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1 Kate D. Alexander Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd NHFP Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow Evanston, IL (530) Education Harvard University PhD, Astronomy & Astrophysics May 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Thesis: Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients with Radio Observations. Advisor: Prof. Edo Berger. Harvard University AM, Astronomy & Astrophysics May 2014 Research Exam: Simulating the multi-frequency B-mode sky. Advisor: Prof. John Kovac. Brown University ScB, Physics, Astrophysics Track (cum laude) May 2012 Senior Thesis: Quantifying the effects of noise peaks on two-point correlation functions in ground-based lensing data. Advisor: Prof. Ian Dell Antonio. Fellowships and Awards NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University (expected start: 2021) National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2015 (Astronomy 100) Charles H. Smiley Prize for Excellent Contribution to the Astronomy Program, Brown University, 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, Teaching Experience Graduate Teaching Fellow, Astronomy Department; Harvard University Astronomy 100: Methods of Observational Astronomy (Spring 2015) Astronomy 16: Stellar and Planetary Astronomy (Spring 2013) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Physics Department; Brown University Teaching assistant for one introductory-level astronomy course per semester from Fall 2009 to Spring 2012 Observing Experience Radio/mm: PI of 16 successful observing proposals (12 VLA, 3 ALMA, 1 ATCA). Designed and led data reduction of VLA observations totaling over 200 hours of time. X-ray/UV: PI of 2 successful Swift target-of-opportunity proposals. Optical: designed and led observations on telescopes including the Clay 6.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (LDSS-3 spectrograph), the FLWO 1.5m telescope (FAST spectrograph), and the Kitt Peak WIYN 3.5m telescope. 1
2 Skills Programming and data reduction experience in Python, MATLAB, Perl, IDL, CASA, AIPS, IRAF, SuperMongo, Java, LaTeX, Mathematica, HTML, HEASoft Familiar with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux operating systems, Microsoft Office (including Excel), WorldWide Telescope, MaximDL Proficient in Spanish Service and Outreach Space on the Hill Invited Speaker, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC (June 2018) o Presented at the AAS/SAO Congressional briefing Going out with a Bang: How to Make Gold and Gravitational Waves from Exploding Stars Referee, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017 Present) Center for Astrophysics Public Nights Volunteer ( ) o Telescope operator at monthly public observing nights and other special events WorldWide Telescope Ambassador (Spring Present) o Presented WWT at venues including the USA Science and Engineering Festival (Washington, DC), the Cambridge Science Festival (Cambridge, MA), and the Geek is Glam STEM Expo for middle school-aged girls (Worcester, MA) o Created WWT tour The Multiphase ISM (general public) and a companion website (advanced undergraduate level) Harvard Observing Project Team Lead (Fall 2012 Spring 2016) o Led teams of Harvard undergraduates in observing asteroids, SN 2014J, Comet Lovejoy, and outbursting star AG Pegasi with the 16 Clay Telescope Blogged about my trip to the South Pole, Antarctica to upgrade the Keck Array (Winter 2014) at (2264 views from 43 countries) Science in the News Lecturer (Fall 2014) o Public talk available at Physics WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering), Brown University ( ) o Co-coordinator Selected Talks and Seminars Radio Observations of TDEs. Talk summarizing invited review chapter. ISSI TDE Workshop; International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland; October 8-12, Radio Observations of GW170817: Probing the Structure of Relativistic Jets. Contributed Talk. Einstein Fellows Symposium; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA; October 2-3, Using Radio Observations of TDEs to Study Supermassive Black Holes. Invited Talk. Using Tidal Disruption Events to Study Super-Massive Black Holes; Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO; January 20-26,
3 Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients with Radio Observations. The Case Study of GW AAS Dissertation Talk. 231st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society; Washington, DC; January 8-12, Probing TDE Jets and Outflows with Radio Observations. Invited Talk. TDE17: Piercing the Sphere of Influence; Cambridge University; Cambridge, UK; September 11-15, Radio Observations of TDEs: Status and Prospects. Invited Talk. Unveiling the Physics Behind Extreme AGN Variability; University of the Virgin Islands; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; July 10-14, Long Gamma-ray Bursts with the VLA: New Insights from Radio Observations. S&P Seminar. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Cambridge, MA; January 23, Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients with Radio Observations. FLASH talk. UCSC; Santa Cruz, CA; January 27, Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients with Radio Observations. TAC Seminar. UC Berkeley; Berkeley, CA; January 23, New Insights into Gamma-ray Burst Shock Physics with the Very Large Array. Contributed Talk. Huntsville GRB Symposium; Huntsville, AL; October 24-28, Nuclear Radio Transients. Invited Talk. Boutiques & Experiments 2016 (Radio); Caltech; July 21-23, Radio observations of tidal disruption event ASASSN-14li. Invited Talk. Jerusalem TDE Workshop; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; November 2-5, Radio observations of tidal disruption event ASASSN-14li. Contributed Talk. Time Domain Astrophysics with Swift II; Clemson, SC; October 18-22, New Results from a Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data. Invited Talk. Brown Astrophysics Seminar Series; Brown University; Providence, RI; March 12, Publications First-author Publications Alexander, K. D. et al. Unusually Strong and High-Frequency Diffractive Scintillation in GRB B. Astrophysical Journal, in press. arxiv: Alexander, K. D. et al. A Decline in the X-Ray through Radio Emission from GW Continues to Support an Off-axis Structured Jet. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 863, L18. 6pp. Alexander, K. D. et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW VI. Radio Constraints on a Relativistic Jet and Predictions for Late-Time Emission from the Kilonova Ejecta. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L21. 7pp. Alexander, K. D. et al. A Reverse Shock and Unusual Radio Properties in GRB B. 2017, Astrophysical Journal, 848, pp. Alexander, K. D.; Wieringa, M. H.; Berger, E.; Saxton, R. D.; and Komossa, S. Radio Observations of the Tidal Disruption Event XMMSL1 J , Astrophysical Journal, 837, pp. 3
