CV -- Erik Rosolowsky

Erik Rosolowsky

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Center for Astrophysics	Phone: (617) 496-7630
60 Garden St., MS-66	Fax: (617) 495-7590
Cambridge, MA 02138	email: erosolow/snail/cfa/harvard/edu

Education

May 2005    University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
                    Ph. D. in Astrophysics. Adviser: Dr. Leo Blitz
                    Thesis: Molecular Cloud Populations Across Galactic Environments (PDF)
May 2001    University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
                    M.A. in Astrophysics
June 1998    Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
                   B.A. in Astrophysics with Highest Honors
                    Major Field: Astrophysics
                   Minor Field: Mathematics
                    Thesis:    The Spectral Correlation Fuction -- A New Tool
                                    for Analyzing Spectral Line Maps.

Honors and Awards

2005-2008  NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy & Astrophysics
2003-2005  NASA Graduate Fellow
2001            Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley
1999-2002 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
1998           Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society
1998            Wiliam C. Elmore Award for Outstanding Work in Physics, Swarthmore College
1995            Sigma Xi Research Honor Society

Journal Articles

``The Role of Pressure in GMC Formation II: The H2-Pressure Relation'' Blitz, L. and Rosolowsky, E. accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
``Bias-free Measurement of Giant Molecular Clouds Properties'' Rosolowsky, E. and Leroy, A., accepted for publication in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
``The Mass Spectra of Giant Molecular Clouds in the Local Group'' Rosolowsky, E., Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 117, 1403
``Giant Molecular Clouds in M64'' Rosolowsky, E. & Blitz, L., Astrophysical Journal, 623, 826
``A Statistical Investigation of HI in the Magellanic Bridge'' Muller, E., Stanimirovic, S., Rosolowsky, E. & Stavely-Smith, L., Astrophysical Journal, 616, 845
``The Role of Pressre in Giant Molecular Cloud Formation'' Blitz, L. & Rosolowsky, E. Astrophysical Journal 612, L29
``Giant Molecular Clouds in M33 -- II. High Resolution Observations'' 2003, Rosolowsky E., Plambeck, R., Engargiola, G., and Blitz, L., Astrophysical Journal, 599, 258
``Giant Molecular Clouds in M33 -- I. An All Disk GMC Survey'' 2003, Engargiola, G., Plambeck, R., Rosolowsky, E. and Blitz, L. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 149, 343.
``The Effects of Noise and Sampling on the Spectral Correlation Function'' 2001, Padoan, P., Rosolowsky, E., Goodman, A., Astrophysical Journal, 547, 862
``The Spectral Correlation Function: A New Tool for Analyzing Spectral Line Maps'' 1999, Rosolowsky, E., Goodman, A., Wilner, D., Williams, J. Astrophysical Journal 524, 887

Conference Proceedings and Unrefereed Articles

``Giant Molecular Clouds in Local Group Galaxies'' Blitz, L., Fukui, Y., Kawamura, A., Leroy, A., Mizuno, N., and Rosolowsky, E., 2006, Proceedings of Protostars and Planets V.
``Giant Molecular Clouds in M31'' Paper presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in January 2006.
``Studying the Atomic-Molecular Transition in the Local Group'' Rosolowsky, E., Paper presented at the Ringberg Workshop on the Secular Evolution of Galaxies in May, 2004.
``Molecular Clouds Formation in Disk Galaxies: The Case of M33'' Rosolowsky, E. & Blitz, L. Astrophysics & Space Science 289, 265
``Angular Momentum Constraints on GMC formation in M33'' Paper presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in January, 2002.
``GMC formation in M33'' Paper presented at the monthly meeting of NASA AMES Center for Star Formation Studies in November, 2001.
``Doppler Tomagraphy of Ultraviolet Spectra of HR 1099'' 1998, Richards, M. & Rosolowsky, E., ASP Conf. Ser. 154: Cool Stars Stellar Systems, and the Sun 10, 2038
``Doppler Tomagraphy of Ultraviolet Spectra of the RS CVn star HR 1099'' Paper presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in January, 1996.
``Past Dust Events and Current Light Curve for the RCB Star Z Ursa Minoris'' Paper presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in January, 1995.
``A New Variable in the Field of V778 Cygni'' 1995, Rosolowsky, E. & Benson, P. International Bulletin of Variable Stars, 4250

Teaching Experience

Instructor at Harvard University in Astronomy 302: Scientists Teaching Science with Phil Sadler (Spring 2006)

Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in Astronomy 2: Celestial Navigation (Fall 2006)

Graduate Student Instructor at University of California, Berkeley
Classes Taught:

Astronomy 10: Introduction to Astronomy (Fall
1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001

Astronomy 169A: Stars and Stellar Structure (Fall 2001)

Astronomy 121: Undergraduate Radio Astronomy Lab (Spring 2002)

Astronomy 300: Introduction to Teaching Astronomy (Fall 2002, Fall 2003)

Assistant Instructor for Academic Talent Development Program (Summer 2000). Taught introductory astronomy to talented middle school students.

High School Faculty at Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg, VA (1998-1999). Taught Algebra I, Pre-Calculus, and Astronomy; coached indoor track and cross cosupervised men's dormitory.

Peer Instructor at Swarthmore College (1995-1998). Tutored freshmen level Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism.

Research Collaborations

The Dense ISM in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies. Collaborator: Julianne Dalcanton (UW) -- ongoing
Comparing atomic and molecular gas in M33. Collaborators: Dave Thilker (NRAO) and Robert Braun (NFRA) -- ongoing
Applying the Spectral Correlation Function to the Magellenic Bridge. Collaborators: Erik Muller (CSIRO)
Developing the Spectral Correlation Function for automated analysis of spectral line data cubes. Advisor: Alyssa Goodman (CfA) Collaborators: Paolo Padoan (NASA), Dave Wilner (CfA), Jonathan Williams (IfA)
Doppler tomagraphy of symbiotic variables. Advisor: Mercedes Richards (UVa)
Variable star photometry. Advisor: Priscilla Benson (Wellesley College)