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1 Research Vita: Mike Reed EDUCATION University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Physics and Astronomy, BS 1995 Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Astrophysics, Ph.D APPOINTMENTS 2012 present Professor Dept. of Physics, Astronomy, and Mat. Science, MSU Assistan1/Associate Professor Dept. of Physics, Astronomy, and Mat. Science, MSU RESEARCH INTERESTS Understanding late-evolution stars using seismology; hot planets around other stars; robotic observatories and instrumentation RESEARCH GRANTS Received Since 2007 (3 more currently submitted) (Since 2001: 23 as Primary Investigator, 8 as Co-Investigator; $2,238,734 in total.) National Science Foundation "RUI: Asteroseismology of subdwarf B stars as representatives of high-temperature physics and horizontal branch stellar cores" $185, Missouri Space Grant (NASA) $98, NASA "K2 Observations of Pulsating SubdwarfB Stars in Fields 6 and 7" $12, NASA "Understanding Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars via Asteroseismology" $12, NASA "Understanding the Atmospheres of Hot Earths and the Impact on Solar System Formation" $767, National Science Foundation "RUI: Asteroseismology of pulsating Subdwarf B stars via observational mode identification and modeling." $373, Missouri Space Grant Consortium (NASA) $38, American Astronomical Society Travel Grant $ Missouri Space Grant Consortium (NASA) $41, Missouri Space Grant Consortium (NASA) $41,000 +$19,990 supplement National Science Foundation "SGER: RUI: The Baker Observatory Sub-minute Survey: Exploring the galaxy at high temporal resolution." $48, Missouri Space Grant Consortium (NASA) $60, American Astronomical Society Small Research Grant "Linking models with observations of late-evolution pulsating stars" $6, Equipment Fund, College of Natural and Applied Science and the and Graduate College, Missouri State Univesity "Robotic and Autonomous Telescope at Baker Observatory" $10, Missouri Space Grant Consortium (NASA) $45,471 (Co-Investigator) C 1

2 AWARDS Director's Award for Outstanding Faculty Research, Honors College, Missouri State University Foundation Award for Research, Missouri State University Excellence in Research Award, College of Natural and Applied Science Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Physics, Astronomy, & Materials Science Foundation Award for Research, Missouri State University Excellence in Research Award, Department of Physics, Astronomy, & Materials Science Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Natural and Applied Science Excellence in Research Award, College of Natural and Applied Science PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS after 2011 (Undergraduate students are underlined) 1. M.D. Reed, E.L. Armbrecht, et al. (including L. Ketzer) "K2 Campaign 5 observations of pulsating subdwarf B stars: binaries and supernyquist frequencies" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, accepted, in press, J.W. Kern, M.D. Reed, A. S. Baran, J. H. Telting, R.H. Østensen, "Asteroseismic analysis of the pulsating subdwarf B star KIC : an sdb+ WD system with divergent frequency multiplets and mode trapping observed by Kepler" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, accepted, in press, R. Silvotti, S. Schuh, S.-L. Kim, R. Lutz, M.D. Reed, et al. 'The sdb pulsating star V391 Peg and its putative giant planet revisited after 13 years of time-series photometric data" Astronomy and Astrophysics, accepted, in press, M. Uzundag, A.S. Baran, R.H. Østensen, M.D. Reed, J.H. Telting, B.K. Quick, "KIC : a pulsating sdb star with multiple trapped modes" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472, 700, U 5. L. Ketzer, M.D. Reed, A. S. Baran, P. Németh, J. H. Telting, R.H. Østensen, C. S. Jeffery, "K2 observations of pulsating subdwarf B stars: Analysis of EPIC observed during Campaign 2" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467, 461, K 6. A.S. Baran, M.D. Reed, R.H. Østensen, J.H. Telting, and C.S. Jeffery, "EPIC : a rare hybrid pulsating subdwarf B star richly pulsating in both pressure and gravity modes" Astronomy and Astrophysics 597, 95, C 2

