geo-wall, which affords visitors a unique 3D experience.
•As part of a NASA Education/Public Outreach grant, I taught a group of Chicago high school teachers about X-ray Astronomy. It was meant to be a 1.5 hour talk, but there were so many questions and so much interest that we went on for nearly 4 hours.

STUDENTS

Athena Frost - University of Chicago. REU (2008). Mass-loss rates from Type IIn SNe.

Presented her work at:

1. 19th Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates, 2008

2. MidStates Consortium for Math and Sciences - 2008 Undergraduate Research Symposia in Physical Sciences

Athena-Frost.com

Joyce Laine - NYU (2009). REU Student. Entering 3rd year. Worked on Computing X-ray emission from hydrodynamical simulations of SNe.

Anibal Medina - University of Chicago Graduate Student. Co-supervised Graduate Project with advisor Prof Jim Truran. Presented at AAS:

On the Formation of Globular Clusters

GRADUATE STUDENTS:

Vivienne Wheaton - University of Sydney:

Involved in co-supervision of Master’s thesis titled: Hydrodynamical models and an investigation into radio emission from SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:

At University of Chicago, I have had at least one undergraduate student working with me every year for the last 10 years. I think its important to encourage undergraduate students to join and learn Astronomy.

Julieta Gruszko - University of Rochester (2010). REU Student. Worked on X-ray lightcurves of SNe. Paper published in MNRAS.

PhD: UW, Seattle.

Postdoc: MIT

Thorold Tronrud (2013 Mar-Oct) - U Chicago, Class of 2016. X-ray emission from young SNe.

Emma Karin Reishus (2013 Mar-Oct) - U Chicago, Class of 2016. X-ray emission from young SNe.

Web Page

Arindrima Datta - U Chicago 1st year student, Class of 2014. Radio lightcurves of SNe.

Rebecca Nussbaum - Carnegie Mellon Computer Science (2007). First year. Wrote a VPython program to display position and characteristics of astronomical objects on a 3D plot.

Graduate Studies: UTMB Galveston