Dr. Eyal A. Kazin January 4, 2014

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1 Dr. Eyal A. Kazin January 4, 2014 Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia +(61) , skype: eyalkazin Research Interests Observational Cosmology Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, Galaxy Clustering Positions Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn, VIC Australia Research Staff Associate 2011 present Research topic: observational cosmology, large-scale structure of the Universe CAASTRO fellow (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics) Supervision: Associate Professor Chris Blake New York, NY USA Research Staff Associate June August 2011 Education New York, USA Ph.D. Physics Research topic: observational cosmology, large-scale structure of the Universe Dissertation: Large-Scale Clustering of Galaxies in the Universe Advisor: Professor Michael R. Blanton Ben Gurion University Be er Sheva, Israel B.Sc. Physics Graduated with Honors Memberships The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey present CAASTRO (ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics) present The Australian Academia of Science present The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS-II, BOSS The American Astronomical Society present

2 Awards, Grants & Honours CAASTRO Visitor Funding (ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics) (1500 AUD) 2013 CAASTRO Fellowship Young SDSS Astronomer Travel Assistance Award (200, 100, 985 USD) , 2010, 2011 NYU GSAS Horizon Fellowship Precision Cosmology with Clustering of Galaxies (4000 USD) 2010 Research Supervision Experience Rebekah Little, Optimizing the large-scale structure correlation function; Dec 12 - Feb 13 Marjorie Schillo, Measuring the BOSS baryonic acoustic feature; May 10 - Sept 10 Teaching Experience General Physics I (Mechanics) Teacher Assistant Summer 2008 Responsibilities: managing recitation (teaching theory, problem solving and lab), grading. Cosmos and Earth Teacher Assistant Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009 Physics I for physics majors Teacher Assistant Fall 2006 General Physics II (EM, Thermodynamics) Teacher Assistant Spring 2006 Attended Practicum in Teaching Physics in Fall 2006 Tutored many students at all levels of physics, including a brief Quantum Camp Instruction of communication devices during army service Presentations Improved distance constraints with reconstructed WiggleZ ACGRG7, Hamilton Island (December 9), CAASTRO Annual Retreat, Torquai (November 23),Cosmo Probes conference, Lausanne (June 25), Challenges in large-scale structure conference, Ascona (July 4), Ripples in the cosmos conference, Durham (July 25), University College London (July 31) (2013) The Baryonic Acoustic Feature in the WiggleZ and BOSS Galaxies Sydney University (February 8), Melbourne University (April 2), Australian National University (May 23), Swinburne University (June 12), Cosmo Probes conference (June 25), LSS13 conference (July 4), Cosmic Ripples Conference (July 25) (2013) Public Lecture for ages 8-18 How Big is the Universe?

3 Mount Burnett Observatory and Emerald Secondary College, VIC, Australia (May ). Public Lecture Einstein and Astronomers: An Ongoing Cosmic Saga Technoda, Givat Olga, Israel (September 2012). Guest lecture for summer students: Measuring the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe Queensland University, Australia (December 2011). Lecture to scientists and engineers in the Computer, Earth, and Space Sciences Workshop (Goddard Institute for Space Studies NASA, New York, USA, 24 February 2011) (hyper-link) Large Scale Clustering of the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxy Sample Weizmann Institute (Israel), UC Irvine (USA), UC San Diego (USA), Princeton (USA), CfA Harvard (USA), Yale (USA), IFIC Valencia (Spain), ICC Barcelona (Spain), APC Paris (France), ITP Zurich (Switzerland), MPI Garching (Germany), Hebrew University (Israel), Tel Aviv University (Israel), Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel), ICG Portsmouth (England), Berkeley (USA) ( ) Public Lecture in Hebrew: Why do we believe in the Big-Bang? Technoda, Givat Olga, Israel (December 2009). Participation in Workshops and Conferences ACGRG7 Talk: Improved distance constraints with reconstructed WiggleZ. CAASTRO 3rd Annual Retreat Talk: Improved distance constraints with reconstructed WiggleZ. Cosmic Ripples Talk: The Baryonic Acoustic Feature in WiggleZ and BOSS. Challenges in LSS Talk: The Baryonic Acoustic Feature in WiggleZ and BOSS. Hamilton Island, Australia December Torquai, Australia November 2013 Durham, England July Ascona, Switzerland July Cosmo Probes Lausanne, Switzerland EPFL June Talk: The Baryonic Acoustic Feature in WiggleZ and BOSS. Synthetic Universes for Future Surveys Perth, Australia University of Western Australia March Talk: Confessions of an End User: Why We Need You. CAASTRO 2nd Annual Retreat West Australia, Australia November 2012

