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Robert C. Morehead Curriculum Vitae Department of Physics & Astronomy Texas Tech University Box 41051 Lubbock, TX 79409-1051 www.robertmorehead.com robert.morhead@ttu.edu (806) 834 7940 Education Doctoral Candidate, Astronomy & Astrophysics Dissertation: Understanding Exoplanet Populations with Simulation-Based Methods Advisor: Eric B. Ford Master of Science, Astronomy Columbia University Bachelor of Science, Astrophysics South Puget Sound Community College 2013 2016 2009 2013 New York, NY 2006 2009 Olympia, WA 2004 2006 Research Transiting exoplanets, multiple transiting planet systems and their architectures, planet population inference, planet candidate validation, approximate Bayesian computation Research Experience Preston Gott Observatory Observatory Director Graduate Research Assistant National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow Lubbock, TX 2016-2015 - 2016 2013 2016 2011 2013

Robert C. Morehead 2 The Graduate Research Assistant Teaching Experience Texas Tech University Instructor ASTR 1400 Solar System Astronomy ASTR 2401 Observational Astronomy Instructor of Record Astronomy 001 The Astronomical Universe Center for Astrostatistics Workshop Assistant Bayesian Computing for Astronomical Data Analysis Workshop Co-Instructor Python Coding for Astronomers Workshop Graduate Teaching Assistant AST 1022L Astronomy Laboratory Instructor 6 Sections AST 3018 Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 Assistant 1 Section AST 2037 Life in the Universe Guest Lectures 2011 Lubbock, TX 2016-2015 2014 2012 2009-2010 Awards and Honors Homer F. Braddock and Nellie H. and Oscar L. Roberts Fellowship National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Ruth Hay and Hans Schrader Astronomy Fellowship Phi Theta Kappa 2013 2011 2009 2005

Robert C. Morehead 3 Public Outreach Outreach Committee Member (2 years) AstroNight 2013, 2014, and 2015 Multiple astronomy demonstrations and presentations for 300-500 community members AstroFest 2014, 2015 Four night event with multiple astronomy demonstrations and presentations for 2,000+ community members Planetarium Volunteer 30-60 minute programs on the night sky Outreach Committee Member (3 years) Public Observing Volunteer Comets, Meteors, and Meteorites School Visit Wiles Elementary School 2013 Highsprings Community School 2011 Starry Night 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Multiple astronomy demonstrations and presentations for 1,000 3,000 community members Columbia University Public Observing Volunteer 2013-Pesent 2009-2013 New York, NY 2007-2009 Public Talks: Strange New Worlds: The Planets of the Kepler Mission Central Pennsylvania Observers, State College, PA October 2013 Ferguson Observatory, Sonoma County, CA May 2012 Alachua Astronomy Club, Gainesville, Fl November 2011 Podcast: Tides: More Than What Floats Your Boat International Year of Astronomy 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast, May 2009

Robert C. Morehead 4 Professional Activities Referee: The Astrophysical Journal Memberships: The American Astronomical Society The American Physical Society The Kepler Multibody/Transit Timing Variation Working Group The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute s Bayesian Characterization of Exoplanet Populations Group Lead Developer: SimpleABC, a Python package for approximate Bayesian computation, https://github.com/rcmorehead/simpleabc Organizing Committee Chair: The Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium,, May 28-29, 2015 Appearances at Conferences, Schools, and Symposia Invited Talks: SimpleABC: A Python Package for Approximate Bayesian Computation Statistics and Exoplanets Hackday, IAU General Assembly, Honolulu, HI, August 2015 Contributed Talks: Architectures of Kepler Planet Systems with Approximate Bayesian Computation, Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium II, Ithaca, NY, June 2016 Implications for the False-Positive Rate in Kepler Planet Systems from Transit Duration Ratios, Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium,, May 2015 Implications for the False-Positive Rate in Kepler Planet Systems from Transit Duration Ratios, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #225, Seattle, WA, January 2015 Simple-ABC: A Python Package for Approximate Bayesian Computation, 2nd Workshop on Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2014

Robert C. Morehead 5 The Mutual Inclination Distribution of Kepler Multiple Planet Systems and Testing Stellar Cohabitation, Exoplanets in Multi-Body Systems in the Kepler Era, Aspen, CO, February 2013 Telescope Experience Rosemary Hill Observatory 0.8m Exoplanet transit photometry Gran Telescopio CANARIAS 10.0m Multicolor photometry, exoplanet transit photometry (queue observing) MDM Observatory 2.1m MDM Observatory 1.3m Teaching and Public Outreach Observatories: The Preston Gott Observatory Observatory Campus Teaching Observatory Rutherford Observatory, Columbia University Publications Peer-Reviewed Publications with Significant Contribution Vetting Kepler Planet Candidates in the Sub-Jovian Desert with Multiband Photometry Colón, K. D., Morehead, R. C., Ford, E. B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 452, Issue 3, pp. 3001-3009 (2015). Transit Timing Observations from Kepler - VII. Confirmation of 27 Planets in 13 Multiplanet Systems via Transit Timing Variations and Orbital Stability Steffen, J. H., Fabrycky, D. C., Agol, E., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 428, Issue 2, pp. 1077-1087 (2013). Constraining the False Positive Rate for Kepler Planet Candidates with Multicolour Photometry from the GTC Colón, K. D., Ford, E. B., Morehead, R. C. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 426, Issue 1, pp. 342-353. (2012).