3 7. AsdfJ.W. Kern, M.D. Reed, A. S. Baran, R.H. Østensen, J.H. Telting, "Kepler observations of the pulsating subdwarf B star KIC : The detection of converging frequency multiplets in the full data set" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465, 1057, C. S. Jeffery, A. S. Baran, N. T. Behara, A. Kvammen, P. Martin, Naslim N., R. H. Østensen, H. P. Preece, M. D. Reed, J. H. Telting, and V. M. Woolf, "Discovery of a variable lead-rich hot subdwarf: UVO " Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465, 3101, M.D. Reed, A. Baran, R.H. Østensen, J. Telting, J.W. Kern, S. Bloemen, P. Blay, T. Pursimo, T. Kuutma, D. Slumstrup, M. Saajasto, L. D. Nielsen, J. Harmanen, A.J. Winans, H.M. Foster, and L. Rowe "A pulsation analysis of K2 observations of the subdwarf B star PG during Campaign 1: A subsynchronously rotating ellipsoidal variable" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458, 1417, 2016, Baran, A. S.; Telting, J. H.; Nemeth, P.; Østensen, R. H.; Reed, M. D.; Kiaeerad, F. "A subsynchronously rotating pulsating subdwarf B star in a short-period binary with a white dwarf companion" Astronomy & Astrophysics, 585, 66, H.M. Foster, M.D. Reed, J.H. Telting, R.H. Østensen, A.S. Baran "The Discovery of Differential Radial Rotation in the Pulsating Subdwarf B Star KJC " Astrophysical Journal, 805, 94, F 12. M.D. Reed, H. Foster, J.H. Telting, R.H. Østensen, L.H. Farris, R. Oreiro, A.S. Baran "Analysis of the rich frequency spectrum of K1C revealing the most slowly rotating subdwarf B star in the Kepler field" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 400, 3809, R.H. Østensen, J.H. Telting, M.D. Reed, A.S. Baran, P. Nemeth, F. Kiaeerad "Asteroseismology revealing trapped modes in K1C A" Astronomy and Astrophysics, 569, 15, R.H. Østensen, M.D. Reed, A.S. Baran, J.H. Telting, "Stochastic pulsations in the subdwarf-b star KIC " Astronomy & Astrophysics, 564, 14, M.D. Reed, A.S. Baran, R.H. Østensen, J.H. Telting, S.J. O'Toole "The discovery of two pulsating subdwarf B stars in NGC 6791 using Kepler data" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427, 1245, 2012 C 3

4 16. Baran, A. S.; Reed, M. D.; Stello, D.; et al. (13 more co-authors) "A pulsation zoo in the hot subdwarf B star KIC observed by Kepler" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424, 2686, Silvotti, R.; Østensen, R.H.; Bloemen, S.; Telting, J. H.; Heber, U.; Oreiro, R.; Reed, M. D.; Farris, L. E.; et al. (12 more co-authors) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424, 1752, 2012 "Orbital properties of an unusually low-mass sdb star in a close binary system with a white dwarf" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424, 1752, Telting, J. H.; Østensen, R. H.;. Baran, A. S.; Bloemen, S.; Reed, M. D.; Oreiro, R.; Farris, L. E.; et al. (12 more co-authors) "Three ways to solve the orbit of KIC : a JO-day beaming sdb+ WD binary with a pulsating subdwarf" Astronomy and Astrophysics, 544, 1, Østensen, R. H.; Degroote, P.; Telting, J. H.; Vos, J.; Aerts, C.; Jeffery, C. S.; Green, E. M.; Reed, M. D.; Heber, U. "KIC : A Helium-rich Vl093-Her-like Pulsator on the Blue Horizontal Branch" Astrophysical Journal, 753, 17, Provencal, J. L.; Montgomery, M. H.; Kanaan, A.; et al. (55 more co-authors, including Reed, M. D.) "Empirical Determination of Convection Parameters in White Dwaifs. I. Whole Earth Telescope Observations of EC " Astrophysical Journal, 751, 91, Pablo, Herbert; Kawaler, Steven D.; Reed, M. D.; et al. (16 more co-authors) "Seismic evidence for non-synchronization in two close sdb+dm binaries from Kepler photometry" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 422, 1343, Reed, M. D.; Kilkenny, D.; O'Toole, S.; Østensen, R.H.; Honer, C.; Gilker, J. T.; Quint, A. C.; Doennig, A. M.; Hicks, L. H.; Thompson, M.A.; Mccart, P.A.; et al. (15 more co-authors) "Multiyear and multisite photometric campaigns on the bright high-amplitude pulsating subdwaif B star EC " Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421,181 PRESENTATIONS after 2011 (Undergraduate students are underlined) 1. Reed, Mike; A. S. Baran; J. H. Telting; R.H. Østensen; C. S. Jeffery; J. W. Kern; L. Ketzer; J. Crooke; A. Slaytonn ''The non-stochastic pulsator PG0048, are multiplets really rotation? and other weird things we see in Kepler data" The 8th Workshop on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Krakow, Poland, July, Reed, Mike; J. W. Kern "Examination of the full Kepler data set for Mungo: more meandering multiplets" The 8th Workshop on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Krakow, Poland, July, 2017 C 4

