Brett Hon Wing Kao Andrews

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Brett Hon Wing Kao Andrews Department of Physics and Astronomy Home : (203) University of Pittsburgh Office : (412) Allen Hall andrewsb@pitt.edu 3941 O Hara Street pitt.edu/ andrewsb Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania github.com/bretthandrews Academic Appointments 2017 present : Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh : Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh : Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University : Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University : Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy, Yale University Education August 2014 : Ph.D., Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Thesis: Decoding Galaxy Evolution with Gas-phase and Stellar Elemental Abundances Advisors: David H. Weinberg & Jennifer A. Johnson March 2011 : M.S., Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio May 2008 : B.S., Astronomy & Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Research Areas Galaxy Evolution Galactic Chemical Evolution Stellar Abundances Interstellar Medium Abundances Astrophysics Software Development Machine Learning in Astronomy Honors & Awards 2016 : SDSS-IV/MaNGA Survey Architect 2013 : SDSS-III Astronomer Travel Assistance Fund, The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III 2013 : Hayes Graduate Research Forum Oral Presentation Finalist, The Ohio State University 2011 : SDSS-III Astronomer Travel Assistance Fund, The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III 2011 : Hayes Graduate Research Forum Oral Presentation Finalist, The Ohio State University 2008 : Nicolas Adamo Scholar-Athlete Prize, Silliman College, Yale University Mentoring Graduate: 2017: Q. Ma (Carnegie Mellon University; Machine Learning Department); Deep Dimensionality Reduction of MaNGA Data

2 Undergraduate: 2016: I. Cooper (University of Pittsburgh); SNIa hosts in MaNGA Broader Activities 2015 : Led Python Boot Camp for Astronomy 1120 ( Stars, Stellar Structure, and Stellar Evolution ), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA : Led Python for Astronomers Boot Camp, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA : Presented at Astronomy on Tap (public talk) with Courtney Epstein, Indiana Jones and the Hidden Galaxy, Columbus, OH : Coached Grandview Heights (Ohio) Middle School Science Olympiad Team Refereed Publications Accepted/Published: Summary: 30 refereed publications with 4 first author. 1. Andrews, Brett H. & Thompson, Todd A. 2011, Assessing Radiation Pressure as a Feedback Mechanism in Star-forming Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal, 727, Andrews, Brett H., et al. 2012, Principal Component Abundance Analysis of Microlensed Bulge Dwarf and Subgiant Stars, Acta Astronomica, 62, Ahn, Christopher P., et al. 2012, The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 203, Andrews, Brett H. & Martini, Paul 2013, The Mass-Metallicity Relation with the Direct Method on Stacked Spectra of SDSS Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal, 765, Zasowski, Gail, et al. 2013, Target Selection for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), The Astronomical Journal, 146, Leja, Joel, et al. 2013, Exploring the Chemical Link Between Local Ellipticals and Their Highredshift Progenitors, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 778, L24 7. Ahn, Christopher P., et al. 2014, The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 211, Bovy, Jo, et al. 2014, The APOGEE Red-clump Catalog: Precise Distances, Velocities, and Highresolution Elemental Abundances Over a Large Area of the Milky Way s Disk, The Astrophysical Journal, 790, Nidever, David L., et al. 2014, Tracing Chemical Evolution Over the Extent of the Milky Way s Disk with APOGEE Red Clump Stars, The Astrophysical Journal, 796, Alam, Shadab, et al. 2015, The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 219, Hayden, Michael R., et al. 2015, Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Metallicity Distribution Functions and the Chemical Structure of the Milky Way Disk, The Astrophysical Journal, 808, Holtzmann, Jon A., et al. 2015, Abundances, Stellar Parameters, and Spectra From the SDSS- III/APOGEE Survey, The Astronomical Journal, 150, 148

3 13. Brown, Jonathan S., Martini, Paul, & Andrews, Brett H. 2016, A Recalibration of Strong Line Oxygen Abundance Diagnostics via the Direct Method and Implications for the High Redshift Universe, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458, Law, David R., et al. 2016, The Data Reduction Pipeline for the SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey, The Astronomical Journal, 152, Yan, Renbin, et al. 2016, SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy SurveySurvey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality, The Astronomical Journal, 152, Andrews, Brett H., et al. 2017, Inflow, Outflow, Yields, and Stellar Population Mixing in Chemical Evolution Models, The Astrophysical Journal, 835, Jones, A., et al. 2017, SDSS IV MaNGA: Deep Observations of Extra-planar, Diffuse Ionized Gas Around Late-type Galaxies from Stacked IFU Spectra, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 599, Weinberg, David H., Andrews, Brett H., & Freudenburg, Jenna 2017, Equilibrium and Sudden Events in Chemical Evolution, The Astrophysical Journal, 837, Zhang, Kai, et al. 2017, SDSS-IV MaNGA: the Impact of Diffuse Ionized Gas on Emissionline Ratios, Interpretation of Diagnostic Diagrams and Gas Metallicity Measurements, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466, Linden, Sean, T., et al. 2017, Timing the Evolution of the Galactic Disk with NGC 6791: An Open Cluster with Peculiar High-α Chemistry as seen by APOGEE, The Astrophysical Journal, 842, Blanton, Michael, R., et al. 2017, Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe, The Astronomical Journal, 154, Martínez-Rodríguez, Héctor, et al. 2017, Observational Evidence for High Neutronization in Supernova Remnants: Implications for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors, The Astrophysical Journal, 843, Zahid, H. Jabran, et al. 2017, Stellar Absorption Line Analysis of Local Star-forming Galaxies: The Relation between Stellar Mass, Metallicity, Dust Attenuation, and Star Formation Rate, The Astrophysical Journal, 847, Zasowski, Gail, et al. 2017, Target Selection for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 Survey, The Astronomical Journal, 154, Greene, Jenny E., et al. 2017, Probing the Kinematic Morphology-Density Relation of Early-type Galaxies with MaNGA, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851, L Albareti, Franco, D., et al. 2017, The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 233, Abolfathi, Bela, et al. 2017, The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, arxiv: , (accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series) 28. Badenes, Carles, et al. 2017, Stellar Multiplicity Meets Stellar Evolution And Metallicity: The APOGEE View, arxiv: , (accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal)

