Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

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1 May 24, 2017 Kathryne J. Daniel Department of Physics Bryn Mawr College 101 N Merion Avenue Bryn Mawr, PA kjdaniel@brynmawr.edu (610) kathrynedaniel.wix.com/home Education Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Ph.D. in Physics & Astronomy 2015 Advisor: Rosemary F. G. Wyse Thesis: The Importance of Radial Migration to the Evolution of Disk Galaxies Developed an analytic framework that describes key physics to disk galaxy dynamics. M.A. in Physics & Astronomy 2005 Advisor: Karl Glazebrook Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Post-baccalaureate Major in Physics 2002 A.B. in Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology (Cum Laude & Honors) 1999 Appointments Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Assistant Professor, Department of Physics 2016-present Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Physics & Astronomy 2015-present Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy Towson University, Towson, MD Lecturer, Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences Adjunct Faculty, Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences Honors & Prizes (Over $175,500 in fellowships and other external awards) FAMOUS Award ($1,000) - To speak at the 227 th AAS Meeting 2016 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000), Selected for academic excellence & my work advocating for women in science E. J. Rhee Award ($1,000) 2014 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention NSF Graduate Research Fellow ($144,000) - Stipend, tuition & health insurance Rowland Prize for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching ($500) 2003 Bryn Mawr College Scholarship ($48,000) Selected annually for academic excellence Research Topics Galactic dynamics Spiral galaxy evolution Nature of spiral structure Radial migration/mixing of stars Chaotic orbits Disk response to resonant interactions Origin of outer disk Origin of thick disk Origin of exponential disk Globular cluster dynamics Modeling collisionless systems Evolution of star formation rates X-ray emission from young stars SDSS, GDDS, Gaia, CXT Also Kathryne J. D. Tolfree 1

2 Professional Activities Publication Statistics ORCID ID: publications, 5 peer reviewed, 7 first author 24 presentations, 8 invited talks, 8 posters Member American Astronomical Society (AAS) American Physical Society (APS) Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) 500 Women Scientists - Philadelphia Pod Service Honors Examiner for Astronomy at Swarthmore College. Topic: Interstellar Medium (2017) Chambliss Judge for American Astronomical Society (2016, 2017) Workshops Kavli International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics: Gravitational Dynamics, CITA at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2014) International Gaia School: Galactic Dynamics in the Times of Gaia, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (2013) International Gaia School: GREAT ITN School: Galaxy Modeling, Institut UTINAM, Besançon, France (2012) Summer School for Astro-Computing: Galaxy Simulations, High Performance Astro- Computing Center at UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA, USA (2010) College Service Committees Honor Board Other Service Advisor to HC Astronomy Hiring Committee Fall 2016 Faculty Contact for Student Booth at Philadelphia Science Festival Spring 2017 Organizer and host of quarterly Tri-college seminar, SAndAWiCh, for astrophysically oriented faculty. Funded by Mellon Brainstorming Grant. BMC Star ParTeas 2015-present Summer 2017-present 2

3 Student Research Supervision & Recognitions (1 PhD student, 2 AB theses, 9 undergraduate research advisees) Graduate Students, Bryn Mawr College Olivia McAuley Undergraduate Students, Bryn Mawr College Bridgett Kohno 17 Han Wang 17 Sarah Brown 17 Carrie Filion 18 Jessica Breet 18 Cheryl Liu 18 Fiona McCluskey 19 Undergraduate Students, Swarthmore College Noah Lifset 18 Luke Barbano 18 Courses Taught Fall 16-present Award: Fermilab & NSF Travel Award to attend the National Society of Black Physicists Fall 2016 Conference Project: Galaxy Evolution using Python Currently: Graduate Student in Chemistry at UC-Irvine Senior Thesis: Predicting the Birth Radius of the Sun Using Metallicity in a Disk Galaxy Model Senior Thesis: Significance of Pitch Angle in Radial Migration Project: Configuring GALAXY Simulation Package Project: Monte Carlo Simulation of the Milky Way Project: Monte Carlo Simulation of the Milky Way Award: Kathrine B Blodgett 1917 Summer Research Fellowship Project: Monte Carlo Simulation of the Milky Way Project: Pitch Angle and Radial Mixing in the Milky Way Presentation: Simulating Galaxies" (see Presentations) Project: Pitch Angle and Radial Mixing in the Milky Way Presentation: Simulating Galaxies" (see Presentations) Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA PHYS Modern Physics F 16 PHYS Introductory Quantum Mechanics S 17 PHYS 214 Lab - Introduction to Programming in Python S 17 PHYS Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics F 16 PHYS Undergraduate Supervised Research F 16, S 17 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA ASTR 1 - Introductory Astronomy F 15, S 16 ASTR 2 - Tracing the Unseen Universe S 16 ASTR 16 Lab - Modern Astrophysics: Observational F 15 PHYS 82 - Advanced Lab II S 16 PHYS 94 - Senior Comprehensive S 16 3