4 Poster: Reconstructing WiggleZ. Modern Cosmology Workshop: Early Universe, CMB and LSS Benasque, Spain Centro de ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual August Talk: Clustering Wedges: An alternative approach to measuring H(z) and Da(z). Large-scale structure workshop Trieste, Italy ICTP July 30 August Talk: Clustering Wedges: An alternative approach to measuring H(z) and Da(z). Perturbative approaches to redshift space distortions Zurich, Switzerland Pauli Center for Theoretical Studies July Talk: Clustering Wedges: An alternative approach to measuring H(z) and Da(z). Early Career Workshop Port Stephens, NSW Australia Astronomical Society of Australia May 31 June Cosmic Flow: In The Rain Forest Gold Coast, Queensland Australia The University of Queensland February Invited Speaker: Disentangling H(z) from d A (z). BOSS Annual Meeting New York, NY USA January American Astronomical Society Meeting #219 Talk: Testing Gravity and Cosmic Acceleration with Galaxy Clustering. Austin, TX USA 9 12 January 2012 CAASTRO Annual Retreat Bungendore NSW, Australia Molonglo Observatory November, 2011 Talk: Testing Gravity and Cosmic Acceleration with Galaxy Clustering. SciCoder Workshop New York, NY USA June 20 23, 2011 New York Workshop on Computer, Earth and Space Sciences New York, NY USA NASA February 2011 Talk: Cosmology through the Large-Scale Measurements of the Universe. American Astronomical Society Meeting #217 Seattle, WA USA January, 2011 Dissertation talk: The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and z-distortions in the SDSS and BOSS LRG Samples. Cosmology on the Beach Playa del Carmen, Mexico Berkeley January 11 15, 2010 Talk: The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Redshift Distortions in the SDSS LRG Sample. Los Alamos Cosmology Summer Workshop Santa Fe, NM USA Los Alamos National Lab 5 11 July, 2009 Talk: Large Scale Structure and the Baryonic Acoustic Feature in the SDSS LRGs. Cosmology on the Beach Los Cabos, Mexico Berkeley January 12 16, 2009 Los Alamos Cosmology Summer Workshop Santa Fe, NM USA Los Alamos National Lab July, 2006, 2007

5 Recent Online Courses Completed Coursera 2013 Computation for Data Analysis by Roger D. Peng, Johns Hopkins University Data Analysis, Jeff Leek by Johns Hopkins University Machine Learning by Andrew Ng, Stanford University Other Research Experience Observations of galaxy 21cm emissions West Virginia, USA NRAO, Green Bank Telescope 2008 Operated GBT radio telescope and reduced data Academic Service and Contributions Refereed papers for: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society Science Magazine Participating in the Adopt-a-Physicist program Other Work Experiences Gilat Communications Ltd. Petach Tikva, Israel Satellite Technician May September 2000 Maintaining and operating telephone- and data-lines for distant customers Israeli Defense Forces National Information and Communications Technology School, Israel Communications Technician Instructor December 1996 December 1999 Instructed soldiers to operate communication devices, e.g Multiplexers and Coding equipment Worked as part of a team in charge of managing soldiers everyday tasks. Service completed as a First Sergeant Computing Languages python, R, C, Matlab/Octave, IDL Data Analysis and Machine Learning SVM, Regression, PCA, Supervised Learning

6 Personal Languages English, Hebrew, Conversational Spanish