4 29. Wylezalek, Dominika, et al SDSS-IV MaNGA: identification of active galactic nuclei in optical integral field unit surveys, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474, Penny, Samantha, J., et al. 2018, SDSS-IV MaNGA: Evidence of the importance of AGN feedback in low-mass galaxies, arxiv: (accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) Conference Proceedings 1. Andrews, Brett H. & Thompson, Todd A. 2011, Radiation Pressure Feedback in Galaxies, EAS Publications Series, 52, Wilson, John C., et al. 2012, Performance of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) High-resolution Near-infrared Multi-object Fiber Spectrograph, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8446 Open Source Code 1. flexce: Python package for modeling galactic chemical evolution. 2. Marvin: Python package, RESTful API, and Flask web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing SDSS-IV MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic data. Observing Experience Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO (WIYN) 3.5-m Telescope (April 2008) Instrument: SparsePak (Multi-object Spectrograph) Astronomy Coffee Briefs 1. Andrews, Brett H., et al. 2012, Principal Component Abundance Analysis of Microlensed Bulge Dwarf and Subgiant Stars, YouTube. ( 2. Andrews, Brett H. & Martini, Paul 2013, The Mass Metallicity Relation with the Direct Method on Stacked Spectra of SDSS Galaxies, YouTube. ( Workshop Presentations 1. Python for Astronomers Boot Camp. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, May Marvin Workshop. SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, Instituto Física Teórica Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, July Marvin Workshop. SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June Marvin Workshop. SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, July Talks

5 1. Radiation Pressure Feedback in Galaxies. Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March Principal Component Abundance Analysis: Finding the Principal Components of Chemical Abundance Space. SDSS-III Collaboration Meeting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, August Accounting for Stellar Abundance Uncertainties in Principal Component Abundance Analysis. APOGEE Collaboration Meeting, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, January Characterizing the Distribution of Stars in Chemical Abundance Space. APOGEE Collaboration Meeting, The Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA, January The Galaxy Mass Metallicity Relation: A Sensitive Diagnostic of the Processes That Drive Galaxy Evolution. Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March The Mass Metallicity Relation: A Window Into Galaxy Evolution. Seminar, National Radio Astronomical Observatory, Charlottesville, VA, March Decoding Galactic Chemical Evolution with Gas-phase and Stellar Abundances. Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, June Yields, Delays, and Mixing in Chemical Evolution Models. SDSS-III Collaboration Meeting, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, June Decoding Galactic Chemical Evolution with Gas-phase and Stellar Abundances. Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, December Exploiting Large Multi-element Stellar Abundance Surveys. AAS Meeting, National Harbor Madison, MD, January Applying Principal Component Analysis to APOGEE. SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, Park City, UT, July Understanding the Bimodality in [alpha/fe] with a Chemical Evolution Model. SDSS-III Collaboration Meeting, Park City, UT, July Principal Component Abundance Analysis: APOGEE and flexce. Local Group Astrostatistics Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, June MaNGA Data Analysis Pipeline Quality Assessment. MaNGA Collaboration Meeting, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April The Mass Metallicity Relation in SDSS Using Electron Temperature Measurements. Understanding Nebular Emission in High-Redshift Galaxies, The Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA, July Global vs. Resolved Metallicities. SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, Instituto Física Teórica Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, July Global vs. Resolved Metallicities. Astro Student Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, September Marvin-tools: Distilling DAP Measurements and & Stacking Spectra. MaNGA Collaboration Meeting, Cocoa Beach, FL, January AstroCoffee Presentation Advice. Astro Student Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, January The State of Marvin. SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June Streamlining MaNGA Data with Marvin. AstroLunch, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, January MaNGA DAP. SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, July The SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Galaxy Dissection on an Industrial Scale. CMU Astro Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2017.

6 Poster Presentations 1. Assessing Radiation Pressure as a Feedback Mechanism in Star-forming Galaxies. The 5th Zermatt ISM Symposium, Zermatt, Switzerland, September Principal Component Abundance Analysis and Chemical Evolution Models. The Near-Field Deep-Field Connection, Irvine, California, February 2014.