Robert C. Morehead 6 Transit Timing Observations from Kepler. II. Confirmation of Two Multiplanet Systems via a Non-Parametric Correlation Analysis Ford, E. B., Fabrycky, D. C., Steffen, J. H., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 750, Issue 2, article id. 113, 18 pp. (2012). Architecture and Dynamics of Kepler's Candidate Multiple Transiting Planet Systems Lissauer, J. J., Ragozzine, D., Fabrycky, D. C., et al.(including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 197, Issue 1, article id. 8, 26 pp. (2011). The Distribution of Transit Durations for Kepler Planet Candidates and Implications for Their Orbital Eccentricities Moorhead, A. V., Ford, E. B., Morehead, R. C., et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 197, Issue 1, article id. 1, 15 pp. (2011). A Closely Packed System of Low-Mass, Low-Density Planets Transiting Kepler-11 Lissauer, J. J., Fabrycky, D. C., Ford, E. B., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) Nature, Volume 470, Issue 7332, pp. 53-58 (2011). Kepler-9: A System of Multiple Planets Transiting a Sun-Like Star, Confirmed by Timing Variations Holman, M. J., Fabrycky, D. C., Ragozzine, D., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) Science, Volume 330, Issue 6000, pp. 51-54 (2010). Five Kepler Target Stars That Show Multiple Transiting Exoplanet Candidates Steffen, J. H., Batalha, N. M., Borucki, W. J., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 725, Issue 1, pp. 1226-1241 (2010). Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to a Metal-Rich F Star with the MARVELS Pilot Project Fleming, S. W., Ge, J., Mahadevan, S., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 718, Issue 2, pp. 1186-1199 (2010). Other Peer-Reviewed Publications Architecture of Kepler's Multi-Transiting Systems II. New Investigations with Twice as Many Candidates Fabrycky, D. C., Lissauer, J. J., Ragozzine, D., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 790, Issue 2, article id. 146, 12 pp. (2014).

Robert C. Morehead 7 Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler IV: Planet Sample from Q1-Q8 (22 Months) Burke, C. J., Bryson, S. T., Mullally, F., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 210, Issue 2, article id. 19, 12 pp. (2014). Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler Howard, A. W., Marcy, G. W., Bryson, S. T., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 201, Issue 2, article id. 15, 20 pp. (2012). Almost All of Kepler's Multiple-Planet Candidates Are Planets Lissauer, J. J., Marcy, G. W., Rowe, J. F., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 750, Issue 2, article id. 112, 15 pp. (2012). Kepler's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b Batalha, N. M., Borucki, W. J., Bryson, S. T., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 729, Issue 1, article id. 27, 21 pp. (2011). Ground-Based Multisite Observations of Two Transits of HD 80606b Shporer, A., Winn, J. N., Dreizler, S., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 722, Issue 1, pp. 880-887 (2010). Conference Abstracts Architectures of Kepler Planet Systems with Approximate Bayesian Computation Morehead, R. C., Ford, E. B. American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #3, #118.05 (2015). Using Approximate Bayesian Computation to Probe Multiple Transiting Planet Systems Morehead, R. C. IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, #2257552 (2015). New Constraints on the False Positive Rate for Short-Period Kepler Planet Candidates Colón, K. D., Morehead, R. C., Ford, E. B. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #225, #105.03 (2015). Implications for the False-Positive Rate in Kepler Planet Systems from Transit Duration Ratios Morehead, R. C., Ford, E. B. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #225, #105.02 (2015).

Robert C. Morehead 8 A Test of Stellar Cohabitation in Multiple Transiting Planet Systems Morehead, R. C., Ford, E. B. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #221, #343.04 (2013). Enhancing Multiple-Transiting Planet System Validation with Transit Duration Ratios Morehead, R. C., Ford, E. B., Prša, A., et al. American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #2, #28.01 (2011). Validation of Candidate Multiple-Transiting Planet Systems and Assessing Possible False Positives Based on Photometric Observables Morehead, R., Ford, E. B., Kepler Science Team American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #140.09 (2011). The Distribution of Orbital Eccentricities for Kepler Planet Candidates Moorhead, A., Ford, E. B., Morehead, R., et al. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #103.06 (2011). The Architectures of Planetary Systems from Transit Observations Ford, E. B., Fabrycky, D. C., Holman, M. J., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #103.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, (2011). Status of a Program Monitoring Optical Lunar Surface Transients Crotts, A. P. S., Berger, A., Cecil, G., et al. (including Morehead, R. C.) 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, id.2373 (2009).