5 3. Reed, Mike; L. Kelzer "K2 observations of the p-mode pulsator PG " The 8th Workshop on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Krakow, Poland, July, Dulz, Shannon Diane; Reed, Mike "Transit Timing Variation analysis with Kepler light curves of KOJ 227 and Kepler 93b" American Astronomical Society Meeting 229, Dallas, TX,January, Crooke, John; Roessler, Ryan; Reed, Mike "Searching for frequency multiplets in the pulsating subdwarf B star PG " American Astronomical Society Meeting 229, Dallas, TX, January, Kern, J. W.; Reed, M. D.; Baran, A. S.; Østensen, R.H.; Telting, J. H. "Kepler observations of the pulsating subdwarf B star KIC : the detection of converging frequency multiplets in the full data set" American Astronomical Society Meeting 229, Dallas, TX, January, Reed, Mike; Kern, Joshua; Ketzer, Laura "Asteroseismology with Kepler and K2 data: Exploring horizontal branch cores using subdwarf B stars" American Astronomical Society Meeting 229, Dallas, TX, January, Dulz, Shannon Diane; Reed, Mike "Analyzing Kepler lightcurves of exoplanets" American Astronomical Society, Division of Planetary Science meeting #48. Pasadena, CA, October, M.D. Reed, A.S. Baran, J.H. Telting, R.H. Østensen, P. Nemeth, L. Armbrecht, L. Ketzer, C. Morales- Bejarano, C.S. Jeffery, H. Preece "The study of pulsating subdwarf B ( extended horizontal branch) stars using K2 data" Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars 2016, Terceira-Acores, Portugal, July, L. Ketzer, A.S. Baran, M.D. Reed, R.H. Østensen, J.H. Telting, C.S. Jeffery, P. Nemeth "Analysis of a subdwarf B pulsator observed during Campaign 2 of K2" Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars 2016, Terceira-Acores, Portugal, July, Ketzer, Laura; Baran, Andrzej; Reed, Mike; Telting, John H.; Nemeth, Peter "Analysis of a subdwarf B pulsator observed during Campaign 2 of K2" 228th American Astronomical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, June, Reed, Mike; A.S. Baran; J.H. Telting, R.H. Østensen, J. Kern; L. Rowe "Anontidally Locked Ellipsoidal Variable Pulsating Subdwarf B Star Observedwith K2" K2SciCon, Santa Barbara, CA, Nov Mike Reed, Andrzej Baran, John Telting, Roy H. Østensen "Progress in the study of pulsating subdwarf B stars. Part 2" International Astronomical Union, General Assembly, Meeting 29, Honolulu, HA, August, Mike Reed "Interesting features in Kepler-observed sdb stars" Seventh Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects, Oxford, UK, July, 2015 C 5

6 15. J. Kerm, Mike Reed "Kepler Observations of KZC " Seventh Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects, Oxford, UK, July, Reed, Mike; Foster, Heather; Telting, John H.; Baran, Andrzej S.; Østensen, Roy H. "Recent seismic discoveries for pulsating subdwarf B stars using Kepler data" American Astronomical Society Meeting #225, Seattle, WA, January, Kuehn, Charles A.; Drury, Jason A.; Bellamy, Beau R.; Stello, Dennis; Bedding, Timothy R.; Reed, Mike; Quick, Breanna "Photometry Using Kepler "Superstamps" of Open Clusters NGC 6791 & NGC 6819" The Space Photometry Revolution, Toulouse, France, July, Mike Reed, Roy Østensen, John Telting, Andrzej Baran, Heather Foster, Breanna Quick "Recent findings from Kepler observations of subdwa,f B stars" The Space Photometry Revolution, Toulouse, France, July, Mike Reed "Missouri State studies of extrasolar planets: Hot Earths and unexpected discoveries" MSU Alumni event. Houston, TX, Nov Mike Reed "Precision Asteroseismology of Compact Subdwa,f B Stars using Kepler Observations" American Astronomical Society Meeting #223, Washington, D.C., January, Mike Reed, Foster, Heather "Time-resolved analysis of pulsating subdwarf B stars" A New Era of Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler, Sydney, Australia, June, Mike Reed, Foster, Heather "Precision Observational Asteroseismology Using Kepler Spacecraft Data" Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Tucson, AZ, May, Baran, A.; Reed, M.; Jeffery, C.; Telting, J.; Farris, L.; Shadwick, M.; Kiaeerad, F. "A Search for High-Degree Modes in Two Pulsating sdb Stars" Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Tucson, AZ, May, Telting, J.; Østensen, R.; Reed, M.; Kiaerad, F.; Farris, L.; Baran, A.; Oreiro, R.; O'Toole, S. "Low-Resolution Radial-Velocity Monitoring of Pulsating sdbs in the Kepler Field" 25. Foster, Heather, Mike Reed "An Analysis of Ten Quarters of Kepler Observations of the Subdwa,f B Star KJC " Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Tucson, AZ, May, Mike Reed "Mode Identification for Subdwa,f B Stars Using Period Spacings in Kepler Data" Stellar Pulsations, Grenada, Spain, July, Mike Reed, Baran, A.; O'Toole, S. "Time-resolved Spectroscopy and Multi-color Photometry Of The Pulsating and Short-period Binary Subdwarf B Star Feige 48" American Astronomical Society Meeting #220, Anchorage, AK, January, 2012 C 6

