Michael A. Pahre
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street, Mail Stop 20, Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: (617) 495-7073; FAX 495-7073
mpahre@cfa.harvard.edu cfa-www.harvard.edu/~mpahre/

Education

1992-1998

Ph. D. in Astronomy, California Institute of Technology

• Ph.D. Thesis: Elliptical Galaxies: Structure, Stellar Content, and Evolution.
  Advisor: S. G. Djorgovski
• Jesse L. Greenstein Fellowship
• Kingsley Fellowship

1985-1989

A. B. Cum Laude, Harvard University, concentration: physics and astronomy

• Senior Thesis: A Multilevel Study of the Interactions and Kinematics of Secondary Star Formation Mechanisms in G34.3+0.2; advisor: P. T. P. Ho
• Junior Paper: Speckle Observations of $\eta$-Carina and R136a; advisor: R. Noyes
• Dean's List

Employment Experience

2001-      

Astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

1998-2001

Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate of the Harvard College Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Faculty Sponsor: J. P. Huchra.

1992-1998

Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology. Supervisors: S. G. Djorgovski, S. E. Persson, J. R. Mould.

1993-1995

Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology.

• Undergraduate courses: extragalactic astronomy, instrumentation
• Graduate courses: interstellar medium, interferometry/signal processing

1992

Teaching Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University.

• Undergraduate course: introduction to astronomy

1991-1992

Astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Submillimeter Array Group. Supervisor: P. T. P. Ho.

1989-1991

Secondary School Physics Teacher, U. S. Peace Corps Volunteer, Nkroful, Ghana.

• More than 1500 hours of classroom teaching experience.

1987-1988

Research Assistant, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Speckle Imaging Group. Supervisors: C. Papaliolios and P. Nisenson.

Fellowships and Awards

Robert J. Trumpler Award,

2001, Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Hubble Fellowship,

1998-2001

Kingsley Graduate Fellowship,

1994-1995

Jesse L. Greenstein Graduate Fellowship,

1993-1994

Professional Organizations

American Astronomical Society

(1992-  )

Research Interests

Elliptical Galaxies:

Scaling relations, evolution, stellar populations.

Stellar Populations:

Surface brightness fluctuations (near-infrared and optical), color gradients, Local Group.

Faint Field Galaxy Population:

Galaxy counts, redshift surveys, galaxy evolution.

High-Redshift Universe:

Protogalaxies, QSO luminosity function.

Clusters of Galaxies:

Multicolor detection techniques, Butcher-Oemler effect.

Instrumentation:

Infrared imaging detectors, wide-field multi-object spectroscopy.

Professional Activities

SIRTF:

IRAC Instrument GTO Science Team Panels on ``Galaxies'' and ``The Early Universe'' (1998-  )

Review Panels:

HST (Cycle 8), NASA (ROSS-99), Chandra (Cycle 2)

CfA:

co-organizer of Optical/IR Division lunch talk series (1998-  )

Referee:

numerous times for ApJ and MNRAS

Citations:

papers have been cited more than 500 times in the scientific literature since 1994.

Outreach:

work has been cited in popular articles in Science and Science News

Student:

Harvard undergraduate Nicholas Siegler:

• The Near-IR Luminosity Density in the Local Universe in Spheroids and Disks (1999 Summer)
• Bulge/Disk Decompositions of Galaxies in HST Images of Cluster MS1358+62 at $z=0.33$ (1999-2000)

Grants (Past, Current, and Pending)

HST

Archival Research, Cycle 6, The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters, Co-I (for institutional reasons), 8/1996-7/1997, $47,771

HST

Hubble Post-doctoral Fellowship, A Multi-color Search for Distant Clusters of Galaxies, 2/1998-1/2001, $190,694

HST

Archival Research, Cycle 9, Color Gradients in Elliptical Galaxies at $z = 0.5$: An Indicator of Galaxy Formation Processes, 4/2000-3/2001, $37,690

HST

Archival Research, Cycle 9, Co-I for The Fundamental Plane of Cluster Ellipticals at $z=0.18$: Establishing the Local Baseline, 4/2000-3/2001, $7,608 (SAO portion of total $45,234)

SAO

Research Equipment Proposal, Moderate Dispersion Grating for the Hectospec, FY2001, $75,000

NASA

Long-Term Space Astrophysics, The Evolution of ``Normal'' Galaxies and the Star Formation Rate Measured at Infrared Wavelengths, 5/2001-4/2006, $732,607 (pending)

References

• Dr. S. George Djorgovski, Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
• Dr. Christopher S. Kochanek, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Dr. John P. Huchra, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Dr. Steven P. Willner, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Presentations of Work

Talks

 