4 Alexander, K. D.; Berger, E.; Guillochon, J.; Zauderer, B. A.; and Williams, P. K. G. Discovery of an outflow from radio observations of the tidal disruption event ASASSN-14li. 2016, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 819, L25. 10pp. Alexander, K. D.; Soderberg, A. M.; Chomiuk, L. A New Model for the Radio Emission from SN 1994I and an Associated Search For Radio Transients in M , Astrophysical Journal, 806, pp. Co-author Publications Nicholl, M., et al. One Thousand Days of SN2015bn: HST Imaging Shows a Light Curve Flattening Consistent with Magnetar Predictions. 2018, Astrophysical Journal Letters2, 866, 24. 7pp. Laskar, T., Alexander, K. D., et al. First ALMA Light Curve Constrains Refreshed Reverse Shocks and Jet Magnetization in GRB B. 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 862, pp. Villar, V. A., et al. Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Observations of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW , Astrophysical Journal Letters, 862, 11. 5pp. Laskar, T., et al. A VLA Study of High-redshift GRBs. II. The Complex Radio Afterglow of GRB A: Shell Collisions and Two Reverse Shocks. 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 859, pp. Margutti, R., Alexander, K. D., et al. The Binary Neutron Star Event LIGO/Virgo GW Days after Merger: Synchrotron Emission across the Electromagnetic Spectrum. 2018, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 856, L18, 12pp. Coppejans, D. L., et al. Jets in Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae: Constraints from a Comprehensive Analysis of Radio Observations. 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 856, pp. Cantiello, M., et al. A Precise Distance to the Host Galaxy of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations. 2018, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 854, L31. 7pp. Eftekhari, E., et al. Radio Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J III. Late-time Jet Energetics and a Deviation from Equipartition. 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 854, pp. Guidorzi, C., et al. Improved constraints on H0 from a combined analysis of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic emission from GW , Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851, L36. 7pp. Villar, V. A., et al. The Combined Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near-Infrared Light Curves of the Kilonova Associated with the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817: Unified Data Set, Analytic Models, and Physical Implications. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851, L21. 12pp. Abbott, B. P., et al. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant. 2017, Nature, 551, pp. Abbott, B. P., et al. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L12. 59pp. Soares-Santos, M., et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L16. 7pp. 4
5 Cowperthwaite, P.S., et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L17. 10pp. Nicholl, M., et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW III. Optical and UV Spectra of a Blue Kilonova from Fast Polar Ejecta. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L18. 8pp. Chornock, R., et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r- process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L19. 7pp. Margutti, R., et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW V. Rising X-Ray Emission from an Off-axis Jet. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L20. 7pp. Blanchard, P. K., et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW VII. Properties of the Host Galaxy and Constraints on the Merger Timescale. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L22. 7pp. Fong, W., et al. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW VIII. A Comparison to Cosmological Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts. 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, L23. 9pp. Nicholl, M., et al. Empirical constraints on the origin of fast radio bursts: volumetric rates and host galaxy demographics as a test of millisecond magnetar connection. 2017, Astrophysical Journal, 843, 84. 9pp. Blanchard, P. K., et al. PS16dtm: A Tidal Disruption Event in a Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy. 2017, Astrophysical Journal, 843, pp. Saxton, R. D.; Read, A. M.; Komossa, S.; Lira, P.; Alexander, K. D.; Wieringa, M. H. XMMSL1 J : a tidal disruption event with thermal and nonthermal components. 2017, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 598, A29. 10pp. Wu, W. L. K., et al. Initial Performance of Bicep3: A Degree Angular Scale 95 GHz Band Polarimeter. 2016, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 184, pp Laskar, T.; Alexander, K. D.; et al. A Reverse Shock in GRB A. 2016, Astrophysical Journal, 833, 88. 8pp. BICEP2 and Keck Array Collaborations. BICEP2/Keck Array VIII: Measurement of Gravitational Lensing from Large-scale B-mode Polarization. 2016, Astrophysical Journal, 833, pp. Nicholl, M., et al. SN 2015BN: A Detailed Multi-wavelength View of a Nearby Superluminous Supernova. 2016, Astrophysical Journal, 826, pp. BICEP2 and Keck Array Collaborations. BICEP2/Keck Array VII. Matrix Based E/B Separation Applied to BICEP2 and the Keck Array. 2016, Astrophysical Journal, 825, pp. BICEP2 and Keck Array Collaborations. Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 3,
6 Keck Array and BICEP2 Collaborations. BICEP2/Keck Array V: Measurements of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales and 150 GHz by the Keck Array. 2015, Astrophysical Journal, 811, pp. BICEP2/Keck, Planck Collaborations. Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data. 2015, Physical Review Letters, 114, Soderberg, A. M. et al. Panchromatic Observations of SN 2011dh Point to a Compact Progenitor Star. 2012, Astrophysical Journal, 752, pp. References Prof. Edo Berger, Harvard University eberger@cfa.harvard.edu Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, University of California Santa Cruz enrico@ucolick.org Prof. Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern University raffaella.margutti@northwestern.edu
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