7 28. Baran, Andrzej; Reed, M. "Mode Identification In Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars Observed With Kepler Spacecraft" American Astronomical Society Meeting #220, Anchorage, AK, January, 2012 RELATED RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT 1. Baker Observatory Robotic Autonomous Telescope (BORAT): is a 16 inch telescope facility at Baker Observatory. The facility consists of an Astrohaven clamshell dome (which we have had to modify several times), a 16 inch Meade telescope and fork mount, a custom postmount wedge (made at MSU), and various other devices (weather sensor, security cameras, sensors, webcams, etc.), all working together. This project is in collaboration with Cracow Pedagogical University and was largely developed by myself and computer science students M. Thompson and L. Hicks. It is a nearly-autonomous facility which obtains astronomical imaging, mostly without user input. Eventually it will be fully automated. This facility is located on MSU grounds and belongs to MSU. 2. Grindstaff Tricolor Cameras (GTCam and GTCam2): is an instrument designed to simultaneously take images of stars in three different colors. Color information can be used to distinguish pulsation modes in variable stars. The first instrument was constructed by B. Grindstaff (CNAS machinist) using plans from the MISTSuMe instrument, which I procured from Hong Kong University. Testing found this instrument to be not optimal and so we designed our own. This second camera (GTCam2) has been used at Kitt Peak National Observatory several times to obtain highly-accurate multicolor imaging. This is only the 4th such instrument in the world. It is called the Grindstaff Tricolor Camera, after B. Grindstaff, CNAS machinist, who did most of the fabrication. CCD cameras and materials for this instrument were funded by my NSF grants. 3. Baker Observatory Sub-minute Survey (BOSS): was an NSF-funded grant to use Baker Observatory's 16 inch telescope (not BO RAT) to survey 40 different fields of the sky for sub-minute variability. As part of this survey, extensive web development and programming were completed (mostly by computer science students working under my direction) to automate the processing and data analysis. COURSES TAUGHT 1. AST 113: Modern Astronomy 2. AST 114: Survey of Astronomy 3. AST 115: Basic Astronomy (including Honors course) 4. AST311 Astronomical Techniques 5. AST313/513: The New Solar Systems 6. AST 315/515: The Lives and Deaths of Stars 7. AST 317/517: Our Universe, the Final Frontier 8. MAT 798 Seminar in Materials Science 9. PHY 123 Introduction to Physics I 10. PHY 386 Undergraduate Research I 11. PHY 409: Astronomy Journal Seminar 12. PHY 486 Undergraduate Research II 13. PHY 495: Readings in Physics 14. PHY 609: Graduate Astronomy Seminar 15. UHC 499: Astronomy Distinction Project C 7

8 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 1. Collaboration meeting organizer for NASA EPSCoR exoplanet collaboration which includes myself, Dr. D. Cornelison, masters and undergraduate student at MSU, Dr. B. Fegley at Washington University, and Dr. N. Jacobsen and postdoc at NASA Glenn during 2013, 2014, and These meetings were at NASA-Glenn (2013 and 2015) and NASA Ames (2014). 2. Collaboration meeting organizer for NASA's K2 subdwarf B collaboration during summer This collaboration includes myself and several undergraduate students at MSU, Dr. R. Østensen (adjunct at MSU), Dr. J. Telting at Nordic Optical Telescope, Spain, and Dr. A. Baran at Cracow Pedagogical University in Poland. The meeting was at Cracow Pedagogical University in Poland. 3. Panel member for reviewing grant proposals at the National Science Foundation. 4. Session chair at meetings of the American Astronomical Society. 5. Reviewer for professional journals, Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 6. MSU Board Member, Missouri Space Grant Consortium (2008-current) DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, and COMMUNITY SERVICES 1. Member, University Committee on Merit Pay (2007) 2. Member, Faculty Senate ( ) 3. Member, CNAS Recruitment Committee (2016 current) 4. Member, CNAS PSIP Committee ( ) 5. Secretary, CNAS Budget Committee ( ) 6. Member, CNAS Budget Committee ( ) 7. Chair, CNAS Awards Committee ( ) 8. Member, CNAS Awards Committee ( ) 9. Chair, PAMS Curriculum Committee (2015 current) 10. Member, PAMS Curriculum Committee ( ) 11. Chair, PAMS Retention, Tenure, and Promotion committee ( ) C 8