• The Luminosity, Velocity, and Mass Functions of Galaxies in the Local Universe, contributed talk, The Masses of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift, Venice, Italy, 2001 October.
• The Luminosity, Velocity, and Mass Functions of Galaxies in the Local Universe, seminar, Vienna Observatory (Universität Wien), 2001 October.
• The Velocity and Mass Functions of Galaxies in the Local Universe, Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, 2001 March.
• The Velocity and Mass Functions of Galaxies, IPAC Lunch Talk, Caltech, 2001 March.
• The Velocity and Mass Functions of Galaxies in the Local Universe: The MALIGN Survey, contributed talk, AAS Meeting, San Diego, 2001 January.
• Comparing Structural Parameters and Visual Morphologies for Galaxies in Cluster MS1358+62 at $z=0.33$, Hubble Fellows Symposium, Space Telescope Science Institute, 2000 October.
• The Evolutionary History of Early-Type Galaxies as a Function of Galaxy Mass and Environment, Hubble Fellows Symposium, Space Telescope Science Institute, 1999 November.
• Elliptical Galaxy Evolution From the Fundamental Plane, invited talk, The Hy-Redshift Universe, Berkeley, CA, 1999 June.
• Lectures in Observational Cosmology, Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1999 April-May:
  • The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies
  • The Evolutionary History of Early-Type Galaxies in Cluster
  • The Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey
  • Elliptical Galaxies as Constraints on Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Models
• The Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey, Optical-Infrared Division lunch talk, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1999 April [scheduled].
• The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Evolution, colloquium, Boston University (Astronomy Dept.), 1998 December.
• The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Evolution, colloquium, Yale University (Astronomy Dept.), 1998 December.
• The Evolutionary History of Elliptical Galaxies As Derived From the Fundamental Plane, contributed talk, Euroconference: The Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales, Tenerife, Spain, 1998 November-December.
• The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Evolution, colloquium, University of Rochester (Physics and Astronomy Dept.), 1998 November.
• The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Evolution, colloquium, The Ohio State University (Astronomy Dept.), 1998 November.
• The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Evolution, Optical-Infrared Division lunch talk, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1998 November.
• The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Evolution, summer colloquium series, MIT, 1998 July.
• Systematic Variations in Age and Metallicity Along the Early-Type Galaxy Sequence, contributed talk, Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1998 July.
• The Stellar Content, Structure, and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies as Measured by the Fundamental Plane, Hubble Fellows Symposium, Space Telescope Science Institute, 1997 October.
• The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters, Keck Science Meeting, Pasadena (Caltech), 1997 September.
• The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters, seminar, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, 1997 June.
• The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters, Monday Tea Talk (seminar), Caltech, 1997 May.
• The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters, dissertation talk, AAS Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 1997 January.
• The Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters, seminar, ESO, Garching, Müenchen, 1996 November.
• The Near-Infrared Fundamental Plane of Elliptical Galaxies at Low and High Redshift, contributed talk, ESO Workshop on Galaxy Scaling Relations, Garching, Müenchen, 1996 November.
• Observational Constraints on the Origins of the Fundamental Plane, invited talk, Second Stromlo Symposium: ``The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies,'' Canberra, Australia, 1996 August.
• The Near-Infrared Fundamental Plane of Elliptical Galaxies, lunch talk, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, 1996 May.

Poster Papers

(lead author only)

• Environmental Effects on the Fundamental Plane of Elliptical Galaxies, Cosmic Flows: Towards An Understanding of Large Scale Structure, Victoria, Canada, 1999 July.
• Eight Tests of Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Models Using Observed Properties of Elliptical Galaxies, Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1998 July.
• The Physical Parameters Underlying the Sequence of Early-Type Galaxies, AAS Meeting, San Diego, 1998 June.
• Discovery of a Galaxy Responsible for a DLA System at z=3.15 and a Near-Infrared Search for Primeval Galaxies, Workshop on Young Galaxies and QSO Absorbers, Santos, Brazil, 1996 April.
• The Evolution of Cluster Elliptical Galaxies Out to $z\sim 0.4$ Using the Near-Infrared Fundamental Plane, AAS Meeting, San Antonio, 1996 January.
• The Fundamental Plane of Cluster Ellipticals in the Near-Infrared, AAS Meeting, Tucson, 1995 January.
• Near-IR Imaging of Elliptical Galaxies, IAU Symposium 164, Stellar Populations, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1994 August.
• Deep Galaxy Counts in the $K$-band with the Keck Telescope, IAU Symposium 168, Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1994 August.
• A Near-Infrared Search for Protogalaxies, IAU Symposium 168, Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1994 August.
• The Nuclear Disk of M31, AAS Meeting, Berkeley, 1994 June.

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