4 Towson University, Towson, MD ASTR Introductory Astronomy I F, S, &Sum ASTR 161 Lab - Introductory Astronomy I: Lab F, S, &Sum ASTR Introductory Astronomy II S 07, S 08 ASTR 162 Lab - Introductory Astronomy II: Lab S 07, S 08, S 09 PHYS Understanding Physics F 08 PHYS General Physics I: Algebra/Trig Based F 08, S 09 PHYS General Physics I: Calculus Based S 09 PHSC Physical Science S 08 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD PHYS (TA) - General Physics I: Sci Majors: Mechanics F 02, F 04 PHYS Lab - General Physics I Lab: Sci Majors: Mechanics F 02, F 04, F 09 PHYS (TA) - General Physics II: Sci Majors: E&M S 03, S 05 PHYS Lab - General Physics II Lab: Sci Majors: E&M S 03, S 05 PHYS (Head TA) - General Physics I: Bio Majors: Mechanics F 09 PHYS (Head TA) - General Physics II: Bio Majors: E&M S 10 Outreach & Public Service Panelist - Society of Physics Students (SPS) Zone Meeting, discussinsociety of Physics Students (SPS) Zone MeetingSociety of Physics Students (SPS) Zone Meetinggem. Topic graduate school experiences in Physics Invited Speaker - PA Young Women in Physics Conference (PA WiP) Invited Speaker - McNulty Scholars Program, promoting women in STEM fields Organizer & Faculty Advisor - Student booth at the Science Carnival at the Philadelphia Science Festival. With Carol Bowe 17, Carrie Filion 18 & Cassie Wang 18 Organizer - New Bryn Mawr College outreach program aiming to inspire school age girls to pursue STEM. With Carol Bowe 17 & Carrie Filion 18 SC 2017 Bucknell 2017 SJU 2017 BMC 2017 BMC 2016-present Participant - STEM outreach events as a local astronomer. local 2002-present Co-host - Monthly open house at the Peter van de Kamp Observatory. Instructor - Operation, planning and data reduction using the 24" telescope at the Peter van de Kamp Observatory. Host & Co-organizer - Weekly meeting between graduate students and the visiting speaker at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Co-organizer - DiversiTea, a group that organizes lectures and meetings aimed at increasing awareness about diversity in the hard sciences. Participant - Annually volunteered at the Johns Hopkins Physics Fair, a popular outreach event that attracts over a thousand people of all ages each year. SC SC JHU JHU JHU

5 Internally recognized mentor and advocate for women in Physics. JHU Participant - Noche de las Estrellas an annual event in Mexico City attended by thousands. English speaking Astronomer at Q&A booth UNAM 2013 Member - Women s Group Lunch JHU Publications (5 peer reviewed, 7 first author) [9] Daniel, K. J. & Wyse, Rosemary F. G., 2017, Constraints on Radial Mixing in Spiral Galaxies II. Distribution of the trapped fraction" MNRAS, to be submitted [8] Daniel, K. J., Heggie, D. C, & Varri, A. L., 2017, An Approximate Analytic Model of a Star Cluster with Potential Escapers", MNRAS, 468, 1453 (DOI: /mnras/stx571) [7] Daniel, K. J. & Wyse, Rosemary F. G., 2015, Constraints on Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies I. Analytic Criterion for Capture at Corotation" MNRAS, 447, 3576 (DOI: /mnras/stu2683) [6] Tolfree, K. J. D. & Wyse, Rosemary F. G., 2014, Requirements for Radial Migration: How does the migrating fraction depend on stellar velocity dispersion?", in Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies PASP conference proceedings v.480, 179, Eds. Seigar, M. S. & Treuthhardt, P. [5] Le Bourgne, D., Roberto, A., Daniel, K. J. et al., 2006, Gemini Deep Deep Survey. VI. Massive Hdelta-strong Galaxies at z= 1" ApJ, 642, 48 (DOI: /500005) [4] Gagné, M., Daniel, K. J., & Skinner, S. L. 2004, Simultaneous Chandra and Very Large Array Observation of Young Stars and Protostars in ρ-ophiuchus Cloud Core A", ApJ, 613, 393 (DOI: /422828) [3] Daniel, K. J., Linsky, J. L., & Gagné, M. 2003, Chandra Observations of the Pleiades Open Cluster: X-Ray Emission from Late B- to Early F-Type Binaries", in The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, Eds. A. Brown, G. M. Harper, & T. R. Ayres, 267, 419 [2] Daniel, K. J., Linsky, J. L., & Gagné, M. 2002, Chandra Observations of the Pleiades Open Cluster: X-Ray Emission from Late B- to Early F-Type Binaries", ApJ, 578, 486 (DOI: /340553) [1] Skinner, S. L., Daniel, K. J., & Gagné, M. 2002, The X-ray View of Massive Star Formation: New High-resolution Images and Spectra from Chandra", in Hot Star Workshop III: The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Birth ASP Conference Series, Ed. P. Crowther, 267, 419 Presentations (16 talks, 8 invited; 8 posters, undergraduate advisees underlined) [24] Daniel, K. J. Is Gravity Broken? How stars are prisoners of their own paradigm" atbryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA, USA, April 2017 [23] Daniel, K. J. Who Am I and How Did I Get Here? An origin story in the Universe" atbucknell University Lewisburg PA, USA, March 2017 [22] Daniel, K. J. An Origin Story in the Universe" atst. Joseph s University Philadelphia PA, USA, February 2017 Seminar Invited Invited 5