9 12. Member, PAMS Physics 123/124 Review Committee ( ) 13. Member, PAMS Astronomy Committee (2001 current) 14. Mentor for Willard Middle School Science Explorers ( ). This is a science club to promote that science is both fun and not difficult. Students engage in one hour, after-school activities which allow them to explore science and use their skill to complete "tasks". Based on the timetoinvent.org activities that allow kids to explore and construct. This is a club that I created to promote science to students. (Note: We are in the process of organizing activities for Spring The goal is to run this as a continuous club annually.) 15. Organize open house events at Baker Observatory for the public. These events occur twice per year and we set up our telescopes for public to look through. We also have presentations to engage them. 16. Contributor, PhysBiz ( ). PhysBiz is our physics outreach outreach to public schools. During , we provided hands-on demonstrations to 2nd and 4th grade students at several Springfield public schools. During , we mainly did development with a few outreach events. 17. Contributor, Constellation Club ( , but only occasionally). I contributed lectures and activities to this local club, which is to promote science (mostly astronomy-related), several times. 18. Contributor, community science outreach. I have contributed to many local events over the course of my MSU career. Examples include Science on Screen (March 2016), STEM Spots (twice during ), events for the Discovery Center, and Astronomy Day/Night events at many local schools. Astronomy is an exciting science and well-suited for outreach events, and I have hosted and/or participated in many such events. C 9

10 Workload Matrix Semester Fall 12 Spring 13 Summer13 Courses Taught AST 313, MAT 798 PHY 123, MAT 798 Grant Funded Research Semester Fall 13 Spring 14 Summer14 Courses Taught AST 114, MAT798 AST 317, AST 517 Grant Funded Research Semester Fall 14 Spring 15 Summer15 Courses Taught AST 113, UHC 399 AST 315 Grant Funded Research Semester Fall 15 Spring 16 Summer16 Courses Taught Sabbatical AST 113, PHY 123, UHC 398 Grant Funded Research, UHC 398 Semester Fall 16 Spring 17 Summer17 Courses Taught AST 113, AST 313, PHY 409, PHY 609, UHC 499 Semester Fall 17 Courses Taught AST 113, AST 311 AST 113, AST 515, AST 615 Off Notes: Reassigned time beginning Spring 2013 through Fall 2015 as grant match. Reassigned time Fall 2012 as agreed upon with Department Head and Dean for research development. On sabbatical Fall of Teaching Matrix Department Criteria: Our department ratings are tied to merit scores. Merit scores are based on teaching evaluations, student mentoring, course development, and teaching grants/proposals. Highest score is a 5 Year Teaching Merit Score # students mentored N/A 5

11 Service Matrices Department Criteria: A combination of department, college, university, community, and professional services are required. Serving on department, college, and/or university committees is expected. To be outstanding, must also contribute significantly to community and/or professional service. Highest merit score is a 5. Department Committees * Curriculum Committee: Chair 2016, * Hiring Committees: Astronomy, 2013 * RTP Review Committee: Chair, 2013 * Astronomy Committee: member * PHY123/124 redesign committee, * Physics Education committee. College Committees *CNAS PSIP Committee: 2016 * CNAS Awards Committee: , Chair * CNAS Budget Committee: * Presidential Scholars interviewer Professional Services * Referee for professional journals: Astrophysical Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomy & Astrophysics * Panel Member, National Science Foundation * Collaboration meeting organizer: NASA EPSCoR exoplanet collaboration; K2 asteroseismology collaboration. * American Astronomical Society: meeting session char. Community Service * Willard Science Explorers: * PhyBiz: * Science on Screen: 2016 * Public open houses at Baker Observatory * Hosting private groups (cub scouts, Greenweed 5 th grade, etc) at Baker Observatory * Advisor: MSU Lacrosse Club * Discovery Center outreach (sporadic events) Year Merit Score Research Matrix Department Criteria: Focuses on research productivity including peer-reviewed papers, presentations and proceedings (scaled by audience: international, national, regional, local), grants, and proposals. Highest merit score is a 5. Year Peer-reviewed publications Presentations Active grants Merit Score N/A

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