6 [21] Lifset, N., Barbano, L. & Daniel, K. J. Simulating Galaxies: Investigating Spiral Pitch Angle and the Efficiency of Radial Mixing" at the 229 th American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting in Grapevine TX, USA, 428, 04, January 2017 [20] Daniel, K. J. Do Spiral Arms Self Regulate" at Works In Progress atbryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA, USA, October 2016 [19] Daniel, K. J. How and Why Some Super Escape Speed Stars Don t Escape Their Host" at Swarthmore College Swarthmore PA, USA, March 2016 [18] Daniel, K. J. How and Why Velocity Dispersion Constrains the Efficiency of Radial Migration" at Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, January 2016 [17] Daniel, K. J. The Importance of Radial Migration to the Evolution of Spiral Galaxies" at 227 th American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Kissimmee FL, USA, January 2016 [16] Daniel, K. J. From the Inside Out: How Spiral Galaxies Grow Themselves Up" at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA, USA, December 2015 [15] Daniel, K. J. Mixed or Blurred? How Spiral Galaxies Rearrange Themselves" at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA, USA, 5 October 2015 [14] Daniel, K. J. How Galaxies Rearrange Themselves" at Swarthmore College Swarthmore PA, USA, 25 March 2015 [13] Daniel, K. J. Constraints on the Efficiency of Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies" at Center for Astrophysical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD, USA, 9 March 2015 [12] Daniel, K. J. & Wyse, Rosemary F. G. Constraints on the Efficiency of Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies" at the 225 th American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting in Seattle WA, USA January 2015, 446, 02 [11] Daniel, K. J. Analytic Models of Globular Clusters with Potential Escapers" at International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics Toronto, Canada, August 2014 [10] Tolfree, K. J. D. & Wyse, Rosemary F. G. How and Why Velocity Dispersion Affects the Efficiency of Radial Migration" at the 223 rd American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting in Washington DC, USA, 246, 09, January 2014 [9] Daniel, K. J. Effect of Gaia Errors on Orbital Classification" at International Gaia School Mexico City, Mexico, November 2013 [8] Daniel, K. J. Requirement for Radial Migration: How does the migrating fraction depend on the velocity dispersion?" at Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Petit Jean Mountain AR, USA, August 2013 Invited Seminar Invited Seminar Invited Invited Colloquium Invited Colloquium Invited 6

7 [7] Daniel, K. J. Tracing Unseen Mass with Thin Disk Stars" at International Gaia School Besançon, France, October 2012 [6] Daniel, K. J. On the Efficiency of Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies" at Stars without Borders: Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies Medana, Slovenia, May 2012 [5] Daniel, K. J., Linsky, J. L., & Gagné, M. Chandra Observations of the Pleiades Open Cluster: X-ray emission from late-a to B-type stars" at the 12 th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun at the University of Colorado, Boulder CO, USA, ASP: San Francisco, 12, 401, August 2003 [4] Skinner, S. L., Daniel, K. J., & Gagné, M., The X-ray View of Massive Star Formation: New High-resolution Images and Spectra from Chandra" at Hot Star Workshop III: The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Birth in San Francisco CA, USA, 267, 419, July 2002 [3] Mytyk, A. M., Daniel, K. J., Gagné, M., & Linsky, J. L. Chandra Observations of the Eagle Nebula: Seeing Through the Pillars of Creation" at the 199th American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting in Washington DC, USA, 199, 0408, January 2002 [2] Daniel, K. J., & Gagné, M. Chandra Observations of the Young Open Clusters: the Pleiades and M16" at the Two Years of Science with Chandra Symposium in Washington DC, USA, 146, 2001 [1] Daniel, K. J., Gagné, M., & Skinner, S. L. Chandra Observations of Flaring YSOs in ρ-ophiuchus" at the 197 th American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego CA, USA, Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 197, 1015, January